At The Crossroads: Yash Chopra started his directing career with Dhool Ka Phool (1959) and Dharamputra (1961), both strongly anti-communal films. In both a child born to parents of one religion is adopted by…
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Come On Girl!: Hindi cinema has, in the last few years, started telling interesting stories about women, and here’s a film that digs out the old bored housewife chestnut. In…
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Dons Of Mumbai: Mainstream Hindi cinema went through a phase of making adulatory films about gangsters. There was a time, when, with some help from the media, gangsters were as…
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Money Hodge Podge: There have been at least two recent web shows that made money trails interesting– Scam 1992 and Scam 2003. Bejoy Nambiar picks up the intriguing idea of large sums of…
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Skin And Bones: A few minutes into the film, there are enough indications of what to expect—a lot of casual violence and a bleak, amoral universe that a few filmmakers…
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Follow The Money: After Scam 1992 and Scoop, Hansal Mehta has cemented his place as a long-form chronicler of the moral erosion of contemporary India. He has not directed Scam 2003: The Telgi Story,…
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Into The Spyverse: A young Mumbai woman, Aliya (Kashmira Pardeshi), finds herself trapped in Syria with her husband and in-laws who have been radicalized and thrown in their lot with…
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Grisly Case: The gruesome deaths of 11 members of a family, ages ranging from nine to 71, that came to be known as the Burari Case, was a shocker at…
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Gutsy Girl: It took two Bollywood superstars considerable muscle and firepower to extract Indian citizens trapped in conflict zones — Akshay Kumar in Airlift and Salman Khan in Tiger Zinda Hai; in Pranay…
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Retro Trip: The cars are Ambassadors and Fiats, the phones are rotary; there are STD phone booths with LCD panels displaying call duration, cassette players and tapes are still around,…