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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Showing posts with label Do Bigha Zamin. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Do Bigha Zamin. Show all posts

8 May 2021

A lifeline, but also a harbinger of doom

The third column in my series on trains in Indian cinema, for Mirror/TOI Plus: In the cinema of Bimal Roy, the train is often a site of unfo...

14 June 2020

Far from the feudal

My Mirror column (14 Jun 2020): Has Indian cinema gained or lost something as filmmakers become increasingly distanced from the village? ...

11 June 2020

Driven from home - II

My Mirror column (31 May 2020): The second of a two-part column. Balraj Sahni's suffering rickshawala in Do Bigha Zamin (1953) in...

Driven From Home - I

My Mirror column (24 May 2020): It’s time to revisit Bimal Roy’s 1953 neorealist melodrama, Do Bigha Zamin , which remains one of the ear...

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