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        <title><![CDATA[Let's talk about Bollywood!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cin&eacute;ma indien, litt&eacute;rature indienne, Indian cinema and literature, Bollywood, Nutan, Satyajit Ray, Raj Kapoor and more]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bombay rose]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 20:36:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The great value of animation movie Bombay Rose (Gitanjali Rao, 2019) is multifaceted. The pleasure to watch it is constantly multiplied by such techniques as colour and black & white shift, eye-dimming, mythological or religious symbolism, dream sequences,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[A new Nutan treasure-trove]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 21:14:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Well, perhaps not so new if you knew it, naturally. But here I found some 400 pictures of the actress, a number of which do not come out in the English-based search engines, probably because the language used on the website is Cyrillic Russian (АКТРИСЫ... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Difficult daughters - Manju Kapur]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2021 20:13:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Difficult Daughters, by Manju Kapur, written in 1998, tells the story of Virmati, an Amritsar-based young girl, the eldest daughter of an middle-class Arya Samaj family in which nevertheless certain traditions weigh as much as in any other more backward... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The white tiger, movie]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:11:22 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Arvind Adiga's story has been turned into a movie, shot by Ramin Bahrani and which has just come out on Netflix. It's an excellent movie, which does full credit to the novel; I really have no negatives about it. The cast is great, led by a glorious Adarsh... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nutan the poet]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2020 01:12:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Nutan, who loved bhajans and classical music, has written some poetry, of which I have collected a little over the years. Given her talent and the quality of what I present here, there must be much more, so I went to Lalitha Tamhane's book on Nutan Asen... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[An interview with Mohnish Bahl]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:07:04 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Alas, I was not the person who interviewed Nutan's son! But thanks to Seema, my desi Nutan-collaborator, I would like to indicate the recent interview which appeared in Filmfare. You'll find it here . It's by Farhana Farook, whom I'll thank in advance... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Arranged Marriage]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:59:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This blog has already reviewed collections of short stories ( here and here ) and rather similarly, this volume contains stories which revolve loosely around the theme of femininity and motherhood of desi women abroad. To be more precise, the 11 stories... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Punashcha, the poetry of Love and Life]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:26:19 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Here's a beautiful and poignant little movie (2014) by Souvik Mitra featuring Soumitra Chatterjeee and Roopa Ganguly (above; I had seen her - much younger, it was 1989 - in Ek din achanak ); but what makes its beauty? Probably its story, its poetic charm,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Manzil (1979): do you mind lying and deceit?]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2018 01:54:58 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Have you ever wondered why you were born poor and not rich ? (if it’s the other way round, you often don’t wonder) Have you asked yourself why this injustice continues in today’s developed world? And if you are a victim of this injustice, have you never... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The said and the unsaid: Rajnigandha]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2018 12:10:02 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[First the story for those who don’t remember Basu Chatterji’s Rajnigandha (1974): it’s based on Mannu Bhandari ’s book Yahi Sach Hai. Deepa (Vidya Sinha) and Sanjay (Amol Patekar) are a young, aspiring couple living in Delhi. He’s a jolly, outspoken civil... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nutan picture treasure-trove]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:39:41 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Below you'll find a number of the folders in which I have collected pictures of Nutan over the years. Most of them have been found on the net, but if some readers consider their posting an offense to their rights, please contact me so I can remove them.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Silsila, the spiciness of exposure]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2018 19:13:35 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[So much has already been said about this Yash Chopra 1981 movie… And here I am adding to the pileup! Well, I hope it won’t be too long and too boring to read. In fact what I want to say can be quickly summed up: I’m perplexed at actors accepting to stage... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sone ki chidiya, pure gold does not fear the smelter]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Watching Sone ki chidiya (the golden bird, Shaheed Latif, 1958) has been a bit of an adventure, because even though I knew it was good, it doesn’t exist with subtitles, and some time has passed before I could get round to understanding everything. And... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Apur Sansar, tenderness]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2018 19:30:47 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Last addition to a programme begun 10 years ago with Pather Panchali, here are a few words about the trilogy's n°3 about which I'm sure that nothing has been left unsaid (check story here). It's a vision of tenderness; centered around the character of... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Maitreyi Devi &amp; La nuit bengali]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 22:16:23 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My discovery of Maitreyi Devi happened, probably like so many outside of India, through Mircea Eliade’s novel which I read in French, La nuit Bengali, written in 1933 three years after this Romanian scholar, who later rose to become an influential ethnologist... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nutan and her animals]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 22:57:27 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[For this year's Nutan ki janmadin, I have decided to make you discover how attached she was to her animal friends. She was mostly a dog-lover, it seems, and apparently it was a family thing. 22 dogs at home, at one point, says Mohnish!! Here are first... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Woman to woman]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:40:14 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Woman to woman is the first book I read by Madhulika Liddle. She’s written more, of which I had been aware, since I read her blog where she had mentioned them, but for some reason I had relented until now. It’s a quickly read collection of 12 short stories,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Shakha proshakha, or how does one remain virtuous?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/2017/11/shakha-proshakha-or-how-does-one-remain-virtuous.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2017 14:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[This 1990 movie was Ray’s last but one, only to be succeeded by Agantuk a year later before his death. Its title means “branches of the tree”: the film deals with a family situation and so the genealogical reference is clear; but the tree is such a powerful... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mandawa]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2017 14:25:56 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ok, voilà la partie « plus » du voyage, qui s’est trouvée rajoutée sans préméditation, car cette journée à Mandawa pour Divali n’était pas prévue… Je devais avoir une troisième journée de cours à BK BIET et comme je l’ai dit, je crois, le directeur s’est... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Cours de français]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/2017/10/cours-de-francais.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:28:07 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[La Conférence ICCS est maintenant terminée, et en ce qui me concerne, je suis satisfait d'avoir pu faire ma petite présentation sur "The importance of language in communication", pour laquelle j'avais quand même passé du temps, avant de venir en Inde,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Journée bien remplie...]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/2017/10/journee-bien-remplie.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 15:48:59 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Ouf! la journée n'est pas encore finie; il y a encore tout à l'heure le repas avec animation devant la guesthouse comme le premier soir, mais déjà la journée a été bien fatigante! Matinée occupée par la série de speeches par des industriels invités pour... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[ICCS 2017]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2017 06:07:45 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[De retour dans la douce Pilani, où le léger voile matinal nous caresse gentiment, et en attente du début des festivités de la Conférence ICCS, voici quelques nouvelles du voyage qui m'a amené ici. Le vol Air India s'est bien déroulé, la nuit à bord aussi... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Nutan speaks about Bimal Roy]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:08:57 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Bollywood actress Nutan talks about Bimal Roy... "We have very few directors like Bimal Roy to begin with but what made him special that he was not a jack of all trades, he was master of all trades. He was a very good cameraman, very good photographer,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lion, a pretty picture]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:01:01 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Sunny Pawar
Before knowing that Garth Davis was a successful commercials director, I stood up from the screening of his first feature movie, Lion (2016) telling myself, “well now, that was nice, but rather commercial”. Not everything is bad about commercialization:... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Firaaq, the power of fear]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:57:29 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It seems appropriate today to speak about Firaaq, a 2008 movie which is Nandita Das’s debut film venture, based on the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim riots, in which Indian PM Modi had been suspected of biased non-intervention. Today, because the pressure of... ]]></description>
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