Posts Tagged ‘Bollywood’

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    Blue
    After watching Blue, there are quiet a few facets of the Hindi film industry which have come to the forefront now: Film Making Courses: So far there are quite a few institutes like FTII, Anupam Kher Prepares and Whistling Woods where one can learn film making. Now they all have stiff competition. Here come the Dhilin Mehta’s Uber-Cool Diploma School (DUDS). Dhilin Mehta...
    by Sudhir Nair at October 20th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    I VIEW FILM 2009 in NYC!
    I VIEW FILM Poster Engendered is an annual, New York-based transnational arts and human rights festival that brings together the best in contemporary South Asian cinema, visual arts and performance to explore the complex realities of gender and sexuality in modern South Asia, especially at the intersection of ritual and religion. The festival is designed not only to raise...
    by PFCdesktop at August 24th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
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    Where have all the villains gone?
    I was born in the late 1970’s. It was a time when all kinds of villainous fiends were having their day in the sun on silver screen. Their histrionics were never too far away from being used to good effect in our own humdrum lives. I remember an aunt telling her hyperactive young son, when all other polite efforts to put him to bed had failed, ‘bete so ja, so ja nahin...
    by Akshay Manwani at July 28th, 2009 at 12:07 am
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    Revisiting Dasavatharam
    At the outset let me make it clear that this write-up is not an attempt to review Kamal Haasan’s Dasavatharam.A lot of discussion has happened about the merits and the demerits of the movie on PFC as well as other forums so I’m not going to make another attempt for the same. Then why am I writing this post on the movie? Well because tomorrow- 17th April marks the release...
    by Sethumadhavan at April 16th, 2009 at 03:04 am
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    Bollywood Extras: Read all about it!
    iView Author: ROSHNI MULCHANDANI (Fremont, California, USA) Email: roshnimul@gmail.com Bollywood Extras: Read all about it! Bollywood extras unfortunately have no real value in Hindi cinema. On occasion you spot the odd one that catches your eye and then they disappear into the scenery. For the most part, that is probably their brief when being casted: Fade into the...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 17th, 2009 at 09:03 pm
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    Politically Correct Untruth : Mere Pass Maa Hain
    iView Author: RAM V (Banglore, India) Email: With Held Content : Politically Correct Untruth : Mere Pass Maa Hain Sex is Taboo Mainstream cinema’s self-righteousness is forcibly bequeathed to the national culture. What is exactly India’s culture? Are we keeping sexuality in closet in a nation whose culture boasts the only available sex manual written by...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 15th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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    Gulaal and The Future of Indian Cinema
      I saw Gulaal today in a crumbling, fading, bleeding ramshackle masquerading as a cinema hall….at least from the outside. Gulaal was sandwiched between two contemporary gems “Dil Ko Churaanewaali” and “Maa Kasam Badla Loonga”. (I would have uploaded the posters as well…but wasn’t entirely sure where PFC stands on this…)...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at March 15th, 2009 at 10:03 am
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    Movies to look forward for in 2009
    2009 has started on a sluggish note as far as the Hindi film industry is concerned. After 2 months we have yet to come across a certified hit. The mega hyped up movie of January, Chandni Chowk to China failed like one of those spurious Chinese products and didn’t make an impact at the box office. Raaz2, Dev.D and to a certain extent Luck By Chance & Delhi 6...
    by Sudhir Nair at March 10th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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    Dev D’s Success
    Before you start reading this post I must declare that this post is not a critique of DevD. Its my thoughts about its success. I watched Dev D quite late compared to most people here at PFC. So by the time I walked inside the theater, the film was already declared a hit, after a very hard battle over the weekend. It was also a very interesting weekend, as...
    by Mainak at March 8th, 2009 at 01:03 am
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    Oscar of BOLLYWOOD
    iView Author: Proneet Dutta (Nagaland, India) Email: withheld “FIND BOLLYWOOD ’s OSCAR” The 81st annual Oscar award ceremony was brilliant , extravagant yet not flashy . There was music that was an unique cross between two different cultures & languages. what made the ceremony even more special is not only the music or the plethora of Hollywood...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 25th, 2009 at 07:02 am
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    Dev.D and Anurag – Drug, Revolution, Inspiration.
