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Pataakha Review: What Vishal Bhardwaj Gets Right About Sisterly Love

Sisters are each other’s strength and weakness – you can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Vishal Bhardwaj’s Pataakha understands this language of sisterhood, where throwing abuses, insults, and jabs at each other is par for the course.

Poulomi Das July 2, 2016

Bollywood

Is Pataakha the Sisterhood Story Bollywood’s Been Waiting For?

In Bollywood films, sisters are always selfless; they are mostly bechara, often vidhwa. If they are twins, one is bold, the other is timid. Our films have mostly paid lip service to a bond as ubiquitous as sisterhood. Will Vishal Bhardwaj’s Pataakha change that?

Pragyan Mohanty March 30, 2016