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 Kangana Ranaut. Show all posts

13 July 2020

An archive of expressions: On Saroj Khan

My Mirror column for July 5: The late Saroj Khan created a new kind of dancing body on the Hindi film screen, but she also embodied a...

24 May 2015

One for two, two for one

My Mumbai Mirror column today: Watching Tanu Weds Manu Returns set me thinking about doubles, and Hitchcock's Vertigo. ...

25 January 2015

The big, bad Indian wedding

Today's Mirror column : Even as we (and much of our cinema) continue to bask in the reflected revelry of the band-baaja-baaraat , a fe...

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 ...

13 October 2014

Guns, Roses and Gangsters Gone Wrong

Tamanchey , like Revolver Rani from earlier this year, makes a half-baked attempt at an atypical gangster heroine. But in both, the desi d...

30 March 2014

Picture This: Living life Queen-size

My BLink column from yesterday: I can’t quite pinpoint when Queen won me over. Was it the superb dadi, whose enthusiasm for her g...

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