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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

मोदी के मंत्री किशन रेड्डी के बिगड़े बोल, पूछा- प्रताड़ित हिंदू भारत नहीं आएं तो क्या इटली जाएं?

मोदी सरकार में केंद्रीय मंत्री जी किशन रेड्डी ने नागरिकता कानून को लेकर पूछे गए सवाल पर अजब जवाब दिया। उन्होंने कहा, ‘अगर प्रताड़ित हिंदू भारत नहीं आएंगे तो क्या इटली जाएंगे?’

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Deepika Padukone calls Chhapaak a story of 'human spirit and hope', wishes film brings change within society

Hoping her cinematic voice can help bring about lasting change in how society perceives acid attack survivors, actor Deepika Padukone says her latest film Chhapaak should ideally be so impactful that there won't be a need for another story on acid violence.

After all, cinema is in itself such a powerful medium, Deepika told Press Trust of India ahead of the release of the film based on the life of acid attack survivor-activist Laxmi Agarwal.

The idea behind the social drama is to invoke empathy and understanding rather than paint women who have undergone the ordeal as victims, the actor, who has also produced the film, said in a telephonic interview from Mumbai.

"Beyond the gruesomeness, the violence and all of that, there is a story of the human spirit and hope. That's why we're telling the story," she said.

Deepika, 33, said it was a story that spoke to her and she felt pride in attaching herself to the project.

Chhapaak, directed by Meghna Gulzar and also featuring Vikrant Massey, is the second mainstream film to focus on the subject after 2019 Malayalam movie Uyare starring Parvathy Thiruvothu.

"I hope we won't have to constantly tell stories on acid attack survivors for us to see change. I hope with our film we begin to see that change for ourselves as a society and for acid attack survivors.

"If we don't, then we've done something wrong as a society. Cinema in itself is such a powerful medium that hopefully just through this one film we will hopefully be able to see that kind of change and impact."

The actor said there was not much planning behind the decision to back the film financially.

"Sometimes certain films need a little more hand-holding, a little more love and support. I felt like I would be adding a little more value as a producer.

"This is a film I'm very proud of, not just from the script point of view but even in terms of the story and its message," she said.

The film, which releases on 10 January, will be Deepika's first release in two years and comes after her marriage to frequent co-star Ranveer Singh.

The actor said she used the time to creatively replenish herself.

"It was about finding a film worthy of putting out there. It's not that work at my end had stopped. I was constantly looking for scripts that challenged and excited me.

"I would look at it as time for creative fertility. It's important to nurture yourself. The work that goes on behind the scenes... most often we're constantly on a film set, but whether it's meeting with writers and directors, looking for scripts... That is also part of the creative process and that's what I've been doing."

The title Chhapaak instantly evokes the image of acid being splattered, and Deepika said the director wanted a word for the film's name that could also lend itself to a song.
"I think she said 'chhapaak', which is the sound of a splash, is something that could adapt or lend itself beautifully to a song. Perhaps, it also has to do with fluidity and liquid. So on one hand, liquid is known to take different forms, a liquid such as this (acid) can change someone's life forever," she said.

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Ghost Stories movie review: Dibakar Banerjee's political short film elevates an otherwise bland anthology that just isn't scary

Welcome back, Dibakar Banerjee. We've missed you. Hopefully you'll make more films in 2020?

After Bombay Talkies and Lust Stories, four iconic filmmakers — Karan Johar, Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar and Dibakar Banerjee — have come together for the third time, for an anthology of four horror short films. The interest around Ghost Stories has been palpable for a while. Bollywood hasn't really fared very well in the horror genre, which has mostly been relegated to campy B-films with some raunchy diversions thrown in. Well, the good news first: at least one film will blow your mind. The other three are touch-and-go.

Dibakar's segment in Netflix's anthology Ghost Stories is truly the only one that stays true to the horror genre in terms of fear and intrigue. Set in a small town on the fringes of a larger city, the film begins when a man — there's no time for names but played by Sukant Goel — comes to the village only to realise it has been rampaged by zombies from the bigger city (aka ground zero). Every person in the village has either been eaten alive or converted into a zombie. He meets the only two surviving members of the village, a girl and boy, both under 10 years, who navigate him through a harrowing, survivalist, truly horror-filled situation. It's grotesque, suspenseful and you won't be able to keep your eyes away from the screen.

Dibakar's film is the only one that is political, and uses horror tropes to make a larger comment about Indian society and oppression. Filled with visual and thematic motifs, the short film demands repeat watches. Gulshan Devaiah has a small but impactful role, which comes at a time in the film when you've just been delivered a sucker-punch. Dibakar's film has the potential to become a whole feature, infact, I'm just putting this out there in the universe.

Now that we've got the best film covered, both Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap's segments in Ghost Stories had a lot of interesting moments but ultimately they just didn't manage to be a decent scare. In Zoya's film, Jahnvi Kapoor plays Sameera, a young care-giver who works in the house of a paralysed old lady with dementia (or so Sameera is told). She starts to notice strange things and even appearances in the house (a beautiful Mumbai town home with Portuguese touches), while taking care, feeding and bathing the old lady (Surekha Sikhri) and even when she invites her boyfriend (Vijay Varma) for a quickie one night. Without the shocker of an ending, Zoya's film is a tad bland and elevated only by strong performances by Jahnvi Kapoor and Surekha Sikhri. What partially works in the film's favour is its slow-build quality that gives the climax its due.

Speaking of slow-builds (but never really getting anywhere), Anurag Kashyap's short film goes the Kafka-esque route (again; hello No Smoking), using a surreal character within a surreal universe to express the horror of a mental breakdown. Sobhita Dhulipala plays a pregnant woman who suffers from a childhood trauma, and as a result she believes she's a human-flesh eating crow. In a parallel storyline, her nephew is obsessed with his maasi, and does everything he can to make sure she doesn't forget him once her baby is born. These two tracks intersect to make a forcefully abstract and borderline pretentious short film. Kashyap's version of horror is more physical and gory (if that's your thing, have fun, I guess?) — and somewhere down the line, it looses steam while trying too hard to be ingenious.

Karan Johar's film, the last of the anthology, is cheeky, self-aware (much like his previous segment in Lust Stories) and gives the phrase, "it's about loving your family," a new twist. Set in a lavish house in Goa that is pleasing to the eye, the production design almost made me forget I was watching a horror film. The son of a wealthy family (Avinash Tiwary) is about to get married to a beautiful and smart woman (Mrunal Thakur), but he has to ask his grandmother's permission. There's only one catch: his grandmother is dead. If you can ignore the "i-wish-there-was-more-to-this" nagging feeling at the end, Johar's short is well-paced and performed. But is it scary? No.

The horror genre has so much scope, with no limit on how fantastical or surreal you can go. And who doesn't like standard jump scares? But Ghost Stories builds its horror with concept (some that work and some that don't) not gimmicks. The cinematography, writing and editing lend the atmospheric touch needed. Johar, Akhtar and Kashyap take their own sweet time to build their setting (which is no mean feat to pull off successfully in a short film format), but I kept waiting for that one moment in every film that gives you the final blow, and it never really landed. However, Dibakar's film takes off from the very first minute and once it ends, you'll want more. You will think about it all day, and try to find clues to the revelations you will keep having as and when you revisit it.

Unfortunately, apart from Dibakar's short, I didn't really feel the chills in any of the other three. And for an anthology called Ghost Stories, that's quite unfortunate.

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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

मोदी के मंत्री किशन रेड्डी के बिगड़े बोल, पूछा- प्रताड़ित हिंदू भारत नहीं आएं तो क्या इटली जाएं?

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