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Starting a regular series that looks at the latest Bollywood movie releases. Today, Nikhat Kazmi in Times of India reviews Subhash Ghai’s Black and White

Black and White (drama)
Cast: Anil Kapoor, Shefali Shah, Anurag Sinha
Direction: Subhash Ghai
Critic rating:
FOR a filmmaker who scaled Bollywood’s heights as the quintessential Sapnon ka Saudagar to suddenly shift gear is indeed a valiant bid. And Subhash Ghai deserves kudos for daring this switch in the high noon of his career, since experimentation is generally the forte of GenXers and Bratpack dreamers. Suddenly, and surprisingly, Ghai sets aside the grandeur of films like Ram Lakhan, Khalnayak to step into the difficult terrain of cinema verite. And no, he doesn’t flounder and fall flat, despite a few loose strands and false notes that hold back the film from becoming a searing document of our tumultuous times.

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