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Looop Lapeta Review: Dizzying, chaotic fun
Time loop films have been around for decades, but Loop Lapeta’s biggest strength is its texture and directorial improvisation. It isn’t for everyone, but it sure as hell is fun.
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Rashmi Rocket, despite its predictability, asks the right questions
Rashmi Rocket, despite its predictability is shouldered by excellent performances and a crucial question that applies not just to the world of sport but more so, outside it – the question, what constitutes a woman?
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Arranged Marriage, Tinder, & Why Manmarziyan is Completely Wrong About Modern Love in India
For all of Manmarziyan’s feminist pretensions, its lead Rumi is a cipher, waiting for validation from the men in her life. Where are the fun, confused young women who end up by themselves and become stronger because of it? Where are the women who bid their orthodoxies goodbye and try to fly solo?
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Has Kangana Ranaut Become the Bollywood Bully She Once Fought Against?
At the song launch of her upcoming film, Judgmentall Hai Kya, Kangana Ranaut took on an unsuspecting journalist and accused him of running a smear campaign against her. It’s unfortunate but the actress who was once applauded for being a bold outsider has turned into a tantrum-throwing diva.
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The Manmarziyaan of India’s Many Small-Town Rumis
The plot of Manmarziyaan is a story as old as time. It’s also a narrative that spans the breadth of mohallas across India where countless Rumis let go off their pehla pyaar and marry a stranger. Rumi is that woman discussed in hushed whispers in every small town.
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Kaun Shabana?
Taapsee Pannu is the unwitting leader in a new genre taking over Bollywood, called “How To Let A Leading Actor Steal Your Thunder”.
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Bollywood Has Always Been Ageist. Saand Ki Aankh Just Proves That
For an industry as distracted by, and obsessed with stars, it’s hard for senior actresses to find age-appropriate roles that do justice to their talent. Worse, when there arises an opportunity for a movie to cast them – like Tushar Hiranandani’s Saand Ki Aankh, that revolves around two sharpshooters in their sixties – they lose out to young actresses more likely to have box-office pull.
