Although Saawariya never rises to the great heights of Luchino Visconti’s black and white film Le Notti Bianche, it’s still one of the finest love stories to emerge out of the augean pits of Bollywood in recent years. Like the Italian film Le Notti Bianche (1957), Saawariya is also an adaptation of Russian author Fyodor […]
When limitless ambition collides with limited talent on the Bollywood Highway, the end result is a road wreck called Om Shanti Om. A dispiritingly commonplace theme of reincarnation packaged in a disjointed, tracing-paper-thin plot with ho-hum performances by the lead actors renders a mediocre movie that only addled fans of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan would love. Shahrukh Khan’s […]
