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Mashaal- Yash Chopra’s Fiery Saga
With Kabhie Kabhie and Silsila , Yash Chopra had started moving completely into his favourite genre – Romance. However, the anger against the ways of the society which Yashji had depicted in films such as Deewaar , Trishul still lived within him. This is what he depicted for the last time in Mashaal. Aditya SavnalA [...]
Inspired not ‘Plagiarised’
Since time immemorial, the malaise of plagiarism is very prevalent in Indian Film Industry especially in Bollywood. We have more than often seen directors (read Sanjay Gupta, Mahesh Bhatt etc amongst others) stealing films frame by frame and passing off as their own. However certain minor changes are made in the script. So that when [...]
Top 12 friendship songs of Bollywood
The bond of friendship has been one of the oft depicted bonds in Bollywood since time immemorial. From Jai and Veeru of Sholay to Akash , Sid and Sameer of Dil Chahta Hai , the depiction of friendship in Hindi cinema might have gone a radical change. Still it continues to be one of the [...]
Thalapathi-Tale of a Modern Day Karna
The Mahabharat has always been one of my favorite books. It is like an ocean for me, the more you know of it , the lesser you still know about it. And one of the most fascinating characters in the Mahabharata for me has been Karna. I guess maybe due to the fact, that Karna [...]
A Tribute To Sanjeev Kumar
More than two decades have passed since Sanjeev Kumar died, but his performances still remain fresh in my mind. He was undoubtedly one of the best actors Indian cinema has seen. But sadly, today he is mostly remembered mainly by way of the innumerable spoofs on his character of Thakur Baldev Singh from Sholay. Aditya [...]
Priyadarshan-The Run Machine of Indian Cinema
Recently we saw Priyadarshan return to Malayalam Cinema after ages with Oru Marubhoomi Kadha. While the movie was more of a rehash of many of his earlier films, what went unnoticed probably was that this was Priyan’s 80th release.This is indeed a commendable achievement because there aren’t too many directors with such a big tally [...]
Mr India : A Trip Down Memory Lane
Mr.India is one of the first movies I ever saw and still have fond memories about it. And why not? It is so hard to dislike this movie. During the 80’s Bollywood was churning out assembly line products which had a standard template. An idealistic hero in love having a supportive heroine (in all ways) [...]
Rajiv Rai : Master of the ‘Masala Movie’ genre
As a kid, a friend of my dad had gifted me an audio cassette of Tridev. Those days the audio cassettes would come in a special edition which had an entire film in the audio format as it would be in its theatrical version. And the cover used to bear the name “Full Songs With Dialogues.” [...]
Thalapathi : Rajini and Mani’s Classy Collaboration
Starcast : Rajinikanth, Mammootty, Shobana, Amrish Puri Director : Mani Ratnam Like rest of India, the Rajinikanth frenzy hit me hard with ‘Sivaji- The Boss‘.And after watching it, I developed a certain amount of appreciation and liking for Rajinikanth. Aditya SavnalA cinema lover who loves to watch all kinds og movies and who holds Kanti Shah & Christopher Nolan [...]
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