Bharat Lal Meena

What movie Fantastic time See movie Kashi Ka Assi, a no-holds-barred, insightful take on a Varanasi locality seen through the prism of India's political and economic churn in the 1990s. The majorly flawed, exasperatingly uneven film, which has faced more than its share of censorship trouble, springs to life sporadically in the first half and then loses its way irretrievably in the second. The tale, which opens in 1988, revolves around an ultra-orthodox priest and Sanskrit teacher Pandit Dharmanath Pandey (Sunny Deol), a man who swears by the Ganga and the Scriptures and is vehemently opposed to foreigners renting rooms in his all-Brahmin neighbourhood. He frequents a tea shop that serves more than just tea. It is a watering hole - and a debating hall - for a bunch of ageing friends with divergent ideologies.