Saturday, July 30, 2022

Zoinks! It's a gh-gh-gh-gh-Gandhi!

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Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) is one of Bollywood's indirect sequels; several of Munna Bhai M.B.B.S' s cast members return, but the o...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

There's certainly less police brutality than in Singham.

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Long time readers will know that I have a theory about film: any any premise can be turned into a comedy by adding the words "Wackiness...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

If you're not angry, you're not paying attention.

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There are a lot of Indian comedies that revolve around social issues (many of them starring Ayushmann Khurana - it's sort of his thing) ...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

They do eventually get to the fireworks factory.

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 Marjaavaan (2019) is a very retro film, but it's a particular kind of retro.  It hearkens back to the Bollywood of the 1980s, when see...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

It's Tabu's world, we're just living in it.

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Long delayed sequels are apparently a thing in movies nowadays, both in India and the West.  But sequels vary; Bunty Aur Babli 2 , for insta...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Throwing a "Part One" in the title would have been nice.

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Indian cinema can teach us many lessons: fight for your love, respect your family, never threaten the hero's mother, listen before jumpi...
Saturday, June 18, 2022

Wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey.

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 Many Bollywood movies will boldly jump from one genre to another, but Baar Baar Dekho (2016) doesn't do that.  Instead, it sort of mea...