Tag: bollywood

• Rebels without a cause

  Saw ‘Tanu weds Manu returns’ yesterday. Excellent movie after a long time. 🙂 (apart from one dimensional Manu and the Haryanvi family as prop.) I – Restless = humans It made me think about the trend of lead characters in bollywood movies – men/ women. (Raj in countless SRK films or Kangana in most of […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  May 26, 2015

  Decoding movies and stories

  bollywood, existentialism, gender, identity, india, kangana, mascilinity, narcissism, partner, rebel, review

• The puny Ungli

  The trailer doesn’t do justice to the film. The film is much more entertaining… until the climax. Well paced, right insights, right punches… and then the movie ends much before it should have. The movie has an ‘adarsh baccha’ climax. ( I can visualise ‘the system’ petting the film makers for towing the line.) The […]

  Ajinkya Pawar

  December 9, 2014

  Decoding movies and stories

  bollywood, indian psyche, movie appreciation, revolution, ungly