LBZ: Easy Warmth

LBZ: Easy Warmth

One of my favourite moments in Love BreakUps Zindagi is when a twice divorced Govind (Cyrus Sahukar) sits in his Delhi barsaati with the woman he thinks is the answer to his search for love. There is a pile of home delivery menus between them and he puns on misspelt chicken dishes till she decides […]

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The Baap Of Glorious Cliches

The Baap Of Glorious Cliches

  Bbuddhah Hoga Tera Baap opens with the iconic AB poster from Deewar silhouetted against the credits and those who grew up in that era, instantly feel the rush of blood going to their head. There was nothing, NOTHING like watching Amitabh Bachchan in 70 mm or Cinemascope, in the 70s and 80s, in flesh and […]

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Shaitan: Wilfully Irreverent

Shaitan: Wilfully Irreverent

It is hard to say if Anurag Kashyap Inc is intentionally subverting the vocabulary of romance in Hindi films but there is no deference towards it, either. So the sepia memory of Dev Anand running across glades and slopes under an open sky to the tune of Khoya Khoya Chand becomes a remix in Bejoy Nambiar’s Shaitan. The […]

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Beautiful And Tepid

Beautiful And Tepid

A train steaming desolately into the night. Carrying animals and humans, both equally desperate. Packed into cages, visible and invisible. The misery and the pain that creates the illusion of an “extravagant extravaganza” under the milky Big Top. A circus of miraculous animals who may be angry or hungry, clowns and performers who may have nothing to smile about, a shining showstopper leading a horse who may […]

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I Am Not Invisible…

I Am Not Invisible…

In the 1950s, Ralph Ellison wrote a novel called Invisible Man about the existential invisibility  of African Americans and how the ‘other half’ simply did not see them. Their stories did not matter because no one acknowledged them as real. Among many other unforgettable lines, were these, “I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me. You often doubt if you really […]

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