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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 …
‘Dystopia of Abundance’ is what I felt after watching the imagery in the movie ‘Annihilation’ . Dystopia is the favorite theme of most sci-fi movies, however the dystopia is mostly barren, deserted, a jungle of concrete, broken landscape, full of death and misery. In short it is the full cocktail of depressive imagery. Annihilation breaks …
Qawwali’s are simple performances, without a wide array of instruments or orchestra, etc. A chorus of claps modulates the underlying rhythm. Human anatomy limits the maximum beat that can be created by clapping. Hence, Qawwals use a table to get around this limitation and introduce faster beats in between the claps. A Harmonium is mostly …
