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Remembering Sunny Deol’s dynamite delivery in Ghayal

‘Aaj hi maroonga usse. Aaj hi.’ This is no empty threat. Not when coming from Sunny Deol anyway.  And there’s nothing Amrish Puri’s brutish Balwant Rai, at whom it’s directed, can do or say to save himself from Sunny’s wrath.  It’s … Continue reading

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Bollywood retro at its hilarious best!

Everyone celebrates the finest films, the soaring highs and the best works of an artist of cinema. But there’s something inexplicably attractive about its trippy exaggerations and unabashed absurdities that may appear terrible at the time of release but amusing … Continue reading

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Hero: Subhash Ghai’s flamboyant take on romance

No barrier of society, clans, class or creed can stop two people from falling in love. Ah, if it isn’t, the quintessential Bollywood fantasy! Judge it for all you want, but this chaotic expression of creative free will has proved … Continue reading

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