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The verdict is out: Presenting Bollywood’s most popular versus most impactful...
2015 was a mixed bag of a year for Bollywood. On one hand, we saw a lot of new-age filmmakers come up with some really off-beat stuff, while on the other, we were subjected to some same old,...
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The Force is sound asleep (and snoring too!)
Every now and then I am asked to critique a movie and I am happy to oblige. Because good, bad or average, these films that I am asked to evaluate are nonetheless cinema. However when I was asked to...
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If you’ve seen The Pursuit of Happyness, you’ve seen a better version of Joy
Let me get this straight right from the outset, some amongst us will always find a tale compelling where an underdog succeeds in the end despite the numerous odds , no matter how ineptly it’s told. And...
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Sanam Teri Kasam is the cinematic equivalent of Chinese water torture
Back when I was in college, I was acquainted with a certain someone who was notorious for being uber-pretentious throughout campus. Amongst a tonne of her other pseudo acts, what everyone found the...
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Aligarh: Gay love in the time of Bollywood
All right, I am holding my hands up and I admit I was a homophobe back in the day. Like any typical Pakistani youngster, a lot of my cussing and swearing involved slurs against the gay community. Even...
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London Has Fallen along with Hollywood standards
Here we go again, yet another tediously mindless sequel. If torturing us with the 2013 action thriller, Olympus Has Fallen, wasn’t enough the producers come up with a bigger and dumber version. Was...
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Shame on you, Manchester United fans!
Imagine ourselves hosting India in a significant cricket world cup fixture at the Gaddafi amidst an electric atmosphere. The green caps are chasing a relatively easier target with consummate ease,...
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Kapoor & Sons: Your own dysfunctional family
All right, now here is a definitive list of all the people who under no circumstances can miss out on the chance to watch Kapoor & Sons while they can. The perfect elder child - Rahul Kapoor (Fawad...
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Ki & Ka reinforces the very stereotypes it set out to negate
Ever found yourself involved in a heated debate where the arguer is trying to prove his point by being obnoxiously loud, regurgitating the same information over and over again and, worst of all,...
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I’d rather watch a ceiling fan than Shah Rukh’s Fan!
A disclaimer of sorts before I begin this piece; I have never been a huge Shah Rukh Khan (SRK) fan (no pun intended). Au contraire, even back in the day when everyone and their dog was drooling over...
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The Huntsman: Winter’s War – A grim tale rather than a Grimm’s Fairy Tale
“Mirror mirror on the wall, Who is the lousiest of them all?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W65ndip7MM Once upon a time, in a land of pointless sequels, lousy executives from Universal Studios...
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Mighty Red Machine all set to sink The Yellow Submarine
Football has never been associated with music particularly. But Liverpool can arguably lay claim to the unofficial title of being the only city in the world that has found global prominence with the...
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The only thing Baaghi is rebelling against is reason, logic and common sense!
Excuse me? Are we back in the 90s now? Because I clearly missed the memo, notifying us mere mortals of this monumental time travelling feat. So thank god for the team behind Baaghi, since had it not...
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Hillsborough Inquest: At the end of the storm is a golden sky!
Twenty seven years in waiting and finally justice is served. That’s one hell of an extensive period of time, right? And that is precisely how long it took for truth to unfold in one of the longest...
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Which of these giant teams will not make it to the Premier League top four?
Imagine hiring, arguably, the best football coach on the planet and instead of handing him a Champions League berth as a welcome gift, you saddle him with an unwanted distraction of a tournament that...
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90 minutes to La Liga glory
For me personally, there is only one thing worse than watching either Barcelona or Real Madrid lift the La Liga trophy and that is to watch any one of these clubs winning a rather predictable two-horse...
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1920 London was the best comedy I’ve seen in a while!
A friend of mine, along with being a self-proclaimed ‘Love Guru’ is a huge fan of horror flicks. According to him, with no endorsement from my side whatsoever, this particular genre should be your...
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X-Men: Apocalypse – An apocalyptic end to the trilogy
I wanted this to be good, oh, I so badly wanted this to be good. I even made good on my promise to never ever waste my money on another lousy, solely-there-to-make-money superhero flick by skipping out...
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Money Monster – An investment that doesn’t pay off
Why am I not even surprised? I mean, when was the last time we saw a Hollywood flick with A-Listers trying to aspire for cinematic brilliance? The only thing these studios are currently interested in...
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With the Euro and Copa America, this will be a football summer like no other!
This summer is like Eid, Diwali and Christmas rolled into one for all us football fanatics. It’s not just the Euro taking place in France that will the set our pulse racing, but us fans have got a...
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