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Khamosh is a thriller where every time needle is pointed towards a suspect, audience may feel that no he is just usual suspect at that moment and real murderer is somebody else and one by one needle of suspicion goes to many characters and audience also keep one step ahead as director’s screen play allows him to know it that something is missing in the investigation and real culprit is yet to be found.

And this is the beauty of the film that audience wait patiently and attentively for director to unfold the mystery. Beauty is in reaching at that point and its not a great mystery where one gets a shock that what this person is the murderer.

No, here many audiences may get a clue but this journey is quite interesting.

Khamosh and Saja-e-Maut, two initial films of Vidhu Vinod …

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I had to sit through Money Hai to honey Hai on DVD this weekend and that inspired me to write this post. The film as you all know by now is a disgrace in the name of cinema and it’s hard to pinpoint any one reason that made the film so bad. Everything about the movie was bad, almost like a bad dream. The two reasons I watched the whole film were- one, it was a comedy and like a typical fan of Indian national cricket team, I kept thinking it’ll get better and I’ll at least like some jokes and two, my wife forced me to sit through it. Her taste in movies is not that bad but she has this weird compulsion …

It is said and it has been said all over the world in every country and in every civilization that there is no man who does not face sorrows. There have been philosophers who have been investigating existence of God or his role in the life of any human being.

Raju (Dev Anand) says in the Guide, one of the most wonderful films of the hindi cinema.

“Now this question is not important whether I will live or die. Question is this whether god exists or not. If he does not exist then it does not matter whether I live or die because what is the use of living in this world where there is no purpose behind its moving. And if he exists then I have to see how long he does not listen to his devotees. How he can leave his devotees with such a deep trouble.”

People have been …