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Kamal Hassan…. One of the best-EVER actor Indian cinema has given birth to has started working on his new project. Something so big and so glaringly different, that i bet no Indian cinema has ever produced. Just to get you started, the movie has Mallika ” mere kanne sillicon hain” sherawat in it. You may ask so what?

So what?

Mallika Sherawat with Kamal… Doesn’t it excite you?

No!!!!

Alright how about Mallika Sherawat Twice?

Twice?

Double role!!!

Wow double role huh!!! sweet.

Yeah Mallika will be playing a double role for the first time in her career.

Wow we always knew Kamal wanted as many women as he can in his movies. But why Mallika twice?

Because He is playing not one, not two, not three, no, no no… but freaking ten roles

WHAT?

Yep his new movie is titled DASHAVATARAM( Ten Avataars). Now insiders say he is playing the roles of orthodox …

I don’t have a fear of Snakes but I will think twice before touching them. Imagine putting 450 snakes on a plane. Samuel Jackson stars in a snake movie called “Snakes on a Plane” and as the name suggest, it is just that many, many snakes on a plane.

The movie is an action beast film like Anaconda and is targeted to give you thrills for almost two hours and for those two hours it almost succeeds.

The story is simple. A surfer on a vacation in Hawaii, Sean Jones played by Nathan Philips sees a murder being committed by a mafia boss. After an unsuccessful attempt on his life, Sean joins hands with Neville Flynn played by Samuel L Jackson, a FBI agent and take off to LA to testify against the mafia boss. The mafia boss in an attempt to kill him plants 450 snakes in the cargo. He sprays …

Oh boy what a week! Some interesting snippets, some boring coverage… it seems we and the media are so hungry about news from Bollywood that any news is great news. One news spread over a million different sites covering Bollywood. It isn’t easy to miss “ANY” news on Bollywood if you simply visit one or two sites. That’s all it takes to get the latest on what’s happening in apun ka tinsel town.

Thought I’ll post in short news snippets of today for you to munch along with your tea or coffee or perhaps beer (if you are reading it late in the evening… but if you are what the hell are you doing at home on a late Friday evening??? You need oz’s Pickup Game skills… PRONTO!!!)

Well news is that Ram Gopal Varma is hell bent on starting the shooting of Sholay even if “Allah, Jesus Christ and Vaishno Devi” …

Director: Sujoy Ghosh
Written by: Sujoy Ghosh
Actors: Viveck Oberio, Boman Irani, Ayesha Takia, Mahima Chaudhry, Juhi Chawla, Karan Johar, Shaurab Shukla
Music by: Vishal and Shehkar
Year 2005

Apparently this movie was classified as the worst movie of year 2005, as it did not click at the box office and was heavily criticized by the critics. I have seen Home Delivery at least five times and yet I have not found a flaw in this movie. I did not think it was buckvaas. I did not think it was okay. I did not think it was good. I thought it was brilliant.

Home Delivery is about Sunny Chopra (Viveck Oberio), who is a lazy git, a compulsive liar, and gyan guru(agony aunt). He has to complete writing a script for Karan Johar in a day. Juhi Chawla is after him as he has been taking sick from work. Sunny’s girlfriend Jenny(Ayesha Takia) wants to …

I saw a film yesterday and was itching to write post about superheroes in hindi films. yeah yeah I know…everybody was talking abt it when krr-eeesshhh was released like a fart in an elevator - you just cant avoid it and the man who does it slyly smiles !So i will talk of other films and avoid krrish ( sorry hritik..next time)

so everybody was talking of indian superheroes..here is my take on bollywood’s superheroes…

1) Puneet Issar in superman. YES my friends..yes. Based on the actual superman, we had a hairy punjaabi jatth Puneet (duryodhan) issar as the man in blue. replete with the costume and the S logo! do u know who played Jor el? sadda dharmendra! Now c’mon run along to the nearest Video library ( I dont think they even converted it to CD format) and pick it up for seeing the most amazing effects in Indian …

I heard about this a few weeks ago and walked away from the article thinking it was just pure gossip. But another article comes up on this today. Anyone in NY can confirm this?

It’s about Aditya Chopra and Rani Mukherjee. And they are seeing each other. Aditya is married. Rani is not. A slight pique of interest because it involves two of the biggest personalities in Bollywood. And since I’m not too good (or keen) on writing “gossip” here’s what Mid-day reports…

Rani Mukerji and family might go blue in the face denying her link-up with Aditya Chopra, but the fact remains that a certain Chopra junior has been frequenting USA on the pretext of editing Yash Raj Films next production, Tara Rum Pum (starring Saif and Rani). Rumour has it that the visits are very hush-hush, with not even the unit being aware of …

Do cars have an ego?
Can cars be mean?
Can cars have an attitude?
Can cars smile, cry, laugh?
Can cars play pranks on other cars?
Can cars fall in love?
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Do cars have emotions?

