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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29 October 2015

Koffee with Karan writ large: thoughts on Shaandaar

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My Mirror column last Sunday: Shaandaar strains to be a madcap comedy, but ends up as an overlong, demented Bollywood home video. ...

24 October 2015

Picture This: Dark waters

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My BL Ink column : Bhaskar Hazarika’s striking directorial debut, Kothanodi, turns the magic realism of the Assamese folk tale into s...

20 October 2015

Book Review: A legendary ‘character’ from Hindi cinema’s early days

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A book review, published in the Sunday Guardian: Sidharth Bhatia’s book on Filmindia magazine and its founder Baburao Patel reminds us ...

18 October 2015

Dismissed with Prejudice

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My Mirror column today : Pyaar ka Punchnama 2 returns to the premise of its 2011 predecessor: a supposedly comic investigation into moder...

11 October 2015

Writing Filmi Fictions

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Today's Mirror column : Though we speak of great Urdu writers shaping Bombay's cinema, we forget how much cinema also shaped thei...

4 October 2015

The Turn of the Screw

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My column in today's Mumbai Mirror : Meghna Gulzar's gripping filmic recreation of the Hemraj-Aarushi Talwar double murder ...

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