Archive for January, 2007

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    The OST Scene in India
    It has been a while since we have had OST’s being released for songless Indian films. The examples have been Black Friday, Sarkar, White noise, Bhoot, Black and more. The masters of the game are Indian Ocean, Salim-Sulaiman, Ashutosh & Dhruv, Midival Punditz, Amar Mohile, Nitin Raikwar, Monty, Sandeep Chowta etc. since Indian films have THE SONG has an indispensable...
    by Tushar at January 31st, 2007 at 07:01 pm
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    Salaam-E-Ishq : Analysis
    Everyone is after Nikhil Advani with hammer and tongs. Salaam-E-Ishq (SEI) is being battered to pulp. Reviewers all over the media are slashing it more violently than the melons in their kitchen. Nothing I’ve seen yet, has much good to talk about SEI… except of course the performances… So here’s a short chitty chitty bang bang on why… oz likes...
    by oz at January 31st, 2007 at 03:01 pm
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    Namesake “Personal” Review
    Hi Folks, Caught a press screening of Namesake yesterday. Like it or lump it, that is your prerogative as a viewer, what I can say is that this is not a movie you can remove immediately from your psyche. At least not from a South Asian American mindset. It lingers on well after the movie is over. It is melancholy and certainly not a “night out at the movies”...
    by Vivek Kumar at January 31st, 2007 at 02:01 pm
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    Naseem : The The Morning Breeze
    With the release of Parzania and the surrounding controversies I’m reminded of another movie that dealt with the same subject. “Dadaji, yeh ashmaan neela kyun hain” “Kyun ki mere ko peela raang pasand nahin, toh maine ise neela rang se paint kiya” This is one of those several memorable dialogue exchanges that characterize the Syed Mirza’s...
    by Bishu. at January 31st, 2007 at 07:01 am
  • 55
    NO SMOKING
    It’s 10th of January, amidst preparation for next day hectic shoot I am informed that I have to leave for TASHKENT (UZBEKISTAN formerly part of USSR) the very next day to overlook the preparation and line up the shoot there…WHAT???…Yeah right…tomorrow…8 PM flight to Delhi and to TASHKENT the very next day, replies our line producer Mr. Inderjeet Chadda, in a...
    by Rajkumar at January 31st, 2007 at 01:01 am
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    THE GREAT INFORMATION AGE!!! NO… PLEASE.. DONT DO THIS
    Over the years we have been struggling to have information and finally the age has arrived but sadly so it has arrived in screenplays too, too much information as if people were morons and has no brains to understand what was being said and could not associate with what has been shown and said earlier in the film or is it because of directors who are themselves not clear...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2007 at 09:01 pm
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    Bad Film? Whats that?
    A Bad film. How many times have we heard that phrase?  Countless number of times. A majority of us use that phrase for almost every second film we hear about.  Do we even see all the films we call crap? We often reach a decision and form a judgement about what is a bad film before seeing it. For eg, if it is a Karan Johar-Yashraj kind of a film, then its probably a bad...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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    BLACK FRIDAY-insecurities..
    If you can’t beat them, do not join them..arrange to have them beaten..and how do you arrange that..by prayers? get God on your side? does he care? is he there?..rest of the industry wants you to help them grow, they don’t want you to grow..have i started believing in conspiracy theories..am i getting delusional again or am i reading too much into things..What...
    by Anurag Kashyap at January 29th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
  • 15
    Castaway at the No-Smoking shoot
    No I did not loose weight like Tom Hanks [I wish I had] nor did I grow a beard neither am I an expert at striking a fish from 100 meters with a handmade spear. Then why castway? I’ll come to that in a moment. It was the last but one day of the No-Smoking shoot. Yup I know we had already declared it was wraps and we had the PFC member pics clicked with Anurag and John….yes..yes…there...
    by Vasan Bala at January 29th, 2007 at 07:01 pm
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    My first Short film – The Tsunami Projekt
    Ok ok finally, with the help of Wasan, I’ve finally managed to upload the short FTII student film for which I had written the story,screenplay, dialogues. This film is titled The Tsunami Projekt and was shot on a shoe string budget with minimal resources on DV. It was a part of the student assignments/project given to the FTII students in their first year. Shahab...
    by kartik krishnan at January 29th, 2007 at 01:01 am
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    BLACK FRIDAY-Finally…
    The media blitzkrieg has started..i am giving interviews everywhere..its all so strange..people ask the same questions..nothing new they have to ask me..its all so scary..i am told all the publicity we can get from the film is fine..i have started looking like a publicity hound.. Black Friday is finally releasing on 9th february..i am scared i just might breakdown..what...
    by Anurag Kashyap at January 28th, 2007 at 01:01 pm
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    Dishoom Dishoom!!
