Archive for December, 2006

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    NO SMOKING : Prayogshala Mein Prayog
    Anurag’s favorite part of the film has started. It’s Baba Bengali’s legacy, with much awaited Anurag’s very own Gabbar, Paresh Rawal taking the centre stage! An old deserted mill touching the east sea coast in Colaba is the stage for Prayogshala. Its became a favourite spot for Bollywood after the dock scenes of ‘Hum’ and ‘Agneepath’ were shot. For films...
    by Manjeet Singh at December 31st, 2006 at 08:12 pm
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    few pics from no-smoking – dec28
    sorry guys could not click the “prayogshala” nor “john”..nor “paresh rawal”[sala vasan to pir kiya kya????]……anyways a few which i managed. this does have the Narnia guy too. there is a poster i designed too. hopetodo better job if there is a next time.
    by Vasan Bala at December 30th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
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    Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar! – A bittersweet life PART I
    I hate the past. But I still cannot help looking back. Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar is perhaps the most bittersweet experience of my life. A film whose highs and lows began way before it even started. Sometime in August 1997 music baron Gulshan Kumar was brutally killed by unidentified assailants. There were many unsuccessful attempts on film personalities before this and it was...
    by Hansal Mehta at December 30th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
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    Derecho de Familia (Family Law)
    Along with Indian movies, Argentinian ones are my favourite at the moment. Completely different from each other, I know, but maybe that is what makes it more attractive and balanced, watching such different kind of cinema. What I like about Argentinian films is their simplicity, the natural way in which the actors perform and the mixture of moving and emotive scenes with...
    by Monica at December 29th, 2006 at 11:12 am
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    IF I HAD MY WAY …
    If I Had My Way … If I Had My Way, plays would have an expiry date labelled on their foreheads. If I Had My Way, I would put a cd player in the tummy of each and every actor, and I would permit him or her to talk, only, after pressing the ON button. If I Had My Way, I would have a two-minute silence before every show in order to express my sympathy with the impoverishment...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at December 29th, 2006 at 10:12 am
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    2007 : Looking Good…
    OK I know that this is very predictable and clichéd but let me do it…. Its that time of the year when we look back and look ahead. There are no doubts about this year being one of the happiest for the industry in terms of commercial success. Hits were galore, and the cash registers kept ringing Friday after Friday. Whatever came our way we took it to the top and no...
    by Tushar at December 29th, 2006 at 06:12 am
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    Some Movie! – Charlotte’s Web
    I wasn’t going to post on this film, but after Cliff shared the tragedy of taking his family to see Happy Feet, I thought I would review another Hollywood “family” feature, one that is truly a entertaining, family film. First, forget Leonardo DiCaprio, Forest Whitaker, Will Smith, or any of the other names being mentioned for Best Actor in next year’s...
    by t! at December 28th, 2006 at 02:12 pm
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    No Smoking,Mukesh Mills,Colaba,Dec28′06
    “This film has three colors….black …white and shit”……this is what Anurag replied to an actor who was playing a nurse who said the film has black and white…2 colors. I was just eavesdropping shamelessly and have no idea in what context it was but that was just what it was at the No-Smoking shoot at Mukesh Mills, Colaba. Intriguing, wacky, puzzling….and...
    by Vasan Bala at December 28th, 2006 at 11:12 am
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    NO SMOKING @ DHARAVI – PICTURES
    Friends! I don’t think i’ve done such appalling photography ever in my life. Have been resisting from posting these online, but PFC are a determined lot. See, as i posted earlier, i landed at the No Smoking shoot only with the intention of getting a feel of the shooting, milieu and of course to observe AK at work. Capturing images was incidental…never...
    by Smriti Vij. at December 28th, 2006 at 08:12 am
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    Size doesn’t matter!
    I love short films. They’re perfect for when you’re in the mood to watch a film but don’t have the time. Hell, I even try to catch a couple here and there during the day at work. Sadly, the market for short films is just not there with the masses. Unless a Darna Mana Hai or Darna Zaroori Hai comes along with Ramu’s banner behind it, the audience...
    by striker at December 27th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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    A tribute to Prem Naseer- Evergreen Hero of yesteryears.
