“A soldier doesn’t ask what his country ever did for him, rather what more could he do for his country.” The atrocious motion picture should have ended with the only good dialogue there was, may JFK rest in peace. But the makers couldn’t have disappointed their audience which can’t seem to have enough of the…
Category: Films,TV & Web-Series
What makes the Pathan sneeze?
Deepika Padukone plays Shanya D’Costa, a Christian girl, in Pathan. That is to perhaps to justify her roaming around in bikinis, desperately thrusting and gyrating her body in crassest possible manner, faking coital convulsions, being grabbed and thrown around by the Pathan as if she is ‘unaccompanied baggage’ or ‘street trash’. This is typical Bollywood…
NADAV LAPID – A SELF-GOAL by INDIA
Nadav Lapid is a free man who makes good films, and has the right to air his views. He was invited to Goa to the head the IFFI jury by Indian officials. His understanding of cinema is his own to savour and propagate. That he condemned The Kashmir Files as ‘vulgar’ and ‘propaganda’ is his…
Tony Soprano as Schrodinger’s Cat – How the Sopranos Ends!
Tony, Carmela and Anthony Jr. are in a diner, hogging onion rings, while waiting for Meadow to turn up. “Best onion rings in the city, as far as I’m concerned,” declares T. You believe him, of course. Boss is always right. You have got to take his word on food. He was shown gobbling something…
जहीरुद्दीन मोहम्मद रावण – दशहरे पर उर्दूवुड की सप्रेम भेंट
सैफ अली बैठा पेड़ पे, करके पटौदी चौड़े, नीचे खड़ा प्रभास बोला, उतर भांड, हँसोड़े! कल विजया दशमी मनाया जाएगा । पूरी दुनिया में रामलीला मंचन चल रहा है । पर ऐसे में एक रावण ऐसा भी बन गया है जिसके माथे से त्रिपुन्ड गायब है । गले में माला नहीं है, मूछें भी मुंडी…
ब्रह्मास्त्र – महण्णे माफ करना, गलती म्हारे से हो गयी !
अपनी गाढ़ी कमाई का पैसा खर्च करके मैं अब कभी विष्ठावुड फिल्में देखने थियेटर नहीं जाता, पर कल एक वामी-कामी के सौजन्य से जाना पड़ गया । जानता हूँ कि विभिन्न कारणों से ब्रह्मास्त्र को बॉयकॉट करने की मुहिम चल रही है, और मैं उससे पूर्णतया सहमत भी हूँ, पर वामपंथी चिरकुट ऐसा पीछे पड़ा…
थाली नहीं मंगाऊंगा, उर्दुवूड को सबक सिखाऊँगा
क्या ज़माना आ गया है, महाकाल से थाली भी नहीं मँगवा सकते ! पंडे-पुजारी विरोध करने लगते हैं, बॉयकाट ट्रेंड होने लगता है । जनमत बहुत कुशल महावत होता है, सरकार आलसी हो या घमंडी, उससे अपनी मनवाना जानता है । पर अभी बात महाकाल की जहां न तो भोजन की कोई व्यवस्था होती है,…
Curb Your Enthusiasm- When Larry David got Fatwa’d & called on Salman Rushdie for Expert Advice
For the past two weeks, I have been gorging upon the HBO Series, Curb Your Enthusiasm. In the Third Episode of the Ninth Season, I was pleasantly surprised to watch a very ridiculously disguised Larry David walk into a room where Salman Rushdie expected him. Rushdie, damn! He seemed so alive, dapperly dressed, looked delightfully…
The Essence of Al Pacino (Poem)
Of Al’s fire and the baritone, What can I say? The gaze as intense as his might singe dry hay. The man moves like a gazelle, Still the best in the fray, Let him talk and talk to make his point, Just shoot away. The air in his lungs, The power in his voice, The…
Dharmaveer : The Anand Dighe Biopic that foretold the current Revolt
Dharmaveer: Mukkam Post Thane (available on Zee5), the Marathi biopic of the Shiv Sena strongman, Anand Dighe, was released in May 2022. Aside from presenting Dighe (who passed away in 2001) and the Thane Shiv Sena unit as virtually autonomous, the film also strongly made the point that the party had grown powerful only by…
The Empty Canvas of Her Back (poem)
On the empty canvas of her back, I aimed to paint a sylvan, hilly tract, But the sight and touch put paid to my thoughts, There were sand dunes waiting to be explored, The undulating landscape sent invites, Promised oasis on the other side, The sands shifted whenever she shrugged, My horse burst forth with…
सत्या एकदम डेंजर था, भीखू तो बस बदनाम हो गया
बार का दरवाजा खुलता है । हेंडल खिंचने की आवाज़ सुनाई देती है । क्या यह सत्या की अंतरात्मा की आवाज़ है? या फिर मौत की ? शायद उसपर चढ़े हुए बदले के फितूर की हो? ऊंची वॉल्यूम पर गाना बज रहा है – हाँ मुझे प्यार हुआ, प्यार हुआ अल्लाह मियां , भरी बरसात…
Abhinav Pancholi 