Cousins And Buddies: A simplified version of Anjali Menon’s Malayalam film, Bangalore Days, Yaariyan 2, directed by Radhika Rao and Vinay Sapru is a collection of music videos with a bare minimum…
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Struggles Of An Immigrant: Not too long ago, the Nepali security guard was ubiquitous in a city like Mumbai, where almost every apartment complex employed a succession of men called…
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Sow The Whirlwind: When television and social media are all-pervasive today, and instead of clearing facts are being used to spread misinformation, Shiladitya Bora’s Bhagwan Bharose (with Ab Toh Sab…
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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…