The Gaganmahal mystery

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Reviewed Papi Parivaar - Surendra Mohan Pathak

Paapi Parivaar(sinner family) is a murder mystery penned by eminent Hindi mystery writer Surendra Mohan Pathak. Had this book been titled as Gaganmahal, it woulread more...

A good cocktail of DDLJ and Bawarchi

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Reviewed Hero No.1

In Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s classic movie - Bawarchi(1972), a dysfunctional middle-class family gets transformed due to the influence of their new multi-taleread more...

The shaken power

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Reviewed Satta

Politics is a game of power. It is practiced to gain power and stick to it. Since the political arena contains a lot of power, politics in that field is also moread more...

Reconciling the past and the present

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Reviewed Kabhi Kabhie

Marriage is a very significant event in a person’s especially a female’s life. The sacred fire(in case of Hindu marriage) is supposed to burn all thatread more...

Reliving the sensation

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Reviewed 83

The game of Cricket was quite popular in India before 1983 World Cup also when people used to listen to the running commentaries of the test matches on radio / read more...

Dashing Dharmendra paired with debutante Raakhee

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Reviewed Jeevan Mrityu

The Rajshri banner of Bollywood run by Late Tarachand Barjatya always believed in giving break to newcomers. Usually they made family dramas and social dramas bread more...

John ! Johnny ! Janaardan !

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Reviewed Naseeb (1981)

Naseeb(1981) is a formulaic movie made by Manmohan Desai in his trademark style. There is no novelty either in the plot or in the treatment. It’s an entertread more...

It's a predecessor to Sholay

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Reviewed Mera Gaon Mera Desh

Sholay(1975) is an iconic Bollywood movie which was not only a record-breaking(and record-making) commercial success but such a movie whose characters and dialoread more...

A tribute to Asrani

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Reviewed Abhimaan -Bollywood

Govardhan Asrani, better known by his surname only, left for his heavenly abode on 20th October, 2025. He was a well-known comedian of Bollywood movies during tread more...

A real life love-triangle on screen

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Reviewed Silsila

We see several stories containing love-triangles on screen(and read in books too). However it’s a rarity that a real life love-triangle is depicted in a feread more...

The outwitting game

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Reviewed Khel -2003 Bollywood

What can happen if two good friends are smitten by the same girl and(naturally) both are willing to marry her? The likely answer is - either they may give preferead more...

Highly illogical but highly enjoyable

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Reviewed Kuch Kuch Hota Hai

Most of the Bollywood movies are not made for the logically thinking people or for those who look for logic in the movies they watch. People go for enjoyment raread more...

It brought the 'Khiladi' tag for Akshay Kumar

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Reviewed Khiladi

Ask anybody fond of Hindi movies as to who is known as the KHILADI in Bollywood and you’ll get an instant answer - Akshay Kumar. This tag was attached to hread more...

A take on husband-wife relationship

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Reviewed Aandhi -Bollywood

Several movies have been made in Bollywood which examine and comment upon husband-wife relationship. This relationship is a unique one with maximum proximity beread more...

An interesting drama by Gulshan Nanda-Yash Chopra

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Reviewed Daag

During the period of the sixties to the nineties, two talented persons entertained the Hindi speaking Indian audience very much - one did it through his books aread more...

A peep into the first world life

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Reviewed Dil Dhadakne Do

Zoya Akhtar, the daughter of Javed Akhtar and sister of Farhan Akhtar, is a talented film director for sure. After her highly admirable directorial debut Luck Bread more...

Sooraj Barjatya presents the modern Ayodhya Kaand

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Reviewed Hum Saath Saath Hain

Now when the buzz is around for the inauguration of the newly built Ram temple in Ayodhya, I came to remember this movie which was a favorite of myself and my sread more...

The overrated Acharya

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Reviewed Chanakya's Chant - Ashwin Sanghi

A few years back, esteemed MS member(and star writer), renowned authoress and poetess plus my genuine well-wisher Geetashree Chatterjee( @GEETA1963) gifted me tread more...

A touching saga of unexpressed love

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Reviewed Milan (1967)

The tragic demise of Jamuna(in the last week of January 2023) instigated me to pen a review of Milan(1967) featuring Nutan and Sunil Dutt as the lead pair with read more...

Too far-fetched, yet entertaining

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Reviewed Drishyam 2

After seven long years, the story of Drishyam starts off from exactly where its first part had concluded. The family of a middle class person who has a penchantread more...