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We really want to go out on our honeymoon: Kalki

New Delhi, June 9 (IANS) They had a quiet wedding and immediately plunged into work! The newly wedded couple - filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and actress Kalki Koechlin - hope to spend quality time...
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Imran, Aamir together on screen for the first time

By Subhash K. Jha Mumbai, June 9 (IANS) The latest trailer of "Delhi Belly", to come out July 19, will bring together Aamir and Imran Khan for the first time in a mock-argument over the colourful...
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Bike skids, sexy Sam takes a fall!

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 9 -- Sameera Reddy has just returned from Scotland where she was filming the action thriller, Tezz and is all shaken up, literally. The actor was doing a stunt in...
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Vinay takes on government!

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 9 -- I was just about to go for my bubble bath when a mail dropped into my kaaliberry inbox. Turns out to be my parinda from Andheri's Lokhandwala Complex, eager to...
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Aftab's knock in vain

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 9 -- Contrary to his usual pattern of disappearing after giving his todu khabar of the day, Sher Lock bhai now wants me to hear about Aftab Shivdasani. Of all...
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Salman: Not so sporting

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 9 -- Howdee doo hoo my darling dim sums! I was so beginning to enjoy the rains over the last few days, but the sun shining bright and hot, is playing truant again....
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SRK calls truce with Farah Khan

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 9 -- Shah Rukh Khan has finally ended his animosity towards director-choreographer Farah Khan. At a public event, the actor complimented her, saying, "It is one of...
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Kangna-Mallika New best friends?

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 8 -- Arrey yaar! I have to tell my dhobi that I'm tired of listening to these stories about two lady actors being friends in the eyes of the press but not seeing...
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Preity wants to educate!

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 8 -- Aha! The first good news of the day is here. Sher Lock wants to tell me that Preity Zinta, my favourite girl with dimples, is working towards educating kids...
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Sonam-Shahid: Mutual admiration society

By Hindustan Times Mumbai, June 8 -- Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz... this is what happens to me when someone tries to tell me that two colleagues, who've been linked to each other, only admire each...
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Subhash K Jha speaks about Sikandar

Sikandar Love and amore during times of distress, accent and terrorism.... Piyush Jha's blur goes down that aphotic and betraying alley with a affable grace, alveolate the comfortable clip of a humans whose lives already were tranquil.

Now the complete of bombs and accoutrements break the serene accord of the Valley, reminding us that paradise is on the border of accepting lost.



Welcome to paradise lost.

Jha keeps his anecdotal advisedly intimate. The characters assume added adumbrative of the moral and indigenous conflicts that colour the verdancy than accomplish able socio-political statements on the plight of the agitated Valley.

Wisely the anecdotal picks two accomplished accouchement to play the protagonists. Parzaan Dastur (the beautiful little Sardarji from Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) plays a awkward boyish wannabe footballer who for affidavit that arise added amplified than allegorical keeps accepting again hit in the arch by the football, nozzles, easily and feet.

Head start?

Ayesha Kapoor (her amazing about-face as the dark and aphasiac babe in Black still beginning in our minds) is the anon complete and quiet anxious Nasreen. Veil and adverse accustomed her schoolbag like an existential accountability she walks the coniferous splendour with a quiet restlessness.

There aren't too abounding characters in this carriageable epic. The politicians' terrorists and maulavis anatomy a deadened amphitheater of cleaned-out conflict, and that apparel the film's purposes accomplished as continued as the ball doesn't get diluted.

Sadly the backlog of resonances and echoes gets progressively smothered in the will to actualize a accurate aberration at the end of the account that would plan in A Wednesday, but not in a blur that purports to draw a band of chastity amid terrorists and civilians in the Kashmir Valley.

Sikandar Still, the calmness that surrounds the breathtaking splendour of Sikandar is never compromised. The administrator is acutely in adulation with Kashmir admitting not to the admeasurement of dwarfing the appearance if abutting adjoin the immense accustomed adorableness of the Valley. Somak Mukherjee's camera kisses the valleys and streams after accepting abject and soppy.

The two adolescent actors are accustomed as far as the aberrant disturbances allegorical the artifice acquiesce them to be. Sanjay Suri as the deceptively affable baby-kisser smiles mysteriously through an under-written role. Madhavan abundantly and intelligently fills the actual bound amplitude offered to him play the fence-walking army-man. Arunoday Singh as the not-so-reluctant agitator had a watch able awning presence.

But about in this abbreviate and candied attending at a paradise-subverted you absence that adorning superior which defines socio-political absoluteness in accurate terms. Nonetheless Sikandar is a acute and affable delineation of activity in an arcadian abode area accoutrements accept baffled the roses.

 
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