Kenny

 

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    Wake Up Sid – Not Another Spoilt-Richie-Rich-Movie! & Inglourious Basterds
    Oh God, not again, I said. I don’t wanna watch any more films about super rich spoilt kids who unfortunately have no employment other than the extremely taxing job of spending their dad’s accumulated wealth. All the posters and trailers seemed to indicate exactly that. To top it all, it was a production from Karan Johar, whose previous films included an English castle...
    by Kenny at October 7th, 2009 at 10:10 am
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    Love Aaj Kal Review – The Burden of Expectations
    Love Aaj Kal is the 10th film I’ve watched in the last 76 hours, coming on the heels of All The President’s Men, Monster, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, Definitely Maybe, Patton, Amores Perros, Shaun of the Dead (2nd viewing), How To Lose Friends and Alienate People, and Heavenly Creatures. Yes, I’m currently unemployed and I’m showing off my viewing list. I’ve...
    by Kenny at July 31st, 2009 at 01:07 am
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    1.5 Years As An Actor-Writer In Mumbai
    I moved to Mumbai in December 2007, full of trepidation, but also with a certain bit of confidence in that I knew my strengths and weaknesses. My intentions were fourfold – acting, writing, voice work and music. I don’t believe in praying – I only believe in hard work – but I guess the uparwala has been quite kind to me, and so has the city of Mumbai. I’ve made...
    by Kenny at July 13th, 2009 at 01:07 am
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    When I Met Danny Denzongpa!
    Before I made the move to Mumbai a year and a half ago, I thought that I’d probably get my first break as an actor playing Danny Denzongpa’s son in some movie. I met the man himself last Saturday and had a wonderful chat with him. I’m still not over it. Shivajee Chandrabhushan, director of the much-awarded (and finally to-be-released on May 8th) Frozen, told fellow...
    by Kenny at May 5th, 2009 at 03:05 pm
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    Fans of Martial Arts Films, Lend Me Your Ears
    I’ll get to the point later, but I’d first like to discuss four martial arts films I’ve watched in the past four weeks. Ong Bak 2 / One Man Army: I was disappointed. Seriously disappointed. Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong have raised the bar for martial arts very high, and I’m sure there’s not a single young male on this planet who hasn’t seen Tony Jaa kicking ass....
    by Kenny at April 13th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    Barah Aana Review – Aamir Khan Recommends It, and So Do I ;)
    “Eh?” you ask. “Aamir Khan recommends it – that’s okay. Who the hell are YOU?” All right all right, I’m still not significant enough for my opinion to carry a ton of weight. It’s just that I believe in catchy titles. For the C grade movie tribute I’ll direct someday, I have in mind titles like Chiffon Sari Baarish...
    by Kenny at March 20th, 2009 at 04:03 am
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    Thanks Maa – A Film Which I Think We Can Genuinely Term Pathbreaking
    There are some movies that yank me in so much at an emotional level that I lose objectivity to quite an extent. I’ve noticed that movies which deal with the issue of safely raising children do that to me. Gone Baby Gone is a recent example. It’s on my list of all-time favourites. Thanks Maa is another film that got me. This movie is going to be big time when...
    by Kenny at March 18th, 2009 at 04:03 am
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    A Feel-Good Post About the Warning on My Underwear and Other Arbitrary Things
    All righty, then. Things have been getting too serious on our beloved site for a while, so I thought I’d chip in and provide some comic relief. I wanna start by saying I love Mumbai. I’ve been here for a year now, and it’s already put me at the starting point on the road to my dreams. In fact, one of my secondary dreams, that I’ve had for about...
    by Kenny at March 7th, 2009 at 04:03 pm
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    Frozen – A Beautifully Unique Looking Film That Deserves The Big Screen
    I’m not sure where to start when talking about Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s Frozen. I’ve met him at a couple of PFC get-togethers and he’s a really nice guy, although he says he drove his crew pretty hard during the shoot. So there’s a little loss of objectivity about someone’s work when you know them and like or dislike them. I took along...
    by Kenny at February 23rd, 2009 at 12:02 am
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    Delhi 6 Review – I Loved It; And Review of the “Story nahi thi” Concept
    Okay, first off, I find this whole business of checking out reviews and critics’ star ratings in order to decide whether to watch a movie or not really, extremely, highly silly. My taste may differ vastly from a critic’s, so why on earth should I bother? I may like one particular film the same as a critic and then may disagree thoroughly about another film....
    by Kenny at February 21st, 2009 at 03:02 am
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    My Short Kung Fu Comedy Film, and About Martial Arts in Films
    One of the tragedies of my life is that ever since I started learning Kung Fu, I haven’t been involved in a single fight, so I don’t really know kitne paani mein hoon (translation: how much water I’m in). I’d rather not be, either, not because I believe in non-violence but because I’m not too thrilled about permanent injury, of which I’ve...
    by Kenny at February 15th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
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    Warning: (A) Rated Post
    Good boy that I am, I finished my first draft for Sankalan two days before zero hour, only to be informed that the deadline’s been extended by two weeks. So to celebrate I’ve again decided to write a self-indulgent rant; even I’m not sure what shape this article will ultimately take. People who have been kind enough to follow my audition ki kahaniyan,...
