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3 years, 3 months ago

The Durga Puja older than the oldest Durga Puja

When you Google ‘oldest Durga Puja in West Bengal’, you’ll get the Barisha Roy Choudhurys’ 1610 puja. The Maharajas regularly went hunting for big game in these parts; so a tiger as Durga’s ‘vaahan’ in Nara Narayan’s dream is not unusual. But times have changed and the ‘human sacrifice’ is only symbolic now — thank Durga for that! There are …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Ground Report Sitalkuchi: What happened in Cooch Behar on polling day?

India Today

Phase 4 of the West Bengal Elections 2021 were marked by widespread violence across polling booths in the Cooch Behar district on April 10. The Trinamool Congress has also written to the Election Commission asking for action against the CISF personnel who opened fire at Sitalkuchi poll booth number 126. ON LOCATION IN SITALKUCHI POLLING BOOTH NUMBER 126 Amtali Madhyamik …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Bengal: Amit Shah adds saffron to the yellow Koch Rajbongshi flag in Cooch Behar

India Today

BJP rallies are usually a sea of saffron but then Cooch Behar is not a usual place. When Home Minister Amit Shah decided to flag off the fourth leg of the Poriborton Yatra rally from the Rashmela Math in Cooch Behar, it was understandably a day not to be missed. Give me a louder welcome!” The voices answered in unison, …

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4 years ago

Mamata asked North Bengal what is her fault. Modi answered with Cooch Behar

India Today

Just yesterday, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, during her rally in North Bengal, brought up the 2019 general elections. Photo: Arabinda Bhattacharya To see the Rajbari behind the Prime Minister today sure is yet another arrow to Mamata Banerjee's already-battered Achilles' Heel: acknowledgment in the face of years of neglect. Before Suvendu, last month saw Cooch Behar Dakshin MLA Mihir …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Laxmmi Bomb triggers trolls in an-outrage-a-day India

India Today

If you are on Twitter, the year 2020 will seem tame in comparison. He made a film called Laxmmi Bomb produced by a Kashmiri woman where he plays a transperson who is a ghost who has a trishul in its hand and goes by the pseudonym Asif. They simply didn't know what to outrage over and whatnot, so they outraged …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Dil Bechara Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput's swan song

India Today

Ek tha raja, ek thi rani. On reel as in real life, Sushant Singh Rajput left us all with this very lesson. But Sushant Singh Rajput's swan song, his last film, is one for the keeps. While Sushant Singh Rajput, of course, will take most of all reviews, Sanjana Sanghi makes a cracker of a debut with Dil Bechara. ALSO …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Sushant Singh Rajput: The Outsider

India Today

In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death. Sushant Singh Rajput was that outsider to 2010s Bollywood. Sushant Singh Rajput was the inspiration of millions of people young and old, who had seen his rise from nothing to the top. With Sushant Singh Rajput, our generation also …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Anurag Kashyap on Choked: On demonetisation day, I was also very happy

India Today

Anurag Kashyap is not a person who knows how not to speak his mind. We connected with Anurag over a video call on a June morning, and got down to discussing a wide range of topics from politics, to the pandemic, to people's belief in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and, of course, Choked. So, I make a film like I …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Paatal Lok Review: Neeraj Kabi and Jaideep Ahlawat hit it out of paatal to swarg lok

India Today

We used to be heroes, you know. Neeraj Kabi plays journalist-anchor Sanjeev Mehra in Paatal Lok Within the nine episodes of Paatal Lok, we visit all these three worlds. Jaideep Ahlawat plays Inspector Hathiram Chaudhary in Paatal Lok The characters in the series, for one, are picked out of your neighbourhood. Abhishek Banerjee is Vishal AKA Hathoda Tyagi in Paatal …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Goodbye, Irrfan. You rare man

India Today

Aap rukiye thodi der. Irrfan, with his Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster Returns team, was walking out of the studio, their TV interviews done. Over interviews in the years in between, we went from discussing how he wanted to do more romantic films to break out of his 'serious actor image' during Piku, to why 'usne yeh keh diya cannot be …

