Thermoman formerly known as Deepak

WTF do we have here...I want to have nothing to do with this Train Crash..Walk away..whistle if you can & walk away slowly but do not turn back...Its too dangerous :-) My name is Deepak and I am one of those sad gits that eat, live, breathe, drink and also constantly berate movies. I have it in me to sit down and see movies constantly for days on end and there have been instances in my life when there were interjections done by my family to help me come out of this filmoholism. None have prevailed and my madness continues... Here as a aspiring filmmaker some of the time but most its a film buff who thinks he has seen it all and then gets flummoxed every day when he sees something new and wonderful in the mad bad world of Cinema. So Cheers, Toodle Oo & May the force be with you.. Deepak Venkateshan, Only Movies http://www.deepakvenkateshan.com

Thermoman formerly known as Deepak's Blog

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The Haves & Have-not of Hindi Film Industry
I tend to do this for all the blogs I write. The topic title is something I think through lots to get it that typical eye ball grabbing and clicking need. Ok. This title is good but it’s not a write-up on Communism or a political diatribe it’s rather a topic I am facing on a daily basis and need to speak about. Why am I writing today and where the F*@k was...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at March 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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Jingoism & The Movies
Hullo Hullo Hullo. Been a while and well why I am writing on this?? Two reasons actually. One being that I was sent a “Gentle” reminder by the “OZ” (I know not what it is) that am going to be kicked out soon If I do not write and two was this is one topic that has sort of been discussed but not at length. The definition of Jingoism as per Merriam...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at November 18th, 2008 at 03:11 am
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Recipe for a Chick Flick – Easy Primer :-)
I am sure this is going to get my arse kicked all around the place and am writing it with more trepidation than required. I am writing about the great genre of Chick Flicks. Note that I am not referring to it as RomCom as Romantic Comedies can go either way with the Hero or Heroine being the central character but the Genre of Chick flicks have a certain strain and flow...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at September 4th, 2008 at 03:09 am
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The Importance of Being Batman
I have been meaning to write this for eons now but as the Dark Knight is just round the corner, it felt as the right time to write this. God how clichéd am I…. Well what can be written about Batman? For those comic virgins, I have a small primer in the next 2 Para(s). For all those twats like me, who did nothing much other than read comics, live in a warped world of...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at June 30th, 2008 at 05:06 am
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News of a Short Film
I have been gazing at my navel really badly for the past few weeks and even my work life has been a little hectic. I have been hearing great things from production houses but none seem to take it forward. At this semi frustrating state, I decided to do what motivates me the most…A Short film over the Weekend..Yeah Baby..Yeah.. A short film over the weekend. This...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at May 9th, 2008 at 05:05 am
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Favorite Gangster Flicks..
I am sure this topic is going to get a lot of adrenalin surging and more personal onslaughts than required as this is one topic that is close to many of our hearts. We all might in refined society crib about the heavy violence in our movies and how we as a society have got degenerated but at the bottom of our portable paradises, we carry a list of movies that we tend to...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at April 1st, 2008 at 05:04 am
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Me @ India Screenwriting Workshop 2008 in Goa
It all started off from PFC only and a link in a post not at all related to Screenwriting. A wonderful person had put a link to the workshop and I thought “Why Not?” so promptly wrote off a concept that was brewing in my head for quite sometime and sent it to the jury who, although my concept was written like a teaser & not complete, seemed to like it and called...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at March 26th, 2008 at 01:03 am
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Life in a… Movie Formula
I was up late last night watching the Telly and particularly a Kannada movie channel called Udaya Movies and chanced upon a movie that had me in splits and so much of laughter that once I get rich and famous, am going to hunt the director down and pay him a lot of money to make another movie like this. This was simply stupendous. BTW, before you get me wrong, this was...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at March 6th, 2008 at 01:03 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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Jodha Akbar – Long Live the New K. Asif Saab
I have put it in the Title and am going to tell that again. Long live the new K. Asif. I also want to put a disclaimer right here, that I really love Ashutosh Gowariker as a director and have loved Lagaan immensely, Swades is one of my all time favorites and by Jove, Jodha Akbar is now there in that list. This movie works on so many different aspects of cinema that I loved...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at February 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
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The Internet Intellectual
I have been meaning to write about this particular rant of mine but always put it off since was not too sure how it will be accepted. Since then have seen far too many of this kind and felt should write about this to find out how you all feel. To put this article into perspective, let’s just move back in time, like Dr. Evil in Austin Powers (I) and bring some background...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at February 13th, 2008 at 01:02 am
