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 Shoojit Sircar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shoojit Sircar. Show all posts
28 June 2020

Minding the Gap: Thoughts on Gulabo Sitabo

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My Mirror column: Gulabo Sitabo mines what remains of old Lucknow for visual atmospherics and banter, but both its laughter and it...
13 May 2015

Slice of life, served warm

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My Mumbai Mirror column last Sunday:  Caught between too much Bengali-ness and too little, Shoojit Sircar's 'Piku' mines ...
25 August 2013

Film review: Madras Cafe

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My review of Madras Cafe  is up: "In the first frames of Shoojit Sircar’s new film  Madras CafĂ© , we are somewhere in Sri Lan...
21 April 2012

Film Review: Vicky Donor

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Vicky Donor is that rare thing: a laugh-out-loud Hindi movie that has both irreverence and soul. Screenwriter Juhi Chaturvedi and dire...
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