Archive for December, 2008

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    Dev.D music…
    iView Author: PRERNA (Mumbai, India) Email: prerna_9585@yahoo.co.in Dev.D Music…. AK has done it again. He is back in the hot and happening discussion rooms everywhere with his upcoming film Dev.D. And whether you love him or hate him… you just can’t ignore him! This time he is back with mindboggling trailers and incredible music album. The trailers...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 31st, 2008 at 06:12 pm
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    Why I look forward to Billu Barber..
    iView Author: SETHUMADHAVAN (Chennai/Vijayawada, India) Email: sethumadhavan.n@ gmail.com Why I look forward to Billu Barber Before I left home for office today, I was just customarily watching Channel V & MTV and I happened to see the first song of Billu Barber on MTV- “Marjaani“. That set me thinking a lot about the movie & then I realized that...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 31st, 2008 at 01:12 pm
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    David Fincher & “ The Curious case of Benjamin Button”
    iView Author: BIPIN VADDI (BOSTON, U.S.A) Email: bvaddi@gmail.com David Fincher & “ The Curious case of Benjamin Button” When someone’s resume starts with some rock video’s for the MTV generation, then takes on a super franchise like Aliens and then delivering a disillusioned sequel, you would imagine, that they would go back to making music...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 31st, 2008 at 01:12 pm
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    Dev D : Reprise, lyrical interpretation
    It has been 2 days since the songs of Dev D ‘hit us’, and there is no better way to describe the effect. Normally I write music reviews and the hysteria looms for some time, I get panned for wrongly interpreting many things and get lauded for getting few things right, sometimes I fight, sometimes I feel too lazy or simply incapable of facing all the questions...
    by Tushar at December 31st, 2008 at 11:12 am
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    THE ‘SHOE’ MUST GO ON
    Got a call from my cousin Titu in Amritsar..And I braced myself up for some fundoo gyan from him.. “ Oye ki haal hai Yaara”, his first words to me as I answered with a tentative sounding Hello.. I said I am fine but what is this Yaara business..What happened to good old Paapey or Boss? He said Yaara is the new flavor of the season courtesy RNBDJ.. “...
    by krysh at December 31st, 2008 at 08:12 am
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    Bollywood 2008 My 10
    It’s kind of a ritual for critics in the West to pick their favourite 10 films of the year gone by and even here in Bollywood newspapers and news channels are pouncing on the habit. But sadly, most of the papers and channels pick the Top 10 based on box office collections. While that to me is a great barometer to judge the quality of the film, it is not necessarily...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at December 31st, 2008 at 05:12 am
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    Kill the cinephile in you… Let us start all over again
    There’s a moment in Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona” when the tension between the lead actors (Bibi Andersson the nurse and Liv Ullman the actress) reaches its zenith, leading to a rupture of the film. The film-reel then catches fire. We see it dissolving on the screen. A total blackout follows, the film-bits come together and the film starts all over...
    by Sreehari. at December 31st, 2008 at 03:12 am
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    Aisa bhi hota hai (Part I)
    Disklaimer: Long post. Read at your own peril. Wink. Roughly an year after I became a PFC regular, I got an email. The mail was from the author of a post that I had commented upon. I was hyper thrilled and all that. For sake of security (mine) I won’t divulge who it was, but that’s not the point anyways. After exchanging a few emails, the ice broke and the...
