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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

Cautious optimism — India’s new relationship with Tarique Rahman’s Bangladesh

Sushant Sareen -
Both Bangladesh and India will have to work together to repair the damage done during the Yunus administration.

5 yrs of Ukraine war—why Delhi must de-hyphenate Moscow from the West

India can sell its vision, but it can’t spectacle its way to AI power

Economy

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

Vrinda Tulsian -
On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Defence

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

Snehesh Alex Philip -
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

National Interest

The new Great Game—Trump’s playing for time, China for leverage & India for wiggle room

Shekhar Gupta -
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.

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