Friday, 20 May, 2022
TopicHindi cinema

Topic: Hindi cinema

Guns, violence, revenge — Mothers in Bollywood are changing from sanskari to fiery

Nidhima Taneja -
Mothers like Sheel, Aarya, Rukhsana, and Devki have no remorse for blurring the line between right and wrong. Hindi cinema has moved on from typecast roles.

SS Rajamouli’s RRR is everything you expect it to be – freedom struggle on Baahubali scale

Tina Das -
SS Rajamouli’s RRR may be a good ol' tale of good vs evil, but it packs everything that Indian cinema offers, plus spectacular VFX.

2021 was the year of anti-caste cinema — from Jai Bhim to Karnan

Ravi Shinde -
Tamil films showed that it was possible to be anti-caste and not be ‘anti-box office’. Bollywood needs to catch up.

Bollywood has miles to go before it can produce Kaala, Asuran, Karnan or even a Jai Bhim

Dilip Mandal -
Tamil film industry used to be like any other Indian film Industry about a decade ago. But then it delved into anti-caste movies that even Hindi and Bengali new wave films didn't.

Forget Dil Chahta Hai, Raj Kapoor-Nargis starrer Chori Chori was the first road trip movie

Unnati Sharma -
On Manna Dey's death anniversary, remembering how the song "Yeh Raat Bheegi Bheegi" is more popular than the film itself.

Off The Cuff with Kiara Advani, Sidharth Malhotra & Vishu Vardhan

Shivani Rawat -
Watch actors Kiara Advani, Sidharth Malhotra and filmmaker Vishnu Vardhan in conversation with Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, News Editor Ruhi Tewari and Special Correspondent Apoorva...

5 songs to remember Shakeel Badayuni, Hindi cinema’s romantic poet

Unnati Sharma -
Ahead of Shakeel Badayuni's 105th birth anniversary on 3 August, we look back on his remarkable career and his unabashedly romantic soul.

8 songs that prove Anand Bakshi was Hindi cinema’s lyricist for the common man

Unnati Sharma -
While some of his contemporaries and seniors like Sahir, Majrooh and Gulzar are considered more ‘poetic’, Anand Bakshi kept it simple and read the pulse of the masses.

In Hum Dono, lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi turns melodrama into a meditation on love, war & life

Samira Sood -
Starring Dev Anand in a double role, along with Sadhana and Nanda, Hum Don is film takes on the classic lookalike trope, set against the backdrop of World War 2.

Aakrosh, Om Puri’s masterclass in the art of silence, is especially powerful after Hathras

Samira Sood -
Om Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Amrish Puri and Smita Patil star in Govind Nihalani's 1980 directorial debut that explores caste politics and the oppression of Adivasis.
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Opinion

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Ethanol blended fuel to power vehicles. Will it hurt your car’s engine?

Kushan Mitra -
India’s reliance on ethanol blended fuel is only set to increase in the wake of rising crude oil prices. But are we going to adapt in time?
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American SiG Sauer rifle fine for Army—for now. Indian firms should be Modi govt’s priority

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Pakistan’s being governed by London Sharif and Islamabad Sharif. But they’re not on same page

Economy

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Inflation raised monthly expenses of 92% Indian families in last 3 months, finds online survey

ThePrint Team -
A LocalCircles poll found that 70% of respondents felt their monthly household budget increased by 10% while 55% expected expenses to go up by another 10% in the next 3 months.

Defence

File photo of a defence personnel armed with a SiG 716 rifle near the Line of Control | Photo: Snehesh Alex Philip | ThePrint

India to ink ‘repeat order’ deal for 73,000 SiG 716 rifles from the US

Snehesh Alex Philip -
In February 2019, 72,400 SiG 716 rifles of 7.62 x 51mm calibre were contracted from SIG Sauer Inc, USA, under government's 'Buy (Global) category', through fast track procedure.

National Interest

How Congress is like the Ambassador & why Indian politics needs a brand new set of wheels

Shekhar Gupta -
Like the car, nothing the party has done to reinvent itself has worked. Only way forward is to offer something looking towards the future, not in image of glorious past.

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