The Heist: It seems entirely possible that the clever title was thought up first, and then a script written around a character called Sikandar, whose fate is like a drunken…
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Jimmy Shergill
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That Femme Again: The 2021 film, Hasseen Dillruba, directed by Vinil Mathew, was based on the germ of an idea from Roald Dahl’s twisted thriller, Lamb To The Slaughter. It ended with the murder…
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That Redux Feel: The thriller heavy filmography of Neeraj Pandey has given him enough of a following for aspiring writer-directors to want to emulate him, but when so many filmmakers…
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Sabre Rattling: Had this web series been a film running in a theatre, some of the Pak-bashing dialogue would have elicited cheers. “When Sachin Tendulkar used to hit sixers, your…
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Whitewash Time: In Mumbai slang, choona lagana is to fool or con someone. Which is what six men do to a politician against whom they all hold a valid grudge. The heist caper…