Nandini Ramnath

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To watch the restored Umrao Jaan is to open an old chest stuffed with barely creased clothing and baubles that are still shiny. Muzaffar Ali’s movie from 1981 has been re-released in cinemas by the PVR Inox multiplex chain following a beautiful restoration by the National Film Archive of India. The classic film about a bygone era looks as good as new.

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It must be hard having obsessive-compulsive disorder in a dirt-loving, chaotic city like Mumbai. How can you demand order from a place that has long forgotten its meaning? It’s unsurprising that Armaan Mistry wrings his hands as often as he does. Armaan (Ram Kapoor) has been affected by OCD ever since the death of his wife Sushmita (Shraddha Nigam).

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Forty years ago, a girl was born in a landlord’s family in Chandarpur village in Bengal. The girl was immediately sent to her death – the landlord was steeped in Kali worship and believed that the girl infant must be sacrificed if Kali’s adversary, the demigod Raktabeej, was to be vanquished. In the present, the landlord’s son Shubhankar (Indraneil Sengupta) has a mysterious accident while visiting his ancestral mansion.

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F1 dares you to dislike its characters or the film itself. There is no shortage of charmers or crowd-pleasing moments in the movie based on the Formula One World Championship and steered with verve and heart by Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski. Brad Pitt is at the head of the queue, a hot-cool dude who makes race car driving look as easy as a buggy ride on a beach. Pitt plays Sonny Hayes, who might have up there with Ayrton Senna if he hadn’t been in a near-fatal crash.

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On June 25 exactly 50 years ago, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi declared a national Emergency. Between 1975 and 1977, Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi presided over the suspension of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Consitution and the arrests of opposition leaders and pro-democracy activists. June 25 will be marked as “Samvidhan Hatya Diwas” (Murder of the Constitution) by the Union government – which is ironic, given the sustained attacks on the freedom of expression on its watch.