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Those who say I commercialised pain of Kashmiri pandits are donkeys: 'Shikara' director

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Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra slammed those alleging that he "commercialised the pain of Kashmiri pandits" with his film ' Shikara ' and termed them donkeys. "'3 Idiots' earned 33 crores on first day and we knew the first day of Shikara will be 30 lakh. I make a film in the memory of my mother for 30 lakh collection on first day and some people say I commercialised the pain of Kashmiri Pandits. These people are donkeys," said Chopra at an event on Tuesday. Earlier on the day of the release of the film, a woman belonging to the Kashmiri Pandit community broke down and lashed out at Chopra after watching the film at a theatre here where he had come to get a firsthand public review of the film. The woman alleged that Chopra commercialised the entire issue of the exodus of the community which took place in 1990 and did not portray the actual suffering of the community including the genocide, mass rapes and mass murders committed by Isla...

'India's Most Wanted' a game-changer in cinema on terrorism (Review)

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Film:  India's Most Wanted ; Starring: Arjun Kapoor, Rajesh Sharma; Writer and Director Rajkumar Gupta; Rating: ****(4 stars) In a milieu of bustling violence, terrorism has been reduced to a formula in our cinema. A pretext to show larger-than-life villains with heroes to match. But what about those real terrorists and those unsung heroes who have apprehended dreaded terrorists not for fame recognition or, God forbid, money. But simply because to them, that seems the right thing to do. India's Most Wanted is that rare film on counter-terrorism which seems to show no inclination to overplay its cards, Rajkumar Gupta's target here is to not show his hero indulging in scene-stealing heroics (the kind Akshay Kumar would be seen doing), but to put the protagonist, a docile humble unostentatious man Prabhat who never smiles because...well, what is there to smile about? Have you seen the number of bomb blasts that have occurred in the last two decades? Read Complete Arti...

'Sanju' trailer: A rollercoaster ride of emotions

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The much-awaited trailer of the biopic, ' Sanju ' is here and it offers an intriguing mix of emotions, comedy, drama and most importantly, shock. The gripping trailer gave an insight into the life of Sanjay Dutt aka Sanju baba - be it his girlfriends, his drug addiction, his career, his conviction, downfall, his sentence, his acquittal, and then his uprising once again. While most of the public will be aware of the events, director Rajkumar Hirani brought the stories behind such events to the forefront. He dug to the bottom of real-life story behind the façade of the illustrious actor. Ranbir looks amazingly convincing in the role of Dutt. The younger actor took to the latter's persona like a charm. The trailer also touched upon his equation with various members of his life, portrayed by Paresh Rawal, Sonam Kapoor, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, and Anushka Sharma. There were some disturbing scenes from Dutt's jail term which made the audience a...