    by Magik at December 31st, 2008 at 12:12 am
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    Telugu Movie Industry- 2008
     The  best  thing  to happen to me in 2008,  was becomming a  full flegded  author  of  PFC.   And in the course making  some wonderful  friends out here.  This  would be my  last  post  for 2008,  and am hoping that in 2009,  i would still  contribute to PFC  in  whatever way i can.   Telugu movie  industry  saw some significant   events ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at December 30th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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    Classic Revisited – Chashme Baddur – 1981
    iView Author: Dr.MANDAR V. BICHU (Sharjah, UAE ) Email: With held Classic Revisited – Chashme Baddur – 1981 Chashme Baddur Year: 1981 Dir: Sai Paranjape Cast: Farooque Shaikh, Dipti Naval, Ravi Baswani, Rakesh Bedi In the 1980s, the mainstream Hindi cinema was rapidly going downhill. Amitabh’s best years were gone and his career was largely going...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 30th, 2008 at 07:12 pm
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    First RNBDJ and now Ghajini
    iView Author: Sethumadhavan (Chennai/Vijayawada , India) Email: sethumadhavan.n [at] gmail.com Well this write- up is not a review of RNBDJ or Ghajini for that matter though I’ll be talking about both the movies. Yes I’ve seen both the movies and feel that there is something that binds these two movies together. Well these two movies as such are like chalk...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 30th, 2008 at 01:12 pm
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    Dev.D-Genesis 2(Happy Accidents)
    I was always told i can not make a love story and it always bothered me. But there wasn’t a love story i related to. Not the ones they referred to. I enjoyed QSQT, DDLJ, Maine Pyaar Kiya and then i grew up. Later I enjoyed Dil Chahta Hai, Metro and Jab We Met. One was about growing up and friendships, second was about relationships the latter was fun. But could i...
    by Anurag Kashyap at December 30th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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    PFC Exclusive : Dev.D Deleted Scene!!!
    Weapons of Mass Destruction…
    by oz at December 29th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    And the Best Hindi film of 2008 is
    iView Author: Anand (Chennai,India) Email: withheld And the Best Hindi film of 2008 is….! 2008 has nothing more to offer and is coming to an in a couple of days..all awards will start, Filmfare, Screen, Zee, Stardust and what not. I want to analyze the Hindi films that impacted me the most! The list below is in no particular order: Mithya: If not for Anurag...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 29th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    Bollywood back to square!
    Ghajini and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi – beyond doubt two of the biggest films of 2008 and films that had been awaited for a long time by all movie buffs. To be honest, I was not interested in seeing either. Rab Ne … did not even feature in my list of 2008 movies to watch and Ghajini had bored me to death with Aamir Khan and his haircut vulgarly splashed all over....
    by Medha Dutt at December 29th, 2008 at 08:12 pm
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    Not a Million Reasons for Slumdog Millionaire making Millions
    iView Author: Naram garam (Los Angeles/U.S.A) Not a Million Reasons for Slumdog Millionaire making Millions… This post is dedicated to Kenny who urged me to quit complaining and write a bit. Young, mid-twenties, blond haired woman: “Two for Slumdog.” Old white man in his Southern accent: “Hi, I would like four seniors for Slumdog Millionaire...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 29th, 2008 at 05:12 pm
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    Dev D ka muzic : roz bajaane ka!
    Dev.D Music Album Soundtrack and Review 04 November 2008 Late afternoon in Bangalore. Cloudy outside. The world has just woken up to the sound of ‘Emosanal Atyachar’ and the buzz can’t get any bigger with Pintoo Meena from Sikar, Rajasthan, Animesh Pandey from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh and R.V. Natarajan from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu all resorting to incessant,...
    by Tushar at December 29th, 2008 at 02:12 pm
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    Discoveries of 2008
    2008 was a very low key year as far as music & movies goes in my life. Esp after last 2 years of marathon movie watching & discovering music. But I would still go ahead & write a diary similar to last years Discoveries of 2007. Books - I read a lot of books this year. I tried to read of lot from the Random’s 100 list. 1) Animal Farm – George...
    by Mainak at December 29th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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    David Fincher -The Game
    **/ Spoiler Alerts**/ In  my  second on  the    David  Fincher  series  i  would  be taking a look  at  one  of  Fincher’s   more underrated movie  The Game, a kind of  abstract  thriller. The  Game  is the story  of   Nicholas Van Orton(Michael Douglas),  a multi  millionaire in  San Francisco,  but  leading a lonely life,  divorced ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at December 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am
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    All Time Horror Movies to watch on DVD – (in case you missed)
    iView Author: BIPIN VADDI (Boston/U.S.A) Email: bvaddi@gmail.com All Time Horror Movies to watch on DVD – (in case you missed) Ok, I don’t know many who can actually enjoy and appreciate horror movies this is for them and as for all the other sane people, who don’t want to scared witless, well there’s always those cuddly rom-coms to go home to...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 29th, 2008 at 08:12 am
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    How silent is your theater?
