History Revision: When ads of a film proclaim that it is about the last Hindu emperor, and its star states that very little is known about Prithviraj Chauhan, as if…
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The Way Of The Soldier: The 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai (2008), are indelibly inked in the city’s memories. Among the people who showed extraordinary courage, a few stand out,…
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Love Lost: The title of this film, directed by Shashant Shah, comes from the actual name of an operation launched by the police in Delhi and parts of north India.…
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Father Dear Father: Venus and Serena Williams are tennis legends, but whether they would have been able to reach those heights without the motivation and push given to them by…
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Classic Forever: The 1957 stage musical, West Side Story, was made into a much-lauded, much-awarded film by Robert Wise in 1961. It was an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo And Juliet, set in…
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When In Madurai…: A Hindi film set in Madurai amidst a conservative Tamil family is an odd bird before its strange plot unfolds. The only difference between this and any…
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The Family Trap: What has been used as a one-scene gag in quite a few films—a man in love having to produce a fake family– has been extended to a…
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Corona Chaos: French film Huit Rue de’l Humanite—English title Stuck Together—must be among the earliest, if not the first, full length feature film about the days of lockdown during the pandemic. Directed…
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Runaway Brides: The films of Ayushmann Khurrana and Rajkummar Rao have more or less captured the market on problems of men in small North Indian towns. Babloo Bachelor, directed by…
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Running With Wolves: There is a problem in making a biopic about a major political personality in India—followers and fans are just waiting to pick fault and take offence on…