Archive for February, 2008

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    Bloody Musical
    iView Author: Abhinav Katoch (New Delhi, India) Email: Witheld Bloody Musical
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 29th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
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    Spot this Movie with “Rent Boy”
    iView Author: Sudhir Nair (Mumbai , India) Email : With Held Spot this Movie with “Rent Boy” A few years before Morpheus talked about Choices that one makes in Life, Ewan McGregor had the following to say as Renton in Trainspotting: “Choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a F@$#ing big television, in short – choose...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 29th, 2008 at 09:02 am
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    i was emotionally troubled while mixing the film….
    ……the words stayed with me, for long. Does it happen like this ? Emotionally troubled while mixing the film…do you get so much involved…even during mixing the film…..i had heard something like this for the first time. Could not believe it. And was he talking about the same film ? Gandhi My Father. When i met Resul Pookutty (do check out his...
    by Phoenixnu at February 29th, 2008 at 05:02 am
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    Rajni….
    Did you know this legendary hero was a despicable bully when he was 10, and used to beat up other children if they didn’t let him win the game of marbles? Did you know his friends used to always complain that he walked very fast and needs to slow down and wait up? Did you know he used to roam around wearing cycle chains a la garlands? Did you know he was a tea boy,...
    by DPac at February 29th, 2008 at 04:02 am
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    The Genius of the Coens
    iView Author: KP (NYC, USA) Email: Witheld The Genius of the Coens I finally gave into the hype and went to see No Country for Old Men. It exceeded the hype. The Coen brothers have outdone themselves in an entirely new way and the Oscar was well-deserved. Bardem and Brolin are outstanding as the psychotic killer, Anton Chigurgh and Llewelyn, a fairly shrewd country...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 29th, 2008 at 12:02 am
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    “24 Truths per Second” Godard said, Ghatak showed!
    iView Author: Medha Dutt (Kolkata, India) E-mail: primidutt [at] gmail [dot] com “24 Truths per Second “ The famous French New Wave director, Jean-Luc Godard, was very right when he said of Cinema, that it is “24 truths per second”. And nowhere do we find it more so than in the films of Ritwik Ghatak. I know there are many others, like, Ray,...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 28th, 2008 at 03:02 pm
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    Premchand, Renu and Rural India…
    It was a muddy sunset(77 years before) and the last rays of the sun were collapsing into the walls of Jamia Millia University Delhi and Premchand was about to leave for Lucknow and suddenly a man comes to him and asks for a brand new story for “Jamia Risala” (Jamia’s literary magazine). Premchand told him that he will send it after reaching Lucknow but the man was...
    by Dipankar Giri at February 28th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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    Kajol too in poets club ?
    Aishwarya Rai, Chitrangda Singh and Kajol , three actresses of contemporary hindi cinema enjoy one common thing that their married status has not affected their popularity among audience or their fans. Now Kajol is going to share screen space again with her husband, where Ajay Devgan is going to make his debut as a director also. Time will tell what U, Me aur Hum brings...
    by Rk at February 28th, 2008 at 09:02 am
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    The Darjeeling Limited: Musically yours!
    Just saw Wes Anderson’s latest fratricidal fun-on-the-run The Darjeeling Limited! Totally loved it. Love the meandering (and seeking) nature of the narrative, which is similar in structure to the Coens’ comedy work but yet so different. And that’s got a lot to do with Anderson’s dialogues, which sound profound if put on paper but in the context...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at February 28th, 2008 at 06:02 am
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    Farewell to Sujatha – a sad loss for all writers
    Can’t write much, can’t talk much. Just heard (or rather read) the news here Tamil Writer Sujatha is dead The key person behind the development of the Electronic Voting Machine and an eminent writer, S Rangarajan alias Sujatha, has died. To be very honest, I have never read a single sujatha’s story (I cant read/write Tamil unfortunately). Although...
    by kartik krishnan at February 28th, 2008 at 03:02 am
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    Pakistan ‘Welcome’ Bollywood
    I have seen ‘Welcome’, in cinema, and I went to see the film on Christmas Day, last year. I did not like the film; I found it quite pathetically ridiculous. Perhaps slapstick comedies are meant to be ridiculous, but this film was clearly not a good one. There were a few good scenes and all of those good scenes were between Nana Patekar and Anil Kapoor. Katrina...
