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RRR 2022
I won’t deny that it’s truly gratifying to see an Indian blockbuster becoming a hit in the West. I won’t deny that RRR carries a sense of inconceivably complex spectacle that has all but vanished from the soggy grey wasteland of contemporary Hollywood filmmaking. I won’t deny that I was moved to tears, on multiple occasions, by the depth of the friendship that powers this movie’s heart.
But I also can’t deny that something in that heart is rotten —…
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Party 1984
When I was ten, Mahesh Elkunchwar, writer of the Marathi play upon which Party is based, and co-writer of the film’s screenplay, stayed at my house in Wisconsin for two weeks. (My mother had made a habit of bringing the luminaries of post-independence Marathi theatre to town for guest lectures at the university — first Vijay Tendulkar, then Satish Alekar, and finally Elkunchwar.) I remember Elkunchwar fondly: he was a jovial, worldly man, oddly obsessed with finding the best Italian…
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