Anju Gandhi overhears the conversation of two girls who had recently seen Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Love Aaj Kal
A , “ I don’t understand why did Ash get married to Ajay Devgan, when she was already in love with Salman? Why didn’t she run away from her house?
B ,” how could she? She [...]
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From Hum Dil Chuke to Love Aaj Kal
Published by February 5th, 2010 in Bollywood, Cinema and India. 1 CommentMeetu says about Shahid Kapoor’s Chance pe Dance:
Flat story line.
Flat narration.
Flat dialogue.
No chance of being entertained or enlightened.
Clueless chronicles = Pyaar Impossible
Published by January 16th, 2010 in Art, Cinema, Humour and Review. 0 CommentsSahil has posted a hilarious review of the movie, “Pyaar Impossible”, through cartoons:
You know how in college there’re always these couple of guys who’ve just gotten their hands on a digicam & have deemed themselves short-filmmaking Spielbergs reincarnate? You know the type – Fab Indian… Long hair… Lenin-ish beards… Pretentious… Douchy…
Well… Now, what do you [...]
New perspectives on 3 Idiots
Published by January 12th, 2010 in Cinema, Personal and Society. 0 CommentsId critiques some of the stereotypes propagated in the movie, and also ponders if the actual impact of a review of the education system will ever happen:
Are Indian parents that heartless/naive to drive their children into depression?
Do Indian youngsters never challenge their parents?
Why is no action taken against students who cheat on exams or violate [...]
Chetan Bhagat, the fourth idiot.
Published by January 3rd, 2010 in Bollywood, Books and Cinema. 9 CommentsIs Chetan Bhagat trying to be the fifth Beatle in the 3 idiots story? Gaurav thinks it is all about the money.
And the contract, which Chopra has put up on his website, clearly states that Bhagat will be mentioned in the “rolling credits”, which appear at the end of the movie. And he has been [...]
Captain Subtext critiques the review of the movie Avatar by Bharadwaj Rangan at DesiPundit:
Of course, Roger Ebert and Raja Sen (I know it’s probably heresy to take their names together) have both praised the film wholeheartedly, but there are others like Baradwaj Rangan, who seem to get a little too anal about the story. Do [...]
Magali Vaz just saw the movie New York, and really liked it. She thinks the US is creating its own terrorists in the name of protecting people:
To the terrorists, any member of a western country like USA, UK etc. is the enemy. And to the law enforcement agencies, any Muslim man is a terrorist. Terrorism seems like [...]
Harini’s insights on how things work or don’t in the ‘unique eco-system’ of the shooting floor:
Last week we were shooting at Sankraman – in Aarey. The same sankraman that was the home to the bulk of the Balaji soaps that used to be on most channels. If you had gone there a year ago – [...]
Lean and unhealthy
Published by October 25th, 2009 in Bollywood, Business, Cinema, Culture and Women. 0 CommentsRum remembers the days when actors didn’t have to starve to look good on screen and blames Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone for starting an unhealthy trend:
I’m not gonna hate on all naturally skinny gals like Anushka Sharma, or others but its just that Kareena Kapoor is going all out to promote an unreal expectation [...]
Scandal in Kodambakkam
Published by October 16th, 2009 in Cinema, Media, Patriarchy, Television and Women. 0 CommentsMaami on the vulnerability of the ‘beautiful women’, moviegoers ‘fantasise on screen as goddesses’:
A cacophony involving a small- time actress, has allegedly accused many senior actresses of Tamil cinema of running brothels has erupted in Chennai. This “confession” was published in the newspaper carrying photographs of the actresses without verifying or seeking their opinion. Afterall actresses are [...]
Memsaab lists her ‘favorite 60’s ‘Western’ songs’:
Lately I’ve had my iPod repeating a playlist that I put together of songs from 1960s films that are just bubbling over with western charm: guitars, trumpets, double basses, and the odd ukelele or two are used in what still remain quintessentially Hindi film songs. These are songs that [...]
The Holy Cow had fun watching this Salman Khan movie.
Despite the fact that the question of why someone in their right mind would want to showcase Salman Khan’s dancing is beyond my limits of comprehension, I have to say that Wanted was bizarre, entertaining and all in all quite hilarious. Not because of subtle humour [...]
