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iView Author: PRERNA (Mumbai, India)

Email: prerna_9585@yahoo.co.in

Dev.D Music….

AK has done it again. He is back in the hot and happening discussion rooms everywhere with his upcoming film Dev.D. And whether you love him or hate him… you just can’t ignore him! This time he is back with mindboggling trailers and incredible music album.

The trailers and posters of Dev.D are raising curiosity day by day. I was excited to see the first theatrical trailer of the film and since then I have been impatiently waiting for the music and the film release. Finally, the wait for the music is over as the songs are now available to hook on to on the net. I would call the music of the film ‘aphrodisiac’. The more you listen, the …

iView Author: Dr. Mandar V. Bichu (Sharjah, U.A.E.)

Email: drmandarvb [at] yahoo [dot] com

Terrorism fuelled by religious fanaticism has become a burning topic in today’s world. Until recently Hindi cinema just used the populist villain-ish image of terrorism, which served to provide the filmi ammunition for hero’s explosive on-screen violence and clichéd jingoistic dialogues. But thankfully the picture is changing for the better. Hard-hitting films like Anurag Kashyap’s Black Friday and Shoaib Mansoor’s Pakistani film Khuda Kay Liye have successfully explored the deep-rooted social, political, ideological, moral and ethical conflicts underlying this complex issue. A Wednesday and Aamir are two notable films joining this growing list of terrorism-related realistic movies. Watching them one after another (with Dostana sandwiched in between!) over three days was an interesting experience, worth putting down in words.

Film-Synopsis:

A …

a larger perspective on Sarkar Raj that brings Ramu’s kind of film-making and the latest syndrome ofthe Bachchans into focus

Recently I have revelled in the close encounters with the forgotten art of close-ups in couple of movies.

Before I talk of these movies up close let me just share some masala and trivia with you on these close-ups..

The old cameramen who have gone to seed or become inactive don’t leave an opportunity to narrate how they used to relish lighting up for a close-up especially the heroine’s..And how they used to take hours together to light it up..And few of them brag that heroines literally used to lagao maska to them to light up their faces in close-ups..Have you ever heard of close-up couch..Well few of the cameramen boasted of laying the heroines for giving them a close-up that lighted up the marquee..It was like fulfilling their wish to be a diva or a Cleopetra whose face is supposed to have launched thousand ships!

The modern technology is …

Aamir is ‘different’ in the sense that it seems that after eons one sees the streets of Bombay in a film how one might find them in real life. Aamir has its namesake protagonist land in Mumbai from the UK and get trapped in a nightmare situation. As soon as he gets out of the airport, he is put on call with a demanding and menacing gangster who wants Aamir to execute a terrorist plot if he wants to rescue his family that the gangster has taken hostage. Through the film, our man Aamir is sent from pillar to post running errands, collecting information, note slips, money and the bomb. Will he be be able to take control of the situation and prevail (the somewhat puzzling tagline goes, Kaun kehata hai aadmi apni kismet khud likhta hai, or Who says man is master of his destiny)?

Aamir is played honorably by …

3/5. Slick but with a confused soul.
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iView Author:Aniruddha Chatterjee
(Dallas, Texas, USA )

Email:chatterjeeaniruddha[at]gmail[dot]com

Independent films in India and their release strategy

Watching Aamir with Om and Kat in Dallas was wonderful. But seeing that we were the only one watching the movie in the entire theater was disheartening and frightening.

Had we not come to see the movie, the theater would have been empty. When all of us should be embracing independent cinema, it seems its going in the other direction.

Most independent movies are released only in big cities. So, it only caters to a niche audience. Which I think also results in collections of the movie. The first week of Aamir (according to boxofficeindia.com) netted 1.25 crores. Most movies drop around 30-40% in the second week. So, if that is the case with Aamir, the total nett collection of the movie will be around 3 crores. I hope and …

Rajkumar Gupta: “Kaun kehta hain ki aadmi apni kismat khud likhta hain?”

thani: “Kismat agar khud likh sakte, to usey kismat kyon kehte!”

Anurag Kashyap is India’s most provocative filmmaker. With his filmmaking, he creates avenues for scores of cinephiles to dream their cinematic dreams, and when that’s not satisfactorily accomplished he angers them enough to want to better his offending efforts. That is, when the said cinephile does not resort to the shortest possible route to his directorial debut - namely the remake.

It is to Rajkumar Gupta’s credit, and to the film’s superior craftmanship, that i refer to his debut feature Aamir as cinema. Nevertheless, a COUNTERFEIT one, if you know what i mean. The password is Cavite. I might as well review Cavite, and nobody would recognize the difference. To be fair to the nobody, in as many words, Aamir is a copy of Cavite [pronounced 'ka-vi-th-ey].

Of course, …

“Sun Ke Chakkar Ghumyo; Dossri Bara Suna. Phir Bhi Haara. Saamjh Mein Na Kuch Aya. Ek aur Bara Suna. Phir Bhi Haara. Yeh Baat Mehfuz Hee Rehna Do. Saalaa Phaas Gaayaa.” These were my first reaction of the soundtrack; it doesn’t make any sense because the soundtrack did not make any sense to me. Now I have heard the soundtrack at least dozen of time. I wanted to hear the soundtrack over and over because there was something I was missing to understand the soundtrack.
The soundtrack is composed by Amit Trivedi, if I am correct, he was/is part of Om - The Fusion Band. He was on keyboards, I think. They did chart-busting track “Maula’, which featured in film Iqbal’s compilation album. Then, he also did some songs with first Indian Idol winner, Abhijeet Sawant, in his second album Junoon. He composed three songs: Dhoodien, …

Cutting edge, sharp, looks good. Rajkumar’s first directorial venture. This probably is the first film in Bollywood where the rights were bought from the original. The promo had me wanting more… how does the film turn out… lets wait for the release and watch it May end…