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Why the "josh" is so high around Vicky Kaushal's Uri The Surgical Strike?

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How's the josh? The slogan or let's say dialogue has become an emotion now, thanks to the recent release Uri The Surgical Strike. Starring Vicky Kaushal in the lead role, it would not be wrong to say that Uri evoked patriotic feelings in each one of us, either throughout the film or in some parts of it. But what made it become one of the blockbuster army-based films in the past few decades? Here are my reasons: While it is being touted as an out-and-out Vicky Kaushal film, for me, it purely stood out for the teamwork. The actors did bring every ounce of the script to life but without a tightly written script by Aditya Dhar (also the director) and impeccable cinematography by Mitesh Mirchandani, it would have been difficult to keep the audience (and me) glued to the seats. Battleground sequences were so well choreographed that in many moments, I felt as if I was a part of it. Though, I wish I could do a single percent of what these guys did on-screen. Really, ha

The anonymous relationship

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I once had an anonymous relationship, beautiful and innocent as a newborn. soft and fragile, needed to be hidden, away from those malicious eyes. You know, these kinds of relationships Need patience, a lot of it, and sometimes, it goes in vain. Oh, the pain, You have no idea about it, let's not go there. You stand naked with all your truths to cover you but still, no one cares, And all you think is - Love is war, you have to be brave. I once had an anonymous relationship, with a guy I believed had loved me. He would say "Don't post about me" for various reasons, And now I know what he means, anonymous relationships do not have a tag in public, There is nothing to win or lose, Him and the pain or you and your freedom, you don't really get to choose. You have to be in a corner, cry your lungs out, Get the anonymity out of you through those eyes that shout loud, loud and clear that you are not the one to be blamed, to be shot at, or to be l

Four More Shots Please review: Old narrative with a different perspective

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Sex sells. Maybe that is why some of the recent web-series' in India (to an extent) explore sex and the emotions around it in much descriptive, realistic and to an extent, obsessive manner. Four More Shots Please, starring Sayani Gupta, Kirti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo and VJ Bani, is no different. The web-series is a journey of four women coming from different walks of lives who happen to meet each other in a Truck Bar, which they assumed to be "Fuck Bar." Well, we leave it to you to explore the context behind the bar's name. Sayani (Damini Rizvi Roy) is a journalist, Kirti (Anjana Menon) is a single mother and a lawyer, Maanvi (Siddhi Patel) is too rich to do anything and VJ Bani ( Umang Singh) is a bi-sexual gym trainer. All four characters are completely messed up in some or the other way but one place where they destress themselves is the bar -- owned by the very handsome Prateik Babbar's character Jeh Wadia (who also is the bartender) -- and of cour