Starring: Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tushar Kapoor Directed by Milan Luthria Rating: **
It might be debatable whether The Dirty Picture is based on the life of sex siren Silk Smitha or not, but the film ventures into an interesting, contentious zone. The story of a small-town girl who uses her sexuality to get ahead in a patriarchal, male-dominated world begins with a lot of promise. Not apologetic in the least, Reshma aka Silk (Vidya Balan) is hardly the victim in the game she plays with the several men in her life, including an aging star (Naseeruddin Shah), his pliant brother (Tushar Kapoor) and proud director (Emraan Hashmi). In fact, in a rousing speech at an awards ceremony, the high point of the film, she gives it back to them for their hypocrisy and chauvinism. You can feel the power she has. But things progressively take a maudlin turn in the second half, as she is left with few options. Is there no way out for women like her? Is this what the film ends up reiterating? Bad girls finish last? The film crumbles while negotiating the thin line between a woman's inherent power and her vulnerability.
Perhaps because the director is too in-your-face in handling the provocative theme. Things get too over the top. Whether it's the heaving bosom, the peekaboo bra strap, the prominent paunch or lip-bite routine, Vidya Balan is uninhibited and playful but leaves one wondering if in celebrating the liberation of a woman's sexuality, the film actually also ends up pandering to the voyeur in every viewer. Is that the reason for a 'woman-centric' film's success in a male-dominated industry?
The characters are set in the film industry in the south. The recreation of the time, the place, the kitsch, colour and the people alternates between the real and the caricaturised. Every interaction is built like a big encounter. And the film is structured as a series of such encounters, one leading on to the next. Instead of conversations, it's dialoguebaazi. It feels terribly odd to find every character speaking in double entendres, every sentence full of wordplay and innuendoes—an obvious hangover from Luthria's hit Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai. But every film can't hang on the same formula, however successful. Wish Dirty Picture had a lingo of its own. And a slightly subtler one at that.
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS ON NEPALI SENTIMENT, GORKHALAND, KUMAON AND GARHWAL ETC.and BAMCEF UNIFICATION!
Published on Mar 19, 2013
The Himalayan Voice
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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BAMCEF UNIFICATION CONFERENCE 7
Published on 10 Mar 2013
ALL INDIA BAMCEF UNIFICATION CONFERENCE HELD AT Dr.B. R. AMBEDKAR BHAVAN,DADAR,MUMBAI ON 2ND AND 3RD MARCH 2013. Mr.PALASH BISWAS (JOURNALIST -KOLKATA) DELIVERING HER SPEECH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLL-n6MrcoM
http://youtu.be/oLL-n6MrcoM
Mr. PALASH BISWAS DELIVERING SPEECH AT BAMCEF PROGRAM AT NAGPUR ON 17 & 18 SEPTEMBER 2003
Sub:- CITIZENSHIP AMENDMENT ACT 2003
http://youtu.be/zGDfsLzxTXo
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS BLASTS INDIANS THAT CLAIM BUDDHA WAS BORN IN INDIA
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: INDIAN GOVERNMENT FOOD SECURITY PROGRAM RISKIER
http://youtu.be/NrcmNEjaN8c
The government of India has announced food security program ahead of elections in 2014. We discussed the issue with Palash Biswas in Kolkata today.
http://youtu.be/NrcmNEjaN8c
Ahead of Elections, India's Cabinet Approves Food Security Program
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By JIM YARDLEY
http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/indias-cabinet-passes-food-security-law/
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS TALKS AGAINST CASTEIST HEGEMONY IN SOUTH ASIA
THE HIMALAYAN VOICE: PALASH BISWAS DISCUSSES RAM MANDIR
Published on 10 Apr 2013
Palash Biswas spoke to us from Kolkota and shared his views on Visho Hindu Parashid's programme from tomorrow ( April 11, 2013) to build Ram Mandir in disputed Ayodhya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77cZuBunAGk
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS LASHES OUT KATHMANDU INT'L 'MULVASI' CONFERENCE
अहिले भर्खर कोलकता भारतमा हामीले पलाश विश्वाससंग काठमाडौँमा आज भै रहेको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय मूलवासी सम्मेलनको बारेमा कुराकानी गर्यौ । उहाले भन्नु भयो सो सम्मेलन 'नेपालको आदिवासी जनजातिहरुको आन्दोलनलाई कम्जोर बनाउने षडयन्त्र हो।'
http://youtu.be/j8GXlmSBbbk
THE HIMALAYAN DISASTER: TRANSNATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT MECHANISM A MUST
We talked with Palash Biswas, an editor for Indian Express in Kolkata today also. He urged that there must a transnational disaster management mechanism to avert such scale disaster in the Himalayas.
http://youtu.be/7IzWUpRECJM
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS CRITICAL OF BAMCEF LEADERSHIP
[Palash Biswas, one of the BAMCEF leaders and editors for Indian Express spoke to us from Kolkata today and criticized BAMCEF leadership in New Delhi, which according to him, is messing up with Nepalese indigenous peoples also.
He also flayed MP Jay Narayan Prasad Nishad, who recently offered a Puja in his New Delhi home for Narendra Modi's victory in 2014.]
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS CRITICIZES GOVT FOR WORLD`S BIGGEST BLACK OUT
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS CRITICIZES GOVT FOR WORLD`S BIGGEST BLACK OUT
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALSH BISWAS FLAYS SOUTH ASIAN GOVERNM
Palash Biswas, lashed out those 1% people in the government in New Delhi for failure of delivery and creating hosts of problems everywhere in South Asia.
http://youtu.be/lD2_V7CB2Is
THE HIMALAYAN TALK: PALASH BISWAS LASHES OUT KATHMANDU INT'L 'MULVASI' CONFERENCE
अहिले भर्खर कोलकता भारतमा हामीले पलाश विश्वाससंग काठमाडौँमा आज भै रहेको अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय मूलवासी सम्मेलनको बारेमा कुराकानी गर्यौ । उहाले भन्नु भयो सो सम्मेलन 'नेपालको आदिवासी जनजातिहरुको आन्दोलनलाई कम्जोर बनाउने षडयन्त्र हो।'
http://youtu.be/j8GXlmSBbbk
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