Mayank Shekhar मयंक शेखर
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Joined March 2009
#IOTY2025 | Everyone in the categories are so deserving. It will be a tough call this time. Everyone has given their best this year: @AdvaitaKala, Author @mayankw14, Film Critic: From such an incredible bunch of nominees, Mohanlal is hands down my pick for Entertainer of the
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A recurring shot in Rohan Sippy’s murder mystery, Search: The Naina Murder Case (Jio-Hotstar), is of the two cops leading the said investigation, Konkona Sen Sharma, Surya Sharma, walking side-by-side, before the camera. Konkona is naturally petite, barely reaching Surya’s
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We've been cooking something up in the studio. The @nvidiastudio that is, letting us create without limits.
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Unsure why👇🏽an unpopular opinion—the sheer cacophony of #KantaraChapter1, w/ all the storytelling done through a mysterious narrator, while the film itself is simply a series of overlong, repetitive sequences, must be mentioned; especially, if you got a throbbing headache, no?
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How far can you throw the ball to fetch the imagination? Aditya Satpotdar’s Thamma, that’s opened in theatres, blasts off with the year 323 BC! That’s when, apparently, Alexander theGreat, from Greece, through Egypt, is invading India. And a ‘betaal’, in short, a desi vampire,
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After Emiratis, it’s really Malabaris, in the [economic] pecking order of Abu Dhabi,” says our Pakistani cabbie, driving near a street, lined with billboards advertising Malabar Jewellers, starring Bollywood heroines (Kareena, Alia, et al). By Malabar, he means north Kerala,
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As a film-buff’s filmmaker, Paul Thomas Anderson (PTA) has perhaps only one real Hollywood rival, from among his ’90s, off-kilter, ‘VHS-generation’ contemporaries. And that’s Quentin Tarantino. Both, blessed with an ear for music, have remained equally careful/conservative with
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The hashar (ruin/devastation) that the ‘hero ka best-friend’ character goes through in the usual bread-butter Bollywood movies, I suppose, is a motif that merits an amusing study. Ideally, by someone more academically inclined! Consider the hero’s BFF bloke in this picture.
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I haven’t read better lines to explain caste as a poem by Akhil Katyal, titled Poetic License, excerpted thus: One day, when he was / About ten or twelve / He asked his mother / “What is my caste?... The mother got up / In the middle of her supper / “Beta, if you don’t know it
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I suspect Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-24, HBO) sorta set the tone/template for minimally surveying showbiz freelancers, going about their day, like any other, in Hollywood/LA. For, what’s even Seth Rogen in The Studio (2025, Apple TV), but Larry, in his own way; no?
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the scene / visual you mentioned exists in the film - and I’m glad you spotted the callback. It’s the reason we chose that image as our first poster
The starting point of this film, I’m told, was once a photograph, doing the rounds on social media. Which led journalist Basharat Peer to dive deeper into its origins, and write a piece for the opinion page of the New York Times (NYT). In print, it was originally titled,
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The starting point of this film, I’m told, was once a photograph, doing the rounds on social media. Which led journalist Basharat Peer to dive deeper into its origins, and write a piece for the opinion page of the New York Times (NYT). In print, it was originally titled,
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I suspect Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000-24, HBO) sorta set the tone/template for minimally surveying showbiz freelancers, going about their day, like any other, in Hollywood/LA. For, what’s even Seth Rogen in The Studio (2025, Apple TV), but Larry, in his own way; no?
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@mayankw14 @ArshadWarsi @akshaykumar @modassir8055 @subkapoor The lines from the song 'ऐ वतन तू क्यों हमारा, क्यों हुआ न.. क्यों हुआ न…' encapsulate everything about the film. I loved what you have written for the same reasons and hope that this film succeeds and is seen by many more people.
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