Articles by R. Paul Dhillon.

Movie Reviews

Love Story 2050

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja, and Boman Irani. In Hindi with English subtitles. Rated PG.
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Movie Reviews

Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Rishi Kapoor, and Amisha Patel. In Hindi with English subtitles. Rated PG.
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Movies Features

It's a B.C. summer of stars and film shoots

By Craig Takeuchi, R. Paul Dhillon, and Sean Minogue
Vancouver's movie industry has been through a rough patch recently, but here’s a rundown of just some of the stars and productions that will be visiting our city during the summer months.
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Movie Notes

Screen legend Dev Anand mobbed on visit to Vancouver

By R. Paul Dhillon
During a two-day visit to Vancouver as part of an Indian trade delegation, 84-year-old film icon Dev Anand was mobbed by fans at a June 19 meet-and-greet session at Surrey's Bollywood Banquet Hall.
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Movie Reviews

Sarkar Raj

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, and Aishwarya Rai-Bachchan. Rated PG.
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Movies Features

Bollywood can break hearts

By R. Paul Dhillon
In recent years, Bollywood choreographers have come to Vancouver to teach and recruit talented dancers who hope to become players in the world’s biggest film industry.
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Movie Reviews

Bhoothnath

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan. In Hindi with English subtitles. Rated PG.
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Movie Reviews

Tashan

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, and Anil Kapoor. In Hindi with English subtitles. Rated 14A.
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Movies Features

Dilip Mehta's The Forgotten Woman highlights Indian widows

By R. Paul Dhillon
As a sort of follow-up to his older sister Deepa Mehta’s Water—which looked at the plight of widows in India circa 1938—Dilip Mehta’s documentary The Forgotten Woman aims to put real faces on widows similar to those depicted in that Oscar-nominated Canadian film.
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Movie Reviews

Race

By R. Paul Dhillon
Race is Bollywood masala (commercial) film at its worst, a concoction of disjointed scenes dressed up as eye candy in the form of pretty boys and beauties in an absurd story that wouldn’t even hold up in a fantasy world, let alone the real world it supposedly portrays.
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Visual Arts

Dance fusions spiked with bhangra magic

By R. Paul Dhillon
It’s the time of the year when bhangra maniacs get their dose of a Punjabi folk dance fused with hip-hop, Bollywood, and other styles at the City of Bhangra Festival. Presented by the Vancouver International Bhangra Celebration Society, the festival, which opened February 29, is now in its fourth year.
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Movie Reviews

Jodhaa Akbar

By R. Paul Dhillon
History has been a hard sell in Bollywood in recent years, but the epic Jodhaa Akbar, starring A-listers Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, is hoping to change that with a mix of romance and chivalry.
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Movie Reviews

Step Up 2 The Streets

By R. Paul Dhillon
Step Up 2 the Streets is the latest of this genre more obsessed with dancing than with a good story, which, despite all the explosive dance routines, results in an unsatisfying experience.
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Movie Reviews

Sunday

By R. Paul Dhillon
Starring Ajay Devgan, Ayesha Takia, and Arshad Warsi. Rated PG.
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Movie Reviews

Taare Zameen Par

By R. Paul Dhillon
All children are special, but some have special needs and are bypassed by society. Taare Zameen Par: Every Child Is Special is the uplifting and inspirational story of one such child, named Ishaan Awasthi (Darsheel Safary).
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Movie Reviews

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal

By R. Paul Dhillon
Sports films are new to Bollywood. This one isn't going to help the cause
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Movie Reviews

Om Shanti Om

By R. Paul Dhillon
Reincarnation has been a hit at the Bollywood box office, and Om Shanti Om (loosely translated as Serenity Now) squeezes everything it can from this winning formula—with mixed results
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