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..so they dance!: Objects of filmi fondness.
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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Objects of filmi fondness. And stayed the same until I updated it in 2012. This is the updated version. Let's be frank about this. A lot of what I watch is very male-centric, as is most Indian cinema, hell, as is most cinema. But that doesn't mean I don't have a taste for cool female characters, be they kickass or more subdued. See also: my favourite Hindi film heroines. Spoof / satire / meta / filmi inside jokes. See also: 70's week posts. Very much with you on th...
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..so they dance!: This is the story of how I got completely obsessed with Randeep Hooda.
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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. This is the story of how I got completely obsessed with Randeep Hooda. Everybody's allowed to gain a new quirk over the New Year, right? Mine just happened to be an instant obsession with Randeep Hooda (all thanks to Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai. It's perfectly possible. Is my interest inadvisable for others considering how many crap films I ended up watching just for him? So here's my haul so far. And safe to say it was not a very good on...
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..so they dance!: Traipsing through underwhelment; some mini-reviews of films.
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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Sunday, October 5, 2014. Traipsing through underwhelment; some mini-reviews of films. I could take them or leave them. The depiction of the sleazy-yet-honest world of the A rating was fantastic, but I was never sucked in, fascinated by what was happening. Was it good? Yes, definitely. But I didn't love it. October 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fascinated by Kucche Dhaage. Search .so they dance! Mumbai Police: a lesson in story mechanics.
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..so they dance!: Mardaani: heroism for today.
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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Monday, October 6, 2014. Mardaani: heroism for today. Rani Mukherjee plays the role cool as a cucumber. You could accuse the character of the same exaggerated flawlessness as many a film cop, but what I'd argue is that men get these roles dime a dozen, whereas seeing this kind of badassery from a woman is pretty rare. Let us have it, for once, in all its exaggeration. Let's allow Shivani to be awesome without undercutting it one bit. He is essentially asking, but i...
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..so they dance!: Highway, and a journey home.
http://sotheydance.blogspot.com/2014/05/highway-and-journey-home.html
Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Saturday, May 10, 2014. Highway, and a journey home. Sometimes being out of the loop, not following every promo and trailer, can be so beneficial for a film aficionado. I didn't expect Imtiaz Ali's Highway. To be much more than maybe a strange, Stockholm syndrome inspired kidnapper-kidnappee romance. The pairing of Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda seemed strange, and considering her last performance that I saw was the wooden, unbearable turn in Student of the Year.
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Masaan – Aisle Seat at the Multiplex
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Aisle Seat at the Multiplex. July 25, 2015. In one of the best films this year, Shoojit Sircar’s. Bashkor (Amitabh Bachchan) has a few health issues (he is a hypochondriac) during a road trip which makes Irrfan’s character quip, “. Tapak gaye to Banaras se koi achchi jagah nahin hai.”. Moh Moh Ke Dhaage. Dum Laga Ke Haisha. An edited version of this was published in The New Indian Express). 3 thoughts on “ Masaan. July 31, 2015 at 11:05 am. July 31, 2015 at 4:21 pm. Yes, the opinion does seem divided on ...
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Bal Thackeray’s Poisonous Legacies – Chapati Mystery
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What is the vertiginous chapati saying to me? Bal Thackeray’s Poisonous Legacies. The Indian elite’s reaction to Bal Thackeray’s death raises profoundly disturbing question, argues. Rajdeep Sardesai’s tweets. Gave me an interview in 1988 as a cub reporter. Was generous with his time and thoughts. Offered me beer too! Tiger, Godfather, Mumbai icon, hero for many, villain for others. Balasaheb Thackeray RIP. In response to arguably the biggest Indian news story of the day broadly conformed to the same patt...
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Black memories | Arre Kya Baat Hai!
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Arre Kya Baat Hai! This blog is closed. Check updated version at: http:/ kyabaat.blogspot.com/. These is one of the old posts from the older version of “Aree kya baat hai”. Re-reading the old posts is like remembering a dream that you think that you had forgotten, yet that was just sitting there, waiting to be called. This post is about the time I was living in Delhi 25 years ago. I was working as a general doctor at that time. From → India. Larr; Bollywood has arrived in Italy. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Bollywood has arrived in Italy | Arre Kya Baat Hai!
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Arre Kya Baat Hai! This blog is closed. Check updated version at: http:/ kyabaat.blogspot.com/. Bollywood has arrived in Italy. These days there is a Bollywood wave in Italy after a series of Hindi films were shown on Italian national TV channel on prime time. During the past twenty years, I am only aware of two occasions when Indian films made it to the Italian TV and in both instances these films were broadcasted late in the night one was Kagaaz ke phool. And the second was Lagaan. Since then, on succe...
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