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		<title>Akeli Mat Jaiyo (1963)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Akeli Mat Jaiyo (‘Don’t Go Alone’—specifically addressed to a female) is, if nothing else, very aptly titled. Because if you gallivant where you’re not supposed to, you run the risk of being pursued by a moron whose best friend is a ventriloquist’s dummy. You may end up betrothed to somebody whose family includes a father [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2943&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">The real Yuvraj arrives</media:title>
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		<title>Ocean&#8217;s Eleven (1960)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sabrina Mathew&#8217;s latest post is an interesting one that compares the two (1968 and 1999) versions of The Thomas Crown Affair. A couple of things from Sabrina’s review struck me: “The remake is keenly aware that the original got away with a lame robbery only because Steve McQueen planned it. So the remake fixes the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2906&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">...and Corneal is the errand boy</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Bergdorf's doctor gives him some bad news</media:title>
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		<title>Ten of my favourite Johnny Walker songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first began blogging about old cinema, my husband asked me, “So will you do a list of Johnny Walker’s songs sometime?” I thought about it (not long; I didn’t need to) and decided yes. Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi, aka Johnny Walker, definitely deserves a ‘top ten’ list all his own. This, therefore, on what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2885&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Jungle mein mor naacha kisi ne na dekha</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Suno suno Miss Chatterjee mere dil ka matter ji</media:title>
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		<title>Bells are Ringing (1960)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I so, so adore this film.
And that, mind you, keeping in mind the fact that I generally don’t think very highly of Hollywood musicals. I have nothing against the music, usually—most of the films had excellent songs—but what really gets my goat is that other than sounding and looking good, few of Hollywood’s musicals have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2862&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Susanswerphone: in the business of giving and taking messages...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">...or, if you're Ella, helping all and sundry</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ella sings of the man she loves</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html"> - and nearly sets fire to a blind date</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Jeff chats with 'Mom'</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Jeff shoots his self-esteem down</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Otto gets a crooked racket off the ground...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">And explains it all to Sue too</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Inspector Barnes smells something fishy</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">'Mom' tries to give Jeff his wake-up call</media:title>
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		<title>Anmol Ghadi (1946)</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/anmol-ghadi-1946/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anmol Ghadi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leela Misra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehboob]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ghadi, in Hindi, can mean either a watch (as in a wristwatch or a pocket watch), or a brief length of time. I went through a good bit of life thinking this film was about a moment in time—romantic, most probably.
So this is where I own up: enlightenment dawns, buddhoo becomes Buddha. The ghadi in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2838&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Noor Jehan in Anmol Ghadi</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic2.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lata gifts Chandra her watch</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic3.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Chandra's mother comforts him</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic4.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Prakash persuades Chandra to move to Bombay</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic5.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Basanti comes in contact with Chandra and falls in love with him</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic6.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Chandra decides to write to Renu and ask for a meeting</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic7.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lata reads out her fan mail to Basanti</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic8.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">... and the two girls go to keep a rendezvous</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic9.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lata recognises a long-ago watch</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/pic11.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lata and Basanti discuss a mysterious love in Lata's life</media:title>
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		<title>In celebration of being 1</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/in-celebration-of-being-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds and Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[one year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[November 4, 2008: I succumb to a combination of ennui and an all-encompassing love for old cinema. The result: a blog named Dustedoff.
