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    3 Idiots…First Trailer!!!!!!!!!!
    Here is the first trailer of 3 Idiots leaked on T.V…Here is the Wikipedia article on 3 Idiots Two friends embark on a request for a lost buddy. On this journey they encounter a long forgotten bet, a wedding they must crash and a funeral that goes impossibly out of control. As they make their way through the perilous landscape, another journey begins: their inner...
    by Varun at October 29th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
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    IFFLA 2009 – Roundup
    IFFLA 2009 – Roundup So here is my take on some of the movies that i liked in IFFLA 2009 1) Leaving Home – The Life and Music of Indian Ocean, Dir: Jaideep Varma First time that I have heard about Indian ocean was after Black Friday and I was blown away by “Bandhe”, after that i have downloaded couple of their songs “kandisa and Maa rewa”...
    by Varun at May 5th, 2009 at 07:05 pm
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    Boss is back kicking ass….
    Yes…after a long gap A.R.Rahman is back with a bang and having his best time in last 5 yrs or so….that last ARR album that i got hooked so much that i used to listen every hour for 3-4 months was Rang De Basanti, post lagaan he started doing too many patriotic and period films like Mangal Pandey, Bose – A forgotten hero, swades, kisna…i believe...
    by Varun at February 1st, 2009 at 03:02 pm
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    Gamyam – Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant…
    Just finished this awesome movie by first time director Krish (Radhakrishna)…Its brilliant…I haven’t seen a better telugu film in past 5 yrs…there were occasional decent films like Aaduvari Matalaku Ardhale Veerule (AMAV), Anand, Godavari, Aithe and Anukokunda Oka roju but this one is simply great…I’m excited and finally found a film...
    by Varun at September 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
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    Ilayaraja + SPB = Pure Magic!!!
    When two great people meet each other something extraordinary bound to happen here are some instances from past Md Rafi + SD Burman, Kishore Kumar + RD Burman, Lata Mangeshkar + SD Burman, Asha Bhosle + RD Burman and some thing similar happend in south Ilayaraja + SPB . I have been planning to write about this great duo for while, I wasn’t finding enough time or...
    by Varun at June 20th, 2008 at 07:06 am
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    IFFLA 2008 : My experience
    Here is a breif abstract of what happend Thursday May 24: went to airport around 6:30 as per striker’s request had couple of beers and some mexican food @ houston airport and we talked about which movies are gonna rock and whats going on with PFC, how it was one year back and how its changed and where its going… both of us were feeling real bad that OM and...
    by Varun at April 30th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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    The Angrez – a true hyderabad film……
    The Angrez is one film which most of the hyderabadi’s will be able to connect. The last authentic hyderabadi urdu-hindi-english speaking movie was “Hyderabad blues” and most of you guys out there must have seen it, but there was more than whats shown and spoken about hyderabad. I was born and bought up in Hyderabad and cafés over there are some what special because...
    by Varun at January 31st, 2008 at 05:01 pm
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    Happy Days – Happy journey back to college days
    College days are memorable in every ones life. Happy Days is Shekar Kammula’s latest offering which takes us through the good, bad and ugly days of college life. Here he has 5 dynamically different characters and most us have either met them or we are the character itself. Happy Days does not educate or enlighten audiences but it does entertain. Lets look @ these...
    by Varun at November 13th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
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    Johnny Gaddar – Paisa Vassool
    Movies some times test Intelligence of audiences and questions it. But Johnny Gaddar is different you know who the Gaddar is but it still succeeds in creating the air of suspense amongst viewers and characters in the film. Johnny G is Sriram’s homage to Vijay Anand and James Hadley Chase. I’m not going to review this one but there are somethings that I would...
    by Varun at September 28th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
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    New wave in Tollywood
    There are some directors in bollywood who were tired of the same old ghisa pita stories and decided to give audiences some new movies like Khosla ga Ghosla, EK Hasina Thi, Black Friday, Blue Umbrella, Ek Chalis ki last local etc., here are five movies from down south which I would like to *Introduce* — I chose the word introduce because, sadly, the main stream media...
    by Varun at August 28th, 2007 at 11:08 am
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    Iconic Characters in Motion Pictures – Part 1
    When ever you watch any great movie there is a particular character that stay’s with you for ever and some times that character is so powerful that it changes the way you act in real life. Here are some of those characters that I can never forget in my life 1) Derek Vinyard (American History X): If there is powerful character in motion pictures this is definetly...
    by Varun at July 11th, 2007 at 09:07 pm
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    Challenge- Chiru’s best movie.
    Chiranjeevi has been my first hero. when i was like 7 or 8 years I thought hero is someone like chiranjeevi and as grew older i started finding out about him the good work he’s done through blood bank and eye bank. As we entered into the new millenium number of fans of chiranjeevi increased by huge numbers and I feel he is trapped into this whole world of god like...
    by Varun at April 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
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    Buffalo ‘66 – Independent Cinema at its best.
    Few months back i was just talking to my friend about how Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction have affected independent cinema in hollywood and how people started accepting high rate voilence in movies. My friend mentioned about “Buffalo ‘66″ and he told me that its one of his favourite movie and started praising about vincent galo’s performance he...
    by Varun at March 26th, 2007 at 11:03 am
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    Post Mortem Report on Seven Samurai
    Saw Seven Samurai Last Night, It was one hell of piece of art. After watching it I realized why people call Akira Kurasowa as one of the best in cinema history. Ok all praises apart after 30 minutes into the movie I couldn’t resist my self comparing with our own Sholay. When ever a new character was introduced I compared it with sholay’s character. Here is short synopsis: The...
    by Varun at March 8th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
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    The Prestige – My first review on PFC
    Hello every one, First of all thanks to Oz for inviting me to write on PFC, Thanks to Karthik Krishnan for introducing me to PFC. Here is my first review on PFC hope u guys like it The prestige is a brilliant film that portrays rivalry between two great magicians, who are willing to do any thing to learn each others tricks. Before I start reviewing why “The Prestige”...
    by Varun at March 3rd, 2007 at 01:03 pm
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