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'Bazaar' review: Far from an Indian version of 'The Wolf Of Wall Street'

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Director Gauravv K Chawla's " Bazaar " is a film with the cut-throat stock market, as the backdrop. Rizwan Ahmed (Rohan Mehra) is an educated, bright boy from Allahabad who has lofty dreams and wants to make it big. Against his middle class father's will who attaches more importance to loyalty, Rizwan moves to Mumbai to try his luck and fulfil his ambitions. He idolises, Shakun Kothari (Saif Ali Khan), a small town boy from Surat, who has become the wolf of the stock trading market and is known for his business acumen and understands "only maths". How Rizwan makes his presence felt in the city of Mumbai, owing to his "emotional understanding" of the market, learns bitter lessons and bounces back, forms the crux of this film . The narrative is lazily crafted. It follows a first-person account, where the protagonist, Rizwan recounts his life -- his trials and tribulations in Mumbai. A short-cut approach, this route tends to be a

Sacred Games-Rajiv Gandhi case: Delhi HC watches show, finds nothing urgent

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The plea alleges that certain scenes and dialogues in the show defame former PM Rajiv Gandhi Current Affairs News : The Delhi High Court on Monday sought to know whether it could hear as a PIL a plea claiming that some scenes in the Netflix series "Sacred Games" are derogatory to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and should be removed.  A Bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Chander Shekhar asked the petitioner's advocate to first advance his submissions on the point of maintainability of the plea as a public interest litigation (PIL) and listed the matter for further hearing on July 19. The Bench said it has gone through the CD of the series, placed on record by the petitioner, and there was nothing urgent in it as all the episodes have been aired. It also asked how the actors could be held liable for enacting their characters. The court said a person is entitled to express his views, which may be right or wrong, and asked the petitioner to satisfy it