While not a mainstream Hindi movie, I thought I’d include a review here that I did a few months back of Deepa Mehta’s most recent film. Water, the final film in director Deepa Mehta’s trilogy of the elements, proves to moviegoers that good things can come to those who wait. The history of the […]
Month: July 2006
Company
As fond as I am of many Hindi movies, I’ll also willingly admit that some of them have faults. Fight sequences may be cartoonish, plot points might be incredibly frail, some song picturizations could be deemed too sweet and self-indulgent and way too long, but nonetheless, even if the movies suffer from these […]
What part exactly is AB playing in KANK?
The pimp, or the queeny uncle?
As Jay Leno said to Hugh Grant after the hooker incident
What were you thinking?
Zanjeer
This 1973 Prakash Mehra movie is often cited as the launch of the Amitabh Bachchan angry-young-man role that was a turning point in the actor’s career as well as mainstream Hindi cinema, and coincided with a growing dissatisfaction with post-Independence government. It’s a story of one man’s revenge for the wrongs done to […]