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What a devastatingly beautiful biopic of Chamkila. Imtiaz Ali is in top form here supported an excellent soundtrack as well terrific performances across the board. Probably one of the finest biopics out of India this! This is how you do Biopics, Bollywood!

Rewatched this movie again last night after almost 2 decades and it remains one of the seminal movies of Bollywood. It amazes me how relevant the movie is even today in spite of being set in 1970s India. The only difference? A brave movie like this would never ever get made in today’s India and politics.

I probably would have loved this movie more had we not see The Aspirants TV show on prime (or Kota Factory). Some of the scenes were literally derivatives of same scenes in The Aspirants. Still a great effort.

Watched it on flight from Denver to DC. I didnt even finish the last 20 minutes. What an absolute chore of a movie – can’t believe this is the same series that used to be so exciting.

It was actually better than I thought it would be, though the ending was drawn out. Kid is big fan of the books so naturally we had to catch it in theater!