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4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Lockdown: Nilgai walks freely on now-empty Noida roads. Twitter is amazed

India Today

With the entire nation on a 21-day lockdown, humans are sitting inside their homes and spending time with their families, and the wildlife has taken over on the otherwise busy roads. We recently stumbled upon a clip of a nilgai walking outside the Great India Place Mall in Noida Sector-18. pic.twitter.com/IfHJIQfPgS Ananya Bhattacharya March 27, 2020 The 25-second video shows …

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4 years, 9 months ago

I travelled to Egypt bang in the middle of coronavirus outbreak. All I wanted was to get back home.

India Today

We all want vacations to never end. Three hours before we were to leave for the airport, a headline screamed '12 people suspected of coronavirus on a cruise from Luxor to Aswan'. If you want to go inside one of the two smaller pyramids, you need to shell out an extra 100 Egyptian Pounds. If Bahrain cancelled our flight from …

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5 years, 1 month ago

Inside Edge 2 Review: Losing the edge

India Today

A bat smashing Vikrant Dhawan's skull. That's where the curtains fell on Inside Edge Season 1, India's first Hindi original on OTT. WHERE SEASON 1 LEFT US Season 1 ended with Zarina Malik hitting Vikrant Dhawan's face and Bhaisaab lending her a hand to pull her out of the PPL betting mess. WHAT'S BAD IN SEASON 2 Inside Edge 2 …

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5 years, 4 months ago

Sacred Games 2 is Anurag Kashyap's badla. Pehlu Khan ka, open letter ka, Twitter ka

India Today

No one killed Pehlu Khan. He made sure, with Sacred Games 2, that even though his open letter to the Prime Minister of India might have been tossed aside as 'overreaction', he hit people where it hurts the most: with entertainment. So Kashyap and Ghaywan make sure one of the most important scenes in this season of Sacred Games is …

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5 years, 6 months ago

Ayushmann Khurrana: Shooting Article 15 in dalit village taught me about caste injustice

India Today

It is not every day that Bollywood films talk caste discrimination. I will never say that this film, Article 15, is ahead of its time. Coming back to Article 15, it is a brave film to make, given the current climate of the country. India is a very complex country and there are a lot of sensitive people who are …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Bharat Movie Review: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif laugh, weep, deliver a perfect Eid blockbuster

India Today

Why do people go to see a Salman Khan film? With Bharat, Salman Khan gifts his fans the perfect Eidi. If with Sultan, Ali Abbas Zafar put Salman through a rigorous physical test, in Bharat it is a test for Salman's expressions. But when people wait a year for a Salman Khan Eid release, can you really blame the superstar …

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5 years, 7 months ago

Salman Khan Bharat Exclusive: I have done mediocre work for friends. Now I have to intensely like the script

India Today

It is the evening before the release of Bharat. His last Eid release was a dampener and all hopes are pinned on Bharat, the film that will see Salman reuniting with Katrina Kaif after 2017's Tiger Zinda Hai. They have been to the films and liked it, that's why they come out and talk good things about the film and …

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5 years, 7 months ago

India's Most Wanted Movie Review: Arjun Kapoor leads a manhunt in tepid thriller

India Today

The Man With No Face. Loosely based on the capture of Indian Mujahideen terrorist Yasin Bhatkal, who was arrested in 2013 after a several-year manhunt, India's Most Wanted tries to lay bare what these nameless heroes need to deal with. India's Most Wanted begins on a promising note but it is really in the last 25 minutes that the film …

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5 years, 7 months ago

PM Narendra Modi Movie Review: Modi wins India to make Vivek Oberoi a star

India Today

Modi has won Varanasi. In Omung Kumar's PM Narendra Modi, the biggest takeaway is this tea straight from a Sanjeev Kapoor show. PM Narendra Modi traces the journey of our Prime Minister from his tea-selling days to his days spent rallying for desh and deshwasi. What works in favour of and against PM Narendra Modi the film is that we …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Gully Boy Movie Review: Ranveer Singh raps, Alia Bhatt roars in Zoya Akhtar film

