If Lagaan is the Test match version, then Gold definitely aims to be the 20-20 version. In many ways Aamir Khan is the pioneer of the sports cum patriotic movie entertainers and his imprints are all over the movie ‘Gold’. The first imprint is with the movie poster, the two are just so similar, and …
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 …
Undoing of Rebel The comments I make could be considered by many as sacrilege. But before that an anecdote here. In Pune, we have a place called Koregaon Park, wherein many oddities of culture survive. It is in this area where during the late nineties and early noughts you could find Kinetic Honda vehicles with …