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Surinder Sonia, woman who made Chamkila famous, gets mere 8-10 mins screen time in Imtiaz Ali’s film

ThePrint Team -
A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

K. Kalyani -
Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Imtiaz Ali’s film doesn’t capture Chamkila’s real energy. It puts the Dalit singer in a box

Dilip Mandal -
Anyone who has seen him perform would agree that the real Chamkila was more vibrant and aggressive on stage than Diljit Dosanjh portrays him to be.

Surinder Sonia made Chamkila famous but Imtiaz Ali’s film reduces her to a footnote

+TFP Tina Das -
Amar Singh Chamkila glosses over the fact that Surinder Sonia was a powerful figure in Punjab’s pop culture milieu in the 1980s.

Imtiaz Ali and Raghu Rai want an unfiltered Delhi captured in lens—for National Geographic

Tina Das -
The format of #nofilter reality mini-series is simple—as judges, Ali and Rai mentor and choose the best photo essay from nine participants selected from a pool of over 90,000 applicants.

Imtiaz Ali’s Dr Arora is all about men’s sexuality. But plot, characters don’t hit the spot

Tina Das -
SonyLIV's latest OTT venture is aced by its cast and failed by its characters. It's all about Kumud Mishra and Vidya Malvade's acting.

From Socha Na Tha to Love Aaj Kal: The fall of Imtiaz Ali that no one noticed

Unnati Sharma -
Imtiaz Ali is Bollywood's bard of young, modern love. But his films are going through a midlife crisis now.

Love Aaj Kal review: How not to make a film, feat. Imtiaz Ali

Madhavi Pothukuchi -
An incoherent mess from start to finish, this Sara Ali Khan and Kartik Aaryan film will leave you exhausted.

‘What does Sara Ali Khan do?’ Wears her third-gen privilege proudly in Bollywood

Kaveree Bamzai -
Her forthcoming film Love Aaj Kal with Imtiaz Ali is proof that Sara Ali Khan isn’t going to wait around for her Karan Johar. She’ll chart her own path.

Why Imtiaz Ali is sure Netflix and Amazon Prime Video won’t kill cinema

Revathi Krishnan -
At the Brahmaputra Valley Film Festival in Guwahati, ThePrint speaks to director Imtiaz Ali and actor Sobhita Dhulipala.
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Opinion

Buying Russian oil, misreading Trump—3 points will define India’s next energy strategy

Swasti Rao -
India should have secured greater savings by pressing Russia for prices nearer the cap while sustaining high volumes. This would have preserved strategic autonomy and served economic logic.

In Mohammed Siraj, the Pasmanda Muslims have a hero

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Economy

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

Neelam Pandey -
New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Defence

Shadow war over India’s defence procurement on social media raises concerns of dodgy & undue influence

Snehesh Alex Philip -
One such website has drawn particular scrutiny for spreading fake stories that have upset not only the Indian but also foreign defence firms by falsely attributing misinformation.

National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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