When the Indian cricket team faces the West Indies cricket team for the second time in the 1983 World Cup, the latter’s ‘hostile’ game not only injures the Indian players but forces…
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If variety is the spice of life then Shoojit Sircar is one of the spiciest filmmakers of India. With a career spanning over almost sixteen years, Sircar has directed films whose subjects…
Tamasha (2015): A Tale of Drama, Love, and Dualism: Once upon a time, there happens a chance meeting of two individuals in Corsica, who make a pact to not reveal their identities…
The Latest and Upcoming Bollywood Movies of 2020: 2019 has been an interesting year for Bollywood so far. It has touched both extremes of the spectrum. On one side, there are films…
Imtiaz Ali has written a story that’s a satire on life. A life that has been lead by following the crowd & doing what makes you hate yourself. The film shouts at the audience, telling them to stop coating themselves with layers of sorry, snobbish lies & camouflaging yourself just to sound good. The film is an ode to all the hidden and long lost artists who once had a dream, a dream that they relished when things weren’t all that serious. It asks you to dance over that random power-point presentation which was made following a tedious routine just to land with a stupid pat on the back.
For a film that dares you to live your dreams (the big fat cliché of our times), a film which has a “troubled” storyteller at its centre,Tamasha never rises to inventive narrative heights. Despite the Rumi quote about unfolding your own myth, it relies heavily on beaten to death stereotypes to create a very ordinary story and interjects it with flashes of popular sagas (Romeo-Juliet, Heer-Ranjha…) to make the full package appear hip or profound. It doesn’t create any myth.