New Delhi, April 13 -- Last week, I watched Hun Hunshi Hunshilal (I am Hunshi Hunshilal), a 1992 Gujarati musical political satire, at a screening by VHS (Versova Homage Screenings). With the English title Love in the Time of Malaria, the movie is set in the fictitious land of Khojpuri, where Dilip Joshi's gentle scientist invents an onion-based cure that his paranoid king (Mohan Gokhale) weaponises against "dissenting mosquitoes". Renuka Shahane plays Joshi's colleague who presents the side of the mosquitoes. Directed by Sanjiv Shah and written by Paresh Naik, the film is dense with sly political references. The subtitles by Ruchir Joshi and Sunil Shanbag carry that wit beautifully, as does Rajat Dholakia's score, especially Hawa Hai, su...