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		<title>Anmol Ghadi (1946)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anmol Ghadi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leela Misra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mehboob]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Naushad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noor Jehan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suraiya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surendra]]></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:title type="html">Lata gifts Chandra her watch</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Chandra's mother comforts him</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Prakash persuades Chandra to move to Bombay</media:title>
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			<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: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: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>
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				<category><![CDATA[Odds and Ends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></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>
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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>
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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:title type="html">Shekhar joins up </media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sashi Kapoor? Shashi Kapoor? Benjamin Button?</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Suresh and his father have a difference of opinion</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Dolly vows revenge</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">...and Lilly enchants Shekhar</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Boss bullies Dolly into getting Lilly to spy for them</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lilly and Shekhar fall in love</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lilly is tormented by the realisation of her guilt</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Suresh saves Lilly from Boss's anger</media:title>
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			<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:title type="html">I love you and you love me...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lilly confesses to her duplicity</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">... and is given the death penalty</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">Oh what a beautiful day...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Imagining a drive in the surrey with a fringe on top...</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Will tells his friends all about the wonders of Kansas City</media:title>
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			<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:title type="html">Pore Jud is daid... or at least Curly hopes so</media:title>
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			<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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		<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">Bahadur Shah 'Zafar' hosts a mushaira</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">The kotwal transcribes Ghalib's ghazals</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Ghalib discovers a fan</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">...who boots him out of her home</media:title>
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			<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: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:title type="html">Chaudhvin and her mother are reconciled after the daughter's attempt at suicide</media:title>
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			<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[book launch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Madhulika Liddle]]></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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			<media:title type="html">The Englishman's Cameo by Madhulika Liddle</media:title>
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		<title>Ten of my favourite S D Burman songs</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/ten-of-my-favourite-s-d-burman-songs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sachin Dev Burman was born on October 1, 1906, a scion of the royal family of Tripura—and a king in the world of Hindi film music. From his first major hit—Mera sundar sapna beet gaya (Do Bhai, 1947)—on, Burman made a name for himself with songs that ran the gamut from folk to Western, from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2714&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Sachin Dev Burman stamp released by the Indian Postal Department</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Pyaasa - Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye toh kya hai</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Guide - Piya tose naina laage re</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Kaagaz ke Phool - San san san woh chali hawa</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Jewel Thief - Raat akeli hai bujh gaye diye</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Teen Deviyaan - Khwaab ho tum ya koi haqeeqat</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Bandini - O re maanjhi</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Paying Guest - O nigaah-e-mastaana</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Taxi Driver - Dil se milaake dil pyaar kijiye</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Manzil - Chupke se mile pyaase-pyaase</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Baazi - Tadbeer se bigdi hui taqdeer bana le</media:title>
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		<title>Waterloo Bridge (1940)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[C Aubrey Smith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Individually, both Charles Boyer and Irene Dunne said Love Affair was their favourite of the films they’d acted in. Quite an achievement for a film—one reason why I’d put Waterloo Bridge in the same league as Love Affair. The two stars of this film, Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh, also rated Waterloo Bridge as their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2687&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Robert Taylor and Vivien Leigh in Waterloo Bridge</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Colonel Roy Cronin stops by on Waterloo Bridge...</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic38.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...and looks at an old good lcuk charm</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A younger Cronin meets Myra on Waterloo Bridge during a WWI air raid</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic58.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...and becomes friends in the shelter</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic68.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Madame intercepts Roy's note and bullies Myra into refusing</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic78.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Kitty acts as messenger</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic88.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The Farewell Waltz</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic98.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Myra receives a proposal</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic107.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Roy's uncle, the Colonel-in-Chief and a Duke, gives his permission </media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic1112.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...but the vicar throws a spanner in the works</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic129.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Myra tells Kitty that she's going to be married</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic137.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Roy's train steams out of the station</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Kitty stands up for Myra - and gets fired</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic156.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Myra and Kitty in dire straits</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic166.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Myra reads a note from Roy</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Myra glances at a newspaper while waiting for Roy's mother</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Lady Margaret is abrupt with Myra</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic191.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Myra learns how Kitty's been paying the bills</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A changed Myra</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Roy comes back from the dead</media:title>
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		<title>Dillagi (1966)</title>
		<link>http://dustedoff.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/dillagi-1966/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was what I call a ‘shot in the dark’ film—I noticed it on Induna and decided I’d give it a try, even though I hadn’t heard of it before. The decision was arbitrary, and mainly because the picture of the DVD cover appealed to me. I should probably have had a look at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2662&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Sanjay Khan and Mala Sinha in Dillagi</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Sapan tells Deepak off</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">A clandestine love letter arrives</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Seema takes Sapan to task - in public</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic57.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Professor BNR Chobe gives a speech on love</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic67.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">While his own love goes nowhere...</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic77.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The maidservant indulges in some gossip</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic87.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Seema `looks after' Sapan</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic97.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sapan's father come to meet Seema's parents</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Puran Bahadur come on one of his regular money-grubbing visits</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic1111.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sapan's father nurses a secret he refuses to tell</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic127.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Deepak meets a mysterious girl by the lake</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic136.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Seema gets a fright - and goes back to Sapan</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic146.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Seema covers Sapan with the jacket he covered her with</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic155.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The sordid secret emerges</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic165.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sapan goes to rescue Lajwanti</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic172.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">A nasty rumour comes to Seema's ears</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic181.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Sanjay Khan and Mala Sinha in Dillagi</media:title>
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		<title>Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam (1962)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After all the lightheartedness of the past few posts, time to get back to serious stuff. I had three none-too-cheery films lined up: Khamoshi, Andaz, and this one. Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam had been popping up in some recent posts (one song was part of the daaru list, and a discussion on Jawahar Kaul—one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dustedoff.wordpress.com&blog=5391074&post=2630&subd=dustedoff&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic119.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Meena Kumari and Rehman in Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic26.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bhootnath arrives in Calcutta and meets Masterji</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic36.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Bhootnath meets Suvinay Babu</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic46.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Suvinay Babu and Jaba get Bhootnath to speak up against the cook</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic56.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...and Bhootnath is enchanted by Jaba</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic66.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The Badi bahu washing her hands</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic76.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">The Majhle Babu at his cat's wedding</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://dustedoff.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/pic86.jpg" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">...and the Chhote Babu at his tawaif's kotha</media:title>
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