Neeraj Ghaywan
Neeraj Ghaywan is a cinema addict. Like everyone else around here, he is waiting for that elusive moment to make the cut, the other side: Cinema. He is an ardent follower of world cinema and likes to review them too. Usually his posts are verbose and long drawn; filled with forced philosophical innuendos and pseudo intellectualism.

 

Neeraj Ghaywan's Blog

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    Amitabh in PAA : Full Trailer
    A lot of us have been anxious about Amitabh’s look in PAA. The trailer is out.  In this film, Amitabh suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Progeria where he ages faster than the normal biological clock.  Abishek and Vidya play parents to him. I like the music ( Illaya Raja). This is Balki’s next after Cheeni Kum. Enjoy!
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at November 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
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    Fellini’s 8 ½ : The Collective Unconscious
    It’s dark and claustrophobic. The silence reeks of inexplicable discomfort below the underpass. An array of vehicles stranded languidly, with no intent of awaiting the road to be cleared. Passengers are poker faced with lustful eyes and sadistic glee of being audience to a man’s end. The man encircled by a sea of vehicles, passengers with strange expressions, wipes...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at September 14th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    The British Museum screens Indian films
    The British Museum is hosting its “Indian Summer events programme”. As part of this event they are screening 7 special films from India that capture the range of Indian landscapes, regions and languages. Films like Mughal-e-Azaam, Pakeezah and Mother India are going to be screened along with Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s Frozen. This is great news for Indian Independent...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at September 2nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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    Tim Burton Mania: 9- A sneak peak
    Here is an extended featurette for 9. Shown here is a never before seen footage from the film while presenting interviews with cast and crew. So all you Tim Burton fans, play on!
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at August 27th, 2009 at 06:08 am
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    Kaminey: India’s Pulp Fiction
    Kaminey: India's Pulp Fiction A non-linear narrative meanders along a heady cocktail of inopportune satire and violence, noir seduces pastiche, genres go hand in glove yet celebrate their explicit irony, mafia machinations that fuel a redemption and then there is a chase for a mysterious object; either a briefcase or a guitar case. In any case, what have you here; India’s...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at August 15th, 2009 at 06:08 am
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    Emir Kusturica’s Underground: A nation that ceased to exist
    A quiet Balkan town wakes up to festive sound from a drunken stupor. The ominous brass composition is interspersed with gun shots and money is hurled in the air. The euphoria fades into the sound of war, bombs piercing the harmony of a nation. A man is seen to be having an insipid love making act in a whore house. The woman is hurriedly faking orgasm with moaning.  She...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at August 5th, 2009 at 05:08 am
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    Kieslwoski’s Three Colors trilogy: Blue
    A camera mounted behind the wheel captures the hues of a journey, adorned in asphalt blue and embellished with the sound of raw tires rubbing against the road.  A little girl flags a blue candy wrapper from the car, celebrating freedom, announcing the dawn of awakened consciousness and the wind claims the wrapper. The car stops for a comfort break. Camera behind the dripping...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at July 20th, 2009 at 11:07 am
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    Lesser known Bollywood clichés of yore
    I am bored of my posts. Verbosity, forced philosophical innuendos, too much reading into things and the same dour themes. Hell, I needed a break. So I went back in time and read those dog-eared cinema diaries from my childhood. Back in those days, I had no choice but to sit with my family and watch those films of the 70s/80s and the early 90s. It’s only now that...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at June 28th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Existentialism, the Absurd and Pyaasa
    iView Author: Neeraj Ghaywan (Gurgaon, India) Email: neeraj.ghaywan[at]gmail[dot]com ‘ Existentialism, the Absurd and Pyaasa ‘ A silver lining in the sky forms shadows on an unkempt man’s face. A bird meanders, treading no path in particular bathed in the bliss of nothingness. Flowers sway to the man’s poetry strewn in ailing emptiness while...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at March 10th, 2009 at 06:03 pm
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    'œ'§ Maymun (Three Monkeys): Film review
    iView Author: Neeraj Ghaywan (Gurgaon, India) Email: neeraj[dot]ghaywan[at] gmail.com 'œ'§ Maymun (Three Monkeys): Film review This review contains spoilers. Viewer discretion is advised Dark brooding clouds hover around a couple recovering from an aftermath. Guilt melting on the wrinkled face, hand blithely perched on forehead waiting for an undoing of fate. Smoke...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at March 3rd, 2009 at 06:03 pm
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    Truth is getting stranger than fiction
    iView Author: Neeraj Ghaywan (New Delhi, India) Email: neeraj.ghaywan [at] gmail [dot] com Truth is getting stranger than fiction A mystic location in the woods, a group of anorexic sadhus invoking cult.. cut.. a young couple being educated about dyslexia while a kid is painting his mind… cut… a star couple and their hickeys with animated figments of...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at August 26th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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