potboiler
போட்போஇலேர்ஸ்
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They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous potboilers .
a book, painting, or recording produced merely to make the writer or artist a living by catering to popular taste.
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As for the story, it is a 'potboiler' in the tradition of the best film noir.
Thirdly, and not least importantly, the novel lives up to the advertisement of being a 'potboiler' and not just another placid semi-documentary history of the Kashmir imbroglio.
The material from the two Faust treatments is perhaps less convincing, and Berlioz's arrangement of The Marseillaise at the end the disc is an unnecessary 'potboiler' .
Meanwhile, his twin brother Donald is writing his own screenplay, a shameless 'potboiler' that has no pretensions of art, but every intention of wealth.
As art, it was essentially a 'potboiler' , refusing any commerce with physical or psychological detail.
He learnt Italian in order to research the book, written in the style of a detective 'potboiler' .
It topped the Publishers Weekly annual bestseller list that year and was turned into a Hollywood 'potboiler' (starring Jean Simmons and Victor Mature) in 1954.
A make-belief 'potboiler' , the film has grossed over a crore in a week.
Here was an unserious, part-time author having it all and more for a 'potboiler' !
It's a fast paced film with a solid screenplay, a masala 'potboiler' .
Is she publishing those stories, those 'potboilers' about her love and madness?
Indian films are everywhere, and not just the 'potboilers' .
Patel, known for playing the mushy girlfriend in romantic 'potboilers' , said the complaint had been made by airline staff to save themselves.
He could easily have checked his facts, but did not bother to because so far as he was concerned the Holmes stories were 'potboilers' .
Already listed in his CV are such early 'potboilers' as a novel linked to the New Avengers TV series.
Are we to compete with the Western 'potboilers' flooding the Indian market?
There have been not one but two cinematic political 'potboilers' to hit the silver screen in the past year.
Monet might have had to turn out 'potboilers' but Degas, a man of independent means, never had to paint to pay for his supper.
They may as well have called it deep six, because the film plummeted into a predictable pastiche of previous 'potboilers' .
It is not one of the usual Bollywood masala 'potboilers' ; it is an Indian film with just the right amount of spice and garnish that emerges as a real treat.
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