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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Mary Kom: Flawed Power

Mary Kom: Flawed Power

And suddenly Jhansi Ki Rani has become a cinematic trigger. First Subhadra Kumari Chauhan’s poem, “Khoob ladi mardani woh to Jhansi wali Rani thi” about the warrior queen was referenced by Rani Mukherjee’s  Mardani (spot the connection?). In Omung Kumar’s Mary Kom,  a wizened coach (Sunil Thapa) tells Priyanka Chopra’s Mary that her strength has […]

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Celebrating The Brave

Celebrating The Brave

Though it was a night of glitz, glamor, and chutzpah crowded by the who’s who of  filmdom,  the underdogs clambered up the throne of entertainment at the recently concluded Filmfare Awards. And the biggies humbly accepted their defeat and made way for the path-breakers. Vidya Balan, who played a sex-bomb in a no-holds-barred performance in the Dirty […]

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Killing Them Softly

A story about the black widow of six dysfunctional husbands could have been filmed like a grisly chapter out of Manohar Kahaniyan or a blood and gore spill in a Ramsay horror film. And yet in Vishal Bhardwaj’s Saat Khoon Maaf, you find startling strands of brilliance like,”Zyada kabhi zyada nahin hota..hamesha kam hi hota hai..aur jo kam mein jeena […]

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