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Vysakh’s ‘Khalifa’ is yet another star vehicle that thinks slo-mo swag is enough to make a story interesting
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Rajkumar Santoshi’s ‘Batwara 1947’ is an easy-watch Partition drama that needed to hit harder, dig deeper
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