Anil Kapoor
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PARINDA (Dir. Vidhu Vinod Chopra, 1989, India)
At times watching Parinda is like seeing the handiwork of a geographer dissecting the topography of an urban landscape, flattening and amplifying the fissures of a Bombay milieu that had typically never been printed on celluloid in quite the way director Vidhu Vinod Chopra and his cinematographer Binod Pradhan had in mind when they were Continue reading
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MASHAAL / THE TORCH (Dir. Yash Chopra, 1984, India) – Ashes to Ashes
The death of Yash Chopra led to a surge of online film canonizing that seemingly celebrated his populist work at the expense of creative flourishes such as Mashaal and it is a film that is often overlooked in his oeuvre. I’m not entirely sure or convinced if Mashaal has been completely reclaimed from the past. Continue reading
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