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Ship of Theseus: Looking for the right answers
During an interview about his 2012 film “Shanghai”, director Dibakar Banerjee spoke about the difficulty of asking existential questions and portraying them coherently on the big screen. Anand Gandhi,...
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Bajatey Raho: Much ado about nothing
Shashant Shah‘s “Bajatey Raho” is a comedy about a motley group of people who try to con a businessman out of the millions he made by cheating gullible clients. Ravi Kishan plays evil businessman...
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Issaq: Doomed love story
What director Manish Tiwary was trying to achieve in “Issaq”, his version of Romeo and Juliet, only he can say. If you didn’t know you were watching a modern-day retelling of Shakespeare’s classic,...
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Chennai Express – Doesn’t reach its destination
To get a sense of Rohit Shetty’s “Chennai Express,” wait for the closing credits to roll. The film contains all the stereotypes that exist about those who live south of the Vindhyas, but narrated by...
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Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara: All talk, no action
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) Milan Luthria’s tongue-twister of a movie “Once Upon Ay Time in Mumbai Dobaara!” is a hark back to the gangster films of...
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Bachchan upset over fake video that shows him praising Modi
Amitabh Bachchan has threatened legal action over a YouTube video that apparently shows the Bollywood actor championing Narendra Modi as India’s next prime minister. Bachchan described the online video...
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Madras Cafe: An intelligence failure
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) After last year’s clever and heart-warming comedy “Vicky Donor”, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar switches genres with “Madras...
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Satyagraha: This revolution does not awaken anyone
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) In “Satyagraha“, director Prakash Jha attempts to show a divided society and the chasm between the people and their...
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Kids rule the roost as Bollywood woos audiences
(Any opinions expressed here are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters) Mumbai resident Gopal Das doesn't usually go to the movies. It's the children who drag him and his wife to the cinema to...
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See you around — on India Insight
To our readers, This is a short message to let you know that we are closing the India Masala blog, but we aren’t saying goodbye. We will continue to write about Bollywood and the wider world of...
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