    Once upon a time our heroes did not need phony-low-budget Hollywood gadgets to beat goons/gundas(no, they are not related to me, I am Goonda – clan of thugwas) they just needed Dishoom Dishoom. If you do not believe me then please watch hindi movies from both 70s and 80s era. It was called Dishoom Dishoom era. Our heroes used to fight against a dozen of goons...
    by Honhaar Goonda at January 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am
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    O.P.Nayyar…Not forgotten
    28th Jan07: Legendary Music Director O.P. Nayyar has passed away. An era, uniquely individualistic, has come to a close with him. None can replicate him and never will there be another Nayyar saab..May his soul rest in peace, in the knowledge that he is loved, admired, respected and will never be forgotten..Hopefully it will erase the destituteness of his final years....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 28th, 2007 at 04:01 am
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    Parzania n Guru…..posting it again
    Parzania, as expected is not releasing in Gujrat. Rahul Dholakia was distributing the film himself in Gujrat and few other territories. But now exhibitors are scared to touch it. And thats obvious. Isn’t it ? When the Big Brother of Bollywood, Yashraj Films could not do anything about Fanna except few ads in newspapers saying “Fanna making this n that much crores...
    by Phoenixnu at January 27th, 2007 at 02:01 pm
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    PARZANIA IN GUJARAT
    Am forwarding an eMail I received from friends in Gujarat. It may help in the larger scheme of things. Dear friends, Once again we are threatened by the goondas of Bajrang Dal that they will not allow any discussion, debate or acceptance of the carnage that tore up the people of Gujarat in 2002. They have threatened that they will not allow screening of the film Parzania....
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 27th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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    Rukawat ke liye khed hain…
    a.k.a… Sorry for the break… for PFC going off again, on again in the last two days… The heavy influx of hits since Jan 23rd caused the servers in my hosts’ words “to reach critical mass” and boom… We are on a war footing and moving PFC on new more robust machines at the earliest possible… which should take not more than a...
    by oz at January 27th, 2007 at 10:01 am
  • 24
    Yanda Kartavya Aahe (2006)
    The hero and the heroine gets married and live happily ever after. Most of the old Indian movies ended with the hero and heroine getting married in the end. The other alternative to the end would be the song from the movie shown again with “The End” shown. The marriage end would have the title as “The beginning” Kedar Shinde’s Marathi movie “Yanda Kartavya...
    by Full2Faltu at January 27th, 2007 at 09:01 am
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    NISHABD – “SURYA WET HER MORE”
    By now the shoot was happening with full speed. Amit Roy and gang were bang on in synch with RGV’s supersonic speed of shooting. The production department, the art department, direction department, in fact all the departments were superb and extremely efficient under Sheel’s leadership. Plus having RGV at the helm of affairs ensured that there were no fuck ups or less...
    by Surendra Hiwarale at January 27th, 2007 at 07:01 am
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    Filmmakers doing good
    Being a filmmaker is one of the most amazing jobs – you have the opportunity to make a movie, communicate a message, share a passion, move people, change their lives even. I love it when filmmakers use these amazing skills to do good. When I was a kid growing up in Madras, Mani Ratnam would often donate a print of his movies to our school (and other non-profit organizations)...
    by Shripriya Mahesh at January 27th, 2007 at 07:01 am
  • 15
    Salam-e-eeks
    Salam-e-eeks Just dread to write about this film. Kal Ho Na Ho seems like Milestone cinema in comparison. Instead would like to list the films I would like to watch instead of Saalam…instead of the six stories these are the six films I recommend you watch….3.5 hours of Salam-e-eeeks=18 hours of these 1] Awal Number – For the inimitable Dev Saab..urf Vicky Saab....
    by Vasan Bala at January 27th, 2007 at 03:01 am
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    FADING LYRICISM IN HINDI FILMS !
