सुहाग Manmohan Desai has a knack for satisfying masala. His movies are packed to the gills with his choice wacky elements and overloaded symbols - brothers separated in childhood, medically improbable blindness, gentleman rogues, grudges held...
Topics: 1970s, Good films (but not favorites), Masala

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गुमनाम Gumnaam ("unnamed, anonymous") is a slapdash, inadequately scripted, totally non-suspenseful mystery. It is nevertheless great fun to watch, thanks entirely to a passel of thoroughly entertaining songs and fun comic...
Topics: 1960s, Great naach-gaana, Masala, Timepass

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रात और दिन The psychological drama is a genre I've not seen much in Hindi films. Satyen Bose's Raat aur din ("night and day") is not the finest psychodrama ever, but as a rare Hindi example of the form it...
Topics: 1960s, Timepass

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It is sometimes commented that if you took all the extraneous side-elements out of a masala movie and focused on the plot, you'd be left with a streamlined tale that would be done in an hour. The road movie Bombay...
Topics: 1970s, Masala, Timepass

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I almost gave up on Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D after the first half hour, when it threatened to be just another retread of the classic Devdas story - a story of a pathetic, unredeemable narcissist, a story that never resonated with...
Topics: 2000s, Good films (but not favorites)

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