Tag Archives: Ved Prakash Sharma
The cinders of racial hatred devastating a nation
The constitution of India guarantees every citizen immunity from any kind of discrimination based on race, religion, caste, sex or place of birth. This guarantee is from the side of the state but the founding fathers of this nation-state had … Continue reading
A great scientist turning into prisoner no. 100
Four years have passed since famous Hindi novelist Ved Prakash Sharma left for his heavenly abode on 17th February, 2017. While remembering him, I am presenting my review of a very popular novel of himself whose title is Qaidi No. … Continue reading
Akshay fooled Manoj and Neeraj fooled the audience
First of all, I express my gratitude towards esteemed esteemed reviewer and blogger Sam Sammy (better known as confusedsoul in the virtual world) for penning a review of Special 26 (2013). I did not write the review of this movie because … Continue reading
A Crime-Thriller Soaked in Tehzeeb and Shaayari
I dedicate this review to the evergreen, ageless diva Madhuri Dixit who is going to complete 51 years of age today (she was born on 15.05.1967). I had watched Dedh Ishquiya (2014) during my trip to Bikaner (Rajasthan) in the Cinemagic … Continue reading
It’s a tale with a sting in the tail
After watching Sujoy Ghosh directed movie – Kahaani (2012) in the Talkie Town (now named as Cine Town) cinema hall of Hyderabad, the memories of the experience of watching that movie kept on haunting me non-stop for hours and hours. … Continue reading
Do you read detective novels and rely upon them ?
The world of fictional work can be classified in various categories / genres. One immensely popular category of such work is the stories of crime detection genre. People from all over the world have been reading / seeing such stories … Continue reading
He’s not Lallu but the biggest player in the fray
Lallu is a term used in North India to denote a person who is excessively naive or purely stupid in the context of the worldly knowledge. Popular Hindi novelist Late Ved Prakash Sharma wrote a novel under this title which … Continue reading
An action-studded murder mystery
I was surprised when the promos of this movie had started to be aired on TV channels. It was the beginning of 1998 whereas the title of the movie was kept as 2001. However since I have always been fond … Continue reading
Nameless ? No, this widow’s husband has three names
Late Ved Prakash Sharma was a Hindi novelist coming from a small city – Meerut (UP) who earned a lot of name and fame in the field of writing suspense novels in Hindi during the period of late seventies to … Continue reading
It made me revisit Vardi Waala Gunda on celluloid
My regular readers may be able to recall that some time back (on the occasion of the death anniversary of Rajiv Gandhi), I had posted the review of a Hindi bestseller novel – Vardi Waala Gunda which was published first … Continue reading
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