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Satyabrata Ghosh explains why the film Sardar Udham should be watched to fathom what undying love for one’s own country ...

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My first exposure to the ‘French New Wave’, La Nouvelle Vague, was through Claude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978). M...