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Uday Bhatia

@yooday

5 years

Don't plug your pieces, instead set fire to them and send them out to sea

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3 months

Can't relate, saw it in India

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The silence in the theatre during this scene was something special

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"Indian women are a strange mixture of submission and dominance" is a crazy opening for a jury citation

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India's Official Entry for the 2024-25 Oscars for Best Foreign Language Film Category at the 97th Academy Awards (Oscars 2025) is " Laapataa Ladies (Hindi)"

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Fine, I'll take the bait. ANIMAL is one of the ugliest Hindi films ever. Review:

‘Animal’ review: Calculated ugliness

Sandeep Reddy Vanga's ‘Animal’ is one of the ugliest Hindi films ever, cynically engineered to court audience outrage

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*its. Idiot

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5 months

Nobody knew about Queen Elizabeth II until

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Nobody knew Mahatma Gandhi before a film was made about him. — Narendra Modi He has lost his senses for sure…

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KK's ability to go loud without straining, without losing his beautiful clear tone, was unparalleled. This is so sad

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6 months

"Patel’s nameless character dons a monkey mask and molds his alter ego after the ape-like Hindu demigod Hanuman... The film features an escort named Sita..." No way this is releasing here

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“Monkey Man” might not make it to Indian cinemas in one piece if the studio capitulates to potential CBFC demands, and there is the possibility, given the movie’s themes and symbolism, that it may not be released in India at all:

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Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, butchered on @PrimeVideo , which seems to be the only platform streaming it in India. Just look at the amount of image cropped because they want to fill the whole screen (Criterion print on the left)

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I feel like I write the same aghast review every time a Hindi historical releases. Anyway, SAMRAT PRITHVIRAJ is bad

Samrat Prithviraj review: A dull and small-minded historical

Chandraprakash Dwivedi’s film about Prithviraj Chauhan continues Hindi cinema's obsession with 'invaders' from centuries ago

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3 years

In this one shot in GUIDE, the camera looks down at Dev, then swivels up to catch a reflection in a mirror of Waheeda standing below, swivels right to catch a climbing Dev's reflection in another mirror, and then further right to see him at the window, looking down at Waheeda

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Let’s do Favourite cricket picture of 2023.

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This one

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Just saw a Jindal Steel ad that went incredibly hard? Sound of india something

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Lootera turns 10 today. My favourite Hindi film of the last decade. Slow dissolves turning the living into ghosts. Almost every frame catches in my throat, and it turns me inside out by the end

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Your favourite film is Zanjeer? It's not on streaming. Pather Panchali? Cropped. Chupke Chupke? Missing 17 minutes. Mughal-e-Azam? Colourized. The print of Amar Akbar Anthony you saw in cinemas? Cropped. My cover on the war on old Indian cinema:

No country for old films

Instead of offering easier access to our cinematic heritage, streaming has made it tougher than ever to find and watch classic Indian films in their original form

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4 years

Can't remember the last time Aditi Rao Hydari was happy in a film

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3 years

Disclaimer for 2004 film about Kargil war/disclaimer for 2021 film about Kargil war

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10 years of Haider. There's more incandescent imagery, energy and craft in the few minutes of 'Bismil' than most films

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2 years

Haider. No way it would release today, but there was no way it should have released in theatres in 2014 either

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Name a film you can't believe exists.

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Definitely the most wrenching story I've had to write. Goodbye, Irrfan

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Miracles of framing, lighting and colour in DIL SE

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My review of Sooryavanshi I think

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4 years

25 reasons to love RANGEELA, which turns 25. My cover story in this week's @Mint_Lounge

25 years, 25 reasons to love 'Rangeela'

On Rangeela's 25th anniversary, here are as many reasons to love the film that made Urmila Matondkar a star, brought AR Rahman to Bollywood and captured the post-liberalization zeitgeist

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Thread of all the incredible bits of business going on in the background in Inhi Logon Ne from PAKEEZAH. Guy gets tossed off the stairs...

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And city of Bombay

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2 years

Pa Ranjith really made a whole film about how much he hates Arjun Reddy

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3 years

My favourite bit of acting by Dev Anand is when he casually chews his nails for half a minute in Baazi

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6 months

My cover on how, in the run up to the elections, Hindi cinema resembles a vast, amorphous ad for the BJP

Bollywood votes: Cinema in the shadow of elections

Real world politics has been spilling into Bollywood over the past few months. With elections about to begin, Hindi cinema is also poll-bound

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Watching Ram Ke Naam today, the few moments of optimism are more depressing than the hate

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3 years

Vanraj Bhatia (1927-2021) was the sound of parallel cinema. Look at that career

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4 years

Child of privilege and movie star would like you to think of him as a frontline worker, same as hospital staff

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6 months

If it seems like I'm exaggerating, consider these scenes from films released in the last 3 months

