5 Indian comics that surely deserve a movie

There have always been words round the campfire on a movie based upon some hindi comic book. More than anything, it lets the fans go on a roller coaster dream of imagining their favorite comic book converted into a movie. So here is a fanboyish look at the comic books I want to see made into movies and at the same time keeping the viability of the prospect in tact 5) Sawdhan Doga/Kaun Bada Jallad -  The  legendary arc ran over 2...

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4 Losers Who Should Have Won

There's a law of Filmy love triangles which dictates that if there are three people involved in a potential relationship then one of them has to either die a horrible death (plane crash/cancer/get eaten by sharks/slip on a banana peel) or gracefully exit from the scenario to let the other two have a 'Happily Ever After', but in more cases than one you feel that the writer has given the short end of the straw to the guy who should have by all logic...

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Nirupa Roy

copied from Ozzy on PassionforCinema (Never came to know your real name though - but you are the reason why I am writing on filmistani at all) The universal mother of the 80s Hindi cinema. She was everywhere. You needed a mother. She was there. You did not need a mother. She was there. It was difficult time for the actors (both male and female) who could find no escape from the long reaching powerful smart motherly tentacles of Nirupa Roy,...

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