Katti Batti: Never Comes To Life

Katti Batti: Never Comes To Life

Nikhil Advani’s Katti Batti reminded me of one of his earlier films, Salaam-e-Ishq which had moments of real resonance interspersed with what can be only described as visual white noise. Like that strange scene in a foreign location (London?) where Salman Khan appears with a make-believe baraat to woo Priyanka Chopra. What was that, really? […]

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Tepid Warmth

Tepid Warmth

So faint strains of Along Came Polly and possibly Forces Of Nature and the memory of Salman Khan’s “Shit, I love her” from Hum Aapke Hain Kaun and SRK’s jubilant cry of Koi Mil Gaya (A Karan Johar film without a Kuch Kuch Hota Hai reference? Unlikely!) and a lot of slickly packaged moments turn Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu into a […]

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S#!t Happens And How

S#!t Happens And How

  Just when you thought, the past was dead, it comes alive in the opening scene of Delhi Belly. A plane lands and we see a man striding to the tune of an RD Burman track from Hum Kissi Se Kam Nahin. We remember the way we were once. But then the man walking to the groovy beat turns out to be not […]

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The Freedom To Drink?

The Freedom To Drink?

Editor’s note: This piece was written by the author as a Facebook note in response to the manner in which young celebrities are speaking out to defend the freedom to drink. Actor Imran Khan, it was reported, intends to file a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) against the Maharashtra government’s decision to raise the legal age limit for alcohol consumption to 25 years.    I was touched to see […]

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