Archive for January, 2009

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    Luck By Chance: Some thoughts.
    When Anurag Kashayp first approached Shahrukh Khan for the role of K in No Smoking, SRK refused. He answers that circuitously in the movie Luck By Chance, when he advices Vikram that, in this industry it is very important what kind of choices you make. The first film chooses you, now, you are going to choose your films. Choose well. The answer could very well have been...
    by Tanul Thakur at January 31st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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    Akhtarnama
    Rajeev Masand chats with the Flava of the Season Da Akhtars Watch it here
    by DPac at January 31st, 2009 at 09:01 pm
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    DAMfest09 – The Events!
    DAM 09 is here, and the digital entertainment world receives its second annual tribute from the hills of Lavale. Here is more than a sneak peek at what is in store for the three days of digital madness: DAY 1: The day begins innovatively with the crisp snap of clapboard by the chief guest declaring the festival open. SEMINAR I: THE DIGITAL BUSINESS The Digital medium...
    by DAMfest at January 31st, 2009 at 08:01 pm
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    There’s No Business Like Sanskriti Business!!
    1. Alu in my Parantha Is Portuguese legacy That’s against Bharatiya Sanskriti 2. Tourist raped In Pushkar Must be the Pub culture 3. Women, remember Their speeches are inflammatory And you, inflammable 4. It’s illegal To light a cigarette Torch a bus instead 5. Cabinet Ministers Don’t have work Pranab’s playing a single-hand 6. Fictitious people Are...
    by Subrat at January 31st, 2009 at 03:01 pm
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    Berlinale selects Adiga’s Tiger among 12 most filmable
    Those who thought Danny Boyle resorted to poverty porn peddling in his Slumdog Millionaire, might soon have something more to chew on – Aravind Adiga’s Man Booker winner, The White Tiger, criticised by many for more or less the same reasons, is among the 12 most-filmable works of fiction. At least that is what Berlinale 2009 has decided. The 59th edition of...
    by Runumi G at January 31st, 2009 at 11:01 am
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    Arrey….Isne Toh Biriyani Jalaa Di…….
    By the first half of the film I was convinced that this is going to be a superb film and the film would do justice to the pre-release hype. Well, it had everything to make the film so. A stellar cast, rave reviews….and Zoya Akhtar’s directorial debut. She cooks it up well…. At least that’s what I thought by the first half…… The...
    by Sulakshana Biswas at January 31st, 2009 at 08:01 am
  • 12
    Irreversible : The pornography of Art… or is it?
    Art can take several forms, serve several functions. It can reveal or emphasize an expression, an emotion or a mood, or it can tell a compelling story. All cinema is essentially art. However, art house cinema is simply a term used to describe a genre of cinema not bound by box office returns, saleability of stars, censorship issues and global reach. It is a genre of cinema...
    by Suprateek Chatterjee at January 31st, 2009 at 03:01 am
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    What a film, and definitely not by chance!
    What do you write about a film that was expected to be a good one – and lived up to its expectations heart and soul? Nothing really. That’s Luck By Chance for you. A film that was much-awaited by everyone and was expected to be quite good too. Notwithstanding the fact that at the helms was a new director. Well, there would be many who would say – but...
    by Medha Dutt at January 31st, 2009 at 02:01 am
  • 31
    A unique actor boards the bus – Good bye Nagesh sir
    What would you call an actor who can make you laugh with your gutts in one second and in the next micro second make you reach out for the hand kerchief to wipe your tears? What would you call an actor whose presence simply overshadows even the superstars and super actors like Kamal Hassan and Shivaji Ganesan? What would you call an actor who worked 20 of the 24 hours in...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at January 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Downloading Nancy
    Drubbed as the one of the most disliked movies at Sundance 2009, Cinematical was one of the few who loved it… Trailer is not suitable for those under 18…
    by oz at January 31st, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Luck By Chance Review
    iView Author: Avinash Singh (India) Email: avinash.s21 [at] gmail [dot] com Luck By Chance Review Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sherwani, Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Kapoor, Aly Khan, Anuj Mathur & Extended Guest Appearance by Hrithik Roshan along with cameos by many stars. Director: Zoya Akhtar Producer: Ritesh Sidhwani &...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
  • 12
    Mahaleela by A. Sivamani : if music knew no barriers…
    Introduction: Siva – the creator!…. Creates magic with just about anything from his conventional cymbals to the timbale to the batajon to the vastly unconventional shells and conches and “Biryani Kadai”. Siva’s style is deceptive for the uninitiated. Deeply profound and mysterious at one moment; tantalizing and exuberant at the next. However,...
