mini-reviews: one out of four ain't bad

December and January have proven quite productive for movie-watching...but not for movie-reviewing. Perhaps because I'm so swamped at work, I just haven't had the energy to write up - or even mention - many of the things I've seen: Shaheed, Pyare Mohan , Mother India , Ganga Jamuna Saraswati , China Town , Mahakaal , Athadu , Welcome to Sajjanpur , Mixed Doubles , and Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam. A few of these, like Mother India and Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam , are on the "re-watch and write about later" pile because I was too overwhelmed by them to write at the time; many of the others inspired no interesting or notable thoughts. The remainder are a mixed bag of things that don't require further consideration before discussing, for better or worse. Let's start with "worse." Recently I've bailed on not one, not two, but three films, an all-time record for me. Before January 2011, there were only three Indian films I had switched off without