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The film was trashed by critics but lapped up by the audience, taken in as they were by the bright, gaudy sets
Outlook Magazine - 11 January 2016
52 Films To Light Up Your Life In 2016
Splits the storyline between a migration of untouchables from a village to a city and the tyrant ordering the community of sweepers to be whipped for not working
Arushi Bedi demystifies the highs and lows in the lives of eight newsmakers, including a product and a country.
We’re sick to death of Bollywood and Hollywood. Southside films across the four regional languages made news for being mega productions, little gems, quirky and cool.
Splits the storyline between a migration of untouchables from a village to a city and the tyrant ordering the community of sweepers to be whipped for not working
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Arushi Bedi demystifies the highs and lows in the lives of eight newsmakers, including a product and a country.
A subtle satire on those who obsess about linguistic purity
A saga of theatrical ambition and conceit, pride, deception and hypocrisy.
The lost-and-found screwball comedy theme taken to its apex.
We’re sick to death of Bollywood and Hollywood. Southside films across the four regional languages made news for being mega productions, little gems, quirky and cool.
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Sensuality and claustrophobia in a feudal setting of 1920s China.
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A journey of innocence to experience, of unrequited, selfless and selfish love, and love found and lost several times over.
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A fantasy-adventure film, essentially for children which soon attained cult status
A Broadway masterpiece adapted into a film.
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As magical as it gets, and very, very English.
Captures the nostalgic spirit and witty patois of the wounded rock-soldiers in the post-hippie decade.
Freely borrowed from <i>The Godfather</i>, but brilliantly localised by Mani Ratnam,
A face-heterografting sequence led to several nauseated faces in theatres
Its trudging ground is the American Midwest, with its wide spaces and its homey, stoutly middle-of-the-road folks.
Comes across as a stylistic exercise rather than one woven together by narrative
One of its iconic scenes being the image of Harold Lloyd clutching on to the hands of a large clock on a skyscraper
Godard’s voluptuous, sunlit film is a shuffling, like so many cards, of motifs modern and classical
The best exotic William Shakespeare as it were.
The archetypal ’70s family drama
Its relevance is still found in the behaviour and attitude of many media barons of our time.
It’s a masterpiece of choreography.
A sceptical tribute to the ’60s and its flawed rebels.
Fits neatly somewhere in the logical Kubrick grid.
An English patois film made in India showing ’70s Delhi college life
Bill Murray calls it “the supreme achievement of the modern age in terms of comedy”
This pitiless self-satire—animated by a brilliant cast—is adapted from a semi-autobiographical play
Redefined the gangster film genre.
A work of cinematic art and one of the most celebrated films in history.
The still waters of emotional stress that lie beneath rambunctious cooldom
Some of the rail platform shots would be worthy of any European master.
A novel that became enhanced into an icy scaremonger.
Twenty years, and still running.
