Thursday, February 22, 2007

''danda lé ke maaru ché''

Parzania is hardly alone; India maintains a storied and constantly replenished dustbin of cannot-be-seen movies. Among the best known is "Black Friday," Anurag Kashyap's film about the 1993 terror attacks on Mumbai, in which Islamist militants were blamed....read here
The usual story. We aren't mature enough to appreciate cinema and acknowledge reality without distorting it. So cinema lovers like me will be left to read that these movies were screened in Venice and Toronto and New York and Cannes and all those other places but oh no! Not in India thank you. We prefer our movies with songs, dances and love all tinged with a very Indian breed of fake morality. In this case I don't think I'll watch Parzania though for reasons obvious...

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