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A Carnatic singer’s life between two different visits to a temple is full of ups and downs such as what his society doesn’t expect from his lot.
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Might be Anant Nag’s first Kannada film.
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The book
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Martin Scorsese plays a convoluted chess game, with Leonardo di Caprio as either pawn or queen.
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Definitely Ambiguous
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The chess game ends expectedly, in a stalemate.
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A Spanish army deserter can’t believe his luck when four sisters including Maribel Verdu and Penelope Cruz take special interest in him.
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Fernando gets the “role that every young man dreams of playing” award.
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Sun-soaked Lyricism
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The tyranny of evil hits a roadblock in Bangalore when Agni fills the city with his own brand of ultraviolence.
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Sanitising police
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Agni gets Lion-heart of the Land award.
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An old man makes good use of his profession to go through on a free ride to South America. Adventure ensues and he loses a hero.
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Russel gets a badge.
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Magic
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Akira Kurosawa’s last film becomes a sentimental ode to kindness whilst following a professor’s final years.
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Nice farewell
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So like Ikiru, but not so like it too.
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Mist doesn’t spare even Satyajit Ray’s characters in Darjeeling while it’s metaphorical equivalent clouds a lot more inside them.
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Where was the toy train?
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Enigmatically non-linear
Metaphoric mist
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A man frustrated with his desk job goes on a nocturnal errand which, by the time it ends, puts things into perspective.
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Highly undervalued
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A little light coming from Scorsese. But it came a long time back, so who cares!
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A series of escalating violence flatters to deceive as a fiery start tapers into a tepid thriller.
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It gets to see the light of day, maybe.
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No apologies
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A journalist goes from one social gathering to another looking for a place to just fit in.
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Remarkable, yet no 8 and a half
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Anita Ekberg and Air India gets special mention.
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| It doesn’t take too long to discover that the host of villagers in this road trip to self-discovery are actually poorly-disguised arty-types. |
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| They might make it tax-free but doesn’t get to be toll-tax free. |
The road movie |
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A circus owner has to get back his money from a crook. To help him in this, Groucho, Chico and Harpo use lethal one-liners and destructive comedy devices. |
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Not a quite a Duck Soup. |
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