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…
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Hate Mongering Poster: The idea of censorship is abhorrent in any civilized society, but in times of easily fanned communal violence, a film like The Kerala Story, just begs to be…
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Scuttlebutt High: In the twilight world of Hindi films about politics, there’s always an election about to take place, that justifies the heightened level of murderous mayhem that ensues. For…
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Old Style Romance: There is something ineffably sad about a once successful and capable director like Rajkumar Santoshi stooping to make a film like Bad Boy. The film was quite long…
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Crash Flash: It can happen only in a film — a flyover in a busy city being always so devoid of traffic that bike riders wishing to make an illegal…
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Crime & Punishment: This film claims to have been inspired by true events, a slew of believe-it-or-not cases all over the world (some listed at the end), in which murderers…
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Faceless Mob: Looking at the signs of prosperity, at least in urban India, it seems as if people are eager to forget the trauma of the Covid months. Typically, those…
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When Kaz Met Zoe: This is multi-cultural Britain, where the Khan family of Pakistani origin and a white British family live next door to each other, without any overt signs…