| No Images? Click here  Karan Johar's long-in-the-making Kalank, a period saga that was to originally feature Shah Rukh Khan and Kajol, finally released this week with current heartthrobs Varun Dhawan and Alia Bhatt in the lead.The nearly 3-hour drama is an uninspiring love story set against the backdrop of partition. It doesn't help that at a time of rising Islamophobia the film features a stereotypical depiction of Muslims as grim-looking kohl-eyed fundamentalists against development and peace. It's the second film in recent months, after Kesari, that ends up demonising the minorities.In other news, Ajay Devgn has defended his decision of casting rape-accused Alok Nath by saying it was too late to kick him out of the film as the shooting was complete by the time allegations against Nath came out. Just a reminder to Mr Devgn that Kevin Spacey was fired from All The Money In The World weeks before the release, the film reshot, and then released.Predictably, Bollywood is quiet, other than Tanushree Dutta who's written a bitingly critical letter to Devgn.Love this newsletter, hate it? Write to me @aktalkies Abhishek Varman’s Kalank, the latest all-star vehicle from Karan Johar, is an occasionally moving, largely unsatisfying melodrama that suffers from the same syndrome plaguing many period sagas: obnoxiously liberal doses of ‘mohabbat,’ ‘shiddat’ and ‘haqeeqat’ and not enough ‘mehnat’ on the writing.A love story that you don’t root for is a love story that perhaps lacks love. Repeating ‘shiddat’ and ‘mohabbat’ do not an epic romance make.  "Tinsel town is full of liars, showoffs and spineless hypocrites. And it seems by a large public consensus that the signpost is pointing currently at Ajay Devgn," Tanushree Dutta wrote in an open letter, calling out Devgn for working with rape accused Alok Nath in his upcoming film, De De Pyaar De."If you dig deep you will find skeletons in their closets so horrendous that it will totally makes sense why they would stand supporting the accused rapists," she further wrote.  New to this email? You can sign up here.You can also follow HuffPost India on Flipboard.©2019 HuffPost India | Worldmark 3, FL 3, Aerocity, Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, Delhi 110037 |
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