Archive for October, 2007

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    Daud Daud Daud [Sets of Aamir]
    A perfectly sunny day in the morning and by 12 it’s all cloudy and dark….the monsoons have left Bombay but this seemed so damn unlikely….this means that you are losing light even as you are just 2 hours into the shoot. A whole day to go….60 shots planned to be canned…..looks like a task ahead…Murphy’s ghost lurks only around movie shoots. It just seems to...
    by Vasan Bala at October 31st, 2007 at 09:10 pm
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    NTR
    iView Author: SRINIVAS N (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: Witheld May 28, 1923, 4.32 PM was a defining moment for the people of Andhra. No one has realized it that day but after a few years, everyone would feel the impact of the meteor that stuck them and their lives being changed forever. In a small village called Nimmakuru, Andhra Pradesh which was then a part of Madras state,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 31st, 2007 at 02:10 pm
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    Unlimited Movies
    For three years in Amsterdam, I watched many movies on my computer. Movies I had never heard about. For the first one and half year, the only movie I saw in the theatres was Spiderman 2. Then one and half year later everything changed. Amsterdam is rich in terms of art. It has many music halls, small theatres and huge multiplex. The biggest multiplex group is Pathe. It...
    by Full2Faltu at October 31st, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    raat baaki, baat baaki
    Guess what I am going to be doing in the evening today..am jamming up with Rahman, and maybe me and Piyush Mishra mite just get to exercise our vocal chords on rythm. Am I nervous? Ha ha ha…Am sure it is going to be great fun. This is for Kaizad Gustad’s Bombil and Beatrice, in which Rahman has done the background score for. If at all anybody needs more information...
    by Prroshant Narayannan at October 31st, 2007 at 04:10 am
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    HAPPY DAY JAB I FINALLY MET NO SMOKING
    OPINION NOT REVIEW. The past fortnight has been extremely trying on the personal front. A much advertised dance performance was cancelled at the nth hour after three months of practice. To get me out of my funk Amina and Kulsoom decided to lend me some comedies straight from the pirated pavements of Pakistan. Having given ‘Hulchul’ and ‘Bhagam Bhag’ a very conscious...
    by Krsn Kavita Kasturi at October 30th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
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    Film Festivals: How do they help films?
    iView Author: ARATI (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: Witheld Mention Berlin, Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Pusan, Locarno, Sundance, Venice, Rome Film Festivals and most filmmakers (exceptions, of course, always being there) would have a dream of their film being selected for one of these revered international platforms. Having managed film festivals for my company for over two years now,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 30th, 2007 at 02:10 pm
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    Of Smoking Joe ,No, Po, Dominoes And Film Promos
    What’s common between Laaga Chunri Mein Daag (LCMD) and No Smoking (NS).. One could say there could be no commonality whatsoever..One is proverbial chalk and another a cheese..One represents the established order and another rebels against it..One is power-centric and the other, well,ah-ahem, ego-centric..One is so stained that any cleansing is ruled out..Another is...
    by krysh at October 30th, 2007 at 11:10 am
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    Cinema For The Ages – Spirit Of The Beehive
    iView Author: SAAD NAWAB , Vadodara, India EMAIL: saadnawab [at] gmail.com Spirit of the beehive - A review —— Looking into the eyes of a child will make us see more than we can manifest. To them the world is an illusion, an escape from all mandarins. Fantasy and imagination – are separate nuances delved differently for adults and children, the former...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 30th, 2007 at 07:10 am
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    Jab we met – A loose elastic band
    iView Author: ADESH PRASAD , India EMAIL: prasad_adesh [at] yahoo.co.in After watching Jab we met the first thing that I could think, which could be associated with the film was, a loose elastic. And that made me very sad. Although I think it has great dialogues. Smart dialogues to be precise. They are very funny, infact continuously funny like the situations....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 30th, 2007 at 03:10 am
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    Evano Oruvan – An evening with Nishikant and Madhavan.
