There is a moment in Mahesh Bhatt’s 1991 film Sadak when Sadashiv Amrapurkar’s Maharani, an eunuch who is also a brothel madam, is hunting for prey or rather two women who have escaped with their lovers from her clutches. In a parking lot where the silence is thrumming with fear and foreboding, Maharani is literally […]
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When Bad Was Good-2
All new baddies In the first two decades post Independence, our screen baddies were largely understated in their amorous overtures to the fairer sex. However, as the 70’s with the hippies and counterculture burst into the scene, there came ‘liberation’ from the shackles of tradition, and holding back, in every sense of the term, was […]