Like several of Hindi language biopics, Sanju begins with a preposterous disclaimer. It comfortably washes its hands off the biopic label and claims how it is merely ‘based on’ certain events in its subject’s life. It is as if the makers were ignorant of the fact that Sanjay Dutt’s life […]
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“Race 3” strips the franchise off its sizzle, energy and oomph…
For starters, I find Race an apology of a franchise which smartly conceals its tack quotient with oodles of glamour. Indeed, the first edition was neat fun and that could be attributed to Abbas-Mustan’s mastery over their brand of cinema. The duo knew the trick to knit suspense around the […]
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“Chalte Chalte”… Happily, practically ever after!
Seventeen years back, on the 13th of June, released Aziz Mirza’s romantic drama Chalte Chalte – a film that proves for the umpteenth time that the story is NOT the backbone of a good and enormously engaging film. Starring Rani Mukerji and Shah Rukh Khan in the lead, Chalte Chalte is […]
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“Veere Di Wedding”… Girls, Uninterrupted!
Have we seen a film in the recent past which has been as big a victim of vicious attack by the online troll army? Starting from every place where a normal filmgoer frequents on the internet, the allies of a certain political ideology are busy dissing it all over – […]