Archive for September, 2007

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    JOHNNY GADDAR-MY STORY
    JOHNNY GADDAR-MY STORY This is not a professional review, just my feelings after watching Johnny Gaddar. It was 10 am in the Sunday morning and I was talking to my cousin on phone “ chal yaar film dekhne chalet hai.” He asked” Kaunsi?” I said” Johnny Gaddar”…. “koi English film hai kya?”…. “ nahin re, hindi film hai par achchi hai aur suspense...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at September 30th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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    Ikiru Ka Anand
    First of all let me tell you I am not a film reviewer.. I don’t want to be one as I believe all the reviewers have their own biases and preferences like any other audience watching the film. I also believe most of the great films have boring reviews and sometimes the greatness of a film is beyond the reach for many of the reviewers.. of course all badly made films provide...
    by Pavan Jha at September 30th, 2007 at 03:09 pm
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    My Dad is RIGHT…!
    iView Author: Shifas Bin Mohammed (Pune, India) EMAIL: shifas007 [at] gmail.com My Dad is RIGHT…! We all talk, discuss, debate and fight about movies, and there are great number of movies being discussed on PFC… Summary Well, I would like to look beyond for a second…. Beyond the brightly coloured movie posters, beyond the flashing cameras, beyond the multiplexes,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 30th, 2007 at 06:09 am
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    This and That, Saawariya, Eklavya and the Oscars
    Very sorry for the weirdest and worst article title that you may have ever seen- feeling to brain dead right now to think of some coherent thoughts, leave alone a proper header. Whew…I realize that I haven’t posted on PFC for ages again…so I decided to pull up my socks before Oz paaji pulls me up again…well, well, there isn’t much going on here in Calcutta- the...
    by Jahan Bakshi at September 29th, 2007 at 07:09 am
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    Johnny Gaddar (2007)
    When I was a child, I would like reading books. As I was not the intelligent kind, I never read classic literature. I read thrillers and detective novels. The beauty of thrillers and detective novels was to read as the mystery unravels, as the story twist and turns and ends to a perfect climax. I would be so excited reading that I wanted to finish the novel in one go without...
    by Full2Faltu at September 29th, 2007 at 06:09 am
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    Johnny Gaddar- Keep your Eyes on the Loot
    Shriram Raghavan’s electric caper ‘Johnny Gaddar’ begins in reverential silence as it doffs its hat to the pulpmeisters- Vijay Anand and James Hadley Chase, black and white photographs accompanying the written tribute. Thus, begins its no-holds-barred obsession with images- pulp and kinky washed over with the electric tangerine and sound- retro Rafi...
    by Siddharth Pillai at September 29th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    Johnny Gaddaar – The Music
    If there is one score which has literally been rocking the Bolly-circuits, it is Johnny Gaddaar. It is the stuff that dream OST’s are made of – flawless compositions, enormous visual quality, repeat factor, that little extra bit in every track that makes it special for you and creates associations in your head. Add a truckload of nostalgia to all this, and you get...
    by Tushar at September 28th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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    Johnny Gaddar – Paisa Vassool
    Movies some times test Intelligence of audiences and questions it. But Johnny Gaddar is different you know who the Gaddar is but it still succeeds in creating the air of suspense amongst viewers and characters in the film. Johnny G is Sriram’s homage to Vijay Anand and James Hadley Chase. I’m not going to review this one but there are somethings that I would...
    by Varun at September 28th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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    The Namesake
    Had just shut my alarm and rolled over to sleep when my cell phone woke me up again. An unknown number flashed. “hello”, I answered groggily. “What’s wrong with you”, was the reply. “Who’s this?” “It’s Vipin, we were in college together, remember” “My god! Vipin..it’s been more than seven years. How’ve you been?” “What’s wrong with you?” “Matlab..” “Why...
    by Raja Chaudhary at September 28th, 2007 at 06:09 am
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    The Fan is sick and tired.
    I am THE hardcore movie fan. I am the fan that spends his hard earned money to buy a ticket and see a film. I am the Fan that goes to a multilplex with the same fervour as he goes to a single hall dingly theatre.That is why I am here. But the fan is pissed off. Like hell. It takes a lot of hard work to earn money and then to pay 500 bucks for a movie ticket shows passion....
    by Sophocles. at September 28th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    Happy Birthday Johnny Gaddar…
    So it happened yesterday evening before the formal release of Johnny Gaddar the much awaited film of the year. Though Sanjay Routray the executive producer had already told me a day in advance about the screening I was totally unsure of whether I would be making it or not because of my commitment towards ‘Horn OK Please’ The best coincidence was Sanjay celebrating...
    by Surendra Hiwarale at September 28th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    The ant and the elephant..
