Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication (AIMC) New Delhi, held a Live Webinar with the cast & crew of Amazon Prime’s hit show ‘Pataal Lok’ earlier this week (Monday, 15 June) on Zoom.Continue reading “Team ‘Pataal Lok’ addresses Mental Health Issues in a LIVE Webinar organized by Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication”
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Udta Punjab Movie Review: A Film That Flew for the Stars but got the Moon
Directed by: Abhishek Chaubey; Written by: Sudip Sharma
Starring: Shahid Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Kareena Kapoor, Diljit Dosanjh
Udta Punjab would go down as one of the most talked about movies from Bollywood even before it was actually screened, our own desi version of Passion of the Christ, if you will. So instead of delving on the entire saga from CBFC’s preposterous treatment of the film for so-called “profanities and mature content” (I didn’t know Udta Punjab was a pioneering film in this regard, but let’s stay politically correct, shall we) to the controversial leak at the time of release, let’s instead review the film itself for a change.Continue reading “Udta Punjab Movie Review: A Film That Flew for the Stars but got the Moon”
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Udta Punjab Movie Review: Flight Of the Phoenix
There is nothing quite as entertaining as a good controversy. And if this controversy involves Bollywood and the Government, you can be sure of the news channels having their fill of this TRP fodder until the movie finally releases (Or if it does, in most cases). Abhishek Chaubey, who made most viewers sit up and take notice with a crackling debut in Ishqiya, and followed it up with Dedh Ishqiya, a sequel that outshone the original, moves away from the badlands of Uttar Pradesh into the lush green fields of Punjab, and shows us the underbelly of the drug mafia that seems to have eaten away at the Punjabi youth and in the process, drives away in the opposite direction of the Yash Chopra school of filmmaking. But, is Udta Punjab a piece of mediocre cinema trying to stay in the limelight through a never-ending stream of controversies, or is it truly that subversive piece of mainstream cinema that has the censor board frothing at the mouth?Continue reading “Udta Punjab Movie Review: Flight Of the Phoenix”
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Udta Punjab Movie Review: The High of Coming Out of a Theater Feeling Low
So, who was scared/wary of Udta Punjab and its supposedly ‘damaging content’?
When I saw the film today, midst all the surround sound and fury, this question kept coming to my mind every now and then – like how ‘hurt’ keeps coming back to haunt fragile Indian sentiments. Because an hour into the film and you realize that it has nothing, absolutely nothing that can damage the reputation of Punjab or the dwellers of that state. More importantly, the film never ever glorifies substance abuse, it rather showcases horrors of addiction in such a naked, brutal manner that even an average cigarette smoker (cigarette that contains only tobacco and nothing else) would also be shaken.Continue reading “Udta Punjab Movie Review: The High of Coming Out of a Theater Feeling Low”
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NH 10 Movie Review: Hits You Hard and Solid
On a cold wintery day way back in 2007 I landed up in Delhi from Bangalore, the objective being to attend an interview with a leading FMCG MNC. Now what was interesting was that the interview was not scheduled at their corporate H.O at Gurgaon but instead at a resort some 40 odd kms away from Gurgaon as there was a sales & marketing conference of theirs happening there. It was on the way to the resort that I remembered that I was not carrying a copy of my resume and was hence thinking of what to do. But then I felt that the resort would have a business centre and hence I need not be too worried. But I did end up having to be worried, the business centre at the resort was apparently under repair and when I enquired as to where I could take out some printouts, I was directed to go to the town nearby. Well the town turned out to be a village and no one understood the terms cyber café and printouts, until I realized I must just say computer centre. And believe it or not the computer centre there turned out to be a training institute and they had no printer. All this at a time when the internet had conquered households across India, and at a place less than 50 kms from Gurgaon or 100 kms from Delhi.Continue reading “NH 10 Movie Review: Hits You Hard and Solid”
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