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Toaster movie review. Streaming on Netflix
The latest offering on Netflix running for 2 hours and 5 minutes. Ordained to be a comedy however, Toaster appears to be a medley of scripts strung together to complete the ultimately movie. It starts out promisingly about a young couple living on rent. The husband, Ramakant (Rajkumar Rao) who is an incurable miser whose reason of living amongst a society of elders is low rent and free buffet breakfast at landlady's house every morning and sucking upto the old hag to lower rent further. This miser is so persistent with the telecom company that he recovers a small charge of Rs 6 from them, and his wife Shilpa (Saniya Malhotra) sweet and homely with a black belt to boot.

Toaster is all about a Kanjoos

It all starts with Ramakant's act of extreme stinginess, when a wedding is cancelled, he takes extreme measures to retrieve the toaster he reluctantly gifted. Toaster moves forw ....
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Farah Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui at Merwan cafe

A workshop conducted by  Ritesh Batra’s production company Poetic License with Farah Khan and actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui on April 4 at Merwan Cafe in Grant Road. As a part of his initiative to revive the Irani Cafes in Mumbai, Ritesh Batra’s production company Poetic License is doing a series of events at different Irani Cafes across the city. The first three sessions were at…

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Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi is a love story of a middle aged couple. Directed by Bela Sehgal (Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s sister) is different from the Shirin Farhad tales we have heard of. It isn’t a love story about teeny boppers or the handsome guy and a beautiful lady. This one is about the love story of a man and woman who appear to be in their forties. A new trend is witnessed in bollywood. If a film is an action oriented – it has to be a Sikh or a Punjabi family background. And the safest bet now is even if there is an undercurrent of humour although it is a love story; it has to be about Parsis. Thankfully, there is an attempt to portray the Parsi community, depicting realistic moments - just like they exist inIndia. Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi is about Farhad Pastakia (Boman Irani), a 45-year-old Parsi bachelor who is a salesman in a lingerie shop. Farhad h ....
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