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PALTAN: BOX OFFICE BATTLE

IT DIDN’T surprise me that the recently released trailer for Paltan was terrible and I predict

the war drama based on a 1967 battle will bomb badly at the box office next month. That is because Paltan director JP Dutta is a massively overrated filmmaker who has only had one bonafide blockbuster in over 40 years, and that was more than 20 years ago with Border. Him being a terrible filmmaker, combined with a largely Clist cast, was always going to


be a recipe for disaster and I expect the film’s investors to incur heavy losses.

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The Unite the Kingdom rally, organised by Tommy Robinson, at Parliament Square, London, last Saturday

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TOMMY ROBINSON has always seemed an unlikely candidate to try to “unite the Kingdom”. Yet the former football hooligan turned street movement activist, and former leader of the English Defence League created shockwaves by bringing 120,000 people out on the streets last September.

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