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Cape Malay Music

Sanjay Dutt, the popular Bollywood actor was recently in Cape Town for a shooting sequence of Chatursingh Four Star. Many Indian movies have been made with Cape Locations as a part of the story but...

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The Lord of The Rings is a Bollywood Movie

Just a few days back, I was talking to a friend who was ranting about the hindi movies, and the completely over the top masala ingredients added in them to spice them up. After defending the Bollywood...

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Tapan Sinha Left Us Today

     The stones remained hungry As palaces and kothis overturned A night crossed over from guarding An extinct royalty To streets of Kolkata Where the youth tore off Its resplendence Stabbed by a fury...

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My Upcoming Film: CoolKat Urbanoir - Life in Amrika

Inspired by Slumdog Millionaire, I'm going to make a movie featuring 'gritty realism' in the USA. The movie will be called CoolKat Urbanoir. The story goes like this - A young African man gets...

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Movie Review: Ramchand Pakistani

The name caught my attention. It is not every day that we hear the title of a revered Hindu god and Pakistan in the same sentence. I almost wondered why there hadn't be news of effigies being burnt in...

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Movie Review: Slumdog Millionaire - Phir Bhi Dil Hai Filmistani

Slumdog Millionaire is that rare combination of a strong plot and skilful storytelling that marries grit and glamour seamlessly.You would think that a firang's depiction of India would be all 'exotic...

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Oscars 2009: Slumdog Tops The Grade

The Oscars have a certain glamour that outstrips most other award ceremonies. Much of this allure is deliberately cultivated, of course, and given the large number of film awards events, one wonders...

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Do You Remember Those Caves? A Poetry Film on Gwalior

      do you remember those caves at the foot of the fort where we used to play and the old cemetery we once hid from the sun and hordes of maratha warriors cascading behind a broken window hunting...

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Ishq-Mohabbat-Pyaar-Vyaar: A Tribute to Filmy Love

Now that the controversies surrounding Valentine’s Day are in the past, I thought it would be fun to have a glimpse at the strange, comic and unusual things that love compels us to do. Catchy...

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Movie Review: 13B - Not Fear's New Address

Flush with the success of my earlier movie plan which turned out such great results, I decided to go one extra and spice up my next movie outing as well. So, I proposed 'Kitsch is Kool'. The idea was...

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