    Driving as fast as I could in the treacherous NYC traffic last Thursday I was thinking as hard as I could as to what I would have done if I were to remake Dombivilli Fast, that too in a language of which I knew all but 2 words. How would I even start to write the change in characters or change the sensibility to suit my target audience? How would I even trust the characters...
    by ravptor at October 29th, 2007 at 09:10 pm
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    Dealing with the “subConscious” – Parthiban opens his eyes
    So much of discussion on no-Smoking on the PFC . I haven’t seen the movie and would love to see it in a theatre, for it reminds me of an erstwhile experience of having watched a movie that merged the real and the surreal together. This was the Thamizh movie, “Kudaikkul Mazhai” directed by R.Parthiban. It released in the year 2004 and I was in Bangalore...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at October 29th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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    E.C.G. AFTER NO SMOKING
    Standing in the queue at the ticket counter, I saw some people coming out of the earlier show. I kept staring at some of them, trying to figure out their reactions about the film (obviously having heard so-much and so less about the film and its maker). I saw these two peculiar gentlemen from Bihar mumbling about No Smoking – “Arre yeh film bahut aage ki soch ke saath...
    by D Santosh at October 29th, 2007 at 11:10 am
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    Don
    I get into this car…it’s an engineering marvel…a state of the art dream machine…it’s got every thing put into it… what an automobile should have…you get in and the engineer stands right besides me and says…. “go figure how to ride it…I gave you the best of what’s available but it’s up to the driver to figure out how you drive it…let me test...
    by Vasan Bala at October 29th, 2007 at 05:10 am
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    Lack of good comedy and Teen based Films in Hindi Cinema !
    iView Author: PANKAJNO.1 (Foster City, USA) EMAIL: pankajno1@gmail.com Iview entry 1 : : Ha ha ha Ho ho ho… – How much Comedy!!! We all love comedy, we wait for it in a movie to laugh on, we wait for such characters to come on screen when we see them on posters or pre-release publicity. But how much comedy is worth, or better what kind of comedy is worth? 4...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 29th, 2007 at 05:10 am
  • 15
    Beyond No Smoking
    Reading the critic(s) reviews, fellow PFCian blogs and Anurag’s comments over the past few days has been a tremendous experience. I wonder if we in India have ever had such an intense debate over the worthiness of a film. But then there never was a PFC. I am sure that this whole discussion will continue for some more days. It’s not the first time that a film...
    by Pankaj Johar at October 29th, 2007 at 02:10 am
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    Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
    A plastically real and hilariously warm love story. Written by: Nancy Oliver. Directed by: Craig Gillespie. Starring: Ryan Gosling. As opening credits fade, Lars (Ryan Gosling) is seen watching from a window. His neighbour, Karin (Emily Mortimer), comes in and invites him for lunch. He promises and never shows up. Gus (Paul Schneider), Karin’s husband, wins 5$...
    by Jateen at October 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
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    Jab Nasha Toot.ta hai
    “Jab Nasha Toot.ta hai kitne tukade gire hain Hosh chun.ne lage hum hum bhi kya sarfire hain” The song kept playing inside me, when I came out of the Cinema hall after watching No Smoking.. and it moved to my lips too while driving back to home.. (while others had “phoonk diye” on their lips) Unlike JG or MSFU, where the director helped me to solve...
    by Pavan Jha at October 28th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
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    No Smoking – My Views
    Warning: This is not a review. This is an extremely personal letter to K – the protagonist of No Smoking. No one forces you to read, leave alone comment! Dear K, Hey! I saw the film they made about you. It’s about your smoking habit, they think. I don’t think so. It didn’t have an email address to reach you so I am posting the letter here. You know, when I...
    by Smriti Vij. at October 28th, 2007 at 08:10 am
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    No Smoking: The Hanzo sword which cut through ‘God’
    DISCLAIMER: The opinion in this article is entirely mine and bears no viewpoints of any other author of PFC. If this piece of writing hurts anybody, I sincerely apologise for the same. The best way, according to me, to understand a film director is to watch his films together. You understand his creativity across the reels. You understand his sensibility beyond one story....
    by Pratim D. Gupta at October 28th, 2007 at 05:10 am
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    No smoking – SHUT UP AND WORK or WHAT NOT TO DO
    Exactly !!! I’ve been blogging abt no smoking and visiting the sets … ive had the pleasure of intertacting with the team and the cast crew during and after the shooting. I loved the process. I was lucky enough to read the script, be a pat of the shooting, and watch the rough cut as well (with othe pfc waalas and mr sudhir mishra as company)… I loved...
    by kartik krishnan at October 28th, 2007 at 03:10 am
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    Panel Discussion of Casting Agents & Producers in LA!!
