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Saibal Chatterjee

The author is a New Delhi-based film critic who, like others of his ilk, thrives on logging hours in darkened halls. He tracks Indian and world cinema. The Telegraph (Calcutta), The Times of India (Delhi) and Outlook newsweekly are among the media outlets he has worked for since the mid-1980s. 

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