EXPRESS 5: Bollywood believes in reincarnation; Film critic’s guide to enjoy a bad film

Kanti Shah’s residence is bare — devoid of life-sized portraits and film posters meant to remind visitors that they were in the presence of a star.

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2. Lights! Camera! Bakwaas! – A film critic’s guide to enjoy the so-bad-it’s- good movies

What do you do when you are faced with the prospect of watching a truly Bad film? Option A: run for your life. Option B: grin and bear it.

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3. Past Continuous – Bollywood believes in reincarnation

Bollywood, like Hinduism, believes in reincarnation — you cannot break the cycle of life and death and life again — you can only choose your wardrobe and which songs you’ll sing in each life.

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4. Love, Actually

I met Prem in the summer of 1990. On a sweltering Kolkata afternoon, at a friend’s birthday lunch, he had me at, “Dosti ka ek usool hai madam, no sorry, no thank you.”

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5. Of Bollywood movies: The awful and the awesome

Make no mistake: a bad Bollywood film is a lot of work. It is a constant battle against reality and the burden of what it means to live in the real world.

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