Yes, Dustedoff today celebrates a year of being in existence. This was inspired largely by the superb Memsaabstory, though I’d decided from the beginning that I’d prattle on equally about Hindi and English [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2834&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Samadhi (1950)</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/samadhi-1950/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ashok Kumar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Badri Prasad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[C Ramchandra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[INA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian National Army]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kuldip Kaur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mubarak]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nalini Jaywant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Samadhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sashi Kapoor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shyam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two confessions, to start with. Firstly, although I am very fond of Ashok Kumar—I think he was a great actor—I find it difficult to envisage him as the dashing hero of a spy thriller. Secondly, I think 50’s and 60’s Hindi cinema (with the notable exception of Haqeeqat) never quite manages to depict war properly. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2801&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic15.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ashok Kumar and Nalini Jaywant in Samadhi</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic22.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Shekhar joins up </media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic32.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sashi Kapoor? Shashi Kapoor? Benjamin Button?</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic42.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Suresh and his father have a difference of opinion</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic53.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Dolly vows revenge</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic62.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...and Lilly enchants Shekhar</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic72.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Boss bullies Dolly into getting Lilly to spy for them</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic82.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lilly and Shekhar fall in love</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic102.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lilly is tormented by the realisation of her guilt</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic112.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Suresh saves Lilly from Boss's anger</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic122.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Shekhar and Ram Prasad suspect that Suresh is behind the attempt on Netaji's life</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic132.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">I love you and you love me...</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic141.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Lilly confesses to her duplicity</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic152.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">... and is given the death penalty</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ashok Kumar in Samadhi</media:title>
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		<title>Oklahoma! (1955)</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/oklahoma-1955/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agnes de Mille]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bambi Linn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Greenwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eddie Albert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gene Nelson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Grahame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon MacRae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[musical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oklahoma!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oscar Hammerstein II]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Rodgers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Steiger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Jones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[superb music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days back, a friend of mine, well aware of my obsession with old films, forwarded me a few URLs for sites where one can watch classic cinema for free. I had just begun watching Oklahoma!, and by the time I finished, I had a URL to add to my friend’s list. Yep, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2783&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in Oklahoma!</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic21.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Oh what a beautiful day...</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic31.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Imagining a drive in the surrey with a fringe on top...</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic41.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Will tells his friends all about the wonders of Kansas City</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic51.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">A girl who caint say no</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic61.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Many a new day will dawn before I do</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic71.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">People will say we're in love - especially if we shout it out</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic81.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Pore Jud is daid... or at least Curly hopes so</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic9a.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Out of my dreams - and into a nightmare</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic101.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">In real life, Laurey does manage to escape Jud</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic111.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The farmer and the cowman should be friends - in deed, if not in fact</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic121.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Jud finds a useful little knickknack</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic131.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">A dream Laurey tries to escape Jud</media:title>
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		<title>Mirza Ghalib (1954)</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/mirza-ghalib-1954/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bahadur Shah 'Zafar']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bharat Bhushan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Delhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Durga Khote]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Murad]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Shakeel Badayuni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sohrab Modi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okaaay. I’m finally back from a whirlwind book tour. I gave endless interviews (I can now answer questions in my sleep); was wined and dined—great ilish in Kolkata and awesome Chettinad food in Chennai—and even ended up on youtube. I met some likeable and interesting people, including crime writer Zac O’Yeah (in conversation with me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2755&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Bharat Bhushan in and as Mirza Ghalib</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic2.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bahadur Shah 'Zafar' hosts a mushaira</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic3.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The kotwal transcribes Ghalib's ghazals</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic4.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ghalib discovers a fan</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic5.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...who boots him out of her home</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic6.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The kotwal enlightens Chaudhvin Begum</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic7.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ghalib meets Chaudhvin Begum again</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic8.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Mathuradas comes a-dunning</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic9.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ghalib with his wife</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic10.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The kotwal makes a deal with Chaudhvin's mother</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic11.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Ghalib gambles to get some money for Chaudhvin</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic12.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Chaudhvin and her mother are reconciled after the daughter's attempt at suicide</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/pic13.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Suraiya in Mirza Ghalib</media:title>
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		<title>With intent to abscond</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/with-intent-to-abscond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dustedoff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Odds and Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book launch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[historical detective fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Madhulika Liddle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Englishman's Cameo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have spent the last few days busy with other activities (yes, I don’t even remember which was the last film I saw—which says a lot!) I have been busy giving interviews, getting photographed—ugh—and rehearsing reading aloud with getting jittery and breathless.
For those of you not in the know, this is all because I’m on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2743&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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