If you have ever wondered the above things, then at the end of this masterpiece from Pixar, I am sure you will have the answers. And the answer to all these questions is “Yes”.

Cars is a movie about a young race car Lightning McQueen and his (yes, you read it right – HIS and not it’s!) realization of the meaning of life. It’s a movie about the transformation of a rookie champion from a vain car to a car who realizes that there’s more to life than winning. It’s a movie where the race car learns that there are times when you need to slow down to smell the roses.

It’s a movie in which all humans, animals and even insects have been …

yup. netflix claims another victim. i haven’t gotten butterflies in my stomach like this since the day i shot for my first movie, or played in my first varsity soccer game in college, or asked a cute gori girl to the homecoming dance during my sophomore year in high school (sure, she said no, but seriously, what the hell was i expecting?). i felt like a kid in a candy store with an unlimited gift certificate as i browsed their movies. i’m all set to make the most of my one-month free rental. signed up for 4 movies at a time, with the intent of catching up on all the movies i’d missed during my 6-month stay in india, and also all the movies i’d been telling myself for a long time that i’d get around to watching some day.
i lost my netflix virginity to …

It looks great as always, the man knows his cinematography. This is his latest film called, “I’m a cyborg, but that’s ok.”
DL the trailer from here

Rumor is that his next film will be a vampire film. Perhaps a supernatural trilogy then?
Let’s see Sanjay Gupta copy his way into this one
Actually, he probably won’t.
Source: Twitchfilm.

Headsup everyone. The Screenwriting Expo will be held this year in Los Angeles from October 19 -22.

There’s a massive amount of knowledge which they will be sharing via seminars and classes. I like the fact that they have screenwriting workshops planned for different genres.

Registration details are here.

The entire details of the seminar are available in this catalog (pdf format).

The first Screenplay I read - Pulp Fiction - Real Life to Scripts!!!

I had just started getting into writing short play scripts and used to submit them for online publications. More often than not, they would be rejected for some strange reason. Writing was something I liked and I never did out of money (it always starts like this especially if you are in a comfy job).

I used to come over to office on Saturdays too, since for an introvert and not so social person like me, weekends were a bore (I’m staying alone in an alien city). Then I started researching more about Films and plays etc. Everywhere I searched I used to land up on one name (writer/director) that usually everyone seemed to be in awe of.

Quentin Tarantino

Who the hell was this guy that every film maker/writer was in awe of. I checked up …

Shriranga Deshmukh or Ranga as he is known to his family and friends is a frustrated angry man. Ready to blow any time, he is especially angry with women. He has a female boss in his office, who is angry about all men. At home, he is surrounded by his wife, his mother, his sister and his grandmother. He feels women are in control and from time to time he feels all women are ready to torture him and make his life hell. A yearly trip to the village’s festival gives him power to listen to women and what follows is a hilarious journey of one man trying to understand what women want and say. Sanjay Narvekar stars as Ranga in Kedar Shinde directed Marathi movie “Aga Bai…. Arechya”
The story appears familiar to Mel Gibson’s starrer “What women want”. Although the central idea is the same, the story is highly …

The Film: Show me love

The Cast: Rebecka Liljeberg, Alexandra Dahlstrom, Erica Carlson, Mathis Rust

The Director: Lukas Moodysson

1998, Sweden

The Plot: It is a story of Elin and Agnes who are a pair of teenage girls trapped in the small town of Amal, an isolated place where nothing ever happens. Elin is teased for being an outsider, but she doesn’t realize that Agnes has a crush on her. After an accidental kiss, the two girls must learn about themselves and their identities.

Now the moment you say “teenage film”, what comes to mind immediately is those Hollywood films about adolescent girls focusing on 2 things: boyfriends and popularity. It’s not surprising or unrealistic, as they are important during “high school”, and form a significant portion of the average teenager’s existence. With hormones raging and bodies changing, they struggle to bolster their self-esteem.

However, American filmmakers are often more interested in presenting lightweight, feel-good romantic …

RDB over Omkara for Oscars!!!!

