Suddenly Many New Fictional Detectives Are Sniffing for Clues on the Streets of Bombay
Most mysteries are set in the past but contemporary Mumbai is not missing either.
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Most mysteries are set in the past but contemporary Mumbai is not missing either.
Is there a sell-by date for a particular genre or kind of cinema? Is it time we call a moratorium on poor-boy-rich-girl (or vice-versa) love stories (despite the twist in the tale that marks this particular one – which is as problematic as the rest of the film is stale)? Picture this: A privileged girl with a powerful politician father who swears by ghar ki izzat.
Tara Sutaria, saddled with a poorly written role, is swamped out by a script that unfavourably disposed towards her.
Paliwal seems to have found a formula to attract young readers.
Why Bareilly’s landmark Syndicate Book House may find it difficult to reopen after the second wave After running the shop for over 40 years, co-founder Santosh Verma all but acknowledges it cannot survive now. Santosh Verma and her Syndicate Book House in Bareilly. “We were happy because we could not go anywhere else,” mused the nostalgic narrator of Nirmal Verma’s 1972 novel, Days Of Longing. The same sentiment may have been felt by another young man who, on a quiet afternoon decades later, made his way to Syndicate Book House in the small North Indian town of Bareilly. He ...