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Happy Javed Akhtar Day! Zanjeer, Amitabh’s Most Romantic Action Film

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I know this is the film that invented the Angry Young Man.  I know it is a Big Story about power and the state and so on and so forth.  And that’s why I enjoy it and respect it the same way I enjoy any of the other Amitabh classics, Sholay or Deewar or Trishul or Agneepath.  But the reason I love it just for me, is because Jaya and Amitabh are SO IN LOVE.  Like, so in love that it is blinding.  It’s not a surprise they got married as soon as they finished filming, it would have been a surprise if the DIDN’T get married.

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Gully Boy Soundtrack Song By Song, Artists and Background Explained

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Emily posted a link to a really interesting article about how the Gully Boy soundtrack was put together by multiple musicians with every song different (article here). That got me to listen to the soundtrack and go “wow, every song IS different!” And that got me to want to write this post, where I go into the musicians behind each song.

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Happy World Poetry Day! Worst to Best Poetry in Hindi Film!

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Happy World Poetry Day!  India of course has an amazing poetic tradition in every language.  And for the past 70 years, a lot of the best poets have ended up working in film lyrics.  And also some of the very worst poets.  I’m going to do a quick post giving you a run down of worst to best.  Even if you can’t understand the language, you should be able to tell just from the sound of it that some of these are very very good.  And some are not.

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