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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31 August 2012

"Did you know there were people in the world who hate girls?"

My piece about Jalpari: The Desert Mermaid on Firstpost.com : Jalpari , which releases in theatres today, is a rather unusual sort of cr...

26 August 2012

Post Facto: Rajesh Khanna and the women who loved him

From my fortnightly Sunday Guardian column: Like everyone else, I too have an aunt who was besotted with Rajesh Khanna in her adolescen...

25 August 2012

Film Review: Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi

It’s great to have a mainstream Hindi movie abandon the unreality of an eternally youthful, size zero universe for a love story that ce...

23 August 2012

That '80s Show: Katha Sagar

Benjamin Gilani and Supriya Pathak in 'Sannata' A long piece I did for Caravan magazine, about an almost-forgotten TV ...

18 August 2012

That Sense of Place

Scattered thoughts from film-watching at this year's Osian's Cinefan. In today's Business Standard : Some 15 years ago, a fri...

17 August 2012

Film Review: Ek Tha Romance

My review of Ek Tha Tiger , on Firstpost : First, the good things: Ek Tha Tiger is the least annoying Salman Khan movie in ages. Comin...

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