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The film begins with the knocking door shot and the next one was the wide panorama shot of the Mumbai slum area that appeared on the screen. The story of newlyweds couple Hamid ( Sanjeev Kumar) and Salma (Rehana Sultana). They move into the rental flat near the red light area and the paan wala Akhtar helped them to arrange this flat. The flat had been the former home of a well-known Mujra and qawali singer Shamshad prostitute. Men still come to the door in the hope of seeing Shamshad and every night the bell rang and the same thing happened for a long time. The couple struggles to live with the bounds of their moral conduct. Hamid lives a poor lifestyle in the Bombay slum area. Hamid works as a clerk in Bombay Municipal Corporation and hardly manages all the basic amenities of life. Salma comes from a small village where her widowed father lives with her daughter Zora. The locals specially Akhtar paan shop owner wants Salma to start entertaining as it will increase its paan business. H...

Toba Tek Singh is a 2018 Hindi Language film directed by Ketan Mehta. The story set in the Mental Asylum of Lahore where after Partition, the governments of Pakistan and India decided to exchange lunatics in the same way that they had swapped prisoners. The lead Protagonist Bishan Singh’s character performed by Pankaj Kapoor and the character of Sadat Hasan Manto acted by Vinay Pathak, and once again they proved that why we called them a powerhouse of talent. The story mainly focused on the Bishan Singh, and everybody called him Toba Tek Singh. The older staff of the asylum knew that he had been a well-to-do fellow who had possessed large land in Toba Tek Singh village. Then he had suddenly gone mad. His family had brought him to the asylum in chains and left him there. They came to meet him once a month but ever since the communal unrest had begun, his family had stopped visiting him. He did not know what date, what month, what day it was, and how many years he had spent in the asylum...

“Soni” is a 2018 Hindi language crime drama film directed by Ivan Iyer. Soni (Geetika Vidya Ohlyan) is the lead protagonist who already proved her potential in Anubhav Sinha “Thappad” by performing brilliantly as Sunita. This is a story of Delhi female cop who is fearless and desire to change the system and society in one single night. This film really illustrates the sad picture of our system and the so-called "Chacha vidhayak hai hamare" attitude. Kalpana (Saloni Batra) her senior officer both plays an equal role in this quiet character study.  Soni is distressed in her personal life and loses her temperament soon on a boy who constantly strives to tease women while they were in some undercover operation. This is her weakness which she can’t control. Every time her boss supported and saved her, but after so many words of warning, she made the same mistake again and again. Soni's ex-husband often visits her, trying to influence her to restart their relationship, but she...

Posham Pa is a 2019 Hindi language crime drama film directed by National award-winning filmmaker Suman Mukhopadhyay. The film inspired by the true events of women serial killers, who went on a rampage across Maharashtra, kidnapping children for their needs, and then ruthlessly murdered them. The name of this film is based on a traditional children’s play but the plot revolves around the kidnapping and assassination. The film started with two documentarians Shivani Raghuvanshi as Nikhat and Imaad Shah as Gundeep, recording the lives and crimes of the three women who are on death row. They get the angle they are looking for, and they finally have a reason for this viciousness ‘Nature versus Nurture’. Some say more than 40 children were kidnapped and around 12 murdered, and only 5 of them proven. The killers were three women Anjana, and her two daughters Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde, while the mother died under-trial, the two sisters are still on death row, after their mercy petition was...

“Gone Kesh” is a 2019 Hindi language feature film directed by Qasim Khallow, and one of the exceptional film made on female Alopecia areata. The first Hindi film on premature balding was Saurabh Shukla’s I Am 24 (2012), and after that film like Ujda Chaman and Bala comes in the same year 2019 and did well on the box office, where the protagonists suffer from premature balding. Qasim Khallow made a brave attempt and raise real issues faced by many women and girls in society. The film set in the town of Siliguri, West Bengal, it is the story of Enakshi Dasgupta (Shweta Tripathi), the only daughter of middle-class parents, who wants to get her married. But the issue is, Enakshi suffers from a medical condition called alopecia, an autoimmune disorder that often results in hair loss. For a girl with such difficulty is tough and challenging to live, they can’t step out from the house without a scarf or stole, because in this so-called society a bald man is accepted, but a bald girl won’t be ...

  Happi is a Hindi Language feature film directed by Bhavna Talwar made in Black and White is a pure slice of life. After being stuck so long, the film finally released on the OTT platform in December 2019, and a film like happi comes once in a blue moon. Earlier this film was named “Awasthi” but later on renamed as “Happi”. The film is about a 50-year old man who used to sing and make people laugh in Bombay Café. This film can be truly understood by people who discern the essence of Bombay over Mumbai, handwritten letters over e-mails, old classic over the noisy remixes, and black & white over the color. The film portrays a character named Happi (Pankaj Kapoor), who reminds us of the value of a smile. Happi lived alone in a Bombay chawl and doesn’t have much expectation from life. He goes to his duties at the Bombay cafe like clockwork, with no inquisitiveness or thoughts, replicate his same act over and over again. Soon the old owner of the cafe is swap by his modern, inn...