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The year has almost drawn to an end and when we look back now, what s the one thing we did the most? I think we can all unanimously say that we binge-watched films and shows! Stationed at home for months on end, most of us discovered the movie buffs and chefs in us. Binge-watching became as important as social distancing because karne ko aur tha bhi kya?
The first part of the year saw many Bollywood releases that left us impressed including Chhaapak, Thappad and Panga. But, as the next few months arrived, we received some not-so-great to absolutely abysmal films including Love Aaj Kal, Sadak 2 and more.
Everyone wants a happy ending
Everyone wants a happy ending
ByTrisha GuptaTrisha Gupta / Updated: Dec 20, 2020, 06:01 IST
A still from Anurag Basu’s Ludo
Ludo tries hard to present the world as breezily anarchic, but it’s hard to sustain while going on about good and evil
Anurag Basu likes to cultivate the idea of chaos, creating a tangle of threads so he can have the aesthetic pleasure of disentangling them. His latest film Ludo, which launched on a streaming platform earlier this year, takes that aesthetic conceit to its acme. A film with four different tracks needs a structuring motif, and Basu s choice is the popular board game with a board and counters organised into four primary colours. At first it seems that the only uniting factor among these disparate narratives is an unkillable don called Sattu Bhaiyya (Pankaj Tripathi), from whose gun – and whose den – all stories flow.
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I Would Never Be Able to Live up to the Image of a Star, Says Pankaj Tripathi
Pankaj Tripathi
Pankaj Tripathi is humble enough to accept his star status but the acclaimed actor says he doubts if he will ever become the quintessential Hindi film superstar.
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New Delhi: Pankaj Tripathi is humble enough to accept his star status but the acclaimed actor says he doubts if he will ever become the quintessential Hindi film superstar. The 44-year-old actor has had one of the most successful years in 2020 as his sensitive act in “Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl” was well-received, followed by a return as fan-favourite Kaleen Bhaiya in “Mirzapur” season two. He also stood out as Sattu Bhaiya in Anurag Basu’s anthology “Ludo”.
I would never be able to live up to the image of a star: Pankaj Tripathi
NEW DELHI: Pankaj Tripathi is humble enough to accept his star status but the acclaimed actor says he doubts if he will ever become the quintessential Hindi film superstar.
The 44-year-old actor has had one of the most successful years in 2020 as his sensitive act in “Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl” was well-received, followed by a return as fan-favourite Kaleen Bhaiya in “Mirzapur” season two. He also stood out as Sattu Bhaiya in Anurag Basu’s anthology “Ludo”.
With his next “Shakeela”, a biographical feature on titular adult actor who was one of the biggest stars of the 1990s from Kerala, Tripathi steps into the shoes of a fictional superstar named Salim.