FRAMING MOVIES Take Twenty-Two: Jab We Met
Jab We Met. Just reading that title makes many a Bollywood fan smile. The 2007 romantic comedy starred Shahid Kapoor…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Twenty-One: Mr. India (1987)
What do you get when you put the master screenwriters of populist and allegoric masala films and the urbane and…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Nighteen: Dostana (2008)
Kunal (John Abraham) and Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan) decide to play it gay to secure an apartment. However, the problem is…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Eighteen: Henna (1991)
Before Yash Chopra’s Veer-Zaara (2004), there was Raj Kapoor’s Henna (1991). Perhaps today still the most beautiful and genre defining…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Seventeen: Talaash (2012)
Running time: 139 minutes. Directed by: Reema Kagti Produced by: Ritesh Sidhwani, Aamir Khan, Farhan Akhtar(Studio Excel Entertainment and Aamir…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Sixteen: Kagaz Ke Phool (1959)
Some films offer one an instant cheer-up and others speak to that gloom that we feel at certain ages and…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Fifteen: My Name Is Khan (2010)
Earthquakes, terror-attacks, tsunami’s…these last few years we have seen so much happening in the world. A lot people became afraid…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Fourteen: Chandni (1989)
Chandni was a 1989 romantic blockbuster starring Sridevi, Rishi Kapoor and Vinod Khanna. The film was directed and produced by…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Thirteen: Devdas (2002)
Devdas, released in 2002, was based on a 1917 Bengali romance novel by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. As this was the…
FRAMING MOVIES Take Twelve: Pakeezah (1972)
Directed by notable filmmaker Kamal Amrohi, Pakeezah (1972) contains everything one would envisage in a typical Bollywood film. This includes…
