Full2Faltu | PassionforCinema

I am a true Mumbaikar currently living and working in Amsterdam. I come from the place they named as Bollywood but I like movies of all languages provided they are watchable and have subtitles. I fell in love with the movies during a very young age and the romance still continues. I am not a critic but like to present my views on movies. I may not understand cinema lekin Hum public hai na!

I also write on my personal blog,
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Made in China (2009)
The economic policies of the government in 1992 changed a lot for many Indian. From a developing country in the 80s, India saw itself transforming into a super power. The cities grew and India realized the power of the brains of its citizen. The next 15 years changed the way Indians lived with the economy riding the software wave. The world realized the buying power of...
by Full2Faltu at March 21st, 2009 at 05:03 am
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Dhudgus (2008)
The movie “Dhudgus” was released on 21st November 2008. Five days later, Mumbai was attacked. The release could not be at a better time because the situation and the characters in the movie reflect the current social and political situation. It reflects the death of morality in today’s society. “Dhudgus” which literally means chaos is a Marathi...
by Full2Faltu at December 6th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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Valu (2008)
Three characters, a wild bull, a reluctant forest officer and a village deep in the interior of Maharahstra. The wild bull goes on a rampage destroying a lot in the village and to stop it, a forest officer is called to catch the bull. The Marathi film “Valu” directed by debutant director Umesh Kulkarni has this one line story which forms the skeleton of a interesting...
by Full2Faltu at February 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm
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Unlimited Movies
For three years in Amsterdam, I watched many movies on my computer. Movies I had never heard about. For the first one and half year, the only movie I saw in the theatres was Spiderman 2. Then one and half year later everything changed. Amsterdam is rich in terms of art. It has many music halls, small theatres and huge multiplex. The biggest multiplex group is Pathe. It...
by Full2Faltu at October 31st, 2007 at 10:10 am
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Bhool Bhulaiya (2007)
Warning: Possible Spoilers ahead ============================== Have you felt a sense of deja vu while watching a movie? I guess many remakes give the feeling. But how do you feel when you watch the same movie with a different name, a different language and different actors. Priyadarshan’s “Bhool Bhulaiya” is a exact copy of “Manichithrathazhu”....
by Full2Faltu at October 15th, 2007 at 11:10 am
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Manichithrathazhu (1993)
An old man walks into a palatial mansion/palace calling someone’s name. From the look of things, the building is undergoing renovation. He is shouting the name of the painter shouting instructions to complete the work. There is no answer from the painter and the man walks to the first floor. Suddenly he stops on the first floor lobby when he realizes that the person...
by Full2Faltu at October 11th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
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Johnny Gaddar (2007)
When I was a child, I would like reading books. As I was not the intelligent kind, I never read classic literature. I read thrillers and detective novels. The beauty of thrillers and detective novels was to read as the mystery unravels, as the story twist and turns and ends to a perfect climax. I would be so excited reading that I wanted to finish the novel in one go without...
by Full2Faltu at September 29th, 2007 at 06:09 am
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Manorama – Six Feet Under (2007)
I convinced my friend to watch “Manorama – Six Feet Under” (M-SFU) but not without a warning that it would be different. I even tried explaining what Film-noir mean reading everything about it wikipedia as I do not understand the concept myself too. He in turn convinced his wife to join him. They rush from Thane to join me at the 8:00 PM show in Malad....
by Full2Faltu at September 22nd, 2007 at 03:09 am
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Transformer (2007) – Games Boys Play
During our school days, Doordarshan would show a serial called “Johnny Sakko and his Flying robot”. Big robots would fight for supremacy of Earth. Building would fall like they were made of boards (actually they were made of boards). But it was fun. Then you would re-enact all those moments again after the show. The show’s details were talked with such...
by Full2Faltu at July 8th, 2007 at 08:07 am
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Die Hard 4.0 (2007) – Welcome to the Party Pal
It was the summer vacation of 1989-1990. We children would contribute one rupee and would rent those old big video cassette. The choice was clear. We wanted English action movies or new Hindi movies. An occasional ghost movie would do but the most we had was Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan and Jean-Claude Van Damme. We had no idea what was going in Hollywood and the...