    by Tushar at January 30th, 2009 at 03:01 pm
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    DAMfest09 – Love at First Sight with Cinema
    Cinema is a mode of mass communication, according to various theories. That makes it a social exercise. Just like gossip. Another common factor is that both cinema and gossip have the stress-busting potency of chocolate and Prozac. So at social gatherings, filmmakers who still have not seen their work on the ‘big screen’ grumble about the ‘industry camps’...
    by DAMfest at January 30th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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    Push Movie Trailer
    There’s something about this one, specially for comic book fans, that may hit the bull’s eye
    by oz at January 30th, 2009 at 09:01 am
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    Every job is like moviemaking – Starring the Cafe gals and dudes
    Every job is like moviemaking Starring the Cafe gals and dudes Backstory: After two years and let me count, three months, I quit two days ago as editor of HT Cafe, an entertainment supplement of Hindustan Times in Bombay. And as I left it was almost..not it was, like the last day of a film shoot. I was in it together with colleagues..actually they were all old enough...
    by Khalid Mohamed at January 30th, 2009 at 07:01 am
  • 15
    Proposal of the month _ KOKO Marry me OR Recco of the Month_ Luck By Chance!!!
    I am gonna keep this concise and precise. I have no ‘ichcha’ to spoil your fun and as Anurag and Vasan before me, I too will give you a juSHT a reaction rather than a ‘review’. (come to think of it i dont do ‘reviews’) About 2 months ago on a pretty cloudy day, I took a 1 hour bus ride to the outskirts of Melbourne to see Excel Entertainments...
    by DPac at January 30th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    LUCK BY CHANCE : A Film lost in Caricature, Almost.
    “Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”- Oprah Winfrey Opportunity, something almost a million….err no make it a zillion people comes looking for! Slogging it out in small dingy rooms, sitting on the floor listening to self proclaimed acting gurus giving lectures on subtleness and what not, saving up cash for ages for that one coveted...
    by Rusted rick at January 30th, 2009 at 06:01 am
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    Luck By Chance: Will it make Farhan the new-age cinema’s star actor?
    Hi Anurag (Kashyap). You are a scream in Luck By Chance, as the ‘institute’ pass out who is asked to write Bollywood scripts out of Hollywood DVDs. But no, I cannot agree with your assessment elsewhere on passionforcinema that Zoya Akhtar’s is probably the best-ever debut venture you have ever seen, even better than her brother Farhan Akhtar’s Dil...
    by Runumi G at January 30th, 2009 at 05:01 am
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    The Sword and the Mind: The Hero-I
    /**  Spoiler  Alerts The  Hero( no  relation to the  Sunny  Paaji flick  please),  is  one  movie  which inspite  of  watching multiple  times,  is  something that just keeps on  throwing  up more  and  more  layers to me.   The  first  time i  watched  it ,  i  was just  swept  away  by  the  color hues,  the visual splendour,  ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at January 30th, 2009 at 04:01 am
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    Farhan and Abhay herald the return of the character actor hero?
