Category Archives: Police

A great movie: Gangster (2006)

Posted on November 16, 2007 by ashish

A typical urban gangster movie of the 70′s and 80′s (thus excluding the rural dacoit movie such as Sholay) was all about the larger than life character, fighting against the police, and maybe reforming or dying. It was the odd … Continue reading →

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Song: Do Lafzon Ki Kahani

Posted on October 18, 2007 by ashish

A beautiful song from a hard core action movie; one of Amitabh’s great masala movies. The movie was released in 1979, and stars Amitabh Bachchan (in a double role), Zeenat Aman, Neetu Singh, Prem Chopra, Madan Puri, Iftekhar, Utpal Dutt … Continue reading →

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Tridev: A real masala movie

Posted on October 5, 2007 by ashish

At near the end of the 80′s came a movie that was every inch a masala movie. Tridev. It was a super-hit, with all the elements of a masala movie thrown in. There was revenge, romance, guns, explosions, a villain, … Continue reading →

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Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hain (1960)

Posted on September 28, 2007 by ashish

An almost magical movie from Raj Kapoor, it seems a very simplistic movie. In these cynical times, you would think that such a thing is impossible. However, the fact is that in reality, Acharya Vinoba Bhave did indeed cause dacoits … Continue reading →

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