    Disclaimer: *For all the people in India* If you haven’t seen the movie yet after 15 days, You fully deserve all the spoilers in this post. For the viewers who haven’t been fortunate with a release, the post is full of spoilers, please do not read it. Tomorrow, it’s going to be Fifteen days, a fortnight; What a fortnight it has been. Film lovers of at...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at February 19th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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    The Underrated Series – Divya Dutta
    iView Author: SRIDHAR MAYUR (Hyderabad, India) Email: With Held “The Underrated Series – Divya Dutta” Today I am writing about Divya Dutta, a performer with honesty and passion written all over her. Born in a Doctors family in Ludhiana, Punjab this punjabi girl has made her way into the main stream with her will and hard work. Divya made her small...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 12th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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    Reel Love Stories
    iView Author: Saurabh Jaiswal (Indore,India) Email: mail_saurabh3@yahoo.com Reel Love Stories : One of the major reasons why we watch cinema is to see our fantasies and our dreams in a visual form and if these fantasies are about a girl or a boy then they probably are closest to our heart . Some of the most successful films in history have been those that had a love...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 9th, 2009 at 03:02 pm
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    Dev.D- Profound,honest and outrageously brilliant.
    Dev.D – Profound,honest and Outrageously brilliant. My joy knew no bounds when I saw Dev.D get 5 star rating in TOI review yesterday. And then, last night I saw another review in Timeout Mumbai which I didn’t like. So, finally, when I went to Inox today, at 10 in the morning, to catch the first day, first show of Dev.D, there was a lot of trepidation. Is...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at February 6th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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    THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY AND THE SHAMEFUL OF 2008
    A very late list but nonetheless here is what I think of the films released in 2008. The GOOD ONES: No. 1. No film qualifies. 2. No film qualifies. 3. Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye!: With a daisy fresh treatment of urban working class people and city wannabes, Dibakar Banerjee’s Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye! tops my year’s list. The film packed with Delhi eccentricities and...
    by Padmaja Thakore at February 1st, 2009 at 03:02 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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    Luck By Chance: Some thoughts.
    When Anurag Kashayp first approached Shahrukh Khan for the role of K in No Smoking, SRK refused. He answers that circuitously in the movie Luck By Chance, when he advices Vikram that, in this industry it is very important what kind of choices you make. The first film chooses you, now, you are going to choose your films. Choose well. The answer could very well have been...
    by Tanul Thakur at January 31st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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    Dev.D – Before the dawn.
    Dev.D – Before the dawn. There are lots of interesting things going so right for Dev.D that there’s this audacious hope that it’s going to be that outrageous piece of art which is also going to rake in the box office riches. Recently I was in a north India trip and I saw the curiosity among the youth. The college goers and the Young professionals in their...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at January 29th, 2009 at 10:01 am
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    Raaz 2: Movie Review
    Making a successful horror movie’s a tricky task. People who like horror films have seen so many of them that it requires something really extraordinary to scare them. And the people who detest horror films because it scares them, (and hence are the target audience) mostly stay away. So always there has been an added attraction with the horror to lure the audience...
    by Sudhir Nair at January 24th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Not just – Luck By Chance
    While the rest of the world and its kuzin have been busy going gaga about the emosanal atyachar inflikted by masakkali matakkali, one film that has held me dumbstruck is the debut venture of Zoya Akhtar – Luck By Chance (LBC). A venture that looks so real, so honest & so heart wrenching. A stark kontrast to OSO… what Farah Khan did with her spoof, this...
    by Magik at January 20th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Bollywood Moving Its Camp Out of USA
    We Indians do like migrating a lot, don’t we? Bollywood moved from Switzerland to UK to Australia to USA, but now to where? This is because 50INR = 1 USD! So Bollywood is finding very expensive to shoot in USA! In an increasingly cash-strapped industry, a 25% increase in the value of dollar has upset the calculations of many a producer, forcing many of them to rethink...
