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1 day ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Rajkumar Gupta’s Aamir, released on June 6, 2008, could have easily slipped into being a heavy-handed polemical study of the isolation and persecution of the Indian Muslim and his constant battle to remain part of the mainstream even as he’s provoked and instigated from both ends to keel over and surrender to the forces of chaos, anarchy and annihilation. Ironically, a work of art like Aamir embraces chaos to create a universe that is in a strange way the opposite of destruction.

1 day ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Govind Menon’s Khwahish, released on June 6, 2003, was an oddity. It not only ripped off Arthur Hiller’s 1970 blockbuster Love Story, it also literally translated every dialogue of the original.

1 day ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

Squid Game is gearing up for the release of its third and final season and has created excitement among fans worldwide. The show focuses on people on 456 players, who are struggling financially, and decide to play children’s games with deadly twists to win cash prizes. The final season will showcase whether Player No. 456 aka Seong Gi-hun will put an end to these games or not. Amid the hype, fans are also upset that they will have to say goodbye to their favourite show.

1 day ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

The potent Akshay Kumar-Vipul Shah team is back with its most lethal entertainer to date. Holiday is a fast-paced, exhilarating roller coaster ride filled with the most unexpected twists and turns. The anxious narrative is nourished by some spot-on background music which punctuates and pins down the heart-stopping action. A. Natarajan Subramaniam’s cinematography takes the edgy proceedings to another level altogether.

1 day ago | news24online.com | Subhash K Jha

‘Filmistaan’ would have been an outrageously funny film were it not for the profoundly moving underbelly that it secretes with such fluency and spontaneity. The film could have become a gallery of cliches about Indo-Pak harmony. A sort of Veer-Zara turned into a Veru and Zara-Uddin who become friends in Pakistani soil while guns boom all around them. Sachindra Vats edits the scenes down to a minimum when required.