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  1. Celebrating relationships on celluloid

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    / January 20, 2013 /
    The festive season saw the Telugu film viewing audience watch two films reiterating the value of the family and storylines dealing with the family. The two however, are as different as chalk is from cheese. If one had the dynamism and velocity of an Akram-Waqar Younis spell, the other had...

  2. Akbar’s right to defence

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    / January 17, 2013 / 6 Comments
    I am a tad surprised at the manner in which certain sections of the Bar questioned the propriety of Senior Advocate and former Advocate General DV Sitha Ram Murthy appearing for Akbaruddin Owaisi in the recent writ petition. It is strange that a set of lawyers raised the question in...

  3. Sublime Trichur Brothers

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    / November 28, 2012 /
    An experience in the exquisite. Classicism is celebrated here and at a time when the art is going through a redefining moment, it was an awesome evening at Kalasagaram listening to the Trichur Brothers who with the concert have appeared at every premier institution of the genre in the city...

  4. Julayi – a celebration of violence and insanity

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    / August 12, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Tollywood is outreaching its set of cliches. Julayi is a celebration of its grotesque heroics. Dollops of violence, stylised stunts, choreographic delights, stars – you name them and the film has it all and in abundance. Perpetuating larger than life images could at one level be seen as commerce and...

  5. Silence ! The court is in session

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    / July 29, 2012 /
    Courts are a service institution. In a system pledged to the rule of law, a civilised society on a daily basis, lives by a pattern of determined socio political grammar. `We the people’ gave to ourselves a constitution in 1950 and decisively announced to a fast changing world that we...

  6. Gunning for the viewer

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    / June 30, 2012 /
    The last few weeks have seen Bollywood at its bloodiest. This cinema factory has always cherished violence as a favourite product. Down the years we have seen violence as art and have given it the pride of place. Check with critics of the Mahatma and you would find many who...

  7. Shanghai, India@2012

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    / June 11, 2012 /
    Who would have thought that Costa Gavras film of late 60s would have inspired an Indian film-maker? This in itself is a clear sign of Bollywood coming of age. `Z’ was released in India during the Emergency. I recall seeing it over 30 years ago. Even then I was impressed...
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    Tagged abhay deol, , dibakar, emraan hashmi, , kalki, sez, shanghai

  8. CBI – Blackmailing wing of the ruling party?

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    / May 29, 2012 /
    The arrest of YS Jagan raises more questions than it answers. It yet again reiterates how the investigating agency and its personnel can be visibly partisan. The march of event inspires little confidence. The methodology shows the Central investigating agency in poor light. So often has it happened that it...

  9. Brand Ravi Teja

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    / May 29, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Actors every once in a while grow larger than their scripts and create for themselves a larger than life image. Some actors even succeed in doing so. Look back at the Shammi Kapoor era and you would find that he stretched his image to an extent that anything less or...

  10. Carry on Doctor

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    / April 1, 2012 /
    When you turn 57 and move towards the next day, a system that performed well all these years can begin to send signals. The wild and the adventurous overlook a calendar at their own risk. All machines have a lifetime. Some stand by their warranty, some outlast, some succumb. So...

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