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All Hail Jaanbaaz Julia
Karan Johar made the mistake of believing he’d invited Kangana Ranaut of a decade ago to Koffee with Karan. No longer the awkward outlier, the actress dropped several truth bombs.
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Fantastic Bisexual Characters and Where to Find Them in Indian Cinema
Watching queer characters on screen helped me alleviate some of my queer anxiety. Radha and Sita from Fire, are not the only bisexual characters portrayed on Indian screens. There’s the almost-marriage in Four More Shots Please! and Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety is as queer as they come.
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Dasvi Review: Some Heart but almost no Soul
Dasvi has a terrific premise, some moments of joy, but is so poorly executed and written that it wastes a lot of its own potential; chief among them a more than decent turn by Abhishek Bachchan
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Ardh is a Fraction of What Rajpal Yadav Could have Been and Could still be
All the compromises show in Ardh, which nevertheless manages to rise above its constraints and show us a version of Rajpal Yadav we deserve to see more of.