Bollywood and other branches of Indian cinema have become truly global, serving audiences all over the world. As a devout consumer of Indian films, I was mulling over the reasons why they have gained such a vast audience worldwide. A profound reason for the increase in the appetite for Indian cinema has been the constantContinue reading “The Globalization of Bollywood”
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The Genius That Was Hrishikesh Mukherjee
I watched Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s Chupke Chupke (1975) for the 33rd time today. For the uninitiated, the movie is about a professor of Botany (Parimal Tripathi, played flawlessly by Dharmendra) who falls in love with Sulekha (brought to life on screen by the epic Sharmila Tagore). After certain plot twists, Parimal, now married to Sulekha, decidesContinue reading “The Genius That Was Hrishikesh Mukherjee”
The Roaring Kotzilla 