    by Honhaar Goonda at January 18th, 2009 at 12:01 am
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    Fast Forward: 2009 in Bollywood
    Ekdum kadak. Last year may have ended up being a little underwhelming ultimately atleast IMO, but 2009 looks to be one helluva exciting year at the movies. There are films from some of our best- Ashutosh Gowariker, Raju Hirani, Rakeysh Mehra and Vishal Bhardwaj to name a few- and what’s more, an astonishingly diverse mix of themes and genres. Take a look at a Bollywood...
    by Jahan Bakshi at January 14th, 2009 at 09:01 am
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    Bollywood 2008 My 10
    It’s kind of a ritual for critics in the West to pick their favourite 10 films of the year gone by and even here in Bollywood newspapers and news channels are pouncing on the habit. But sadly, most of the papers and channels pick the Top 10 based on box office collections. While that to me is a great barometer to judge the quality of the film, it is not necessarily...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at December 31st, 2008 at 05:12 am
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    Bollywood in 2008: The movies I loved.
    It is that time of the year again when we look back at the year and analyze the year’s movies we loved. I don’t watch many movies in a year(or let’s put it, not being able to), so this is the list of movies I loved amongst the lot I watched. Since I couldn’t watch some of the most talked about movies of the year like Aamir, Mumbai Meri Jaan, Welcome...
    by Tanul Thakur at December 21st, 2008 at 09:12 pm
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    SOMETHING GOOD FROM 90S’ BOLLYWOOD MUSIC
    There is nothing new coming in my life of movies. It was the time when I used to watch 1-2 movies a day and now it is turned to hardly 1 movie in 15 days. Because of work pressure and family engagements, I find little time to watch movies and sometimes, for a little time I am listening music on my mobile phone. And I am surprised with load of 70s music I am also listening...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at December 19th, 2008 at 06:12 am
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    Dasvidaniya 2008
    Disclaimer:  This  is my personal view point of  Bollywood in 2008,  of the movies  i have seen.  As far as Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is concerned, my take is  not  great, not bad,  just plain average, but considering that  lot has been said, nothing really of value from my side.   And  lastly  i  feel  absolutely stupid putting up this disclaimer, but  considering...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at December 16th, 2008 at 08:12 am
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    Jingoism & The Movies
    Hullo Hullo Hullo. Been a while and well why I am writing on this?? Two reasons actually. One being that I was sent a “Gentle” reminder by the “OZ” (I know not what it is) that am going to be kicked out soon If I do not write and two was this is one topic that has sort of been discussed but not at length. The definition of Jingoism as per Merriam...
    by Thermoman formerly known as Deepak at November 18th, 2008 at 03:11 am
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    Dasvidaniya – Our common lives, and some fun
    Dasvidaniya Movie Review iView Author: Varun Grover (Mumbai, India) Email: varun.grover26 [at] gmail [dot] com I do start with the obvious disadvantage to objectivity – of having known all the key people related with the film (Shashant, Arshad, and Vinay) and hence will try my best to calibrate the words accordingly. But first – three questions. Have you...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 16th, 2008 at 08:11 pm
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    It’s official : Ghajini is written by Christopher Nolan
    Source Wikipedia So after the highly successful Batman, Nolan’s next venture is writing Ghajini… that is what I call a true Global writer! (News tip: Honhaar Goonda)
    by oz at November 10th, 2008 at 11:11 am
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    Adi Ne Bana Di Jodi
    iView Author: crazyrals (Bangalore, India) Email: crazyrals [at] gmail [dot] com The movie title is picked up from an old Amitabh-Shashi starrer called ‘Suhaag’ which had the song ‘Teri Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi’, so this is the second movie-title picked from a Shashi Kapoor movie; earlier one being DDLJ. Anyways, that’s not what the post is...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at November 8th, 2008 at 09:11 am
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