Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label partition. Show all posts
Friday, 28 June 2024

A bit of Hyderabadi history

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Razzakar (Volunteer; Marathi, 2015) Director: Raj Durge This part of Indian history is unfamiliar to most, especially those outside India. I...
Thursday, 14 September 2023

The state of a state

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Kohrra (Fog, Punjabi-Hindi; 2023 Miniseries S1E1-6. Shrouded in fog, that is how it is. It used to be the food basket of India and the provi...
Thursday, 30 September 2021

No one gives a damn really!

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Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Clapped Star, Bengali, 1960) Screenplay & Direction: Ritwik Ghatak I saw him brought in earlier in handcuffs...
Tuesday, 28 September 2021

Go with the flow?

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Subarnarekha (Bengali, 1965) Story and Direction: Ritwik Ghatak The world, they say, constantly evolves. Every civilisation has its norms an...
Friday, 20 August 2021

Religion a political tool!

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Jinnah (1998) Screenplay, direction: Jamil Dehlavi This must be Pakistan's reply to Richard Attenborough's narration of the Father o...
Monday, 12 July 2021

Memories are made of these?

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Sardar ka Grandson (Hindi, Sardar's Grandson; 2021) Netflix Somebody was comparing two pieces of land that were carved out of a more sig...
Saturday, 27 June 2020

Knives, daggers, and bullets cannot destroy religion.

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Manto (2018) Netflix We always try to portray the world as a place of hope, of joy, dream, and the sky is the limit of our achievements....
Saturday, 23 May 2020

Still relevant today

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Pakistan or Partition of India (1940, Revised 1945) B.R. Ambedkar Dr Ambedkar  is often voted as the single most important icon of Indi...