    So what relevance does this insignificant insipid post of sorts hold in a site that is supposed to promote cinema? Nothing absolutely… But its a fable. Part of a heritage we all grew up listening to… A fable told exactly the way it should be…… Long before it was theorized that the universe actually consisted of layers of amorphous solids floating...
    by Sreehari. at September 28th, 2007 at 01:09 am
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    Raging Bull : Sudhir Mishra speaks on the Oscar Controversy
    Sudhir Mishra is very angry and… very sad. Met him at Colaba’s Mukesh Mills where he is currently shooting for his new film Ab Tera Kya Hoga Johnny. So… here it is all… Sudhir Mishra on Oscars, India, Eklavya, Bhavna Talwar, Hazaron Khwashein Aisi, Paheli, Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Is Raat ki Subah Nahi, Screen awards, Swades and why he will never be...
    by Phoenixnu at September 27th, 2007 at 04:09 pm
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    Rome 2007 Line-Up Announced
    The second Rome Film Fest, which runs Oct 18-27, has announced its full programme. World premieres in the Cinema 2007 programme include: * La Recta Provincia (Raul Ruiz) * Youth Without Youth (Francis Ford Coppola) * August Rush (Kirsten Sheridan) * Hafez (Abolfazl Jalili) * L’Abbuffata (Mimmo Calopresti) * And The Spring Comes (Chang Wei...
    by Vijay at September 27th, 2007 at 09:09 am
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    Dev Anand :: A Never Ending Enthusiasm, A never fading star !
    First, Many Many congratulations to Dev Saab on his 84/85th Birthday. In his case it really does not matter which Birthday he is celebrating, he has risen somewhere to the image of a mythological figure. We often see him in media but we all different people are familiar with some different part of a huge image of Dev Saab. He has inscribed his name in the minds of cine...
    by Rk at September 27th, 2007 at 07:09 am
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    Revisiting Intellectual Montage
    Was Kuleshov right in claiming new meaning from the clash of unrelated images? To put it another way, does montage have any relevance to the contemporary filmmaker, scholar, or cinephile? Rewind: Like other Russian formalists of the era, Lev Kuleshov was looking at unveiling the formal properties of the moving image. Okay! so you have heard this argument before. For most,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 27th, 2007 at 01:09 am
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    A movie on Chennai’s autodrivers
    Autorickshaw drivers won’t win any popularity contests. Especially in Chennai. The average citizen has zillions of complaints about their attitude, tampered-with meters, fleecing and crass language. And we don’t even want get into a discussion of their driving skills. But Pushkar and Gayatri don’t think so. “The autodrivers in Chennai are very...
    by venky at September 26th, 2007 at 02:09 pm
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    Cinema – Food for Thought
    iView Author: Ritu Singh (Jaipur, India) EMAIL: ritusinghrathore [at] hotmail.com Cinema – Food for Thought I love cinema. Cant say I grew up watching movies and loving them but eventually as I grew older, cinema liberated the voyeur in me. For me it is living someone else’s life from a distance. The feeling of ‘this could happen to me’!, it’s the travel,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 26th, 2007 at 08:09 am
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    Dum Laga
    [Update : Sept 27/2007. Stills of songs added] Do songs hurt the narrative flow (and form) of our films? I believe they usually do. When we were working on about the fifth draft of the screenplay (it went on till ninth by the time it was ready to be called ‘bound’), I realized that there are some ‘natural’ places where songs can have a place in the film, mostly...
    by Manish Tiwary at September 26th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    SHAKUNTALA–SIX THOUSAND FEET ABOVE
    An open,cubicles- laden hall and in the corner a conference room with smoked glass door of a corporate production house..Four of them were sitting in various postures– slightly reclined ,with various versions of hands- jaw locking, to listen to my narration of a script that I had been pitching for a film project..VP (content) ,henceforth called plain VP, introduced...
    by krysh at September 26th, 2007 at 03:09 am
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    Call For Oscar Entries For Short Film!!
