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I'm a flunked film critic and this is my story. My dad's list of favourite movies began with Nagin, Anarkali, Bees Saal Baad, Chaudvin ka Chand, ...
I finally watched the movie that's sent the whole of Karnataka into a tizzy. I'm glad I watched Mungaru Male. The best things in life are ...
I haven't followed any Girish Karnad plays after the horrendous Agni Mattu Male (The Fire and the Rain). But it is nice to learn that ...
The inevitable has to happen to any religion that only stands on the shaky ground of faith: it has to die its natural death. When ...
This time it's a journalist, not a novelist. Reviewing (shallow) Water made by the self-scourging Deepa Mehta. I had covered the likes of Mehta earlier. ...
This was inevitable. Film actor Sanjay Dutt, held guilty for possessing arms in the 1993 bomb blast case, on Thursday arrived at the TADA court which ...
Tarka (trans=Logic) launched one of the most amazing directors in Kannada cinema. Although it didn't exactly set the box office ablaze, it signalled that Sunil ...
As promised, here's my review of Shankar Nag's debut movie. Apart from paving the way for Shankar's trailblazing career as both actor and director par ...
I'll take a temporary departure from blogging about political dirt and assault you with my enlightened views on Shankar Nag's movies. No, I'm not his ...
It's now the wife's turn. To say the same things. On an occasion it was uncalled for. Versatile Bollywood actress and social activist Shabana Azmi on ...
Amardeep Singh has an interesting article that's curiously titled the communalisation of censorship. I believe he also runs a blog, which I tune into on ...
Dharmadhikarige Jai... Dharmadhikarige Jai... Dharrrmmaadhikarige Jai.... Dharrrrmmmaadhikarige Jai! A refrain that remains fresh in memory from one of the classiest Kannada movies ever made. I was tweleve ...
Full marks to Andhra CM Samuel Reddy for displaying a stellar performance, so typical of neo-converts. Actually, he's a second-generation convert but he's ensuring that ...
Who according to you is the most overrated director in Indian films today? Don't restrict your answers to just Bollywood movies: it doesn't matter if ...
What a movie! These three words sum up Prozac Nation. Be warned though that it is not for weak, depressed minds. Don't ever watch it when ...
Pity Hollywood doesn't make movies like these any more. I am an incurable admirer of the Old: movies, music, and books. Escape from Alcatraz is ...
Justice has been served after a short yawn of time, Salman Khan gets 5 years of rigorous imprisonment. Bollywood actor Salman Khan was today sentenced ...
Watched it at last. Only to regret. Rang De Basanti must be the most slanted political movie ever to be made. I won't bother about ...
Via the Indian Express: Politicians assisting militants in J&K: Cops This is one of those "open" secrets but the lid is off only now. The J-K Police ...
Govinda assaults female reporter Bollywood actor and Congress MP Govinda was booked on charges of assault and threatening a TV reporter at his Juhu office. The ...
I hand it to Prakash Jha for making a fine film. The theme is nothing new: we've seen frustrated but competent young men becoming pawns ...
By writing against Lalu in Rediff. The last time around when Jha made Gangajal, he was threatened by one of Lalu's henchmen and had to ...
I'm too dumbfounded, I don't know what to call this latest vulgar display of brazenness. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has leaned on the Goa government ...
You can't run or hide forever. Abu Salem has learnt it the hard way. In the first major success in an extradition battle, CBI on Friday ...
Jodha Akbar: Does it Deserve the Attention?
Posted by Sandeep on Monday, February 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM. 34 Comments.
I didn’t want to blog about the controversy around Jodhaa Akbar simply because it doesn’t deserve the attention it is getting. The opinion I’ve heard ...
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