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My cover on how, in the run up to the elections, Hindi cinema resembles a vast, amorphous ad for the BJP

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2.5 hours of the moody rich calling each other yaar in an effort to seem relatable. Gehraiyaan review:

Review: Gehraiyaan stays with manicured moodiness too long

In Shakun Batra's film, Deepika Padukone and Siddhant Chaturvedi are made miserable by infidelity

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4 years

Arnab forming desi proud boys is only the fourth craziest thing to happen this week

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2 years

Forget watching — how boring it must be to make films in this manner. LAAL SINGH CHADDHA review

Laal Singh Chaddha review: Old ideas, new failings

A distractingly eccentric Aamir Khan headlines a ‘Forrest Gump’ adaptation with little independent thought or moral courage

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Hindi cinema might be past saving at this point

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Normalise writing the rest of the piece without having the opening para sorted

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Wrote this week's cover on the shocking state of classic Indian cinema on streaming. Most old films are cut and cropped and dumped online in awful prints by rights holders and streamers who couldn't care less about artistic intent

No country for old films

Instead of offering easier access to our cinematic heritage, streaming has made it tougher than ever to find and watch classic Indian films in their original form

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Mahapurush/Sherni

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A real shame that @PrimeVideo is streaming a mutilated version (courtesy @ShemarooEnt ) of Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Chupke Chupke - Brutal pan and scan. Criminal amount of screen space lopped off - 17 (!!) minutes have been cut from the original running time

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The fetching print of Zanjeer in the Salim-Javed doc is making me mad because it isn't available anywhere and might never be. In fact, I don't think the film is streaming at all

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50 years, 50 alternative films. This week’s @Mint_Lounge cover by @jaiarjun and me

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Exquisite, melancholy title sequence from Merchant-Ivory's Bombay Talkie

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Ranbir Kapoor in Barfi is not just the best physical comedy in a hindi film, it might be the best sustained physical performance period. Incredible difficulty, astonishing grace

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Stop arguing with the 17 year old shithead running the fan account for the hissy fit movie

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3 years

A year today

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Hindi cinema, with all its films about vigilante justice, is complicit

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Favourite sequence this year. Sumptuous filmmaking

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The star who wasn't there. Wrote about the brief career and complicated fame of Sushant Singh Rajput in this week's @Mint_Lounge cover

Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider

In the aftermath of the actor’s death by suicide, the discussion has turned to how Bollywood’s insular culture multiplies the pressures of stardom on atypical outsiders

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3 years

Incredibly sad news. More than anything else in the last few years, Danish Siddiqui's photos seemed to be writing the story of our times

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The painterly quality of some of the shots in Portrait of a Lady on Fire is breathtaking

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Indian audience 5 minutes into any film

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The release of this moment for a nation without any reason to be hopeful

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Raj & DK: It's this little comedy about bookies and gangsters Rajeev Ravi: I'm going to shoot the hell out of it

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5 years

Anyone with a cursory knowledge of film PR here would attest that a photo op at JNU is the absolute last thing they'd suggest

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Aap Chronology Samajhiye - Deepika Padukone is managed by Spice PR. - Spice PR managed Aamir Khan's intolerance remark - Deepika has movie release this week - Spice PR conducted photo-op at JNU - Spice PR distributed the pic to media houses to praise Deepika. It's PR stunt

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Rashid Irani at his Brabourne Restaurant, 1984 and 2008. Photographs by @soonitara

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Proofs are here😱

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1 year

The lord giveth and the lord taketh away

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EXCLUSIVE: #ChakDeIndia director #ShimitAmin locks a period musical; Gets in early stages of discussion with #KartikAaryan . Read details

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Every Imtiaz Ali film

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hi. yes hello. i am ready to be loved now

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I was quite taken with SARDAR UDHAM. It's nothing like you'd imagine an Indian film on a freedom fighter in 2021 would be

Review: Sardar Udham is unlike any other film on the freedom struggle

Shoojit Sircar's film avoids the popular tropes of the genre, instead offering a spare, detailed look at a revolutionary's life

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I don't think sony liv knows what middling means

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Ashwin was born to leave that

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PARINDA, foundational text of the modern Hindi gangster film, is now on Netflix

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Funniest film this year. RAM SETU review

Ram Setu review: WhatsApp forward cinema

Abhishek Sharma’s film, about an archaeologist investigating the origins of Ram Setu, is an unintentionally hilarious action adventure

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Here's a depressing thought. If you're under 35, it's likely you've never seen Amar Akbar Anthony in its proper form. Shemaroo's version (left), on Prime and in theatres two years ago, is 16:9, cropped from 4:3 (right). Makes Manmohan Desai look like a bum who couldn't frame

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And who better than Sid Malhotra to be intelligent and not attract attention

