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Continue reading →: Tiger Zinda Hai (2017) – A Spy Matures
And off we are to the second film of the Tiger franchise! This should be fun! Summary: In Ikrit, Iraq, there is a hospital with Indian and Pakistani nurses who are being held hostage by Muslim extremists called ISC and who need to be saved before the USA bombs the…
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Continue reading →: Ek Tha Tiger (2012) – A Spy Learns How to Live and Love
I have been wanting to see this series for so long, and finally I have the time and motivation to do it! Summary: Avinash Singh Rathore, nicknamed Tiger, is a RAW agent for India send on an intelligence mission to Dublin to get some needed intel, there he meets the…
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Continue reading →: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) – Second Chances at Love
We are about to go to the latter half of the 2000s with the films of Karan Johar, so this was bound to come up. It is not one I have seen in a long, long while. Summary: Dev Saran is a football player who is married to the fashion…
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Continue reading →: Fire (1998) – Burning Desires
Guess I am on a roll on seeing these films by diaspora directors right now, but some of these I have never seen and this film is one of them. Summary: Sita is married to Jatin, but he does not seem so interested. Radha is her sister-in-law and is married…
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Continue reading →: Salaam Bombay! (1988) – Streets Paved with Broken Dreams
I don’t know why it took me so long to get to this classic, but I have finally seen it, and I have thoughts. Summary: Krishna, nicknamed Chaipau, goes to Bombay in the hopes of earning money, but in the end he tries to earn money to go back home.…
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Continue reading →: The Dirty Picture (2011) – Vidya Succeeds, Silk Looses
I have been wanting to rewatch this film for a while. I think I was too young to understand it when I first watched this film, but there is nothing better than watching a film like this when you are older. Summary: In the early 1980s Reshma flees from her…
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Continue reading →: Cocktail (2012) – Old Wine in a New Bottle
I needed something light to watch this time. I have been otherwise seeing such dark films, that I just needed a light romance and friendship story. Thankfully this film delivered1! Summary: Gautam “Gutlu” Kapoor is a flirty man who hits on almost every woman he talks to. Meera Sahni is a newlywed…
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Continue reading →: Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) – Love, Family and an Angel
Early bird catching the worm again here. My sleep schedule has gotten better, but my free time in the morning is spent watching films, and this film was next on the list. Summary: Naina Kapur is a Punjabi-American living in New York with her family; her grandmother Lajjo, her mother…
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Continue reading →: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) – Love is Friendship in Different Forms
I seem to be on a roll in writing about the classics, but that is what you get when you somehow wake up at six in the morning and have three hours to spare to watch a film before needing to do anything important. So, thank my sleep schedule for…
