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Articles by Aniruddh Chawda

Property Boom

HOUSEFULL 2.  Director: Sajid Khan.  Players:  Akshay Kumar, Asin, John Abraham, Mithun Chakraborty, Riteish Deshmukh, Jacqueline Fernandez, Shreyas Talpade, Rishi Kapoor, Randhir Kapoor, Boman Irani, Shazahn Padamsee, Zaine Khan.  Music: Sajid-Wajid. Theatrical Release (EROS).It is rare that a second installment—for this is truly not a sequel to anything ...

Germ Free

KAHAANI. Director: Sujoy Ghosh. Players: Vidya Balan. Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Nawazuddin Siddiqui. Music: Shekhar Ravijani. Theatrical release (Viacom). In a sinister, dimly lit science lab, there sits a tank holding skittish, antiseptic white mice awaiting their fate. A masked figure—whose heavy breathing alone is the surest indication that they could ...

A Slippery, Thorny Slope

AGNEEPATH. Director: Karan Malhotra. Players: Hrithik Roshan, Sanjay Dutt, Rishi Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Om Puri, Zarina Wahab. Music: Ajay-Atul. Theatrical release: Dharma Productions. Mukul Anand's  Agneepath (1990) was one of the very last successful forays Bachchan made into the so-called Angry Young Man persona, about the same time that ...

A Perennial Favorite

Revisiting a Yash Chopra classic, Lamhe

Desi Audio/Video on Tap

Of all the “mod cons,” as the Brits would call it, of desi life in the United States, the two services that have made steady gains into Indian entertainment in general and Hindi films in particular are Sirius/XM Satellite Radio and the online movie streaming service Netflix. Sirius ...

The Indian Jab

Review of Players

Runaway Brides, Sidestepped Reunions, and Doggy Tales

The Top Ten Hindi Films of 2011

The Making of a Hindi Film SUPERHERO

From Punjab Ka Beta to Ra. One, a look at superheroes in Bollywood through the years.

Game Boys

Review of the much-hyped Ra. One

Riding Hood

Review of That Girl in Yellow Boots, in limited release in the United States
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