    You wanted low budget, commercial movies?-Prem Naseer doled out 100’s of them, over 700 to give a ballpark figure. Cine Goers loved him, especially women who loved the tear jerker family dramas he acted in with Sheela, Sharada and Jayabharati. If Sathyan was the upper-crust elitist’s accomplished actor, Prem Naseer was everybody’s hero, a true blue collar...
    by Cliff at December 27th, 2006 at 08:12 am
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    very odd, what happens in a world without children’s voices: notes on CHILDREN OF MEN
    Alfonso Cuarón achieves a rare and deeply satisfying balance between form and content with Children of Men, a tale set in a dystopian future (2027, we are told) plagued by infertility and hurtling to doom as people and lands are devastated by war, civil and political breakdown and terrorism. We are in the London of the future. The urban landscape is bleak, polluted, filthy...
    by George Thomas at December 26th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
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    Yuva and Ayutha Ezhuthu : Differences
    Both made by Mani Ratnam. Ayutha Ezhuthu – the Tamil version was made first, I guess… after which Ratnam started work on Yuva. Watched Ayuthha Ezhutha with English sub titles (courtesy: striker’s info about iTalkies.com and Kartik’s pushing me to watch Ayutha Ezhuthu was driving me to the point of insanity) Since the notes I made while watching...
    by oz at December 26th, 2006 at 10:12 am
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    Whats Going On…
    You take… The most charismatic directors of Hindi cinema a.k.a. KARAN JOHAR                              + Add to that the most famous bolly star ever…the legend of Indian Cinema i.e. AMITABH BACHCHAN                              + Most famous bolly star of current generation (and the only one to match...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 26th, 2006 at 06:12 am
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    Drugs + Movie = MASTERPIECE?
    AM NOT THE ONE WHO’S SO FAR AWAY WHEN I FEEL THE SNAKEBITE ENTER MY VEIN. NEVER DID I WANNA BE HERE AGAIN AND I DONT REMEMEBER WHY I CAME……. AM BREATHING…..FEELING….AM COMING BACK AGAIN…..VODOOO….VODOOOO……I NEED SERENITY AT A PLACE WHERE I CANT HIDE thank you Godsmack Motherfucker seperate the seeds from the...
    by OM at December 25th, 2006 at 04:12 pm
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    The Rotten Kids Of Papa Hollywood
    Not all kids are the same.Never.Some are dumb,some are bright,some naughty and some simply devils! Now the big dads of Hollywood, running the studios are surely baffled when disobedient , wicked and rotten kids like the Coen brothers,Charlie Kaufman,Wes Anderson and Tarantino come up with their scripts. Not only are these scripts devoid of the conventional thrills and...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 25th, 2006 at 11:12 am
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    Sitcoms
    I am not that familiar with (history of) Indian Television (shows), however, I want to write about sitcoms on our Indian Television. That is because, I believe, sitcom is one of the hardest form to direct and make it success. So I just want to give a bit of limelight to those kind of shows. And I love this kind of art; I (sort of) have been grown up with watching all British,...
    by Honhaar Goonda at December 24th, 2006 at 08:12 am
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    Where we come from
    As we watch the films of today, it is great to take a moment and think about where this medium has evolved from. In the 1890s, the Lumiere brothers were hard at work to make a motion picture camera. Their father was a photographer and working for him, the men were introduced to the medium and the materials. These are the guys who invented the sprocket hole – the holes...
    by Shripriya Mahesh at December 23rd, 2006 at 01:12 pm
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    Bhram : Blogging from Madh Island
    It took two days to erect larger than life sets on a beach in front of a bungalow in secluded Madh Island. The call time was 7:00pm and went on till the sunrise. It was an elite party set. It required tons of light to illuminate it. Even the coconut trees in the background were lit separately. 30-40 junior artists were called to represent socialites. As the night grew...
    by Manjeet Singh at December 23rd, 2006 at 09:12 am
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    Sholay News bulletin
    Sometime back in one of the interviews Ram Gopal Verma said that he wanted to run a film magazine/trade guide. I feel, now its the right time for him to do so. If you have been following all those news about RamGopal Verma ke Sholay then you must have realised how every 15 days there is some bit of info about the film. First the casting news, then new Gabbar’s new...
