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A nice coupling. Neither film is truly great, but both are expertly constructed and of great entertainment value. Please note that the Anokhi Ada featured here...

Only Aasha was available for viewing purposes. Dating from 1957, Aasha stars Kishore Kumar, Om Prakash, and Vyjayanthimala and was directed by C. Ramachandra. It is...


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All three films were available for review in the present instance. This is a nicely varied disc of soundtracks that works very well as a stand-alone...

There appears to be two equally valid spellings of the main (Kannada) film under consideration here: Sipaayi and Sipayi . A small difference, one might think,...

The star here, Ganesh, created quite a stir in Indian movie circles with Mungaru Male , a film that also made the career of Bhat. He...

One song from this album went on to became such a phenomenon in all of Tamilnadu that intellectuals and sociologists began to ask why it had...


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The 1991 Tamil movie Dharma Durai runs for the pretty standard length of 145 minutes. It stars Rajnikanth, Gouthami and Suranraj. Dharma Durai is actually the...

Director/star Ravichandran’s Putnanja was released in 1995. Although the story is familiar (overseas lover against local lad, unwanted pregnancy, local politics, city people against village people),...