Friday, September 28th, 2007
Heyy Babyy
# Watched “Heyy Babyy”. What a waste of money - Rex has increased its price overnight. I noted that the comedy scenes were all shown in the promotional videos. Rest is all emotional crap. This is the first movie where I feel, trailer is the only best part in the entire movie. What a cheating. Grrrr….
There is [...]
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Chak De
What an experience it was to watch “Chak De”. I have always loved a sports theme based movie - Iqbal, Lagaan, Million Dollar Baby, so it was almost a given that I would like this movie and add to that there were positive reviews. However the experience was something even better - the crowd, the [...]
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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd
# Yes, somewhat old movie, but watched it recently only.
# Directed by Zoya Akthar, Farhan’s sisReema Kagti. (Corrected after C’s mail
# She also heads to Goa like her brother. Goa does not tire you.
# 6 (right?) couples go to honeymoon in a bus.
# Each of their story is told, not at once, but as it [...]
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
Having heard that it is a free-flow like the director’s previous attempt - Bunty aur Bubli, I was all the more keen to watch it. I had a very good time watching BaurB, only grouse was the money spent watching in a multiplex. This time, I was wise. Watched on computer screen. Am surprised by [...]
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Cheeni Kum
What an apt title ! When you feel something is less, that means you want more of it. That is what the characters feel here - they want more in life. Thats what everyone wants but here is a difference - the characters are counting days. Totally loved the small kid - though some feel [...]
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Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
Satyavan Savitri
# Ramesh’s direction. Cast includes - Ramesh, Jennifer Kotwal, Daisy Bopanna, Anirudha, Mohan, Netra.
# Jaggesh’s brother Komal has, unknown to me, good fan following. Crowd cheered, clapped, whistled when he came on screen. There is a sub-plot for him which is not in the original.
# Its a remake of “Maine Pyar Kyoun Kiya”. Knew this [...]
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Aap ka suroor (or rather Himesh Reshammiya’s topi)
Sometimes you never know what hits you. Himesh Reshamiya (HR), yesterday in Saregamapa show, when asked what he feels about the feedback for his movie Aap Ka Suroor (AKS) which has got the biggest opening collection of this year, he said he is thankful for the audience and God for encouraging him. He also said, [...]
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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007
Life in a Metro
Its rare that I find myself agreeing to each and every point of a review by others. The review of Life in a Metro by B Rangan had me nod in agreement for almost everything (excluding perhaps Dharmendra part, which I did not think much about).
Excerpts to which I strongly agree:
[...] Go Bollywood!
There’s a [...]
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Friday, June 1st, 2007
Salaam-e-Ishq, Black Friday, In pursuit
A mention and small comments on the movies I have seen over last few weeks - In pursuit of happyness, Black Firday, Ekalavya, Nishabd, Salaam-e-ishq
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Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Bheja Fry
Classic ! Vinay Pathak gives a lifetime performance in the role of –Bharat Bushan. He is a budding singer- who loves himself and his talents . Thadani(Rajat kapoor) is a music industry guy whose Friday night dinners are like Indian idol first round – making fun of people – but in this he along [...]
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Vertigo
“Kelo rasika” is a non-profit team of volunteers interested in making good art reach the people. They have several programmes like “poetry reading”, “screening movies” etc. Suchitra Film Academy is partnering with them for some events. One such event of screening of Alfred Hitchcock movies, I attended to see ‘Vertigo’. I have heard about the [...]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Duniya
Warning - Spoilers: Story and Ending revealed.
Story:
The story, in a broad sense, is like any other gangster movie which has this protagonist who is forced into the underworld due to poverty/helplessness etc. Like Jogi, this movie also has two threads running in parallel – or even more than Jogi here the emotional line is quite [...]
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007
Mungaru Male
Yes, its more than 100 days since the release and almost everything that had to be said about the movie must have been said. But should that be a reason to stop me from writing on my blog ? ( After all its my blog and there are few regular readers, who too will skip [...]
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Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Happy Feet
Image from WarnerBros
Immediately after watching United93, went into Happy feet. It was quite some time that I watched back2back ! Happy feat is, well, a cute movie about Penguins. The hero, Mambo or Mamble, is born with a bad throat and can not sing.This is unusual among his species, who sing for almost every other [...]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
United 93
I watched United 93, because I had somewhere read that it is based on WTC related hijack. The movie was very gripping and very realistic. The sense of horror and unbelievability was evident on faces of many in the interval (or may be it was my state of mind). Was feeling sorry on one hand [...]
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Guru
My scattered views as expressed over a chat (with cousin) is here :
Did I like it??
Not entirely…felt something is missing… but an excellent movie overall.
There was no punch in climax…there was no punch in anything he did…the intensity is there in terms of the dialogues than acts… there are only hints..not the exact actions.
What happened [...]