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iView Author: Jehan Handa (New Delhi, India)

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Sinbad The Sailor
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As Paul Coelho rightly said

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.”

“(8) Sinbad the Sailor Ek Jahaaz Mein Jab Chala, Mere Yaaro Sunlo Sunlo
Dhoond Raha Tha Ek Nayee Duniya Ka Pata, Mere Yaaro Sunlo Sunlo (8) “

Abhishek Kapoor a.k.a Gattu entered Bollywood with starry eyed dreams like any other actor, had the same desires as any other new entrant. Not every body has success stamped on their feet, neither did he, but who knew almost 14 years …

They were the dark ages. Shockingly after an amazing 70s. Creativity was the last thing on everyones mind. No one cared. Hindi cinema was treated as a prostitute by those who had come in to make money. And that was their only objective. Dish out a 3 hour film to make money. Video had made it’s foray into India and almost overnight - video became the villain of the film industry. Video was made out to be the cause on why the Hindi film industry was suffering. Of course it was true, to an extent. Yet if one compares the number of illegal downloads of a new movie on the very Friday of it’s release, the video days look like a God’s gift to the film industry. The problem lay elsewhere…

The middle class had moved out of the …

First thing first, KHUSHBOO is a PERIOD film, based upon the story of Sharat Chandra Chatterjee. So no new definitions can be imposed on the characterisation/s. It is set in an old time and hence has to be seen in that manner only.

Once selected a story, the thing which matters is the fact how convincingly a director has shown his chosen story. Story may not look convincing in a period film because times are changed but good directors have that skill where they keep grip on the visual story telling factor and audiences are soaked deeply in to the visual watching of the film and whether story is feasible in the present circumstances or not, ceases to matter for audiences.

Practices like Childhood marriages or fixing the marriages for children are not in the fashion now a days but this absence can not stop audience to enjoy the films …