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Since the news was out that The Dirty Picture was in making, one string was always harped on by its filmmakers, producers, actors and media that the film is based on the life of sex siren of the south, Vijayalakshmi, popularly known as Silk Smitha. As the movie was close to its release, thousands of TV shows, newspapers and websites were pouring in with the information about the life of Silk Smitha. After being acquainted with so many of bits and pieces of Silk Smitha’s life, when me and many others like me were at last in the theatre to watch the movie; to everyone’s surprise the movie began with the disclaimer, “This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.” Well the deviation from the aforesaid claims hardly mattered to me and many others like me while watching the movie because Indian Cinema had really come of (cleav)age. But after the movie, me and many other viewers like me (besides adulation for Vidya Balan’s performance) lef...

After the release Farhan Akhtar on his tweeter account said, “It’s so fantastic that everyone loves the poems in ZNMD. Thank you pa for injecting soul into the film with your gifted hand.” Undoubtedly, poems recited by Imran and penned by his ‘pa’ ‘inject soul’ into the film, and it’s the poetry in the film which saves the film from becoming a clichéd story of three friends. The poetry in ZNMD certainly gives philosophical touch to the film Effective, extensive and exact usage of the poems and poetry recitation is quite a rare phenomenon in Hindi films. Largely filmmakers prefer poetry in the form of songs and hardly anyone thinks that poetry recitation can be used as an effective technique in the film. Indeed the poems in the film take the film to another level but my question here is, do really characters and their respective journeys in the film reach to the level of the messages which poems emanate? Do the characters in Zindagi Milegi Na Dobara inhale the same air which its poem ex...