Sandipan Deb
@sandipanthedeb
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Writer, editor, columnist. Former editor, Financial Express, Open, Swarajya, Outlook Money; managing editor, Outlook.
Gurgaon, India
Joined September 2012
Hilarious. Had me laughing out loud.
Film opens with a masked villain destroying some Indian asset somewhere and challenging the Indian govt, saying he is coming for them. Next scene: IB, RAW, and ministers are having a round-table meeting about the villain while his 4K images play on the monitor. The intel chief
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Dhurandhar used Bahraini rapper Flipperachi’s song FA9LA in the film. Indian audiences loved it - and have made the song a colossal hit! This is a glimpse of India’s entertainment and music soft power (and hard power) that is soon going to become a norm. Global artists and
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The ISI bosses must be laughing their heads off.
10000 movies showed Brahmins as evil crooks, Thakurs as rapist goons and Baniyas as lecherous charlatans but it did not spread hate. One movie showed Pakistanis as radical terrorists and it's spreading hate. #Dhurandar
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Interesting view.
@sandipanthedeb @NAN_DINI_ @ShefVaidya Aree yaar Sandipan, where are you? What about those who neither liked Pathan, Tiger nor Durandhar? Those who were never bleeding heart, '@anupamachopra (or whatever) type' liberals to begin with? What about those who follow the non-liberal, hard-boiled Hindi-Urdu cinema,
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Why on earth should Shah Rukh Khan have to speak about Gaza? If he wants to, fine. Now what, we should demand that Sachin comment on the Gyanvapi mosque? Who are these pathetic losers?
“The biggest Muslim star in India and perhaps even the world – has not publicly uttered one word about Palestine.” @fbhutto writes about Shah Rukh Khan’s hypocrisy in pretending to represent the best of secular India, while remaining silent on Gaza.
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BBC's Hindi and India desks are dominated by Muslims — several Pakistanis, a few Indian Muslims, fewer Hindus and even fewer non-leftist Hindus. Even when the fourth and smallest section of editors finds something amiss in the editorial line, they choose to remain silent in fear
BBC is mocking Vande Mataram, India's national song, but platforming Kashmir's resistance music. It says everything about their priorities.
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‘The first level of trouble these so-called liberal intellectuals have with Dhurandhar is that the film slices through all the bleeding-heart bunkum and says the truth out aloud. The truth that any reasonable Indian knows, but most of us are too polite to express other than in
#Opinion | The higher level of trouble — which makes this cultural elite truly anxious — is that #Dhurandhar is a very well-made mainstream commercial film Written by: @sandipanthedeb
https://t.co/E9OYBfPvF1
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@sandipanthedeb @NAN_DINI_ @ShefVaidya Brilliant writing. Adding to the soi-disant liberals’ woes—they can no longer tell themselves that they have a monopoly on “good English,” the only value proposition they could ever bring to the table, having fled screaming from integral calculus. You are robbing their rozi roti.
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Very good point. Respect.
While all Indians related with #RanveerSingh’s character in that particular scene how much difficult it would have been for #ArjunRampal and #AkshayeKhanna to celebrate that one 🥹 Arjun Rampal revealed that shooting the 26/11 celebration sequence was the toughest moment of his
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Spot on.
You can criticize a film but not a critic. At least not “someone like Anupama Chopra.” Because that makes you fascist. Not the India I grew up in. The India I grew up in banned Vishwaroopam in parts of South India for showing some Muslims as terrorists. The India I grew up in
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You can criticize a film but not a critic. At least not “someone like Anupama Chopra.” Because that makes you fascist. Not the India I grew up in. The India I grew up in banned Vishwaroopam in parts of South India for showing some Muslims as terrorists. The India I grew up in
To push someone like Anupama Chopra to withdraw a review is the absolute pits! Threatening and harassing everyone who disagrees with something as fleeting as a film is such a disgrace. What next? Mannu lorry will accidentally run over their cars and bikes? It’s shameful what
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Incisive and, as always, funny.
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Brilliant piece.
Opinion | Dhurandhar: Hindi Cinema’s Coming Of Age https://t.co/dpaO3akE2V I write for News 18. @AdityaDharFilms @AdityaRajKaul @yamigautam
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My article on why 'liberals' are in a state of panic and outrage over Dhurandhar. @NAN_DINI_ @ShefVaidya
#Opinion | The higher level of trouble — which makes this cultural elite truly anxious — is that #Dhurandhar is a very well-made mainstream commercial film Written by: @sandipanthedeb
https://t.co/E9OYBfPvF1
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In 2004, when Main Hoon Na hit the screens, the villain was a man who scorned Aman Ki Asha—the fantasy that India and Pakistan could be friends with our shared love for biryani, Fawad Khan’s cheekbones, and Coke Studio. The ISI has worked very hard to rid Indians of that
timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. Now, as a Bengali, it’s rather hard to work on the auspicious day of Navami when all Bengalis channel their inner Marx and become largely...
In Rang De Basanti, Bajrang Dal was portrayed as a thug to damage his image in the name of secularism. In Main Hoon Na, an Indian Army officer was shown as a terrorist, and Pakistan was portrayed as if it were our friend, and that was called secularism. In PK, our revered
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"To watch Rushdie reprimand 'Hindu nationalism' after surviving a near-fatal Islamist attack is... to witness a tragic spectacle: a man shaped by fear into criticising the safest opponent available... And it underscores a deeper truth about our intellectual climate — the
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Salman Rushdie invokes the ghost of ‘Hindu nationalism’ even when Islamists continue to aim at his life. Maybe his ‘rebellion’ is dead, and only the fear survives
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Am glad Vande Mataram is being revived in some way. It is the real rallying cry of our freedom struggle. Revolutionaries would walk to the gallows singing it.
#BreakingNews | 'The nation should know the injustice that was done to the song. Restoring the pride of ‘Vande Mataram’ is the need of the hour': Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Lok Sabha Tune in to LIVE TV for all the fastest #BREAKING alerts: https://t.co/z7Y5OajWA7
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Couldn't have said it better.
If Dhurandhar were made by YRF spy universe directors, Ranveer would go undercover in Pakistan only to discover that Major Iqbal was actually an Indian agent planted by RAW who has now gone rogue and is helping Pakistani terror groups attack India. Ranveer confronts Major Iqbal,
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