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Cinema
Rowdy Rathore
When a film’s reference point is bad cinema, you end up with a noxious cipher like this one
Men in Black 3
Josh Brolin is an inspired choice as the young Tommy Lee Jones. But the one-liners, the mainstay of the franchise, are too far apart
Department
With this, it’s clear Ram Gopal Varma has exhausted himself on the mafia-police nexus
City of Irritable Ghosts
Anik Datta’s satire Bhooter Bhobishyot is a worthy cinematic tribute to Kolkata, far better textured than the Kahaani brand of nostalgic love
Bollywood’s Nasa Guy
Bedabrata Pain was up to hi-tech wizardry at a Nasa lab in the US before he quit the job to make a film on the Chittagong uprising of 1930
The Artiste Who Will Never be a Star
Annu Kapoor is a realist. He prays that he’ll be given the gift of beauty, not talent, in his ‘next birth’
Hugo
An anomaly in Scorsese’s oeuvre of mean dystopias, this is his dreamlike tribute to cinema
Bollywood’s Funny Guy
Ranvir Shorey on the futility of being a good actor and why he will always remain an underdog in the film industry
The Dibakarian Way of Life
Director Dibakar Banerjee on the politics of his films, his commitment to cinema as an art form and why he can’t bear to watch his own films
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