I have always thought Fiddle on the Roof would translate so perfectly to our own story of Partition. I imagine Tevye as a big Sardaar!
On the parent-child relationship in Girls will be Girls
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(*Wrote this piece about Shuchi Talati’s excellent new film for Economic
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Often, our expectations for a film are raised so h...
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Ah! I love this movie too! I had listened to its music almost ALL my life and then only recently had I gotten hold of the CD. Superb music, great acting, thoroughly entertaining yet at times so heart wrenching...
And this has the classic "Matchmaker matchmaker, make me a match! Find me a find, catch me a catch!"
I saw this movie aeons ago, and remarkably I remember thinking how it ends on such a perfectly real note. Not like one of those Hollywoody stories..
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I saw this play when I was 12. My sister played the match maker.
It was my first English play and I sat through it with a hole in my mouth big enough to fit a football.
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