Khalid Mohamed

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More ho-hum than ha-ha

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Bol Bachchan
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Lawyers beware. If you lose a property case, your client might just beat you up black and blue outside the court.

Great talent discovered

Nowadays there are these unconventional — a thousand cheers for that — but dissatisfying films which leave me rattled. Is it enough just to be decidedly different? Shouldn’t a film appeal on its own terms, whether hyper-commercial or raw-‘n’-realistic?

Those yanwcounter specialists are back

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Maximum
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Cops hop, spin like tops, even as your interest in them drops.

Monsoon plays a vital role in filmland

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It just has to get wet, wet, wet, on a Sunday morning, and fear dangles over movie-land once again. Memories of the July 26, 2005, nightmare return in the manner of Banquo’s ghost.

Gangster-e-Azam of sorts

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Gangs of Wasseypur
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It’s vaultingly ambitious.

How not to make a movie

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1 Get a friend of a friend to submit your script — written by candlelight over a decade — to a production company which is desperate for ‘content’.

Oh good Lord’s!

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Ferrari ki Sawaari
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Chweet, so sweet. Aapro Rusi cooks, cleans, tucks his son into bed, casts a loving glance at his cranky dad, and believe it or collapse, insists on paying a fine on scootering through a red traffic light. Fright.

Husain’s ode to beauty

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MISS GULAB

It’s all quite Greek

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Shanghai
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He’s no ace of face. A goon goes into a swoon — in a gargantuan close-up — about the foul deeds which are about to erupt in a couple of moons.

Top cliches

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Do take note: they don’t sprint around trees any more. They don’t shout out loud to almost deaf mothers that they have “passed first class first” at the University Board exams.

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I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.