Tag Archives: Sunil Dutt

Parampara: A Movie About Tradition in the Long Tradition of Movies About Tradition

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Parampara!  Or, Tradition!  (and now I have that Fiddler on the Roof song in my head)  Anyway, this was a terrible terrible movie.  And it was a Yash Chopra film!  He must have run out of either money or interest at some point in the middle, because it is just confused and dull in a way that Yashji doesn’t usually let happen.  In fact, I feel fairly comfortable saying this is probably the worst film Yash Chopra ever made.

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Happy Father’s Day! Let’s Talk About Munna Bhai and Sunil Dutt!

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The movie and the actor, not the actor nickname and his real life father.  Although really, we have to talk about both, because one doesn’t make sense without the other.  Oh, and also Rosie Thomas, my all time favorite Indian film scholar (tied with Anupama Chopra and Tejaswini Ganti) (oo, I just noticed while adding those links, Chopra’s Sholay book is now available on kindle!  EXCELLENT!!!  And Ganti’s Producing Bollywood!  Oh, that is so TEMPTING!  Can I justify buying them a second time just to have a different format?)

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