Archive for January, 2008

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    The Angrez – a true hyderabad film……
    The Angrez is one film which most of the hyderabadi’s will be able to connect. The last authentic hyderabadi urdu-hindi-english speaking movie was “Hyderabad blues” and most of you guys out there must have seen it, but there was more than whats shown and spoken about hyderabad. I was born and bought up in Hyderabad and cafés over there are some what special because...
    by Varun at January 31st, 2008 at 05:01 pm
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    So much Beauty in the World
    “It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force,...
    by Mitch at January 31st, 2008 at 03:01 pm
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    Bombay to Bangkok Review: Disclaimer Filmmaking
    [This is a re-posting of a review originally posted here, on PFC, on January 21, 2008 at 7:38 pm] No make happy? Yes make happy? No happy, no money! As bizarre as it may sound, it has to be said that this is an excerpt of an important interaction between the leads in Nagesh Kukunoor’s Bombay to Bangkok, the making happy standing-in for copulation in Thai-English. While...
    by thani at January 30th, 2008 at 09:01 am
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    Gandhi : Do we deserve such a man among us ?
    by Rk at January 30th, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    My Petty Effort…
    iView Author: Sourav Bhuyan Mumbai, India EMAIL: souravbhuyan[at]gmail[dot]com My Petty Effort….
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2008 at 04:01 am
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    Mirugam (Animal): Land of the Beasts
    A landscape no man could tame, the geography of nature’s wrath. Barren miles blasted by sun and lacerated by sandstorms, heathen lands cursed off even the most basic of nature’s bounties and claimed by the wild. Apocalypse acres where men and beast have perished of thirst and scorch, home to bandits and scorpions, where atoms are split in an experiment in holocaust,...
    by Siddharth Pillai at January 30th, 2008 at 01:01 am
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    It’s Only Words…
    iView Author: ANAND KADAM Bristol, UK EMAIL: anandk9 [at] yahoo [dot] com It’s only words ….
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 29th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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    PFCRonin: Round Four – The Reviews
    Round Four The movie to be reviewed by the ten contestants is SUNDAY The backup movie review, if the main movie did not release in the city of any contestant was Anukokonda Oka Roju. – All contestants were given a 1000 word count limit to write their reviews within. Here are the submitted reviews for Round Four! Contestants are listed in order of their rankings...
    by oz at January 28th, 2008 at 08:01 pm
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    2007 : A Lyrical Summary
    iView Author: NIREN BHATT Mumbai, India EMAIL: nirenbhatt [at] yahoo.com 2007 : A Lyrical Summary
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 28th, 2008 at 03:01 pm
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    Sunday: A Quiver full of Dundays
    Shomsher Kukri, a recently made friend, cause he serves at Naz8 the stale popcorns, 24 time re-heated tea and samosa that look like the samosas have farted on themselves. Naz8 is the closest desi theater serving desi movies. oz being a weakly weekly, biweekly or sometimes triweekly visitor to this heaven on earth that needs inch by inch cleaning with a mop, floor cleaner...
    by oz at January 27th, 2008 at 09:01 pm
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    Festivals & Documentaries ….And Me????
    Hi Folks, On this rainy Northern California day (yes I miss my tennis, but yes we also need water so I can drink some and swim in some more), most people would think that I have lost it, if I write a post on film festivals and documentaries. I am not about festivals and my only purpose to be involved in cinema is to write and see stories that can entertain (of course my...
    by Vivek Kumar at January 27th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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    Sunday
    Rohit Shetty’s Sunday has all the elements from his previous two films, there is action (Zameen), there is comedy (Golmaal) and there is his regular, Ajay Devgan. In many ways, Sunday is also in keeping with the recently born genre of big-budgeted and thinly-plotted comedies, only with bonus material thrown in – there is Arshad Warsi, one of our best comic actors and...
    by Padmaja Thakore at January 27th, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    The Question of the Remake
    One of the biggest problem that plagues Bollywood is the rampant plagiarism which is sadly seeped into it’s very essence. Everyone of us probably has war stories to tell of this particular affliction which we affectionately used to call DVDitis. I have two to share. The first incident happened around the time we were doing costume trials for “Eklavya.”...
    by Mitch at January 27th, 2008 at 05:01 am
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    Rambo: “This is who I am. This is what I do.”
    There’s a certain euphoria involved when one, as a viewer, realizes that one of your childhood heroes has actually brought back a character one eulogized as a kid, and has made a film for all those fans out there. That’s precisely what ‘John Rambo’ is all about – a film for the fans of a character which has crossed the threshold and entered...
    by Rupak Ghosh at January 27th, 2008 at 02:01 am
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    Revenga
    The desire for revenge stems from the mother of human follies. The expectation of fairness. I met some people last night at a bar (i get all my information/knowledge there) and found out that they got paid to study cooperation, fairness and altruism. I coughed bullshit and went on a rant about the humanities departments in universities and that I have greater use for my...
    by dabba at January 26th, 2008 at 07:01 pm
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    ‘51 & ‘92: Wheel of Time – Part 3
    “Thus pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find; Thus a rich loving-kindness, redundantly kind, Moves all nature to gladness and mirth.” In matters detailing simple pleasures of life, Wordsworthji stood alone. A rainbow here, rows of daffodils there or a stray song of the solitary reaper and he would be in raptures. I don’t...
