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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30 September 2013

Post Facto -- Unpacking The Lunchbox

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My Sunday Guardian column yesterday: Some time before The Lunchbox released, I heard two film journalists chatting. " Ar...

Film Review: Zinda Bhaag

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My review of Pakistan's Oscar-hopeful: “Jis Lahore nai dekhya woh jamyai nai,” goes the famous title line from the Asghar Waj...

21 September 2013

Film Review: Phata Poster Nikla Hero

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From my review of Phata Poster Nikla Hero : "The Rajkumar Santoshi genre of comedy is hard to translate. It’s some insane comb...

15 September 2013

Film Review: John Day

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"A teenaged couple arrive in a wooded estate somewhere outside Bombay. There seems to be no-one else around. They sit around in a b...

10 September 2013

Plot before you click!

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My piece about a special exhibit -- on photography and cinema -- at the Delhi Photo Festival: Some people are just prescient. In a brilliant...

6 September 2013

A Home in the City? Women in Mahanagar and beyond

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I wasn't quite done with Mahanagar . An essay on women, work and lakshman rekhas, published in the Asian Age , here : Satyajit Ra...

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