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Review of Shikara: Would have worked with a more experienced lead pair
Movie: Shikara Starring Adil Khan, Sadia Directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra Rating: ** 1/2 (two and a half stars) Vidhu Vinod Chopra is no stranger to the theme of love during the time of war. He walked down the same road in 1942: A Love Story with the incandescent Manisha Koirala and the buoyant Anil Kapoor riding the crest of romance on the wings of R D Burman’s timeless melody. Now in Shikara, as Chopra returns to the theme with far less satisfying results than the enormity of the plot would suggest, the music is not quite the stuff epic dreams are made o | Click Here...
Trailer Review of Shikara: When love is all that’s left
Vidhu Vinod Chopra returns as director, this time to tell his own story. Like him, thousands of Kashmiri Pandits were overnight rendered homeless when on 19 January 1990, sectarian violence erupted in the Kashmir valley, reducing Hindus in Kashmir to the status of refugees in their homeland. Shikara is the story of one Kashmiri Pandit couple, played by raw somewhat unpolished newcomers Sadia and Adil Khan fighting hatred with love as the Valley burns. It’s a beautiful thought that Gabriel Garcia Marquez could have approved of. Except for the fact that Shikara is far more modest in | Click Here...