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4 years

India's most widely read moron is telling critics to like a film or else. This is past ridiculous and getting dangerous

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3 years

First copy is here

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1 year

A publication sees one of its writers being made fun of and, instead of supporting them after what must've been a difficult day, throws them under the bus. Just the worst behaviour

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In the 90s we made real films, where stars sat on urinals and smoked

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Vidhu Vinod Chopra had a decent second unit on 1942: A Love Story

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Only two kinds of Hindi films being made now, for bigots or idiot children

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Janus Films tweeting about RRR now. Criterion's Indian cinema section will soon be 17 films by Ray and a Rajamouli

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Nothing like that new book smell

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4 years

Wow, Kumble too. If they get Rahman that'll be all my 90s idols

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Explanations you'd rather not have

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Gangs of Wasseypur turns 10 this month. For this week's @Mint_Lounge cover, I spoke to Anurag Kashyap about second units, transformational edits, whether it's a more personal film than it seems, and, above all, the goat chewing leaves behind Nawaz & Huma

Anurag Kashyap on Gangs of Wasseypur, a decade later

Gangs of Wasseypur premiered in May 2012 and went on to become the signal Hindi film of the decade. We speak to director Anurag Kashyap about its making and legacy

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Three tickets to Challengers please

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At 7.45 this morning I was watching Pathaan in a packed theatre. I just finished a Franz Rogowski film and I'm going to see a documentary on tubas. Some days this is a great job

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Upstairs neighbour has been sticking with her piano exercises like a violinist on the Titanic

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Reminder that Ram Ke Naam is on youtube, for now at least

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articulate as hell, our filmmakers

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Karishma Tanna isn't bad in Scoop but she's constantly 'on'. I'm increasingly noticing Hindi actors who give the impression of being hyper aware of the camera. You can see it when they're reacting to other actors in a scene; they draw attention to themselves when they shouldn't

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Cricket today is what things look like when India calls the shots: dumb, ugly, disorganised, sycophantic, short-sighted, high-handed, petty

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One last plug, since it took a while to put together. Understanding the early years of liberalization through '90s Hindi cinema

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Sharda Ugra in Wisden on the embarrassment that was the 2023 World Cup, 'a propaganda tool for the government'. She ends with the perfect author bio

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A rare occasion when 'refers to ancient texts' is followed by good news

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If you liked [director's first film], you will like [director's second film]. Netflix digging deep there

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To Basu Chatterjee, the god of tuberoses, awkward conversations in buses, walks in the Mumbai rain, daydreams in movie theatres

Basu Chatterjee (1930-2020): The maestro of Middle Cinema

Basu Chatterjee made uncommon films about common lives and immortalised Mumbai onscreen in ‘Chhoti Si Baat’, ‘Rajnigandha’ and ‘Baton Baton Mein’

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Bhagat Singh, leader and thinker, reading Les Miserables. Udham Singh, loner and seeker, reading Heer Ranjha

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Small thread. I assumed this Soviet animation was titled 'Nargis' because of the actor and the popularity in Russia of her films with Raj Kapoor. But it seems the inspiration for this 1965 short was from Kashmir (1/n)

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Excerpt from "Nargis" Soviet animation film, 1965

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They should invite Jia

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The World Premiere 4K restoration of Raj Kapoor’s AWĀRA starring Raj Kapoor, Prithviraj Kapoor, and Nargis. #TIFF24

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Wrote this week's @Mint_Lounge cover, on how recent Hindi historical films are trafficking in legend and skewing towards jingoism and majority values

How Bollywood is rewriting history

The return of the historical epic to Hindi cinema has brought with it questions about accuracy and intent. With ‘Panipat’ and ‘Tanhaji’ set for release, we look at the ways in which history is being...

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It's quite something to see Imtiaz Ali as focused, urgent and fertile as he is here. Loved CHAMKILA

‘Amar Singh Chamkila’ review: Folk hero blues

Imtiaz Ali and Diljit Dosanjh fashion a lively, intriguingly fractured portrait of popular folk singer Chamkila

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This is awkward, but you can totally preorder my book 'Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster', out next month

Bullets Over Bombay: Satya and the Hindi Film Gangster

In 1998, Satya opened to widespread critical acclaim. At a time when Bollywood was still rediscovering romance, Ram Gopal Varma's film dared to imagine the ordinary life of a Mumbai gangster. It...

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Danish Siddiqui's work really stands out. I don't know how he manages to take photographs which have a distinctive quality in such chaotic and dangerous circumstances but he does

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These two scenes from SATYA are a neat example of consistency in writing. Chander uses the same 'TV, fridge' construction when showing Satya his new flat and telling the gang members a joke. A little detail that suggests Chander keeps working over his material like a comic

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Rather suprisingly, Guide (1965) in Gangs of Wasseypur (2012)

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