1920 London is a 2016 Indian supernatural horror film directed by Tinu Suresh Desai. It is the third installment in the 1920 film series,[3] after 1920 and 1920: The Evil Returns. The film stars Sharman Joshi, Meera Chopra, and Vishal Karwal in lead roles. The film managed to recover its cost and became a moderate success but it couldn't repeat the success of its previous installments, still it was followed by another installment titled 1921.
1920 London received generally negative reviews from critics. Koimoi.com gave the film 1.5/5 stars and wrote, "Where do we start? A lazy writing, poor direction and an even more unconvincing act!"[4] Mohar Basu of The Times of India gave the film 1/5 stars and wrote,"There isn't an inkling of innovative thinking in the third installment of the 1920 series. The best thing that can be said about it is that it will remain one of the year's funniest films".[5] Soumyata of Bollywood Life, also gave 1.5/5 stars to the film and wrote, "While film had a good twist post interval, it wasn't surprising. Except for the gender reversal, as here the wife is saving the husband, the plot is similar to the first 1920 film, Needless to say, the latest entry in the 1920 series disappoints big time, with Sharman Joshi being the only saving grace, Watch the film only if you don't have anything else to do".[citation needed]
The music for 1920 London is composed by Shaarib-Toshi, and JAM8. The first song "Gumnaan Hai Koi" which was a recreated version of the original song from the 1965 film Gumnaam was released on 9 April 2016. The music rights of the film are acquired by T-Series except the "Gumnaam" song which is bought by Saregama.[6] The full music album was released on 21 April 2016.
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[Access article in PDF] "Cinema Italia: Classic Italian Film Posters." Exhibition, Estorick Collection, London. 17 September 2003-25 January 2004 The history of Italian cinema is often organized by conventional periodizations: creative efflorescence and international prestige running from about 1908 and culminating in Giovanni Pastrone's Cabiria of 1914; financial and artistic crisis leading to near extinction after WWI and lasting into the 1920s; bureaucratized and propagandistic revivification under Fascism; politicized aesthetic experimentation in the postwar movement of neorealism; the gradual turn away from neorealism and toward generic filmmaking in the early to mid 1950s; modernist vanguardism beginning from the late 1950s and lasting up until the mid-1970s; decline. [End Page 365]
After this striking though predictable beginning comes the exhibition's most glaring curatorial omission: the absence of any film posters or artifacts from 1914 until 1943, when the show's narrative and curatorial thread resumes with the poster from Luchino Visconti'sOssessione (1943; poster designer unknown), a film often regarded as having signaled the beginning of neorealism. Bagshaw, in the essay written for the exhibit's catalogue, explains that the Fascists "mainly encouraged political propaganda films," though these were outnumbered by "sentimental comedies and romantic melodramas that usually depicted a life of wealth and leisure beyond the grasp of most Italians." Is this inaccurate generalization meant to paper over the exhibition's total lack of posters produced in the period that is bookended by Cabiria and Ossessione? Recent scholarship has increasingly noted the genuine diversity of production under Fascism and complicated the reductive narrative summarized by Bagshaw. But perhaps there simply are no posters from the late teens or the 1920s and 1930s that have survived to be exhibited today; or perhaps "Cinema Italia" simply means to reaffirm the well-worn historiography of Italian film studies. In either case, a viewer might have welcomed a fuller explanation of the grounds and limits of the curatorial project, whether on the Estorick's walls or in the catalogue's essay.
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