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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by
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What’s Your Raashee (2009)

What’s Your Raashee? is Ashutosh Gowariker’s sardonic way of asking ‘what’s your patience’ (or ‘how far can your bladder hold’ as an Indian critic has unabashedly pointed out). The Lagaan director (and hardcore Swadesi) had seriously lost his marbles as he ran out of patience and dignity during an awards …

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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by
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Life Partner (2009)

Like all art forms, films have their own genres: thriller, suspense, romantic, comedy etc. Bollywood has all those and one genre that stands entirely on its own – the Govinda movie. Now how does one define a quintessential Govinda flick? Calling it mindless entertainment would be too simplistic, it is …

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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 by
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Kambakkht Ishq (2009)

After a long tedious week, what one desperately needs is mindless entertainment. And this is precisely what Kambakkht Ishq promises and delivers: Bollywood masala coated in glam, tossed with idiotic humour, garnished with scantily clad women, spiced with a brigade of Hollywood superstars, and of course that special condiment a …

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Monday, January 4th, 2010 by
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Little Zizou (2009)

Indian cinema has been making serious inroads and developments into unchartered territories without the stereotypical Bollywood masala in tow- so much so that now even the term ‘Bollywood’ has been swiftly erased and replaced with the more professional diction of ‘industry’. With offerings of films like Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye, …

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Monday, January 4th, 2010 by
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Billu Barber (2009)

Billu Barber easily proves what you already know: Shah Rukh Khan has tremendous star appeal but when it comes to acting, he can easily be upstaged, in this case by the better Khan – Irrfan Khan. Billu is a story set in the picturesque village of Budbuda, where Billu the …

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Monday, January 4th, 2010 by
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Dhoondte Reh Jaoge (2009)

Just when we begin to praise Bollywood for making alternative films, it throws a film like Dhoondte Reh Jaoge in our path making one feel either nervous for having cast an ill omen on the industry, or worse, feeling like a dimwit to have spoken too soon. For all the …

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Saturday, November 28th, 2009 by
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Afsar (1950)

Synopsis The journalist Kapur (Dev Anand) comes to a village run by corrupt politicians led by the village tehsildar (Kanhaiyalal). They mistake him for a government inspector and treat him like a VIP. The expose of rural politics is intercut with a love story between Kapur and the tehsildar’s sister …

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