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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10 March 2025

"Hindi filmmakers should go back to the drawing board": Interview with Manoj Bajpayee

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A wide-ranging interview with the celebrated Hindi film and OTT actor Manoj Bajpayee, published in Frontline in May 2024. The team of The F...

14 May 2024

Raam Reddy: ‘Film itself is a character’

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My interview with the filmmaker Raam Reddy, as published in Mint Lounge on 3 Mar 2024. Raam Reddy on his second feature, ‘The Fable’, and w...

10 March 2019

Flight into the wild

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My Mirror column : An evocative new film melds classic Western motifs with a vision of the Chambal wilderness, using a gang of 1970s dacoit...

16 November 2018

In the Family Way

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My Mirror column : Films about parental figures — real and imagined — made revealing viewing at the Dharamshala International Film Festiv...

30 September 2018

Sisters under their skins

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My Mirror column: Last week’s release Love Sonia , Tabrez Noorani’s cinematic exposé of India’s role in the international sex trade , mak...

30 October 2017

Making and Unmaking Men

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My Mirror column : In films as disparate as Rukh , Bareilly ki Barfi and A Death in the Gunj , games of masculinity are depressingly i...

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