India Today

What do all artistes have in common? Zoya Akhtar's Gully Boy pieces together snippets of life from the slums and the Mumbai underground. If Ranveer Singh is the life of Gully Boy, the music is its soul. Gully Boy starring Ranveer Singh and Alia Bhatt is the big Bollywood release today. The film gets compelling performances from Ranveer and Alia …

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5 years, 11 months ago

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga Movie Review: Sonam Kapoor powers excellent lesbian love story

India Today

Take this story to the smallest of towns. Director Shelly Chopra Dhar brings the sensitivity of a woman to the story of Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga. Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga, in every frame and every detail, screams out loud that the story is, like Sahil's play, straight out of the writers' lives. The ostracisation, …

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6 years ago

Accidental Prime Minister trailer: Anupam Kher caricatures Manmohan Singh in hit job on Congress

India Today

How do you take a controversial book and make a film out of it - that you know is going to hit all the right notes as far as controversy is concerned? The Accidental Prime Minister, based on the eponymous book by Dr Manmohan Singh's media advisor Sanjaya Baru does all of that and more. The Accidental Prime Minister has …

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6 years, 3 months ago

Sui Dhaaga Movie Review: Varun and Anushka film is for the Mad in India

India Today

Sui Dhaaga starring Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma is director Sharat Katariya's second film after Dum Laga Ke Haisha. In Sui Dhaaga, director Sharat Katariya pays his tribute to the ones 'Mad in India', as Varun Dhawan and Anushka Sharma set out to shape his dream. Sui Dhaaga makes a case for local artisans who are swallowed by factories to …

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6 years, 4 months ago

2.0 teaser reveals an important social message

India Today

It took only a few years for the world to wake up to the adverse effects of mobile phones. Rajinikanth and Akshay Kumar star in the lead roles in India's most expensive film, a film worth Rs 550 crore, which took nearly two years and numerous missed deadlines to finally reach this stage. So director Shankar brings back his Chitti …

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The Durga Puja older than the oldest Durga Puja

Ground Report Sitalkuchi: What happened in Cooch Behar on polling day?

Bengal: Amit Shah adds saffron to the yellow Koch Rajbongshi flag in Cooch Behar

Mamata asked North Bengal what is her fault. Modi answered with Cooch Behar

Laxmmi Bomb triggers trolls in an-outrage-a-day India

Dil Bechara Movie Review: Sushant Singh Rajput's swan song

Sushant Singh Rajput: The Outsider

Anurag Kashyap on Choked: On demonetisation day, I was also very happy

Paatal Lok Review: Neeraj Kabi and Jaideep Ahlawat hit it out of paatal to swarg lok

Goodbye, Irrfan. You rare man

Coronavirus Lockdown: Nilgai walks freely on now-empty Noida roads. Twitter is amazed

I travelled to Egypt bang in the middle of coronavirus outbreak. All I wanted was to get back home.

Inside Edge 2 Review: Losing the edge

Sacred Games 2 is Anurag Kashyap's badla. Pehlu Khan ka, open letter ka, Twitter ka

Ayushmann Khurrana: Shooting Article 15 in dalit village taught me about caste injustice

Bharat Movie Review: Salman Khan and Katrina Kaif laugh, weep, deliver a perfect Eid blockbuster

Salman Khan Bharat Exclusive: I have done mediocre work for friends. Now I have to intensely like the script

India's Most Wanted Movie Review: Arjun Kapoor leads a manhunt in tepid thriller

PM Narendra Modi Movie Review: Modi wins India to make Vivek Oberoi a star

Gully Boy Movie Review: Ranveer Singh raps, Alia Bhatt roars in Zoya Akhtar film

Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga Movie Review: Sonam Kapoor powers excellent lesbian love story

Accidental Prime Minister trailer: Anupam Kher caricatures Manmohan Singh in hit job on Congress

Sui Dhaaga Movie Review: Varun and Anushka film is for the Mad in India

2.0 teaser reveals an important social message