    by Phoenixnu at December 23rd, 2006 at 02:12 am
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    Censorship: And Theatre in India
    Nagpur. 23rd and 24th September. Three shows of the Hindi play COTTON 56, POLYESTER 84 were cancelled. The cancellation of the shows were on a technicality: improper licensing. But if that was the case how does one explain, two armoured vans, plaincloth policemen, tearing down of banners of the plays, cutting off the power supply in the auditorium, messages hurtling through...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at December 22nd, 2006 at 09:12 am
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    Waisa Bhi Hota Hai Part II: looking back
    There are quite a few movies which arouse your curiosity, due to various reasons, before or after they release. You are used to going to movies based on reviews. You don’t get a really positive review; so, you give the movie a skip since you have others to catch. Later, you keep hearing about that movie and wonder if you missed a gem. You hope to catch it on TV or...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 22nd, 2006 at 04:12 am
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    From the sets of Bhram
    The outsiders think of film industry as extremely risky, where the Stars make billions, while the others are left poor. There are so many money making businesses/professions involved other than acting or directing. One of them is renting out the gadgets used in the films in art department. On the sets of ‘Brahm’ there was a plasma TV, which costed 7000rs/day, a music...
    by Manjeet Singh at December 21st, 2006 at 10:12 am
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    Happy Feet- The kids got suckered on this one!!
    I wonder if Sirjee and Betelal have watched “Happy Feet” yet. I am pretty sure Sirjee would whack Betelal on his head for getting aroused and lusting for a bosomy female penguin after watching this movie. Knowing betelal he would be making suggestive pelvic thrusts and dancing provocatively for the next few days :-) Seriously, what were the “Warner...
    by Cliff at December 21st, 2006 at 08:12 am
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    BEING ON A FILM SHOOT
    (Warning – no offence to anyone – but my words have potential to be injurious to health! They’re usually honest n sharp!) ….ACTION! This year I learnt, ‘Films are about people’ –Those who work on the film – crew, cast, everyone who puts in their sweat, blood, grey cells – black hair that turn grey…etc … – Those who are in the film itself...
    by Smriti Vij. at December 21st, 2006 at 01:12 am
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    Fate Unknown – Anjaan
    It was a quiet day at work today. In the dark, cold confines of the edit suite my editor was assembling a scene from my new film ‘Woodstock Villa’. Its quite amazing. Its been ten years since I’ve been making movies. I still marvel at watching the dailies. The process of editing still scares me. All that you have shot takes on a completely new perspective...
    by Hansal Mehta at December 20th, 2006 at 03:12 pm
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    Mr. & Mrs. Iyer
    Cliff reviews Mr. & Mrs. Iyer: Better late than never….. right? I have been meaning to write my piece for a long time, there are so many movies I’d like to review- “Saat Hindustani”, “Baalak”, “Aasheerwad”, “Mere Apne” to name a few. But I am going to input my 2 cents worth on “Mr & Mrs Iyer”...
    by Cliff at December 20th, 2006 at 11:12 am
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    NO SMOKING: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF AN A.D…PART 1
    It’s nineteenth December…My pre set mobile alarm goes off at 6.30 am…no idea since when it has been yelling at me to get my ass off the bed…I look at the watch…it’s gleefully announces 6.35…just a thought of crosses my mind …can I catch another ten minutes …NO…fear creeps in…what if that ten minutes turn out be an hour…NO…Boy we are shooting at...
    by Rajkumar at December 20th, 2006 at 08:12 am
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    A conversation with Sir Vijay Tendulkar
    On 17th dec 06, i was at NCPA for my first performance in mumbai,thanx to Thespo8 and Quasar Padamsay. My theatre gang from IT BHU,varanasi had arrived to watch it,12 of them.one of my juniors,abhijeet before coming to mumbai, had a talk with Sir Vijay Tendulkar on phone and had asked for a meeting during his visit to which he had agreed. On 18th march,while all of them...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 20th, 2006 at 07:12 am
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    Syriana and beyond…
    This movie had excited me ever since I heard about it and I managed to watch it after a bit of a wait. Let’s start with the bottom-line. Yes, it’s serious, but less boring than Traffic (same writer, Stephen Gaghan and direction by Steven Soderbergh, who has produced this one along with George Clooney) — is that because the problem is more grave? There...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 20th, 2006 at 04:12 am
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