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A Holy Conspiracy: the Unholy Mess We are in

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Film : A Holy Conspiracy  Language: English,  mostly Starring : Soumitra Chatterjee, Naseeruddin Shah, Anasuya Majumdar, Kaushik Sen,  Sraman Chatterjee Director : Saibal Mitra Genre : Courtroom drama on topical issues Run Time : 120 mins. Released on : July 29, 2022 Available at : Theatres My Rating :  4 / 5 You say I took the name in vain, I don't even know the name, But if I did, well really, What's it to ya? There's a blaze of light in every word, It doesn't matter which you heard, The holy or the broken Hallelujah... A Holy Conspiracy  ( AHC ) is a narrative set in the fictional town of Hillolganj, on the Bengal-Jharkhand border, where a Santhali school teacher, Kunal Joseph Baske (Sraman Chatterjee), has been taken into custody for his irreligious refusal to precede his teaching of  Darwin's  The Origin of Species with   the precepts in the  Book of Genesis.  Baske, likened to Rohith Vemula, has also had the gall of refusing to tea...
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The Moment that refuses to pass: On Bhupinder Singh

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Bhupinder Singh (1940 - 2022), the ace singer with that inward-delving voice, breathed his last on July 18, aged 82.  With a voice different in tone and tenor, a voice with its own character, Singh had curved a niche for himself in the dicey and fiercely competitive domain of Hindi film music.  Bhupinder Singh had had his fair share of light-hearted songs. To him we owe a timeless playlist of pleasant listening comprising beauties like the  nonchalant bonfire of y oungness, " Rut jawan jawan " ( Aakhri Khat, 1966),  the fast and slower versions of the suspence-twanged " Jab andhera hota hai " (with Asha Bhonsle;  Raja Rani , 1973), the fervent yearning for the easeful past,  " Dil dhundhta hai " (duet with Lata Mangeshkar; Mausam , 1975), the fondly idyllic  " Do deewane shahar mein " (duet with Runa Laila; Gharaonda,  1977), the experimentally lovey-dovey " Ek hi khwaab " ( Kinara , 1977), the hymn to dulcet domesticity, " Zindag...
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