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Once He Said, ''For 60 overs, they should feel hell out there", at the Mecca of Cricket

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                                                   Image Courtesy: NewsBytes In his prime years (2016-2019), he emerged as one of the best test players in the world (far ahead in the FAB 4) and has established himself as the best test captain of India. Virat Kohli has uplifted the quality of Indian test cricket with a never-ending hunger for winning overseas tests and nurturing the pace of capacity of India. But since the Pink Ball Test against Bangladesh at Eden Gardens in 2019, the test performance of Virat has decreased in terms of temperament and obviously technique. The sudden call of retirement is exactly a result of that. Because, as Joker has infamously put in ' The Dark Knight' :  '' You either die as a Hero or live long to see yourself becoming a villain .''  But Virat, you and your captaincy will always remain a watershed and landmark fi...
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The Magic and Beauty of 'Guide' (1965)

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                                               Image Courtesy: Times of India It has been quite late, but finally I've got a break from my educational pressures and internship work. So, let's discuss now about a topic that I've been longing to discuss for a very long time. Let's discuss ' Guide '. ' Guide ' (1965) is a film that is in the top position of my all-time favourite movies list. I watched this movie for the first time in 2021, almost 56 years after its initial release. Then afterwards, several rewatches have made me fall in love with this movie more and more each time. So here in this blog, I have chosen my favourite movie ' Guide ' to be its subject matter, and I am going to share some interesting trivia and my core feeling about this movie with you:-                       ...
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The Angry Young Man and Yash Chopra

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    Yash Chopra explaining scene to Amitabh Bachchan   Image Courtesy: The Indian Express   There are many such director-actor pairs across the globe whose almost every film has been appreciated by the audience, be it Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro in the Hollywood or Satyajit Ray and Soumitra Chatterjee in Bengali cinema. Another such director-actor pair in Hindi cinema is Yash Chopra and Amitabh Bachchan. The duo has done 6 films together namely 'Deewar' (1975),  'Kabhi Kabhie' (1976), 'Trishul' (1978), 'Kaala Patthar' (1979), 'Silsila' (1981) and 'Veer-Zara' (2004). All of them are classics today. But in this bIog I will tell you about my three favourite films of this duo which eventually helped both the members of this duo vice-versa. It helped Amitabh Bachchan to cement his position as the 'Angry Young Man' and Yash Chopra as a commercially successful filmmaker of mainstream Hindi cinema.   Deewar (1...
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