    by Kenny at December 22nd, 2008 at 06:12 am
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    Indian Screenwriters’ Conference 2008 – I Was There
    I attended the two-day Indian Screenwriters’ Conference 2008, and to prove it, I have, apart from a bunch of notes and quotes, a small boil at the top corner of my left ass. The theme of this year’s conference, which was dedicated to the late Vijay Tendulkar, was “Has The Indian Script Arrived?” We had quite a formidable collection of speakers on...
    by Kenny at December 15th, 2008 at 03:12 am
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    An Interview With Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’s Dolly – Richa Chadda
    Script deadline panic is on my brain as I write this, but I felt like doing whatever little I could to promote a good movie. This is a conversation and dinner with Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’s Richa Chadda, who’s impressed everyone with her performance as Dolly. I was also the cook for the night at Richa and Radhika’s place, but I’ll come to that later....
    by Kenny at December 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    My Favourite Actors – Part I
    Om Puri. Boman Irani. Ranvir Shorey. Vinay Pathak. Vijay Maurya. Javed Jaffrey. In no particular order. In celebration of my making it through to the next round of Sankalan, I’ve decided to write a nice self-indulgent piece about some of my favourite actors. The reason they’re my favourites is that for every character they play, they go into a lot of detail...
    by Kenny at November 24th, 2008 at 03:11 am
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    Quantum of Solace (Falls short of Casino Royale); Roadside Romeo etc
    Batman Begins, The Bourne Ultimatum and now Quantum of Solace: movies in which the action’s been shot from so close and have such machine-gun angle-change editing that we have no idea what’s actually going on. This was the only flaw in Batman Begins, otherwise one of my ideal perfect films. Burden of expectation is a very heavy thing to carry into a movie...
    by Kenny at November 9th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
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    My TV Acting Debut: In a Torture Series
    I still get the shudders when I think of my on-camera acting debut. This was back in Guwahati in 2005. I felt like committing filmy suicide on every day of the 21 day shoot. It was for 8 episodes of a serial commissioned for Doordarshan North-East. The producer and director treated me very well, but alas, they were PhDs in GPD&S. GPD&S bole toh Gheesa Peeta Dialogue...
    by Kenny at October 29th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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    8/10 is My Rating For Hulla, Because I Was Entertained Throughout
    Why the blazes are people giving 2/2.5 ratings to Hulla? For me, it was an 8/10 movie. Hulla had me and even my NRI buddy laughing from start to finish, and it did so without insulting my intelligence, which is all I bloody ask of a movie. So why the bally hell are critics on their high horses and their ivory towers and their glass houses dishing out merely average ratings...
    by Kenny at September 21st, 2008 at 01:09 pm
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    A Week With Anjum Rajabali, Sriram Raghavan and Anurag Kashyap
    I’m still running a slight fever as a write this – I have it since the last two days of the Sankalan workshop. The fever could either be due to an information overload or a food and tea overload. We, the dozen plus two chosen writers, were treated to luxury which at least I’m not used to. We’d be taken to the venue, Digital Academy, in an AC minibus,...
    by Kenny at September 6th, 2008 at 08:09 am
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    Ugly Aur Pagli vs My Sassy Girl, and You’ll See Me On TV This Time
    In Shallow Hal, Anthony Robbins asks Jack Black, “Would you rather have a girl with half a brain or only one breast?” to which the reply is “Is this breast big?”  I don’t really know why I wrote that. I was trying to think of a witty analogy to describe my feelings about Ugly Aur Pagli, because the Ugly half, Ranvir Shorey, is expectedly...
    by Kenny at August 5th, 2008 at 06:08 am
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    I Wanted Jim Carrey as the Joker, But Heath Ledger is…God!
      At last!!!!!!! I watched The Dark Knight on the date I’d been waiting for over more than two years now – July 18th 2008! Never have I been more overexcited at any movie before. From the moment I had the tickets in my hand in the morning I was restless the whole day. It felt like I was going to get laid after a 2 year drought or something.  Boy did I love the film!...
    by Kenny at July 19th, 2008 at 03:07 am
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    Finally, A Successful Audition, and I Feel Like Joey Tribbiani
    At last, after about 8 auditions, I finally scored one – a TV ad for Godrej washing machine. The shoot was yesterday. Unfortunately, friends and family members trying to see me will have to watch with their fingers on the pause button. It’s not a blink-and-miss part I’m playing; it’s a miss-even-if-you-don’t-blink.  I’d reached the audition...
    by Kenny at July 14th, 2008 at 06:07 am
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    Three Fabulous Zombie Movies (I Don’t Watch Horror Films)
    I don’t watch horror films ’cause I live alone. At least, that used to be my excuse for the last three years. I had a nice little 3-room first-floor pad all to myself for just 3500 bucks a month in Guwahati. Visitors always asked why I needed such a large place. Well, I couldn’t find a 2-room place in time, that’s all. Unfortunately, even in...
    by Kenny at June 30th, 2008 at 07:06 am
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    A Horrible First Impression to Make at an Audition
    I went for an audition last Sunday. Expecting a long journey and a long wait, I had a heavy lunch, followed by a tall glass of cold coffee to bolster myself up. I took bus number 459 to Mulund. It was a hot day – the rains hadn’t started then – so I had a glass of nimbu pani at the bus depot.  My final destination was a short auto trip away, but within barely a...
    by Kenny at June 7th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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