Movie Review : Dil bole hadippa
Published by September 19th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Review. 1 CommentThis film had problems – predictable story, the whole holier-than-thou spiel, and an overdose of Punjab ke sarson ke khet (mustard fields). Inspite of all this, “Dil bole hadippa” was a decent entertainer and I gave it an above average rating. Why ?
Well, firstly because it was relatively clean. . . And secondly, for a [...]
Jaane tu ya jaane na : pros and cons
Published by September 18th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Review. 0 CommentsBeth loves Bollywood reviews “Jaane tu ya jaane na” remarking strongly on the personality of the film and dwelling on a Bollywoodian female type – the Manic Pixie Dream Girl :
My most significant complaint is probably with the character of Aditi, who is of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl type that I utterly loathe, [...]
Movie Preview : What’s your Rashee ?
Published by September 16th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Preview. 5 CommentsIn this film, a guy, Yogesh Patel, wants to meet 12 women in 10 days to select the woman of his dreams. I think this film will be fun, but my . . er . . womanly instincts want to give Yogesh :
. . . a swift kick in the back-side, and natural cynicism raises [...]
Over at Sheetal Vyas’s blog – read up about the Kabir film festival:
The films are avowedly a personal search as far as Shabnam Virmani is concerned. She wields the camera herself, we see her occasionally caught in mirrors or shadows but she pervades the films far more than through appearances alone. She is addressed by [...]
Banno gives us a screenplay summary of the opening scenes of Bimal Roy’s “Parakh” and how within a span of minutes six different characters are introduced:
So, in virtually one scene set in the post office, within the first 6-7 minutes of the film, we meet 6 characters and one off-screen character. We learn a little [...]
Music Review : Blue (or Merriam-Webster’s definition of Chiggy-wiggy)
Published by September 12th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Music. 6 CommentsBy now everyone and his uncle have heard “Chiggy Wiggy”. What ! you haven’t ? No, worries, my dear – Blogbharti is here (I sometimes contemplate starting up a poetry blog but people dissuade me). But I digress.
Bhargav Saikia wants to chiggy-wiggy :
Chiggy Wiggy will be a big hit with Kylie Minogue fans and that’s [...]
I quite liked this low-key, humorous film :
Ranjit Kapoor, writer and director (he also wrote dialogues for Jaane bhi do yaaron), does a pretty good job for a small-budget film – it was interesting, clean and had genuine humor. While it does get a little moralistic and preachy – Hadbehdi has no alcohol shops and [...]
Upcoming films for September
Published by September 7th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and India. 0 CommentsAh, Kaminey fever having (almost) abated, it’s time to check out some fresh releases. September brings some humor, some action and some good old-fashioned Punjabi “hadippa”. Here are details.
Preview : Dil bole hadippa
Published by September 5th, 2009 in Bollywood, Cinema and Preview. 0 Comments“Dil bole Hadippa” releases in 2 weeks. The story seems a little ghisa-pita, but you decide; here’s a preview of the Shahid Kapoor, Rani Mukherjee starrer at Amodini’s Movie Reviews :
Aditya Chopra produces again, this time taking bankable stars Shahid Kapoor and Rani Mukherjee. “Dil bole hadippa” is another spin-off off of the (reliable ?) oft-repeated [...]
Global Madrasi goes down the memory lane and remembers the time when he interviewed Rajesh Khanna.
“Hey, I want to interview some Bollywood star,” I told colleagues. The immediate reaction was laughter. “You Madrasi. First speak Hindi. Will you have the guts to interview a film star?”
“Maybe you should start with Rajesh Khanna. He is coming [...]
Saurabh is impressed
Kaminey is a movie of attitude not a masala film. You have to be very attentive while watching the movie, if you miss a single scene I am sure you wont be able to understand the movie. I must say a well made film, very appealing and surely a candyfloss movie.
GF also thinks [...]
jaage hain deir tak,humein kuch der soney do,
thodi si raat aur hai,subah to hone do.
aadhe adhoore khwaab, jo poore na ho sake,
ek baar fir se neend mein,wo khwaab bone do
The above four lines are of a song from movie Guru. Sandeip thought the song was incomplete, and tried to give it a more fruitful, meaningful [...]
Hasan gives you three reasons to watch it:
There are three reasons why you must catch Love Aaj Kal ASAP – dialogues, performances and music. Imtiaz Ali’s tale of love, then and now is a light hearted and refreshing watch.
Veteran reviewer Meetu can see it over and over again:
If you think you are game for a [...]
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