    by Subrat at January 26th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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    John Rambo: A toast to the 80’s
    iView Author: SAAD NAWAB Vadodara, India EMAIL: saadnawab [at] gmail.com Title of the article – John Rambo: A toast to the 80’s Oh My God! Oh My God! Woohoo! Kill them all!!! That was me shouting and cheering in the theater as I was watching John Rambo, the fourth and possibly final chapter in the Rambo franchise. I was seven or eight years old when I first...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 25th, 2008 at 03:01 pm
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    The Proverbial Break has landed.
    iView Author: MADHAV MATHUR (Singapore) E-mail: WITHHELD Title – The Proverbial Break has landed I am a stranger in my own life. Things around me are not the same. I believe I am experiencing what the elders call, euphoria.Most of you must be thinking something along the lines of “who the hell is this guy?” My name is Madhav. I live and work in Singapore....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 25th, 2008 at 01:01 pm
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    Sunday ke Funde
    I did not have much expectation as I walked into the theater. Golmaal was an ok movie with some humour but bits of it were quite forced. So I really did not expect any great change but was totally disheartened to find out that Money is one of the greatest enemies of creativity. This film more than proves the point. Why money? Well every popular Director (more or less,...
    by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at January 25th, 2008 at 09:01 am
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    World Cinema coming home to us
    Seems times are changing at last – for the better, and fast. After all these years of scouring the film festivals and pirated DVD shops (unless we have deep pockets to splurge on the highly-priced original DVDs of foreign films), it seems 2008 is bringing some happy tidings for us, the lovers of world cinema (that is, anything that comes from outside the country...
    by Runumi G at January 25th, 2008 at 01:01 am
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    7 ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
    7 ISLANDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (3rd Edition) : VENUE: S P JAIN AUDITORIUM, BHAVANS CAMPUS, ANDHERI (W) The 7 Islands International Film Festival thus, intends to expose the Indian youth to film that brings new ideas, methodology, solutions and experimentation for social change through non violence and global disarmament. More than 5000 elite and intellectual people...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
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    Films Watched and Lessons learned
    According to my Facebook these are the films I have seen for the first time over the past 100 days. One of my favorite teachers told me to keep a log of all the films I see and try to identify my viewing patterns. I have seen about 104 films which makes it about one a day which isn’t bad. Earlier I used to watch 3 a day but that was coz it was winter and NY was freezing...
    by Mitch at January 24th, 2008 at 03:01 pm
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    Passion for Cinema
    iView Author: Shiladitya Bora (Ahemdabad, India) E-mail: shiladitya [at] fulmarxx.net Title – Passion for Cinema Standing in a queue for hours on end to get the tickets of a movie the release of which you have been waiting for a month. Raving mad, in this world of instant gratification, you would say, and of course, you are right, by Jove. But ask the ones who...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 24th, 2008 at 11:01 am
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    Super 16 vs. HD
    Four years ago two friends who had just started their careers realised that their true passion and interests lay elsewhere and decided to do something about that.(sounds familiar???) Fast forward 2008. While I’m still stuck with my shitty job at a media company, my friend is already through with a couple of drafts and plans to shoot his first feature film in the...
    by Pankaj Johar at January 24th, 2008 at 05:01 am
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    ” Fringe Benefits ”
    iView Author: Machchar Kumar (Mumbai, India) E-mail: Withheld ” Fringe Benefits “ Few days back, my cousin and I went to “Film City” also known as “Dadasaheb Phalke Chitra Nagari“. It was his first visit there and previously when I mentioned to him that I had to go there to meet a Hero, he was excited to tag along. So braving all...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 24th, 2008 at 03:01 am
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    3:10 to Yuma: What Westerns Have Become
    iView Author: SARANG (Honolulu, USA) E-mail: Withheld 3:10 to Yuma: What Westerns Have Become 3:10 to YUMA (3TY) was the movie I was eagerly waiting to watch last year. After all it is a western. I have always had a ‘love-affair’ with westerns. From my parents to my relatives, all always had praises for them. DJango, was the first western I saw ever. I still...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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    Parallel Narratives – Naseer & Rituparno follow the trend !
    iView Author: SAWNYRIVER (Noida, India) E-mail: Withheld Parallel Narratives Recently our films have been replete with multiple storylines. Parallel narratives in both literature and films add a fascinating dimension. In its varying perspectives, this genre can make a work self-reflexive, layered, open ended and liberating. Because it disrupts the existence of a single...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 23rd, 2008 at 11:01 am
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    Right or wrong ?
    The veteran lyricist Shailendra writes in a song “humne har jeene waale ko dhan daulat pe marte dekha”(sab kuch seekha humne na seekhi hoshiyaari). The line has a message and has a connection with the whole idea of “jaagte raho”. The writing department of “Jagte raho” comprises of Shambhu Mitra, K.A Abbas and Shailendra. These were the people mainly associated...
    by Dipankar Giri at January 23rd, 2008 at 08:01 am
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    Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
    *We’ve Extended Our Deadline to February 8, 2008 Dear friends of the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival and Adobe Youth Voices are looking for youth produced works on human rights from around the globe to screen in our newly established YOUTH PRODUCING CHANGE program. We’re also hoping you’ll...
    by Ramu Ramanathan at January 23rd, 2008 at 06:01 am
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    The need for Experimental Cinema
    F1 Racing. To most people its a hideous waste of time, money and precious resources in a world going to hell due to environmental atrocities. Even if they have no moral qualms against the sport they simply can’t fathom the fascination of the devoted to watch a bunch of men going around a track some 50 odd times over 3 hours. To the fan however, whether we may or...
    by Mitch at January 23rd, 2008 at 03:01 am
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