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An NRI from Lucknow. An IT professional and a student of cinema.

 

Yusuf Tabatabai's Blog

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    Lyrics revival
    “Let’ s put a moratorium on the use of words like dil, jigar, pyar, mohabbat in the lyrics for a few years. This might bring about some improvement in the quality of lyrics” – Javed Akhtar in an interview on a TV channel a few years ago It seems Javed Saab’s wish has been fulfilled. Stock words like ‘dil’, ‘pyar’ etc do not appear with that sickening...
    by Yusuf Tabatabai at September 16th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
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    “Life in a … village”
    They say more than 60% India lives in the villages. Hardly the impression you get watching Hindi movies of this decade. When was the last time you saw a village in a Hindi film? I think barring LAGAAN, SWADES and MALAAMAL WEEKLY (which was a remake) I can’t recall too many in the last … let’s see how many years … 10, 15 or more? Isn’t there really a dearth of...
    by Yusuf Tabatabai at July 27th, 2009 at 03:07 pm
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