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Dilip Kumar: The last of the Bollywood greats bows out
Dilip Kumar
Mon Jul 26 2021
When the actor, Dilip Kumar died early this month, at the grand age of 98, he was the very last of the Indian films’ greats from the golden era to depart to eternity. I regard the golden era of Indian films to be between 1950 and the early 1970s when most of the great films were produced and distributed to cinemas around the world. Cinema halls then were the only places where one could watch films – at least that was true of Maiduguri where I was raised in that era where television did not even reach.
14 Phere review: Politically-incorrect script works in favour of this Vikrant Massey, Kriti Kharbanda starrer
The film has the imagination to lace its take on patriarchy and dyed-in-the-wool traditions with satire
The fault, dear viewers, is not in our stars but in our caste names that determine the way our lives are likely to play out. Wikipedia has 200 pages devoted to a listing of castes in India, all at cross purposes with each other. No wonder Sanjay Lal Singh [Vikrant Massey] and Aditi Karwasra [Kriti Kharbanda] have their work cut out. He is a Rajput from Bihar; she a Jat from Rajasthan. Their family patriarchs are the kind who talk of killing at the minutest transgression that affects the family honour. (A garlanded portrait of Sanjayâs sister, who has run away with a man from another caste, hangs on the wall, hinting at her fate when the family catches up with her.)