As I’m writing this article I’m listening to the title track of Omkara and wondering what Vishal Bhardwaj must be feeling when he heard this news. RDB selected over Omkara and other nominees (Krishh, Fanaa, KANK, Lage raho)

Much has been said about Omkara and yet I will afford to venture an opinion. Since I feel f***ing frustrated and stupid while writing this post. It only confirms what my close friend D from school used to say before he left for USA for Masters “India is a f***ed up country. It is a crime to be born here”

Satya-ignored criminally by Filmfare over Kuch kuch hota hai. Paanch/Black Friday still not released but Murder and Sins (yuck!!!) get amazing opening (pun intended). Water - a film on widows of Varanasi is ironically shot in Sri Lanka due to protests. Films by Maniratnam like Iruvar, Nayagan …

Directed by: Shashanka Ghosh
Written by:Shashanka Ghosh
Actors: Arshad Warsi, Prashant Narayan, Sandhya Mridul
Year: 2003

So from the above details you can see that the movie is three years old and you might not remember anything about the movie if you have seen it. But I doubt that would be the case cos it’s one of the movie that sticks in your mind after seeing it. And if you have not seen it then you must. Why? Just continue reading this mini-review of the movie.

Basically, it is a spoof gangster film. Punit Sanyal played by Arshad Warsi, is a copy-writer - his ambitions is to earn heaps of money in certain time so he can retire and enjoy the life with his wife Agni Sinh played by Sandhya Mridul. She is a policewoman. One night Punit gets kicked out of house by his wife after she finds out Punit’s dark secret …

Dor - cut it short Mr Nagesh !!!!

Ok first things first… Everybody is screaming that Dor is a must watch like here. I didnt read the review as I knew I will anyways watch a nagesh kukonoor film. I saw The Warrior(Irfan khan) on my comp and Khosla Ka Ghosla a day before. I thought my time was lucky So I went to the hall with anticipation in my heart.
What happened the next two hours made me want to go puke!!!

You may ask why??? And here is an example.

U heard Aashiq banaya aapney track for the first time…You like himesh’s voice. You think its pretty good and different. The feeling is also there in Aksar - Jhalak dikhlaja …. Slowly slowly u grow bored of it…. Himesh begins to hit u on the head with his nasal outpours. So much that when u hear …

It’s time to officially recognize the arrival of Gen 21. The first mast mast batch of writers in Bollywood. Ironically many find a place to stand in this busy bazaar because of Ram Gopal Varma, whose script sense seems to have gone for a toss. It’s time to sit up and recognize the struggles and efforts this first generation of Bollywood writers in the 21st century are going through, just to bring out positive, meaningful cinema – cinema they believe in, you believe in, I believe in.

Jaideep Sahni, Aurag Kashyap, Abbas Tyrewala, Sriram Raghavan, Imtiaz Ali, Jahnu Barua, Nagesh Kukunoor, Anurag Basu, Sandeep Shrivastav and a few others that I may have missed in this Gen 21 that make you jump off your seat and do a Balle Balle.

Yet this Gen 21 may quickly disappear into the fast setting sun, if you and I …

Watched Training day.

Pathetic. Even better: utter crap. But will give it a humble 4/10

Denzel washington sucks in this movie and no surprise he won the ‘Best actor’ oscar. Same old ‘over the top’ bad guy routine with irritating gimmicks throughout. I heard it was bad but couldn’t be worse. Tainted Oscars ditched his “Malcolm X” (the year Pacino was ‘compensated’ for his earlier miss) and even “Hurricane” (close but spacey was brilliant in “American beauty”).

Oscar has always been a sham. No doubt over it! Turned into a show business now. But I watch for an entirely different reason. Like last year it was nice when Clint joked ‘he is a kid’ compared to Lumet. Pacino presenting lifetime achievement award to Lumet (they both made a good and a very average movie together) and the speech. These are special moments. It has definitely turned into one major spectacle.

I appreciate they compensated …

It seems Bollywood is spreading through Germany like wild fire. According to this news snippet on Yahoo News seems, it seems like there are three publications completely dedicated to Bollywood. Further now Germany will have a news agency whose sole job will be to gather any news on Bollywood!!! Is this the right time to enter Bollywood or associate yourself with Bollywood if you’ve been planning on it? Is Bollywood gonna storm the world markets pretty soon, and now’s the time to jump on the bandwagon?

Bollywood seems to be catching the fancy of Germans in a big way. After last month’s launch of three German magazines on Bollywood, it’s no surprise that the Germans have launched a news agency dedicated to Bollywood news.

The agency - BNA-Germany - aims to provide first-hand Bollywood news, according to a press release.

Till last month Germans had to rely on English magazines like Filmfare …

An Indian Engineer, Tushar Khot working in America comes on assignment to the village of his ancestors. He tries to stay away from his father who believes in ghost and claims to talk to them. A person of modern times he refuses to believe his father and finds his process disgusting.

The Marathi film “Chakwa” starts with a simple story line of a person returning back to his village. The story changes into a mystery journey once he reaches his village. Staying in his ancestral house, the first night he hears a scream. The second night he hears the scream again and he investigates to find a frightened girl, Janhavi who asks him to leave. He starts feeling that somebody is following him even in the house.

A parallel mystery is the mango pulp factory which has a problem of low production inspite of a bumper crop. The …