Yuvvraaj - setting the stage

If blogging was prevalent in the 90’s, there would be so many things I would write about – all the dubbbed films mesmerizing an alien audience in a way they never imagined, song dance and more, Gopi Kishan, Mohra, that oddball which changed the way I looked at Indian films called Dil Se, mid-90’s action wave, all the newbies vying for a sustainable career option in films, Mukul Anand films, and so on. If we would move a little ahead post millennium, there would be few more entries and revelations – the changing face of film music, some people making ‘NRI’ films whatever that meant, the almost death of story and innovation in Hindi cinema, and the predictable trends.

And somewhere along the early decade, I would buy a cassette of a film weirdly titled Taal, and I would log …


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