From Nayakan (1987) to Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), here are the best Indian gangster movies that should be on your watchlist. It is upon entering the cinema’s criminal underworlds that one realises the kind of impact the gangster genre has on an average moviegoer. Gritty, punctuated with tough talk and as straight-to-life depictions of the bloodlust inherent in ...
Nawazuddin Siddiqui isn’t your everyday Bollywood celebrity. No disrespect intended, but he doesn’t qualify the checkbox traits of the proverbial Bollywood star. He had no connections in the industry to make it as an actor. The road was long and hard for him. But, today he is counted among the finest actors our country has produced. ...
Alfred Hitchcock once said, “the length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.” But that hardly holds true for Hindi cinema. Our Bollywood musicals unapologetically stretch up to two and a half to three hours. Sometimes, more! Now, the duration may not have always have to do with the ...
Dipankar Sarkar
