Qalandar
I promise somewhat irregular posts on (in no particular order) Indian politics, cinema, and anything else that catches my fancy... Why "Qalandar"? So-called "liminal" religious traditions are a particular interest of mine, and "qalandar" is the sort of untranslatable, ambiguous, yet enormously evocative word that for me touches upon and articulates the experience of the sub-continent's "little" traditions in a particularly memorable way...not to mention the fact that in popular lingo the word has more than a merely religious/spiritual connotation, and can mean a bunch of other things, including a smart alec, wannabe, what-have-you...
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The price and involvement of Fox itself made MNIK one of the most hyped movies ... there were fan expectations ...
MNIK made its collection on curiosity factor that did under perform at the box office for the so called 'huge' ...
MNIK was huge movie, made hugely, meant to do huge everywhere.
It was probably most hyped movie of last 20 years(since ...
Achilles... Blasting KANK and MNIK on their domestic gross is like blasting Gadar and D2's overseas gross..
These two movies ...
Quite strange.. Taran reports 16.33 Million USD for MNIK in the international Market and claims highest ever collections in overseas.. ...
I am sure once Gayle and McCullum join,KKR batting will get some boost.Batting is their major worry. 
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It use to be fun site when Mom use to pick "dhaan" from rice and bunch of "Goraiya" would flock ...
Well, I will not get into this but Karan's film will end its run in India between 73-75 crore, ...
That was a BOI ploy doga.rnbdj didnt beat sik opening week.They were with 42 cr for rnbdj for 2 weeks ...
Housefull ATTBB,
BOI claimed 43 cr for SIK and 45 cr for RNBDJ..Then they cgnaged it to 39 cr for SIK ...
Som 9 August 2009
10:46:35 pm
Insightful piece here, Qalandar. This looks like a must watch for me.
neelu 10 August 2009
09:35:41 pm
Somehow this story has shades of Night Porter in it. Sounds interesting, though disturbing too.
Qalandar 11 August 2009
05:51:31 pm
Yes, it’s a grim film, but not very graphic, and visualized in a very ethical way…
[Aside: in his superb book "Hitler's Empire", the historian Mark Mazower wrote that 2 million German women were estimated to have been raped by Soviet forces in 1945. The carnage on the Eastern front by the Germans against the various peoples of the Soviet Union is of course very well known, but this is an under-studied aspect of the situation]…