chhotahazri

Hindi: chhoti haziri, vulg. hazri, 'little breakfast'; refreshment taken in the early morning, before or after the morning exercise. (Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, 1994 [1886])

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28 June 2020

Minding the Gap: Thoughts on Gulabo Sitabo

My Mirror column: Gulabo Sitabo mines what remains of old Lucknow for visual atmospherics and banter, but both its laughter and it...

27 August 2018

The Sharpshooter

My Mirror column : Ismat Chughtai would have turned 107 on August 21. Who was she and why should she be the subject of a column on cinema?...

7 December 2016

At the scene of the crime

My Mirror column . Watching Kahaani 2 triggers a retrospective look at the city’s role in Vidya Balan’s actorly career. Vidya B...

5 May 2015

Speaking in Tongues

My Mirror column for 3 May, 2015: Why are we so resistant to subtitled films, instead of pouring our efforts into improving their qual...

1 January 2015

2014: The Year of Sheroes

My Mumbai Mirror column , 28 Dec 2014. Hindi cinema this year gave its female actors a chance to spread out. Some punched, while others ...

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