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While a ‘Sex and the City’ and ‘The Devil wears Prada’ has the element of fashion and eccentricity ooze from every corner, a film like ‘Gia’ had powerful characters. The idea behind mentioning these films is not to bring a sense of comparison, but to highlight elements that seem missing in ‘Fashion’. Having watched Bhandarkar’s other movies, in ‘Fashion’ I felt he has not covered new ground, and

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Drona and Kidnap are big film in all respects - big stars, big canvas, big expenditure, big ad spend, big expectations. Sadly, they are a big, big, big letdown as well and people are already comparing these films to the recent supreme disasters like Saawariya, RGV Ki Aag and Love Story 2050 or the all time classic disasters like Razia Sultan or Roop ki Rani Choron ka Raja.In Drona there are a few

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One man makes all the difference - Naseeruddin Shah. To breathe life into such a simplistically written character is indeed a challenge, and Shah does exceedingly well and actually with his brilliance takes it to another level. So strong is his portrayal that you almost empathize with his angst. You forget that he is just an actor mouthing lines given to him by the dialogue

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I saw ‘Rock On’ a couple of days back. After I came out of the theater, I went back to all the things portrayed in the movie, and thought it was a very influential movie signifying some of the very bitter truths of life. Each one of us has some dream. Someone wants to be a pilot, someone wants to play cricket for India, someone wants to make an Oscar winning film…. ‘Rock On’ is a fairy tale that

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The great debate between science and superstition continues, but RGV’s ‘Phoonk’ tilts in favour of superstition, civilised society may frown at superstition and blind belief but as a subject, it works big time because somewhere deep within all of us, we’ve heard of the power of the unknown. Whether you’re superstitious or not, you may have heard tales / experiences concerning black magic / voodoo

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Post 2006 train bomb blasts in Mumbai, there was a newspaper headline – ‘Mumbai Ripped Apart’. The same day, another national daily carried the same news, but with a different approach towards it. It read – ‘Mumbai Survives’. It was just the difference in various point of views from which people looked at the entire incident. ‘Mumbai Meri Jaan’ tries to deal with the same. At one level, it shows

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The promise that Ranbir Kapoor displayed in Saawariya, his debut venture, has been duly fulfilled in this breezy, urbane tale of love and longing, set against a come-of-age backdrop of 21st century twenty-something Indians. Here is a crackling bunch of gals and guys who mirror the mores and manners of modern India. And leading the bratpack, or should we say, carrying the film through, is the

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Off late, the Hindi Cinema is all about making big bucks. Get a star worth crores, a director who’s had a hit or two, location shoot in the exotic foreign locales; go far out to the maximum extent with the publicity. And you’ve got the initial audience. Unless your luck is really as bad as Yashraj’s ‘Tashan’, it’s a winner formula. The opening disclaimer in ‘Singh is Kinng’ included lines to

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‘Yeh Bambai hai. Yahan par sabke paas script hai. Doodhwale se leker Bhansali tak’. This is a line that a peon rudely tells Ranvir Shorey when he goes to sell his girlfriend’s script to a production house. But, obviously the director Sachin Kamalakar when making this film didn’t have a script because ‘Ugly aur Pagli’ is a poor & ugly copy of Korean classic ‘My Sassy Girl’ which was adapted from a

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‘Kathanayakudu’ is a remake of the hit Malayalam film ‘Katha Parayambol’ a modern take on the Krishna-Sudama story, with an obvious twist. It could have been a simple and unsophisticated story with a touching theme of friendship. But what it ends up is being raw, loud and missing all that little moments that the movie needs. While the title has been chosen keeping the Super Star status of

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Please put your hands together to felicitate the one and only Apoorva Lakhia for making the worst film of the year so far – Mission Istanbul. This one's a Turkey if there ever was one, and to relish it, you've got to be in the mood for Christmas! To put it mildly, ‘Mission Istanbul’ is ‘Murder of Cinema’ and I am sure the future generations of film students could write several theses on this

