The Gorilla's Lament

Thumbs all opposed and nowhere to go.

Friday, February 26, 2021

Dark streets and dhotis.

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 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay created Byomkesh Bakshi in 1932, and continued to chronicle his adventures until 1970.  Initially, Byomkesh was cl...
Friday, February 19, 2021

Retail therapy.

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 When I first started blogging, being an American Bollywood fan was a bit more complicated than it is now.  Netflix had a decent selection o...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

My beloved is like lemonade.

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 As Jab We Met (2007) opens, Aditya (Shahid Kapoor) is having a bad day, week, month and year. His father has died, the family corporation ...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

. . . is an ungrateful stepsibling.

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David Dhawan is famous for directing a number of incredibly broad, incredibly formulaic comedies, often starring Govinda or the director...
Saturday, January 30, 2021

A shaggy fish story.

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You might think that Maara (2021) is a movie about finding love, or the strength of a found family, or learning from the past in order to f...
Saturday, January 23, 2021

Ten hours of plot in a two hour movie.

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Bada Dil Wala (1983) is the story of Amrit (Rishi Kapoor), a kind and trusting hotel singer, who is sent to prison for a crime he did not c...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Lemony Snicket's "A Fistful of Dollars."

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Avane Srimannarayana (2019) starts with a murder.  Bandit leader Rama Rama (Madhusudhan Rao) has captured a band of traveling religious pag...
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