'India’s poor little rich people have it so bad. Money just can’t buy them freedom' Karanjeet Kaur Karanjeet Kaur, columnist, writes #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/indias…

Some dodgy screenplay aside, LOKAH was so much fun. Injects life, if not soul, into the bloated contemporary action movie with some inspired casting, tonal shifts and character sketches, including an formidable incel cop modeled on... K. Annam@lai!

I find this hard to believe. The waxy skin, dead eyes and the holy glow in that sequence smack too much of GenAI. But more importantly, even the over-the-shoulder shots with Shruti Haasan seemed to be done with a double.

Couldn't be happier that the Golden Lion went to Jim Jarmusch, author of my favourite American film of the century (PATERSON). Jarmusch's work was a vital rite of passage as a cinephile. (Here he is recording William S. Burroughs for Columbia classmate Howard Brookner's doc.)

"Nepo kids are destroying Bollywood," opines Jignesh from Bhilwara, sitting in his father's jewelry store.

Save old Hindi songs from ELI5-ification by modern cover versions. Women who sing like divas waking up from a beauty nap, men sounding like there's cigarettes stuck in their throat, striving to make the charm of beloved classics obvious. It's like they're explaining to idiots.

Sambar Bonda!