Rajit Kapur

Barun Sobti takes you deep into the commercial world of cricket

Hindi cinema has seen a number of movies based on cricket — underdog stories Lagaan (2001) and Iqbal (2005) instantly come to mind. There have also been films like Jannat (2008) and the web-series Inside Edge (2017) which looked at the corruption in the game. Sports journalist-turned-director Mitali Ghoshal’s 22 Yards merges these two themes. …

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Aims to bring to light the conspiracy behind Gandhi’s assassination

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There have been many films on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi aka Mahatma Gandhi. While some, like Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi (1982), looked at the great man’s life, others, like Kamal Haasan’s Hey Ram (2000), featured his assassination by the fanatic Nathuram Godse. Going by the title, directors Karim Traidia and Pankaj Sehgal’s English-language film The Gandhi Murder also …

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