Hello Hyderabad

Someone told me that life imitates art and art imitates life and so the cycle goes on, but the Hello Hyderabad experience was an absolute fusion of the two. On one side was a film that was a sheer imitation of life as seen in the old city, and on the other was an audience that lived that lifestyle and was actually acknowledging it through its cat-calls in an uninhibited Charminari style.

The only technical problem here, though, is whether this film can be called a piece of art. The 'artist', Basith Khan, writes, directs and gets almost all the titles of this production. An....