Category: Bollywood
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The Apples and Oranges in Film Awards
The kerfuffle on social media after Akshay Kumar received the National Award for best actor has died its natural death by now. More interesting were the vicious reactions criticizing Akshay Kumar, even by seasoned critics, which beg the question : Dear critics, how do you define good acting and what, according to you, makes a…
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In Praise of Dangal and Aamir Khan
Here’s the most remarkable thing about Aamir Khan. What was the last time that his movie didn’t do well at the box office? Do you remember? I think it was Mangal Pandey : The Rising in 2005. For more than a decade, he has consistently chosen off-beat topics and not just made them a success…
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The Rise of Bollywood Superheroes
The distinction of high-brow and low-brow art is – pardon the pun – artificial. There is good art and there is bad art, irrespective of the genre. A badly made art movie cannot be better than a commercial movie with high production values just because it’s genre is supposed to be high-brow.