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The loose translation of the above Urdu couplet by legendary poet Momin Khan would be: All your life you lived in non-Muslim ways. In your old age, how can you become a Muslim? For me this couplet quiet sums up Khuda Ke Liye – In the Name of God. I’ve been reading a lot about Khuda Ke Liye – first Pakistani movie to release in India after 43 years, a movie that has become a craze all over

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RGV is amongst the finest storytellers Bollywood has produced, no two opinions on that but I guess there has been an overkill of underworld films from RGV himself, everyone’s seen that and done with. While going to Contract, if one expects some serious insight into the nexus between Mumbai underworld and the terror network then RGV’s underworld-meets-terrorism flick is a major disappointment! At

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'Rewind' which had a successful premiere at the Locarno International Film Festival is probably the world's first short film that’s truly reverse. Unlike a Memento or Irreversible, 'Rewind' is a shot by shot reverse film. It is also a first where the film is moving in reverse while the voiceover is moving forward. 'Rewind' recounts backwards, the last moments of three friends who are betting

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After my last post here, where I had written about the ‘Top 10 Asian Films – Action’ by Samuel L Jackson, a few of my friends told me to try and write my favourite Top 10 Films of Bollywood in 2007. As said earlier, though I am not into making my top 10 lists, here I am just trying to see if I can really do it… Of late, Indian film industry is changing and every year its bringing new

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It's always nice when someone you respect shares your opinion. So I was pleased to read Samuel L Jackson's list of his Top 10 Classic Asian Films. Jackson, of course, knows a thing or two about action flicks for sure. In fact, he co-starred with Geena Davis, in one of my favorite Hollywood action film - The Long Kiss Goodnight. Here's Samuel L Jackson's complete list:

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The era of simple story telling is finally back in Bollywood. Oh! How we missed all this while. Film making is essentially about telling a story and Jaane tu… hits bulls eye here... Debutant director Abbas Tyrewala (who claim to fame was the dialogues of the Munna Bhai series, Maqbool, Main Hoon Na, etc.,) holds great potential and has penned some amazing dialogues and lyrics. Some of the

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The ensemble star-cast consisting of Kay Kay, Rajat Kapoor, Vinay Pathak, Sonali Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Simone Singh, Prashant Narayanan etc., drew me to a nearby multiplex to watch Via Darjeeling. I went in with a lot of expectations to watch a different movie with great performances. Right from the word go, the film went tragically awry as first-time director Arindam Nandy ends up

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I often have trouble getting friends to commit to a destination, price, or time off for a trip! If I waited to find friends for trips, I'd be staying home way too much! I decided years ago not to stay home if I had no one to travel with, and have gone on numerous trips alone ever since. Actually, my two week trip to Bangkok, Singapore, Hong Kong & Macau started with four friends. Three days

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Actually when I made my itinerary I didn't include Macau. I was supposed to go to Hong Kong from Bangkok. The flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong was costing me $375+ and I found a ridiculously low fare of $200+ from Bangkok to Macau, with that kind of price differential I enthusiastically added this interesting destination to my itinerary as I can always catch a high-speed ferry across to Hong Kong

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Bollywood has never had a background in realism. It consisted of escapist musicals with common storylines of ‘good vs evil’ and ‘boy meets girl’. The films were generally family orientated and the plot was kept simple so that even the rural audience would find it easy to relate to. Of late, there has been a dramatic shift in the style of filmaking due to the globalisation of films. The Indian

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In 2005-06, Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon produced and directed a political thriller / travelogue ‘Cavite’ on a miniscule budget, a two-man crew comprised of themselves, a guerilla-style shoot through the slums and streets of the film’s title city, and the selling of their equipment on eBay to complete postproduction. The result was a realistic crime drama that transcends its generic origins

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There was a lot of expectation on Dasavataram for very good reasons; the hype and every thing about it. Dasavataram, in which Kamal Hasan plays 10 roles, has nothing to do with Vishnu's Dasavataram or generations. Kamal plays 10 different roles in the film and most of them are enacted well and distinctive. In a way this is a definition of what an actor Kamal Hasan is! <!--[if !

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