    Ok Folks, Now is the time to take action. Below is the call for entries for Short Films. Filmmakers from across the globe and also SOuth Asian Indian, South Asian American, South Asian Canadian, South Asian British, etc amongst other filmmakers, stop cribbing about Ek Lavya (of course it is a piece of crap) and take some action here. Go to your respective film federations...
    by Vivek Kumar at September 25th, 2007 at 10:09 am
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    PaAdlabs
    They fart more than a cow! The smell is so vicious that it will directly go into your brain and pop all your nerves that you would not know what hit you! We know that we Indians have a freedom to fart or piss openly in public, but PaAdlabs are farting and pissing on their own work or investment! Have they gone insane?! They clearly have gone insane by not releasing ‘Johnny...
    by Honhaar Goonda at September 25th, 2007 at 07:09 am
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    The New Wave or Bubble ? Is Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi a porn film ?
    The New Wave or Bubble ? Is Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi a porn film ? Some time back I remember a dear friend and fellow cine fanatic Sammy telling me about an incident which truly summarises this article. Samy (to his friends) : Chal na aaj Hazaron Khwahishein Aisi dekhtey hain (Lets watch Hazaron…) Friend 1 (average guy): What ??? Samy : HAZARON KHWAHISHEIN AISI...
    by kartik krishnan at September 25th, 2007 at 04:09 am
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    Will of people or ‘weel of peepool’
    While increasing ‘democratization’ in sports, technology and telecommunication has helped improve standards, Hindi cinema has seen a trend of reverse democratization. It is the rule of a few people, for a few people and by a few people. Indeed, more’s the pity here. Democratization as a term has spread from the political lexicon to the realms of social scientists...
    by Subrat at September 25th, 2007 at 02:09 am
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    Theatrical Obsession
    So, Despite almost everyone claiming to be the soothsayer and the person resonsible for the resurgance of India Independent cinema, I would like to challenge that notion that the Independent cinema never went anywhere and the studios actually vanished long ago, both the RK Studios and the Mehboob Studios, were more Film Studios as opposed to the BIG STUDIOS, which take...
    by Vivek Kumar at September 24th, 2007 at 03:09 pm
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    Eklavya “is” India’s official entry for the Oscars
    Thanks to Srinivas for pointing me to this news. Eklavya is India’s Official entry for Oscars. As per this Rediff report “Eklavya will be India’s official entry for the prestigious Oscar awards. The decision to nominate the Amitabh Bachchan, Saif Ali, Khan-starrer film as the Indian entry for the awards was announced by Film Federation of India President...
    by oz at September 24th, 2007 at 11:09 am
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    JOHNNY GADDAR — A Preview
    Evil is the ultimate ambiguity. When handled with insouciant dexterity, it can reach this delicious plateau that Simone Weil described as ‘the monotony of evil’, condemned to a false infinity. The world thus painted is so saturated with the mutating snowballing nature of evil that it becomes palpable and no one really needs to call it by name. And the ‘good’ man,...
    by Bhavani Iyer at September 24th, 2007 at 08:09 am
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    Manorama Six Feet Under- Standing Tall Amidst Dead-End Dunes
    One of Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes capers, I can’t remember which one, has the inimitable private eye and sidekick Dr. Watson on their way to the English countryside to solve a crime most foul. Enamored with the pastoral beauty, the impressionable doctor compulsively breaks into trite adulations on life in the country while Holmes, impossibly rational to...
    by Siddharth Pillai at September 23rd, 2007 at 11:09 pm
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    Rajnigandha – a simple tale
    At a roadside stall selling old books near Santa Cruz Station, I spotted a pocket-book titled Rajnigandha. I picked it up and it turned out to the screenplay of my favourite film Rajnigandha. Yes, the same film that won the Best Picture at the Filmfare Awards in the year 1974, both the Popular Award and the Critics Award. Many of you will be surprised to know that in...
    by Manasvi S at September 23rd, 2007 at 09:09 pm
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    Gloom barabar gloom
    Friday the 21st of September, 10am, INOX (Kolkata), I am sitting with five people sprinkled in different parts of the 250-capacity audi and watching Navdeep’s Manorama. By the time the interval comes one of the multiplex personnels have joined the lonely gang and by the time move ends, even the cleaner is completely hooked. Head count: 7. Same day, same time, FAME...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at September 23rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
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