    We all have our own tales of horror, sorrow, anger and irritation brought to us by the respected people who during a movie are talking on the phone, having a board meeting right during the movie, resolving a family crisis or babies who have to go “WAAAHHH” right when the suspense is about to be revealed. But this man couldn’t take it anymore and got up...
    by oz at December 29th, 2008 at 07:12 am
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    Surya- Underrated and Brilliant
     When  i saw his initial  movies, my  opinion  was just another star kid  trying  his luck in Tamil movies.  Nandha made me notice him for the first time as a good actor,  Kaakha Kaakha  increased my admiration for him,  and the way he managed to hold his own against Vikram’s  fiery  brilliance in Pithamagan made me like him even more.  Movies  like...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at December 29th, 2008 at 12:12 am
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    A thousand elephants
    The phrase thousand elephants has a lot of significance in Thamizh literature. The medieval classic ‘Kalingathup parani’ was written over a war in which a chola king’s army killed more than thousand elephants of an enemy in a war. In fact the grammar says that ‘parani’ (collection of songs on a king’s victory in war) should be written...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at December 28th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
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    Singh is Kinng
    What was I thinking when I wrote this? Pindoo peekture. 0/5 IMDB
    by Honhaar Goonda at December 28th, 2008 at 01:12 pm
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    AMAR PREM : Juxtaposing legend and contemporary subtext
    The fact that this film was one of the most path breaking and successful movies starring India’s greatest romantic icon Rajesh Khanna , is probably why Amar Prem is remembered as a love story only. In retrospect the immortal love (Amar Prem) it speaks about is but a miniscule part of the entire canvas. The filmmaker succeeds in weaving a tale which is classical and...
    by Dipankar Giri at December 28th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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    Slumdog Millionaire
    Except childhood portion, hyped & bit illogical at times. Many weaknesses are not expected in a film made by world famous director. IMDB Link
    by Rk at December 28th, 2008 at 06:12 am
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    Ghajini : The genre is Formula
    End of the year comes a film that brings so many necessary evils of the medium back to the fore –garishly mounted song sequences, elaborate dramatic confrontations, formulaic storytelling structure, yet Ghajini does all these with an approach that is not wholly commercial in the crude sense of the word. A film that takes off with so many baggages, remake and copy...
    by Tushar at December 28th, 2008 at 04:12 am
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    Aamir Khan supersedes other super stars of commercial hindi cinema in 2008
    Ghazini has similarities with many films like Memento, Jhootha Kahin Ka and Pasand Apni Apni etc, but does it reduce the intensity of hard work Aamir Khan needed to put in the character, he has played? Had his job become easy because scenes or ideas have been taken from above mentioned films? Sholay is said to be inspired by many films (Hindi and Western) but does this...
    by Rk at December 28th, 2008 at 04:12 am
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    “Ghajini”: Aamir Khan and joie de vivre
    I’m part of a theatre troupe in my college. I remember, about 18 months ago, it was my first day in the group, and the very first thing I was told was “exaggerate”…… A.R. Murugadoss sure seems a guy who knows the meaning of that word! For “Ghajini” is exaggerated with a capital E…..and this is likely to be the bone of contention...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at December 27th, 2008 at 04:12 am
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    Kkkhushi Mogambo ki
    Dear Filmi, the headline doesn’t mean nothing. Don’t waste your precious time pondering over its profoundity. It’s not. It’s pure drivel. It sounds kool & all that, but what does it mean? Mundu (ZILCH). So without taking up more space in your RAM / ROM / DOS, I come straight to the point. Who let the dawgs out? Well how the heck would you know....
    by Magik at December 27th, 2008 at 01:12 am
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