Sadiya Siddiqui

Home is where `The Great Indian Family` is!

Holy cow is a Hindi movie starring Sanjay Mishra and Tigmanshu Dhulia in the lead.

Little Manda is found raped and dumped in a trash heap in her slum. Her parents are more concerned with survival than dignity and want to forget and move on as even the cops are powerless to help as the rapist is a local politician's son. But Manda's Ajji (grandmother) cannot accept the injustice of it all. Can a frail, arthritic and powerless old woman grapple with the big bad wolf? Is there still hope for justice in a cruel world? Can anything act as a deterrent to rape? The answers to these questions form the crux.

He has a record for flunking exams hence gets kicked out of school and starts assisting his father on the truck. Kishu witnesses the violence and corruption and negotiates it in his own manner. There isn`t much hope for a bright and prosperous future for Kishu until he falls in love with a beautiful American girl who has come to Bihar to research on Madhubani Paintings. There is too much disparity between Kishu and Sapna, his new-found love considering she has a protective, rich upper caste uncle and his own temperamental father to convince. But Kishu is irreversibly and irrevocably in love. And is determined to find out the answer to the age-old question - What Is Love? Soon enough, Kishu realises the wisdom of the ancients - In love, the stream flows backward and the one who puts everything he has on stake emerges as the ultimate winner!

When a novelist seeks inspiration by urging his wife to have an affair, the line between his story and reality is blurred. A story of Shaukat, a gifted writer who's reeling from the failure of his last novel. Antara, his reserved and sensitive wife supports him indisputably. To regain his command on writing, Shaukat decides to incorporate his story into his real life and subsequently slot the twists and turns of the real life incidents into his story. Author Shaukat Vashisht lives a wealthy life-style in India with his wife, Antara, who is a College Teacher. Shaukat achieves fame when he is nominated for the Booker prize, and goes on to win it. His publishers, hoping that they have unleashed a goldmine, are disappointed with his subsequent works, and soon Shaukat is depressed to such an extent that he almost gives up writing. Then he decides to write a story on a woman named Tamanna, and figures that he will base this story on none other than Antara herself. For this purpose he starts to make note of her every movement, and it is then that he finds out that she has an admirer in fellow-teacher, Yash, a dashing young man - with a bright future ahead of him. Shaukat also finds out that Antara has never mentioned Yash to him, nor has she informed Yash that she is married. Watch how his obsession with Tamanna blurs Shaukat's reality with fiction and hallucination - with hopes still high that he will make a come-back and be nominated again for the Booker prize. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)