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5 Reasons Why Varun Dhawan is Winning 2020 With Coolie No. 1
Coolie No. 1 is a Varun Dhawan show all-out with catchy dance numbers, over-the-top comedy, and great action sequences.
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From Yash Chopra, With Love: The Man Who Convinced India Dil Toh Pagal Hai
Here’s the thing about Yash Chopra – despite the cliché that he is associated with, he never could be pinned down to a stereotype. Even as he defined the romantic canon, he went about redefining it with each film. Chopra was to India what Mills & Boon was for the rest of the world.
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2017: The Year That Destroyed ’90s Bollywood
This was the year our rose-tinted memories of the glorious ’90s died. “Oonchi Hai Building” is permanently sullied by Varun Dhawan and we’ll never look at Govinda, Sridevi, and Sanjay Dutt the same way again.
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Depression, the Heaviest Weight I’ve Lifted Yet
When bestselling author Krishna Udayasankar broke her arms, she was held aloft only by the thought of getting back to weightlifting – her life raft in fighting clinical depression.
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The Many Comebacks of Govinda
Aa Gaya Hero is a two-hour-long trip back to Govinda’s favourite destination: The 1990s, when we couldn’t tell the difference between camp and humour.
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What Came First, the Egg or Instagram Stardom?
A humble single-celled egg has dethroned Instagram queen Kylie Jenner, making everyone who thinks social media is a place to show off the craft they’ve spent years perfecting, look like a giant self-promoting twit.
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Did YouTube Really Need a Govinda Channel?
It’s not clear why Govinda has decided to become a cringe-pop Hallmark greeting card on YouTube in 2020, but it does beg the question: Who are the 21k people who are listening to these songs and why haven’t they discovered Baba Sehgal yet?
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No Dance Film Has Earned the Cult Status of Disco Dancer. Even Street Dancer 3D Won’t
Disco Dancer gave us a hero who picked up the guitar instead of the gun. It ushered in an era of Bollywood dance films, which peaked in the ’80s and early ’90s. However, few have earned the cult status as the Mithun Chakraborty film. Does Street Dancer 3D stand a chance?
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Mohammad Aziz, More Than a First Copy of Mohammad Rafi
Mohammad Aziz wasn’t just a first-copy version of Mohammad Rafi. That would be unfair to the artist he was. Aziz was the first-copy version of all the actors he sang for: He was Govinda’s pelvic thrust, Mithun Chakraborty’s swagger, Rajesh Khanna’s ham, Amitabh Bachchan’s buffoonery. He was all that they were or wanted to be.
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No Dharma Films, No Koffee with Karan. But Chunky Pandey was a Superstar in Bangladesh
After the success of Aankhen in 1993, Chunky Pandey practically had no work. That’s when directors from Dhallywood, the Bangladesh film industry, came knocking on his door. Pandey dived right in and became an instant superstar.