by Full2Faltu at July 1st, 2007 at 10:07 pm
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Cheeni Kum (2007)
The only regret I have while watching “Cheeni Kum” was that I did not have my dinner before watching the film. Every time Amitabh Bachchan said “Hyderabadi Zafarani Pulao” my stomach drooled. But then “Cheeni Kum” is more about food. Its about love, its above logical reasoning, its about need to be loved and then its nothing about the...
by Full2Faltu at May 26th, 2007 at 01:05 am
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Metro (2007)
Heavy rains and people traveling through the city of Mumbai and the credit roll on. “Metro” takes on a wonderful start. The characters are introduced during the credits. I was quite skeptic about watching Anurag Basu’s “Metro” but I have to admit that I enjoyed it. The story of Metro is of different people and their relations, running parallel and linking to...
by Full2Faltu at May 14th, 2007 at 12:05 am
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Dahavi Pha (2002)
Human beings always like to categorize, segregate other people in a particular group or category. It is always US against THEM. This groupism can be based on religion, region, sex, caste and many more categories. Its always those Bengalis, Marathis, Tamils, Europeans, Muslims, Americans, Indians, Dalits, Brahmins, Nerds, Yuppies, blacks, whites, brown and a number of...
by Full2Faltu at April 30th, 2007 at 04:04 am
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Dombivli Fast (2005)
Warning: Contain Spoilers A lower-middle age house in the Mumbai Suburb of Dombivli, an alarm rings in the morning, the household goes into a frenzy of activities where the man of the house, Madhav Shreedhar Apte gets ready for work, goes to work travelling in the Mumbai Locals, works and then comes back in the evening, feeds his young daughter and then goes to sleep....
by Full2Faltu at March 20th, 2007 at 05:03 am
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Eklavya : The Royal Guard (2007)
The towering figure of Amitabh Bachchan stands in front of the setting sun and ancient ruins. The big fort looks grand in front of red sky. Amitabh Bachchan standing in his room, his room is totally dark and from the open window he is looking at the big fort against the setting sun. A herd of camel run along side a train in the opposite direction. The 107 minutes “Eklavya”...
by Full2Faltu at February 16th, 2007 at 06:02 pm
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Yanda Kartavya Aahe (2006)
The hero and the heroine gets married and live happily ever after. Most of the old Indian movies ended with the hero and heroine getting married in the end. The other alternative to the end would be the song from the movie shown again with “The End” shown. The marriage end would have the title as “The beginning” Kedar Shinde’s Marathi movie “Yanda Kartavya...
by Full2Faltu at January 27th, 2007 at 09:01 am
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Guru (2007)
The first major release of the year, Mani Ratnam’s Guru is, well is a major film. Guru is grand and big like its protagonist. It describes the life of a common man who dares to dreams and achieves his dream by whichever way possible. Mani Ratnam is known for making film on real life character. The character of Gurukant Desai has a strong resemblance to Dhirubhai Amban...
by Full2Faltu at January 13th, 2007 at 04:01 am
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Borat, Babel and just an Opinion
My colleague saw “Borat” this weekend. I saw “Babel”. Borat is still on the list along with the documentary “Inconvenient Truth”. I need to complete all my quotas before going back to India. The good thing about Amsterdam is you get to watch unlimited movies in the theatre for just 17.50 Euros a month. The bad thing is not many movies...
by Full2Faltu at November 20th, 2006 at 06:11 am
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Bollywood is not Indian Cinema
The Marathi film industry started the same time as the Hindi film industry. In fact many Indian regional film industries started at the same time. The Marathi film industry competed with Hindi film industry to a large extent. Around the mid-90s, the Marathi film industry started churning out mindless stuff, mostly insane comedies. The audience started declining. At one...
by Full2Faltu at November 13th, 2006 at 03:11 am
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Nandanam (2002)
I don’t understand Malayalam. It is to me as any other foreign language as Japanese, Spanish or any African language for that matter. But I have heard a lot of things about Malayalam cinema. Mathew is a malu. Sometimes when I went to his house, I would find the whole family watching Malayalam movies on Malayalam channels. Everybody would be so engrossed in the movie...
