Wedding Woes: There is an ad for a clothing brand that has a popular star tell guests at a wedding, who have come in subdued formals, “Shaadi mein aaye hain,…
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Girl Interrupted: For some reason filmmakers believe that drinking is a sign of modernity; not just drinking, but downing so many drinks that the binge results in hangovers, puking, blackouts.…
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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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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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Return Of God: The play Kanji Viruddh Kanji by Bhavesh Mandalia, adapted from a lesser known film, The Man Who Sues God, was made into a Hindi film by Umesh Shukla, Oh My God (OMG), in which God formed an important…
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Scottish Highs: Any film that uses Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries as a source of inspiration starts out at a disadvantage. There is an overfamiliarity with those kinds of plots, to…
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Game Of Epics: When Ramanand Sagar’s series Ramayan was telecast on Doordarshan, the streets used to empty out; official functions and wedding rituals rescheduled. The devout used to perform aarti in front…
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No Rom Little Com: The sworn off marriage protagonist of this film declares that he is not husband or boyfriend material, but he can be ‘timepass’; unfortunately Nawazuddin Siddiqui is not…
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The Kids Are Alright: Let kids be kids is the much-needed message that Papa Rao Biyyala’s film Music School conveys. Parents push their own ambitions on to their children, and in…