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Sunday, June 13th, 2010 by admin
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Rajneeti (2010)

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that Bollywood fans have been craving for good cinema since quite a while and Prakash Jha’s Rajneeti seems to quench their thirst well. There is no doubt that the movie lacks Bollywood masala, glamorous clothes, dances numbers and romance, which Indian cinema thrives on but there’s something in this ...

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by admin
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Umrao Jaan (1981)

This film is based on the Urdu novel Umrao Jaan Ada by Mirza Mohammad Hadi ‘Ruswa’, published in 1899, which presents the story of Umrao Jaan, a courtesan of Lucknow and Kanpur, as supposedly true. It is set at the last moment of Lucknow’s glory: the 1857 uprisings occur in the novel when Umrao Jaan ...

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010 by admin
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Masoom (1982)

This story of an illegitimate child is a real weepie, which picks up the theme of forgiveness that runs through so many Hindi movies. It is said to be based on Man, Woman and Child (1982), a film adapted from the book of the same name by Erich Segal of Love Story fame, although, in ...

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Saturday, May 1st, 2010 by admin
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Omkara (2006)

Vishal Bhardwaj’s compelling adaptation of Othello, released theatrically in the US and UK in summer 2006, sticks more closely to Shakespeare than his Maqbool (2003) followed Macbeth, yet still makes several inspired changes, the first in its opening scene. On a parched hillside in Uttar Pradesh, Bhardwaj’s lago, Langda, tells a dim, wimpish bridegroom, Raju ...

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Thursday, April 29th, 2010 by admin
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Ishqiya (2010)

As a director, Vishal Bhardwaj has gone from strength to strength. From Maqbool in 2003, Omkara in 2006 and last year’s critically acclaimed Kaminey, amongst others; Vishal has proven his knack for unique story-telling in a predominantly commercialized Indian cinema. Even though his work is littered with many other accomplishments, Ishqiya has to be his ...

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