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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12 June 2021

How cinema uses the horror of train accidents to tell a story

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My TOI Plus column: the last in my series on trains in Indian cinema. Through Indian film history, trains have often delivered not just t...

22 March 2020

A Wizard of Song

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My Mirror column: Sahir Ludhianvi, whose 99th birthday it is today, brought remarkable sophistication to the Hindi film lyric, yet never lo...

23 October 2017

Greed is (Now) Good

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My piece for the Indian Express Eye's Diwali issue on money. Once, bad guys had all the cash. But like the audience, contemporary H...

10 September 2017

Disenchanted Nights

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1957’s second-highest Hindi grosser is much watched but little understood. Pyaasa may have been filled with poets and poetry, but it’s tru...

29 February 2016

Cover to Cover

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A 'Perspectives' piece for The Caravan , about books in Hindi cinema. "People in Hindi movies don’t read many books. ...

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24 January 2016

Not quite by the book

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My Mirror column today: As the Jaipur Litfest unfolds, here's a look at publishers and publishing -- as projected onto the Hindi fil...

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