Archive for August, 2008

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    Rock On vs DCH vs Almost Famous
    Spoiler Alert- Not to read if you haven’t seen the movie Alas! High expectations are such a curse! I was so pumped that I was going to watch Rock On tonight. The reviews were all superlative; the buzz on PFC was very favorable. The movie’s backdrop was rock music! Farhan Akhtar, the man who oozes everything contemporary, urban and classy in a new avatar lending...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at August 31st, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    WALL-E: Some One Sided Thoughts
    iView Author: RoodRow (Kolkata, India) Email: rchak2k [at] yahoo [dot] com WALL-E: Some One Sided Thoughts Last night, when I came out of the movie theatre watching WALL-E, the first thing, which came to my mind, was when it was the last time I saw a film with first forty minutes without dialogue. I knew. There was a guy tried that staff nearly forty years ago where...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 31st, 2008 at 04:08 pm
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    Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein – 1989 : Kishore Kumar’s Swan Song
    iView Author: Kaustubh Pingle (Pune, India) Email: kcpingle [at] gmail [dot] com Mamta Ki Chhaon Mein – 1989 “Those seeking simplicity and values in life, this film is for you.” In retrospect to Oz’s posts on the tortures of the 80’s, I was thinking of a few names of good movie of the 80’s. Most of them ( the list of names i.e. ) were...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 31st, 2008 at 01:08 pm
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    Slumdog Millionaire
    Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire is getting some pretty good reviews from those who have seen it. Here’s a Telluride review found on /Film that gives it a 8.5 out of a 10 while mentioning “…an electrifying score by AR Rehman, Boyle presents India as it has never been seen before, from the slums to the Taj Mahal. Vivid visuals combined with this...
    by oz at August 31st, 2008 at 10:08 am
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    Rock on Rocked
    iView Author: Shayoni Mehta (Pune, India) Email: shayoni.mehta [at] gmail [dot] com Rock on Rocked I had been waiting impatiently for this films release. When Farhan Akhtar is associated with anything, the venture may be good or bad, but it will always be different and definitely not boring. I expected to get my moneys worth for this one, and did! The story is simple...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 31st, 2008 at 10:08 am
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    Reco of the Month – Subramaniyapuram (2008)
    Hell make that the year or even the last few years if you want and it still holds true! If you are like me, confused about why the state which (add arguably here if u r keen on political correctness) boasts of the best brains, the best storytellers, the best technicians and the best musicians etc etc continually produce the most regressive, cliche cinema, If you are...
    by DPac at August 31st, 2008 at 04:08 am
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    Khoya Khoya Chand
    Haven’t played musical chairs before and seen it before in HKA. Also pace of the film was too fast. IMDB PFC Review 2/5
    by Honhaar Goonda at August 31st, 2008 at 02:08 am
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    Northfork
    (5/5) Magic, pure magic. Even if the story is too slow for your taste, the film is worth watching because the cinematography is amazing, the characters compelling, many of the scene transitions spectacular, the music perfect, and the love and respect of the beauty of small-town Western America and its people is refreshing. A must watch film for lovers of magic realism...
    by t! at August 30th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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    RGV and me
    iView Author: Ashwin Singh (Mumbai, India) Email: akas100 [at] gmail [dot] com RGV and me This is my first post for PFC and I thought it would be apt to write about the man who is responsible for transforming me from a part time movie watcher into a full fledged cinema fanatic. My only inclination towards movies as a kid was watching them for timepass. I had an interest...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 30th, 2008 at 04:08 pm
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    Mumbai meri Jaan….again!!!
