Khoya Khoya Chand

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I absolutely adore Khoya Khoya Chand, a glossy celebration of the cinema in the '50s and '60s, arguably the Silver Age of Hindi films. When the industry was just a few people knowing each other trying to do something, and where they had an identity far removed from the pathetically coined Bollywood.

On the other hand, the film has a few problems hard to overlook. Like I said, I'm conflicted.

As a staged sober jubilation of the times, Khoya Khoya Chand is absolute crackerjack in the first half, dotted with characters serving as stand-ins for th....