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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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Simpson Withdrawals
Life officially stinks. I really mean it. The day job I do is hardly an enriching experience and the only thing other than my passions for making movies that kept me getting up every working day was the fact that there used to be a sitcom line-up in the morning in Star World(English Channel in India and part of Murdoch’s empire). The thing I loved about this line-up...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at January 22nd, 2008 at 11:01 pm
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The SSS Club
Friday, 4 January 2008 Phuleeze do not get befuddled by the SSS in the title and assume this to be a write-up on a “Nagin” film but this is more a self-obsessed write-up on 3 of my really favorite films and all three being with “S”. Like the white supremacists having their KKK, I have my SSS & hope more will join. Well if you readers who visit PFC want to...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at January 4th, 2008 at 03:01 am
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Dus Kahaniyaan – Jeffrey Archer on Viagra
Friday, 7 December 2007 I was planning on faking many an illness and also planning on the whole modalities of watching 2 flicks this week as there were 2 movies released this week. I wanted to see the bad and then the good, so opted to see Dus Kahaniyaan before I watched Koya Koya.. I think I did the right thing. I was one of those people who were very optimistic about...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at December 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
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Why Do I Write
Well I am a numbers guy and somehow also like to write. I am not saying that I write amazingly well but it’s something I consider that am capable of doing and something I deeply enjoy. I read in a post few days back that people who want to make movies take up writing simply because it’s easy to do. I found this funny and offensive both at the same time. Funny because...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at December 4th, 2007 at 02:12 am
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Dard-e-Disco & Dard-e-Khisko
6 hours of film back to back can sometime be an enchanting affair but at times can also make you tired, fretful, and as there are 2 films can leave you with Mixed feelings. Saw OSO & Saawariya back to back in the same order and my head is a maelstrom of emotions. Since Oz has given me a user id and pwd to log on here and voice my opinion, thought will talk about these...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at November 9th, 2007 at 11:11 am
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A 70’s story retold with designer tears – Laga Chunri…
Well just got out of a theater in Bangalore 30 minutes ago and still wondering how it went wrong. When you start to think that YRF is coming out to the good side and you start to feel elated after “Chak De”, they throw you back on terra firm by providing you a movie like “Laga Chunri..” The EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The movie started of really well....
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at October 12th, 2007 at 10:10 am
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A man of many seasons – Puttanna Kanagal
No. This is not a upcoming movie title although it surely sounds like that. This is in reality a write-up on one of India’s less known and highly forgotten Film Director. Puttanna Kanagal was one of the finest directors South Indian cinema had the benefit of having in its repository. He was at foremost a director in Kannada language and also did quite a few films...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at October 4th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
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Will the real RGV please stand up ?
I am posting this a little late in the day but just saw RGV KI Aag and I am so depressed that I can hardly think, breathe or even fathom what the hell happened. I have as of today witnessed the worst train crash in my life and its called RGV ki AAg. Before some of the more “Intelligent” readers of PFC jump at me and tell me that this is a review I am writing...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at September 17th, 2007 at 08:09 am
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Heyy Babyy
I am not only writing a review in this post of the Movie by the same name done by the GREATEST (Its Sarcastic) Director of all time – Sajid Khan but also a condolence write-up for the death of cinema and the sad growth of Crap. Yes, this movie in a nutshell is all about Crap. It starts off about crap being hit on Akshay, there is a kid that craps all along and the...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at August 24th, 2007 at 10:08 am
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Kakha Kakha
This post is not about the same name movie in Tamil from Gautam Menon. That movie was incredible and well proved beyond doubt to its viewers about the capabilities of Gautam. I am rather writing about the urban legend surrounding the name. Apparently Kakha Kakha is ascribed to a poem and literally means “Waiting Waiting“. Gautam had put this name as his movie...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at August 24th, 2007 at 04:08 am
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The Bas#@rd Children of Films
This is my first post for PFC (ahem ahem). This should be fun and please be tender :-) I did not put up that rather profane title for this post to get your attention but meant it. If it got some guys as an added bonus to read it, then fantastic I am trying to simply highlight a rather true piece of data about a lot of people from my generation. We are part of a family...
by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at July 28th, 2007 at 12:07 pm