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Showing posts with label Snakes!. Show all posts
Saturday, March 1, 2025

No rockets. Just Tarzan.

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  Adventures of Tarzan (1985) is a product of the golden age of Bollywood plagiarism, a time when you could pad out your Tarzan movie with ...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Chhota Bheem and the Inevitable Remake

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 It seems like every other day a new Bollywood cinematic universe begins, but the Spy Universe, the Cop Universe, and the Maddock Supernatur...
Sunday, June 30, 2024

Count the snakes.

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 Monica, O My Darling (2022) begins as it means to go on, with murder.  Factory worker Dev (Shiv Chauhan) barely has time to announce his e...
Saturday, May 18, 2024

Wrestling with love.

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 Sword and sandals movies, also known as the peplum genre, were big in Italian cinema in the early Sixties.  It's a very simple formula:...
Saturday, October 21, 2023

Bhooty Call: Chandramukhi

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 If you've seen the first Bhool Bhulaiyaa , then the plot of Chandramukhi (2005) is going to sound very familiar.  There's a reason...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Saaptember: Naga Kanya

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 Naga Kanya (2019) is also known as Neeya 2 , and in theory it's a sequel to 1979's Neeya , which was itself the Tamil remake of Na...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Saaptember: Prem Shakti

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The shapeshifting snakes of Bollywood are surprisingly versatile.  They can be vengeful killers, doomed lovers, mystical guardians, or, as i...
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