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Super Filmi Week: Prepping for Padmavati!

Prepping for Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Padmavati, remembering Rajesh Khanna and Raaj Kumar’s exclusive tramp club and picking Ranbir Kapoor’s best performance in my Super Filmi Week. As I behold the cinematic pomp of Padmavati‘s posters, I am convinced its director … 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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Remembering Hema Malini’s unforgettable roar in Lal Patthar!

What extreme repercussions can scorn and envy lead to are dramatically depicted in Sushil Majumdar’s Lal Patthar starring Raaj Kumar, Hema Malini, Raakhee and Vinod Mehra. Through its intriguing narrative, which unravels like pages of a voluminous novel, Majumdar examines the nature of … Continue reading

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