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Category: Hindi Movies

Gali Guliyan/In the Shadows (dir. Dipesh Jain, 2017)

This post first appeared on Totally Filmi on September 25, 2018. From the moment we see Khuddoos (Manoj Bajpayee in yet another moving and masterful performance), an Old Delhi shopkeeper, we know that this is a man with his own demons, his eyes wary and watchful as he views closed…

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The Narrative Function of Song and Dance: Jab We Met

This post appeared first on Totally Filmi in 2011, as part of the Kapoor Khazana Blogathon. It was updated to fix broken video links on March 25, 2019. “Audiences who are unfamiliar with the codes and convention of Hindi cinema often find it difficult to make sense of song and…

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