    by Honhaar Goonda at February 27th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
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    My first short film : Metastasis (9.27min)
    iView Author: Danji Thotapalli (Los Angeles, USA) E-mail: withheld Received an email from Danji, a die hard volunteer at the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles. It’s due to such devoted volunteers that festivals promoting Indian films in foreign land are able to present so many different movies besides the traditional Bollywood stories. Danji has been volunteering...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 27th, 2008 at 07:02 pm
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    Jodhaa Akbar: Realizing Childhood Fantasies?
    Up until Ashutosh Gowariker’s Jodha Akbar was released, the defining film on the Mughals was K.Asif’s Mughal-e-Azam (1960) – the passionate tale of a lowly courtesan Anarkali (Madhubala) threatening to become the queen and a son (Dilip Kumar) rising in revolt against his emperor father, Jaluddin Mohammed Akbar (Prithviraj Kapoor in a towering performance). One suspects...
    by Padmaja Thakore at February 27th, 2008 at 04:02 pm
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    First Day of Dev.D
    Well, what do you know?! Today (27th February 2008) was the first day of filming Dev.D. Earlier Anurag and his crew went to Reading to film a couple of scenes; I was not able to visit the location, but fortunately, they were shooting a couple of more scenes in evening and in Central London, to be precice, the location was a ship – which was just parked opposite London...
    by Honhaar Goonda at February 27th, 2008 at 01:02 pm
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    Mithya reminds him ” White ” & her ” Kafka’s trial “
    iView Author: Adesh Prasad (New Delhi, India) E-mail: prasad_adesh [at] yahoo.co.in Mith – yeah ! ———————————— Earlier when I wanted to talk about Rajat Kapoor with my friends, I used to say things like “woh Dil Chahta Hai ka mama” or sometimes...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 27th, 2008 at 08:02 am
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    Mr W.Kumar travels to Bollywood,the year 2028 – Part 3
    iView Author: Arun Prakash (New Delhi, India) E-mail: Withheld Mr W.Kumar travels to Bollywood,the year 2028, Part 3 ‘ Kahani abhi baki thi’ ‘Kahani abhi baki thi’ This is the next part of the article – Mr Writer Kumar,an aspiring Bollywood writer finds out that he has travelled in time to the year 2028. Writer Kumar and Shanti Devi walk...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 27th, 2008 at 04:02 am
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    Riots : : Time to Adapt Manto’s stories on screen !
    Riots are bad spots on the face of humanity. People leave humanity during riots and follow homicide on a large scale. People of different religion keep hate towards other religions and during difficult times this hatred increases the destruction multifold. Indian subcontinent has faced many religious riots. Around a million people were killed in the riots during partition...
    by Rk at February 26th, 2008 at 07:02 am
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    Cinema is Sex
    Cinema is now over a hundred years old and since it’s inception it has slowly but surely metamorphosed from entertainment to the opium for the masses with due apologies to Karl Marx. One question however vexes both those who strive to create it as well as those who breathlessly ingest it week after week. Is Filmmaking an art or a science ? You could argue both sides...
    by Mitch at February 26th, 2008 at 02:02 am
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    Bloody Aftermath of a popular movie
    The title line should say it all & this article is about the scary aftermath once a movie becomes extremely popular & a big hit. Consider this as the premise. Taare Zameen Par (TZP) was a well made movie with a very good cast (my opinion) and something that can be looked at again and again for time to come. Now the problem is not in TZP but the minute it became...
    by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at February 26th, 2008 at 01:02 am
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    This Manjha comes with a sharp edge
    54. That is the number of films that I and two of my co-jury members watched in just five days at the 10th Mumbai International Film Festival for Documentary, Short & Animation films (MIFF). The festival was held over seven days, from February 3 to 9, but the films in the Indian competition section (in which I served on the critics jury chosen by the Indian chapter...
