It felt like an unbearable confinement, a waste of precious hours on an entity that offered neither any delight and insight, nor nourishment for the aesthetic urges of the soul.
As the year ends, Fighter features among the top 10 Hindi grossers; it's a different matter whether it got enough return on investment or not.
The dominant trend of past few years in Bollywood continued into 2024. A handful of largely execrable films minted vulgar crores, and the deserving ones got "discovered" later on OTT platforms, ensuring that the balance of power at the box office continued to favour the mediocre moneybags than the daring visionaries, as it always has.
Of the mainstream Hindi cinema I watched, the one which was satisfying, with quibbles intact, was Imtiaz Ali's musical Amar Singh Chamkila, the biopic of Punjab's popular performer of "naughty songs". Atul Sabharwal's Berlin—about a plot to assassinate Russian president Boris Yeltsin on his visit to India in 1993—is a spy thriller riding on atmosphere and intrigue.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 29, 2024 من The New Indian Express Tirupati.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December 29, 2024 من The New Indian Express Tirupati.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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