    So, most of us are going to see Luck by Chance this weekend. Some of us are sure to gloat about the movie’s prospects and some of us shall remain dissatisfied. Then, we shall have other stellar cinema coming our way in the next few weeks. Delhi 6, Dev D, Billo Barber, etc. It is surely going to be quite exciting. Slum Dog Millionaire has set the ball rolling. Raaz...
    by Indraneel at January 30th, 2009 at 02:01 am
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    The 2008 Cannes winner speaks …
    Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who won the Best Director at the 2008 Festival de Cannes speaks about his film, ‘Three Monkeys’…. “It has always astonished me to see in the human soul the coexistence of the power to rule and the potential to forgive, the interest in the most holy and that of the lowest banality, and love and hate. For this reason, dealing with...
    by NDTV Lumiere at January 29th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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    Immortal Andaz Apna Apna
    I was watching Oye Its Friday, Aamir Khan on guest chair and Farhan mentioned Andaz Apna Apna as becoming the cult classic of Bollywood. There is no doubt. I remember the first time I watched it I missed out on more than half of the film because either I was laughing or was trying to breathe. Never felt this ecstatically horrified by any other movie, EVER. Not even a Hollywood...
    by Jateen at January 29th, 2009 at 03:01 pm
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    LUCKBYCHANCE is HONESTBYGOD
    DISCLAIMER – this is not a meta physical quantum analytical review of the film. It by no means wants to say how the director has made a socio-political or socio-economic comment in this film thru her characters. Nor does it say anything about the film…nor does it make any sense. I went for an audition last week. Yeh! audition for a role. By no means did I...
    by Vasan Bala at January 29th, 2009 at 02:01 pm
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    Dev.D – Before the dawn.
    Dev.D – Before the dawn. There are lots of interesting things going so right for Dev.D that there’s this audacious hope that it’s going to be that outrageous piece of art which is also going to rake in the box office riches. Recently I was in a north India trip and I saw the curiosity among the youth. The college goers and the Young professionals in their...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at January 29th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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    Gulaal : First Look
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    by oz at January 29th, 2009 at 08:01 am
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    Kurosawa and his magic Rashomon
    The moment I waited for months and months, the moment I recently lost total hope in, the moment that is my first achievement, and the moment that is probably the best moment of my life till now, the moment of being an author on the PFC. After watching many films like The Fountain, The Apartment, Curious Case, and ofcourse Slumdog Millionaire, after reading many screenplays...
    by Jehan Handa at January 29th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    THE GOLDEN ERA of Television
    iView Author: dilnawaz (patna/new delhi, India) Email: syed.tauheed(@)gmail(dot)com THE GOLDEN ERA of Television The era of TV serial making in country began with Harish khanna.the head of doordarshan(dd) khanna,categorically was in favour of entertainment, educational and patriotic content.doordarshan ably carried ahead the responsibility of infotainment media. patriotic...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 28th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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    LEAKED!! Jai Ho to open OSCARS’09
    Musicindiaonline gives us the good news!! Rahman and singer Sukhwinder Singh have been invited to open the eighty first Annual Academy Awards night, scheduled for Feb 21 at Los Angeles. The duo will perform their super-hit number ‘Jai ho’. Inside sources reveal that Rahman had called up Sukhwinder, telling him that the authorities of the Academy Awards had...
    by DPac at January 28th, 2009 at 08:01 pm
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    Agony Anurag
    You have problem dealing with b$%$!@ girl friend, A$$ $^*& Boy friend, old fashioned parents or that third in between two love birds, or anything you find is a kabaad me haddi between two love birds, all your wait is over. Our very own Anurag will answer all your questions.. Anurag is your local Agony aunt and he can answer all your questions about love here He...
    by OM at January 28th, 2009 at 08:01 pm
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    Jab harry met sally…
    iView Author: CRAZYRALS (Bangalore, India) Email: crazyrals@gmail.com Jab harry met sally… .. ek ladka-ladki kabhi dost nahi hote… said Jeevan to Prem in Maine Pyar Kiya. It was the year 1989 when MPK had released. I wished to watch the movie in a cinema hall, but alas! I had no one to go with. Anyhow, I finally got to see the movie on VCR some 3-4 months later....
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 28th, 2009 at 06:01 pm
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