    Mumbai Meri Jaan… I had to write after seeing the film. I am sure most of you have seen it already and that I am practically the last to watch it. It melted my heart to see a film that was from the heart, things that we speak about and never get down to doing. I agree with anurag, I too felt “why the hell didn’t I think of making a film like this???” Kudos...
    by Revathy at August 30th, 2008 at 11:08 am
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    Pusan film fest to aid 3 Indian films
    Three films from India– one complete and two planned – have been selected by the Pusan International Film Festival for its programmes targeted at helping independent Asian filmmakers. Paris-based Partho Sen-Gupta’s Arunoday (Sunrise) is the only Indian entry among 30 selected from all over Asia for the Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market, designed...
    by Runumi G at August 30th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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    Samsara: Boner Nirvana
    It could have been a simple, minimalistic, resonating fable on the nature of human desire and renunciation, something out of a slightly perverse Jataka Tale (one hidden by a secret society of megalomaniac monks?? The Buddha Code anyone?), with even a smarter-than-your-average animal thrown in for a not-so-subtle-metaphor. But Director Pan Nalin seems more inclined to peddle...
    by Siddharth Pillai at August 30th, 2008 at 05:08 am
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    Chamku review – Kabeer, you slipped!
    Warning: Post contains strong language. When you start noticing flaws in a movie directed by one, who’s first you absolutely admire… you for some odd reason go back to the first movie and go “Ya! The guy made the same mistakes in the first one too…”. The good, in the first one, had so many hooks to keep you engrossed that either you consciously...
    by oz at August 29th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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    Raah Pe Rahte Hain – Gulzar turns a truck driver’s ditty into a song of life
    23 hours in transit! I step out of the airport with visions of my bed floating in front of my eyes. I take the cab and prepare myself for the 55 kms journey home at the crack of the dawn. The cabbie looks at me from the rear view mirror and I give him my address. That one look should have alerted me. No, he didn’t look like an RGV extra. It was the look of a man...
    by Subrat at August 29th, 2008 at 03:08 pm
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    Your Choice this weekend?
    Rock On is getting quite positive reviews, while Chamku reviews mention director (or was it the editor?) Kabir Kaushik’s slipping after a great debut (Sehar). CKkompany and Mukhbir will need some readers to review and tell us the positive nodes in the movie if any, for the reviews have just flushed both these. So what’s the movie/s you’ll be watching...
    by oz at August 29th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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    Rangeele Babu : Premchandian revolutionary character dares to challenge the God
    It is said and it has been said all over the world in every country and in every civilization that there is no man who does not face sorrows. There have been philosophers who have been investigating existence of God or his role in the life of any human being. Raju (Dev Anand) says in the Guide, one of the most wonderful films of the hindi cinema. “Now this question...
    by Rk at August 29th, 2008 at 06:08 am
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    Malcolm X
    (4/5) Spike Lee’s tour-de-force isn’t perfect- but it’s a biopic of enormous, blazing power. IMDB
    by Jahan Bakshi at August 29th, 2008 at 05:08 am
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    Manorama Six Feet Under (2007)
    Raymond Chandler’s ‘Lakhot’ Written and Directed by: Navdeep Singh. Starring: Abhay Deol, Gul Panag, Raima Sen and Kulbhushan Kharbanda. Manorama (Sarika) in her 40’s (or 30’s?) walks in to Satyaveer Randhwa’s (Abhay Deol) house in Lakhot, Rajasthan. Styaveer has recently debuted his first mystery novel, titled Manorama, which Manorama...
    by Jateen at August 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am
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    Rock On is My Story and Yours
    Every morning I would double click the Vanish icon on my desktop. It’s a Final Draft file, a script I am writing, hoping to turn it into a film. If I look at the script five times, I look at the clock on the wall seven times. It’s time, I have to go to office and hunt for an interview, dig out a story and make the newspaper page on Quark Express software. I...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at August 28th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
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    Rock On… reviews begin
    Some really good reviews pouring in the first round. PFC author Pratim-da messaged us mentioning “ROCK ON WILL BE AS BIG AS DIL CHAHTA HAI, IF NOT BIGGER… Have never felt so uplifted after watching a Hindi film… so well made… so well acted and the last half hour is just music… Pratim-da’s message had us counting the time left for Rock...