    There was a time when poets like Sahir ludhianvi , Neeraj Ji , Shakil BAdyauni , use to write for Indian songs , And now their is a time when any one XYZ -ABC can give lyrics to the songs !! I know, for being a lyricist there is no proper qualification but at least the poet or a lyrics writer should have knowledge of the proper meter, the words and for God sake the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 24th, 2007 at 11:01 pm
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    Maya Memsaab (’93) : A film inspired by Novel “Madam Bovari” of Flaubert
    A beautiful young woman, who thinks she is intelligent and has aristocratic hobbies lives with her ailing father in a big, palace like house in a small hill station kind of city in India. She is in to reading, music, painting and other kinds of arts. Her father gets heart attack and a local doctor comes to see him. Simple and humble doctor continues his visits and soon...
    by Rk at January 24th, 2007 at 10:01 am
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    Fundamentalists should protest cinema in its language only !
    Now clouds of fundamentalism are trying to eclipse Parzania, which is supposed to be based on Gujarat Riots happened after Godhara incident. Bajrang Dal, an small outfit of big Sangh family has imposed self claimed ban over the film. Such bans are not very old in India. India was much more civilized and much more patient country till 70s when MS Sathyu made and released...
    by Rk at January 24th, 2007 at 04:01 am
  • 25
    SRK, Charm and KBC
    Ok now this is not a well thought out post but rather an instinctive one. Was just watching the second episode of the SRK-hosted KBC with a lot of curiosity as I had missed the first episode and had seen only in bits and pieces on news channels ( These guys can create breaking news out of a fly sitting on Thackeray’s head!). I hate SRK as an actor.I hate him! I...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2007 at 08:01 am
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    Muskuraahat (’92) : Priyadarshan at his best in Hindi
    This is not Priyadarshan’s loud comedy like Hera Pheri, Hangama etc. Its a sobre comedy film with enough romantic and emotional flavour intermingled in  the plot. Revathi is no Sri Devi or Jaya Prada as far as physical beauty is concerned but her spontainity is not less than Sri Devi’s and if you like to watch an younger Revathi in a comedy role or in a comedy...
    by Rk at January 23rd, 2007 at 04:01 am
  • 15
    Oscar Nominations & Mumbai Diary Continued
    Hi Folks, Just got unofficial news that Deepa Mehta’s WATER made the final nominations cut at the Oscars, however, Rang De Basanti missed out on it. The unofficial logic being that two ”Hindi” films cannot make it in one year. Of course there is no logic to that logic. Pity, because I thought that RDB was a more solid effort than Water, although the...
    by Vivek Kumar at January 22nd, 2007 at 10:01 pm
  • 9
    Kabul Express – Jai and Veeru in Afganistan!
    Curse “Jai and Veeru” of Sholay that they installed milestones for coming generation actors as far as male pairing in the films are concerned. One has to show his serious looking mannerisms while other has to be necessarily funny, no matter what the situation is. Two Indian guys sorry Journalists sorry brave journalists are on the trip with a daring motive...
    by Rk at January 22nd, 2007 at 05:01 am
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    0:0 PM – Part III
    [ UPDATE : Attached is a video clip of Surya's short film ] I was majorly disappointed with me not getting a morgue to shoot my film. My experience so far was that of people looking at me in a weird manner, as if they were trying to ask me, have you lost it??? The day Ramani and me saw the post mortem both of us were really stressed out. Though by now I was not too sure...
    by Surendra Hiwarale at January 22nd, 2007 at 03:01 am
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    RISK : Blank Blank Mix
    [ Statutory Warning : Not for the weak hearted ] Background story: Don Dawooz lives in Mumbai, posh area that is hidden behind Mumbai’s coconut trees. Perfect hideout. Police jeeps, police vans, police bicycles and police handcarts go by Dawooz’s house but can never see the house because of perfect covering and shelter provided by those coconut trees. But...
    by oz at January 21st, 2007 at 10:01 pm
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    Pan’s Labyrinth – A Fantastic Trip
    I see that oz beat me to the punch with his review! But, this is a movie that needs multiple reviews as I think it will speak to all who see it in some way… I come from a rich story-telling tradition. My Native American grandmother and aunts used to spend long nights telling stories – creation myths, stories about the animals of the forests and plains, about the...
    by t! at January 21st, 2007 at 03:01 pm
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