    Hi Folks, Details of the panel discussion that I am putting together in LA, next Thursday. Panel Discussion on Casting Agents/Producers in LA (aka the folks who can really, really) make all the difference in your creative life: WHERE and WHEN: Thursday, Nov 1, 2007, in Los Angeles.                 Tanzore Restaurant / www.tanzore.com                ...
    by Vivek Kumar at October 28th, 2007 at 12:10 am
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    No Smoking, Calling all film-lovers! PFC’s shortest post.
    Everybody wants to be heard. Evidently, i do too when calling attention to this post with the concoction of a title i’ve come up with. Owing to our own biases (for & against), we tend to be determined to Love or Hate the film we bought a ticket for. Having done that to our heart’s fill let us not deny ourselves the experience that’s entirely ours...
    by thani at October 27th, 2007 at 04:10 pm
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    Three Theories of Interpreting No Smoking
    Name: Devayon Das Email: Witheld City/Country: Pune/Guwahati, India Three Theories of Interpreting No Smoking I’m not going to do a review. We have Taran Adarsh for that. I’m writing this for all the well intentioned people who went “Huh?” after the movie and deserve an explanation. Till they find Anurag Kashyap’s relevant post somewhere...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 27th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    Lets LYNCH Anurag K
    WARNING: the following excerpt in no way contains Spoilers for the movie. Simply because there no tangible way of doing that. However you may be better off watching the movie before reading the rants of T and D below, simply cuz it would make more sense. If you don’t care about any warnings just read on…. But let me warn you it’s a pretty long road ahead, get a glass...
    by DPac at October 27th, 2007 at 04:10 am
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    Kingfishing Smokes (Whatever that means)
    WARNING: INCOHESIVE RANT ALERT For PFC newbies, let me enlighten you about a revolutionary indicator formulated by your’s truly and my buddy Oz. It’s called the Kingfisher Litmus Test and is perhaps one of the most reliable indicators of good cinema versus bad cinema. No critiques here, and sure as hell no intellectual readings into the filmmaker’s mind....
    by Vijay at October 27th, 2007 at 03:10 am
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    the big bizarre “K” factor !!
    (afka + ashyap + jo + yunki + arpet + at’s eye + lockwork orange + nowledge + ryptic + hajur) kall it kucess, kream, kower, krrogance, kurreal, kizzare, komage, kets see if get me, kan do!! No, not one more keview of the film, just few kandom khoughts. In recent times, have never felt so excited about a film’s release. For obvious reasons. Ofcourse, every...
    by Phoenixnu at October 27th, 2007 at 03:10 am
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    No Smoking – A Dream Accomplished
    Name: madhu chandra Email: madhuchandra_629 [at] yahoo [dot] com City/Country: Bangalore,India (WARNING: It contains spoilers!) No Smoking – A Dream Accomplished Wow, finally there is someone out there who tests the audience and at the same time explores the subconscious mind so beautifully that I felt I was dreaming, because that’s how dreams are and that’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at October 27th, 2007 at 01:10 am
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    I smoked Classic Milds
    Sitting in rome reading the extreme reactions and reviews.. I don’t mind taran’s review for he in his seven lives would not have understood why someone would like to make a film like this.. Khalid reviewed me and not the film and from his review all i can say is neither has he read “Quitter’s inc” nor has he seen “cat’s eye”.....
    by Anurag Kashyap at October 26th, 2007 at 03:10 pm
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    No Smoking: In Anger
    No Smoking : Reviewing the reviews With every new step or change, the resistance to let things be is vast, seemingly impenetrable and caustic. With every change, the elements that are dependent of the object of change have to twist, contort and uncomfortable step out into a new zone. The object here is No Smoking. The elements the reviewers. After reading this article,...
    by oz at October 26th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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    No Smoking:Dance of Darkness
    (WARNING: Might contain spoilers) As I walked out of the theater, I couldn’t help feeling loaded in my head. I saw the faces around me, going down and up the escalator; I kept watching the inanimate things around. I went up the mall, came back up, and went down….while humming Ashtray. Like an unending chain of reactions, I kept feeling a strange subconscious angst....
    by Tushar at October 26th, 2007 at 07:10 am
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