by Full2Faltu at October 29th, 2006 at 06:10 am
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Don (2006) – Please don
I would really really not like to compare the 78’s Don and 2006 Don- The chase begins again but then the movie was promoted as a remake and comparission between the two was obvious. While Chandra Barot directed the 78’s Don based on the screenplay by Salim-Javed, 2006’s Don is directed by Farhan Akhtar re-written but based on Salim-Javed’s original screenplay. The...
by Full2Faltu at October 21st, 2006 at 12:10 am
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Pyar Ka Side Effect (2006)
A 30+ man in a relationship afraid to commit to the relationship and then his girl friend proposes to him. He has to say yes and what follows is the hilarious journey to marriage. “Pyar ka Side Effect (PKSE) takes you on a journey through the trials and tribulation from love to marriage. It is surprisingly good movie. There may be some side effects but on the whole it...
by Full2Faltu at October 9th, 2006 at 06:10 am
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Revisiting Don (1978)
When I was a child, there weren’t any multiplexes. Actually our suburb only had one theatre and we did not visit till I was 15 – 16 years old. We didn’t have money to spare on theatres and I was not so crazy about movies at that time, at least not those which came every weekend. But I do remember when the people of our colony had poojas in the locality. Giant...
by Full2Faltu at October 1st, 2006 at 05:10 am
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Snakes on a Plane (2006)
I don’t have a fear of Snakes but I will think twice before touching them. Imagine putting 450 snakes on a plane. Samuel Jackson stars in a snake movie called “Snakes on a Plane” and as the name suggest, it is just that many, many snakes on a plane. The movie is an action beast film like Anaconda and is targeted to give you thrills for almost two hours and for those...
by Full2Faltu at September 30th, 2006 at 03:09 am
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Aga Bai Arechya (2004)
Shriranga Deshmukh or Ranga as he is known to his family and friends is a frustrated angry man. Ready to blow any time, he is especially angry with women. He has a female boss in his office, who is angry about all men. At home, he is surrounded by his wife, his mother, his sister and his grandmother. He feels women are in control and from time to time he feels all women...
by Full2Faltu at September 26th, 2006 at 11:09 am
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Chakwa (2004)
An Indian Engineer, Tushar Khot working in America comes on assignment to the village of his ancestors. He tries to stay away from his father who believes in ghost and claims to talk to them. A person of modern times he refuses to believe his father and finds his process disgusting. The Marathi film “Chakwa” starts with a simple story line of a person returning back...
by Full2Faltu at September 20th, 2006 at 08:09 am
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Pak Pak Pakaak (2005)
Nana Patekar made his directorial debut with Prahaar. This was his only directorial venture till date. The movie had well known faces like Dimple Kapadia and Madhuri Dixit and an unknown face called Gautam Joglekar who played a very important character in the movie. He was if we could define the second hero of the movie. Gautam Joglekar is son of Sai Paranjpe who gave...
by Full2Faltu at September 18th, 2006 at 03:09 am
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Ahista Ahista (2006)
Warning: Spoilers ahead ====================== I have always wondered during the climax of “Rangeela” as to what happens after Urmila says hi to Aamir Khan. Before the climax, Urmila is never shown to be inclined towards Aamir. She see him as a good friend all along. What does Aamir Khan does after marriage? Still sell tickets in black? But then we consider it cinematic...
by Full2Faltu at September 12th, 2006 at 04:09 am
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Lage Raho Munnabhai (2006) – Bole toh Jhakaas
Jab pehli baar apun ko bola ki nayi filam ka review karneka hai toh apun ki khopdi satki. Kiske paas itna faltu ka time hai. Lekin Phir bola ki bhai ki picture hai toh apun na nahi na kar sakte. Lekin bhai ki picture ke baare main likhne ke liye thoda inteligence hona mangta hai na. Nahi toh bhai kidhar, apun kidhar. Abhi jyada time khoti nahi kartay. Seedha point par...
by Full2Faltu at September 10th, 2006 at 01:09 pm
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Anthony Tout Kaun hai? (2001/2006)
Actually there is no movie with that name, atleast not released in 2001 and 2006. The title is a combination of Christian Slater’s “Who is Cletis Tout?” (WiCT) and Arshad Warsi’s “Anthony Kaun hai?” (AKH) Both the movies have similar story. Ok let me correct it, they have exactly the same story with minor difference here and there....
by Full2Faltu at September 1st, 2006 at 05:09 pm