Growing up in the ’90s has impacted my psyche to love TV series with limited episodes/seasons instead of the daily soap. Be it Karamchand, Circus, Mr. Yogi, Byomkesh Bakshi, and so on. I know they had one episode per week, but that exactly has made its roots in my outlook towards the series. I took …
The first memory that the trailer of ‘The Disciple’ evoked was ‘Whiplash.’ I thought the movie is a rehash for an Indianized version. But the brand of Chaitanya Tamhane (Court, 2014) was enough for giving it a try. Some parallels do exist. The Guruji of ‘The Disciple’ is a hard taskmaster like Fletcher (Whiplash). Both …
Jewel Thief is one of those movies I patiently watch from start to end without forwarding scenes or jumping songs. The fruit of the whole exercise is in that one scene when Shalini (Vyjayantimala) tells Vinaay (Dev Anand), “तुम्हें अभी तक मालूम नहीं हुआ !!” (You still have not realized !!) Dev Anand is his …