Figuring out how Neeraj Pandey’s thriller about smugglers feels like such an airport bestseller, and yet so brilliantly researched
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Happy Patel Khatarnaak Jasoos marks Vir Das' directorial debut. But a movie, let alone a farce, is another beast altogether. The dialogue humour is chiefly over Happy screwing up his Hindi. Scenes range from death by qawwali to a restaurant with one table. None of it lands
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If water, sanitation, roads, potholes, etc matter to you, I don’t know a more important vote than for local body elections; no?
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No knock on Prabhas fans, who dub him the ‘Rebel Star’. Yet, to have an entire three-hour-plus movie, where everyone around the hero is as pointless as the ‘zero’ button of a ceiling fan, must mean a lotta pressure to deliver, when the point of it is basically hot air
10 January,2026 08:03 AM IST | Mumbai | Mayank ShekharADVERTISEMENT
