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“It’s never going to be easy for people like us,” squirms Vicky Duggal (Anil George), Mumbai’s foremost specialist in smut cinema. The degenerate auteur lectures his meek younger brother, Sonu (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), about the realities of their trade, specifically the stranglehold wielded by low-level distribution companies in bed with organized crime syndicates. This “woe is me” attitude, of it being hard out there for a pimp, remains prominent throughout Ashim Ahluwalia’s Miss Lovely, an anti-climactic and emotionally trite 1980s-set tragedy following the rise and fall of the Duggal brothers within the local softcore industry.Read More »