    by Runumi G at February 25th, 2008 at 04:02 pm
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    Taare screen par
    In my boring engineering degree education, that left me proclaiming at the end that I will not set my foot inside and educational institution again for any kind of full time learning in my life, there was a brief period in Engineering management class, when there was a funny teacher who told me about “So What?” theory of Risk Analysis and Threat and opportunity...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at February 25th, 2008 at 09:02 am
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    Jodhaa Akbar
    iView Author: Ramesh Ramaswamy (PA/USA) Email: cdrakenc [at] gmail[dot] com Jodhaa Akbar Bollywood’s wedding song for Aishwarya Rai is given epic treatment in this Ashutosh Gowrikar(Lagaan, Swades) effort that is an old-fashioned description of the fictitious love that develops between an imperial ruler and the girl sent to him as treaty wife. Gowrikar seems to have...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 25th, 2008 at 08:02 am
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    Oscars: Coens and the Highlights
    As always I wasn’t really too pleased with the Oscar nominations this time around. 2007 was an awesome year for films but lot of great films which should have been there weren’t, including the best foreign picture category (“Lust, Caution“, “Persepolis” and “4 nights, 3 weeks and 2 days” missing). Hoffman being nominated...
    by Pankaj Johar at February 25th, 2008 at 05:02 am
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    The Lives of Others
    The film begins, with a Stasi (East German Security agency) lesson on interrogation, involving the psychology of the detainee. If he is lying or not. The focus soon shifts to a drama theatre, where spies are keeping a close watch on a set of people. Such is the beginning of the film that engrosses the viewer to observe, what is going on, made to think. A very mature way...
    by Manjeet Singh at February 25th, 2008 at 02:02 am
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    Filmfare Awards : Jai Bolo Beimaan Ki
    So the results are out.. and there are no shakes in terms of surprises, making the results less exciting than ever… The black beauty is also loosing out its charm with every passing year.. Filmfare is now reduced to one of the awards and not THE award of the industry.. Interestingly Yash and Aditya Chopra are confered with the Power award (seems they could not...
    by Pavan Jha at February 24th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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    Sam’s Oscar Report Sun, 24 Feb 2008
    Sam’s Oscar Report Sun, 24 Feb 2008 – Hollywood Sam Longoria has seen FEW of the Oscar-nominated pictures this year. Sam picks the Oscar-winners from their titles, using his own rules. Sam is happy to share with you his spectacularly un-informed opinion. I am not in attendance at the Oscars this year. I’m not going unless I or my work is nominated, or...
    by Sam Longoria at February 24th, 2008 at 01:02 pm
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    Jodhaa Akbar (2008)
    Two hearts amidst an epic setup. Written and Directed by: Ashutosh Gowariker. Starring: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai. Music: AR Rahman. A young boy named Jalaluddin stands on a war front In 1555AD India to be crowned as the new Moghul Emperor after the death of his Father Humayun. The ministry wages the war and defeats the rival King. They bring him in front of the new...
    by Jateen at February 24th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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    Pa pa papom pa pa pom pa pa papom pa pa pom and other Extra-terrestrial experiences
    Ok, i confess!! In all the 80’s action movies franchises, Indiana is a name which strikes pretty close to my heart. Been on the trail of the new movie ever since its been announced. Now we have the first glimpse! Take a look… Another one to hit the net is M. Knight Shyamalan’s new offering, The Happening!! and SURPRISE SURPRISE!!!! a familiar logo...
    by DPac at February 24th, 2008 at 05:02 am
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    Sunday 100: On Sunday you…
    Even in the 21st century we humans are very superstitious. More so the Indians. We have facilities like ‘Buy a car, get puja done for free’(BTW, that does not mean you get a Puja with the car and you do her, for free.) I am not here to ridicule the beliefs because I also can be very superstitious….. sometiemes. But not as superstitious as people in the...
    by Honhaar Goonda at February 24th, 2008 at 03:02 am
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    OSCARS 2007- Best Picture/Director
    BEST DIRECTOR Julian Schnabel – DIVING BELL & THE BUTTERFLY He has been nominated for this award at almost every big Film Festival in 2007. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0401383/awards The IMDB link shows 26 Award wins & 30 nomination. I have seen this film twice. It deserves every award it has won & even more. Schnabel is a genius filmmaker. This...
    by Mainak at February 24th, 2008 at 12:02 am
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