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Definition of Potboilers

Potboiler
Potboiler Pot"boil`er, n. A term applied derisively to any literary or artistic work, and esp. a painting, done simply for money and the means of living. [Cant]

Meaning of Potboilers from wikipedia

- " Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks. Novels deemed to be potboilers may also be called pulp...
- album Superunknown "a far better Sabbath album than this by-the-numbers potboiler". AllMusic's Bradley Torreano called Cross Purposes "the first album since...
- "Game Changer: Ram Charan tries hard to salvage a cliched political potboiler". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 10 January 2025. Bhatia, Amit (10 January...
- realistic outlook of urban middle class on cinema in 1974, an era when potboilers were ruling Bollywood, a genre which was later called the Middle Cinema...
- the term dime novel has been used to refer to quickly written, lurid potboilers, usually as a pejorative to describe a sensationalized but superficial...
- captivating performance gives Surface some depth, but this overheated potboiler only gets murkier the more it tries to ****e up a derivative amnesia mystery...
- time for Mollywood film goers to change and settle down from the regular potboilers and applaud films like Ritu which has its heart exactly at the right place"...
- is not a literary genius", criticising Pratchett's books as "ordinary potboilers" not worth the time to read. The piece attracted criticism including a...
- original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013. "Commercial potboiler". The Hindu. 8 October 2005. Archived from the original on 25 September...
- decade, working on average in ten films a year, most of which were deemed potboilers and failed to propel her career forward in terms of roles and appreciation...