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Singh seems to be flavor of the season..Sardar Manmohan Singh winning a confidence motion towards the end of July and in the process nuking the entire opposition..Then Harbhajan Singh mending his way and doing the Ajantha Mendis by taking six wickets in an innings in the second Test Match between India and Sri Lanka a day before..

And now Singh Is King screaming to scorch the screens the same day the Beijing Olympics are inaugurated..

Akshay Kumar in the role of a Singh with designer turban and gaudy sherwani—trying to improve upon the sartorial tastes of Daler Mehndi..Akshay Kumar as a Singh!..Ye baat kuchh hazm nahin hui..

Many before him have tried to don the pagdi of a Sardar in their screen avatars..Amitabh Bachchan did it in AB TUMHARE HAWALE WATAN SAATHIYO..He had also done a different take of a Sardar in the movie SUHAAG where he tries to persuade Shashi Kapoor …

If Khuda Kay Liye was a fine example of fledgling independent cinema from Pakistan – distinct from the Lollywood’s mindless masala – then Ramchand Pakistani by debutante director Mehreen Jabbar is sure sign that quality cinema from our neighbours are surely getting revived, thanks to a young breed of filmmakers who have largely cut their teeth through television and are socio-politically conscious.

Ramchand Pakistani had its first public screening in the Subcontinent at the 10th Osian’s Cinefan Festival of Asian Cinema in New Delhi on 12th July – three weeks before it becomes the first Pakistani film to have simultaneous release on August 1 in both the countries – and wowed viewers with its sensitive storytelling shorn of any melodrama.

Based on a true incident of a young Hindu Dalit boy from a village across the border from Gujarat, who had inadvertently crossed the international border along with his farmer father at …