Sunday Exhale: A Flying Jatt Review, Reliance Jio 4G Hype and More
The Quint’s top reads through the week.
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To make your Sunday more enjoyable and exciting, The Quint gives you a selection of its best stories through the week.
Ornub Takes Down ‘Sedition’ as #TheNationWantsToKnow
Actress Ramya recently refuted Manohar Parrikar’s comment that compared Pakistan to hell. Outraged, a lawyer in Karnataka filed a case of sedition against Ramya. This did not go down well with our fiery Ornub and this time, the target of his ire is the sedition law.
In Search Of Mukti: The Hotel Where You Check In To Die
Varanasi, one of India’s oldest and holiest cities, is also famous for its connection with the afterlife. Pious Hindus believe that dying in the holy city, no matter how great a sinner one is, would win them moksha - salvation from the tortuous cycle of life and death.
Mukti Bhavan - the House of Salvation - has been helping people too impoverished to seek lodgings elsewhere, to die in peace and attain moksha in Varanasi for years. It is literally a hotel where you check in to die.
Watch the video to find out more.
Movie Review: Tiger Shroff Starrer A Flying Jatt is No High-Flier!
A Flying Jatt is truly is so bad that it’s actually good. It is child-friendly and is sure to enjoy the undivided attention of those who can readily suspend their beliefs, but for the audience with a reasonable IQ, it will be difficult to stomach. Stutee Ghosh gives it 2.5 Quints out of 5.
‘Gandhi: The Musical’ Is a Puerile Mix of Clichés and Odd Dance
Danesh Khambata’s experimental Gandhi: The Musical recently concluded its opening act in Mumbai after its release on Independence Day. Produced by the National Centre for Performing Arts with a mind-boggling budget of Rs 1 crore, the show with its impressive sets, elaborate costumes, and varied choreography is much like Gowarikar’s latest tryst with artistic freedom,Mohenjo Daro, in that both don’t seem very concerned about attention to historical details and nuances.
Watch: Bollywood Stars of the ’90s Rock The #BeatPeBooty Challenge
What happens when Sunny Deol, Nana Patekar, Suniel Shetty and other Bollywood superstars shake a leg to the song ‘Beat Pe Booty’ from the film A Flying Jatt?. Watch to find out.
How Abayas Are Finally Getting Some Attention From Designers
Fashion is supposed to be democratic. But why has the Abaya largely been ignored by the self-proclaimed inclusive fashion labels? With a sizeable number of Muslim women in the country, why haven’t we seen a single woman in a hijab, on our runways? Time for some more design intervention in this space.
Why Turkish Shows Are Invading Indian TV and Winning Hearts
A village girl is living an idyllic life; she is in love with her fiance, her family adores her and she likes her work, until, a group of brash, city-bred men rape her and change her life forever. Typical Bollywood story, you’d think, right?
But what if the story was set in Ildir, a coastal village along the Aegean coastline in Turkey? And the characters and the language of the TV show was Turkish (albeit dubbed in Hindi)? Would you still watch it?
Across drawing rooms, the answer to that is increasingly a ‘yes’ as Turkish shows Fatmagul and Feriha continue to win dedicated viewers, while breaking stereotypes along the way.
Obsessed With Fair Skin? Watch This Tale of A Dark-Skinned Woman
India is a country obsessed with fair skin. With innumerable fairness creams in the market and white-skinned models propagating that fair skin is a pre-requisite to success, dark-skinned people take a backseat.
A photo series, called “Color of our Skin”, by California-based photographer Arjun Kamath, captures the very problems dark-skinned women go through in a country obsessed with fairness.
5 Things You Didn’t Know About Reliance Jio 4G and the ‘Free’ Hype
Everyone wants to get their hands on the Jio 4G preview offer. Reliance Jio has pulled off a marketing coup, without even commercially launching their 4G network.
Over 1.5 million Indians are already making voice and video calls, sending messages and internetting on the country’s widest 4G network, all for FREE. While consumers are YAYing, rivals are NAYing, Reliance Jio is SLAYing... or is it?
Aisa Q? Kaise MufflerMan ‘Maal Laaya’
MufflerMan is broke and has no money to fight elections. To raise funds, he approached Mallya to pitch in with some cash to help run the party’s daily expenses.
Watch to find out what happened when MufflerMan met the king of good times.
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