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JAWAAN (2023) : review

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And finally the much hyped, much awaited Jawaan saw light of the day ! Big stars, big budget( humongous budget actually), big music composer, everything super large. But does it meet the expectations of the average viewer? No it goes not. Read on.  A decorated jawan locks horns with a criminal called Kaali, this is in 1986 ( the year movies like Aakhri Raasta released, just for reference). Kaali gets him eliminated and send the pregnant wife to jail. The baby born in jail grows up to become the hero (look alike of the father) and decides to avenge the misdeeds done to his innocent patriotic parents. Well, isn’t it a masaaledaar full on Bollywood- Tollywood drama subject ?  And then the director Atlee also borrows ideas and references from various retro movies, some idea from Sholay (1975) as the hero assembled a gang of jailed Qaidis in order to form a team to nab the villain, then there’s an entire episode borrowed from Dhartiputra (1993), and the basic theme is copy pasted ...
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The Emergency Glamour Girl- RUKHSANA SULTAN

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IMHO the emergency levied by prime minister Indira Gandhi on 25-June 1975 must be one of the darkest ever phase in Indian politics post India’s independence. Vengeance, filthy dirty political revenge, death of democracy, banning and ostracising dignitaries who did not lend support or opposed, press censorship and so many other unimaginably dictatorship fuelled exigencies have unarguably been an evil spot on Indian political history till date.  But this write up isn’t about the emergency, we’ve had hoards of books and projects dedicated exclusively to it. It’s connected to people who rose to prominence during the emergency period (1975-77) and quickly resigned to anonymity thereafter. Now it’s common public knowledge that though the emergency was announced and dictated by Mrs. Gandhi it was actually her younger son the ambitious and aggressive Sanjay who was bravely calling the shots. Under his strong wings he mentored several young aspirants and one such loyal supporter was the gla...
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