    by oz at August 28th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
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    Henry Poole Is Here
    2.5/5. Strong premise. Weak Script. Yet can get one teary eyed over memories and a glass of scotch. IMDB
    by oz at August 28th, 2008 at 04:08 pm
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    Maachis: questions it ignited
    Set against the backdrop of the dying secessionist movement in Punjab, Maachis undoubtedly has a powerful and potent story idea at its heart and Tabu’s and Om Puri’s excellent portrayal of their respective characters makes it difficult not to like this film. Not to forget the brilliant songs. The villages of Punjab and snow covered landscapes of the small town/village...
    by Neeraja at August 28th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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    How’s your… Sex Drive?
    We came to know about Sex Drive during Comic Con in San Diego. Last week the team of Sex Drive sent us some exclusive pics, hoping we would be able to make it to their screening in LA. Unfortunately we were tied up elsewhere. But here are the pics and the trailer of Sex Drive which releases on October 17th.  
    by oz at August 28th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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    Aaja ACTING kar le – says Surya
    Aaja ACTING kar le – says Surya Warning – long post and NO ..this is not a casting call. Had been pestering Surya for a short role in his debut film “Aaja Gunaah Kar le” since the Vikhroli Akarshan days (rather nights). The shoot got delayed by two months due to the fact that Surya met with an accident and slipped into a ’slip disk’....
    by kartik krishnan at August 28th, 2008 at 06:08 am
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    Rock On- Oh For 60 Minutes
    Hi Folks, Caught a press screening of Rock On at the beautiful Saratoga area in Northern California. 60 minutes, oh 60 minutes seperates this movie from being a reasonable watch to being a classic watch. It was 60 minutes too long, if 60 minutes had been shaved off a super movie would have played out. The two biggest strenghts of this movie are a) a strong story told via...
    by Vivek Kumar at August 28th, 2008 at 12:08 am
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    Himesh Bhai ka Karz
    Himesh Reshammiya has been doing a world of good to the Hindi film music scene for some time now. When I look at his films, more than anything, he has done immense contribution to bringing the unannounced bathroom singing genre back to the fore. His songs really made singing cool, irrespective of whether it sounds good or not, one can launch into an extempore crooning...
    by Tushar at August 27th, 2008 at 02:08 pm
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    Christopher Nolan and Batman – The Phenomenon
    iView Author: Suprateek Chatterjee (Mumbai, India) Email: supchats [at] gmail [dot] com Christopher Nolan and Batman – The Phenomenon Just finished watching Batman Begins, a film I’d seen a couple of years ago on the IMAX screen. Having arrived a little late for it, and also being overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the IMAX experience, it is of little...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 27th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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    The Torture Series 3: Bhavani Junction
    Warning: Post contains strong language and sexual content. Imagine, me entering my hitlerian Dad’s room. Imagine me asking for his permission to go out and see a movie called Bhavani Junction. Then imagine Pitashree’s right hand moving in slow motion, big tight palms connecting to my left cheek sending me flying out of his room in slo mo. Had that incident...
    by oz at August 26th, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    Truth is getting stranger than fiction
    iView Author: Neeraj Ghaywan (New Delhi, India) Email: neeraj.ghaywan [at] gmail [dot] com Truth is getting stranger than fiction A mystic location in the woods, a group of anorexic sadhus invoking cult.. cut.. a young couple being educated about dyslexia while a kid is painting his mind… cut… a star couple and their hickeys with animated figments of...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at August 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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    Sorry State of Affairs
    iView Author: Josyula Srikant (Los Angeles, USA) Email : jsrikant [at] gmail [dot] com Sorry State of Affairs I really don’t know what is happening to hindi movie industry. It literally makes me sick. Gone are the days when actors and directors could say that hindi movies caters to the masses (the rickshawallas, the front benchers) and that these people don’t...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at August 26th, 2008 at 09:08 am
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