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Friday, April 26, 2024
TopicFilm review

Topic: film review

There are no winners in Tiger Shroff’s Student of the Year 2 & audience is the only loser

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Punit Malhotra-directed Student of the Year 2 also stars debutantes Ananya Pandey and Tara Sutaria.

BR Chopra’s Naya Daur is still relevant for an India fighting age-old labour problems

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Naya Daur remains a classic for it captured the lower income groups’ sentiment in the 1950s — not totally anti-machine, but wary enough.

Even Sunny Deol’s dhai kilo ka haath cannot fill in this Blank

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Patchy acting and direction remind you of the good old Sunny Deol films and why they must remain in the past.

Devdas: The tragic hero act that made KL Saigal a household name

Sharanya Munsi -
On actor-singer KL Saigal's 115th birth anniversary, a look at PC Barua's iconic 1935 film that first put tragedy in Indian cinema’s romance.

Vivek Agnihotri’s Tashkent Files adds confusion to many conspiracies over Shastri’s death

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
Characters and plot lines aren’t sketched out well in Tashkent Files, and seem to appear out of thin air, just like ‘facts’ about Shastri’s death.

Sahir’s poetry in Kabhi Kabhie and our forever connection with them

Amit Upadhyaya -
Yash Chopra’s ode to complicated relationships was made immortal by the man behind its poetry – Sahir Ludhianvi.

Has the Internet killed the film critic in India?

Apurva Asrani -
In this age of 'fastest finger first', do critics have the time to digest a film before they put out their reviews, asks editor-screenwriter Asrani.   

Tipu Jayanti may be in the soup, but film ‘Johar-Mehmood in Goa’ placed him with Nehru & Gandhi

Sharanya Munsi -
I.S. Johar’s celebrated 1965 comedy with Mehmood delivered a message on secularism that has been followed by Bollywood ever since.

As CBI investigates CBI, the movie to watch is Special 26

Sharanya Munsi -
Neeraj Pandey-directed and Akshay Kumar-starrer Special 26 is a con artist drama based on a real-life incident.

Seeta Aur Geeta is the legacy of Hema Malini, the actor

Amit Upadhyaya -
Hema Malini ruled the film from start to finish, which also starred reigning superstar Dharmendra and Sanjeev Kumar.
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Opinion

Every time the Congress thinks it has a ‘revolutionary’ idea, it shoots its own foot

Seshadri Chari -
From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.

Harvey Weinstein will never be free. Social nooses are tighter than legal loopholes

Why the future of cars does not look electrified

Economy

JP Morgan CEO praises ‘tough leader’ Modi — ‘has taken 400 million people out of poverty’

Sampurna Panigrahi -
Jamie Dimon also lauded India's Aadhaar recognition system, broad availability of banking services & country's 'unbelievable' education system & infrastructure.

Defence

Terror commander Masood Azhar resurfaces to launch celeb-style ‘ask me anything’ online service

Praveen Swami -
The announcement, made by JeM’s Maktab-ul-Rabita, or office for communication, comes 2 yrs after Pakistani officials claimed the militant was living under Taliban protection.

National Interest

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

Shekhar Gupta -
While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.

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