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John Rabe & North Face- 2 German Movies with a difference
This post is all about two German films I saw last year at MAMI and came away completely impressed. There is a dialogue from one of my all time favourite film Black Hawk Down- When Josh Hartnett says “Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.” John Rabe is one such person, who became a hero not because he had powers but he because he had the determination...
by cinemausher at February 6th, 2010 at 03:02 am
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Road To Bollywood: A Lyrical Songobiography
IT’S NOT EASY MAKING IT IN BOLLYWOOD (BUT ITS NOT IMPOSSIBLE NEITHER) Note: Nitin Kumar Gupta makes his debut as a bollywood music director with ‘Road to Sangam’ which released on 29th Jan One of Nitin's earlier sketches I was born agifted (An artist supreme?) While others drew the world I sketched out my dreams When 8 I received a casio (A...
by Nitin Kumar Gupta at January 31st, 2010 at 01:01 am
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Love at First Sight
Living with an ambition is great, but working towards it…cant be explained in words. I cant explain how much fun I had, making the ” Golden minute film ” for PFCOne 2010 ( Love @ First Sight ). I knew about the competition from the start. I had seen entries going from my friends, other contestants, all of them really creative and good . One day,...
by gokul chandran at January 26th, 2010 at 05:01 am
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Striker Music Review
There’s a saying that too many cooks spoil the broth. Well, “Striker” is a pleasant exception to this rule. With 6 music composers,— Blaaze, Amit Trivedi, Shailendra Barve, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Swanand Kirkire, Vishal Bharadwaj—6 lyricists,— Nitin Raikwar, Blaaze, Prashant Ingole, Jeetendra Joshi, Swanand Kirkire, Gulzar—and 7 singers—Sonu Nigam, Siddharth,...
by Amanda Sodhi at January 24th, 2010 at 07:01 pm
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Disappointing 2009, but there is a silverline! (A quick review of 2009)
I love watching movies. Although given a chance, I would love to watch movies made by Girish Kasaravalli, Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalakrishnan etc, I do love watching brainless Hindi and Kannada movies. I am living away from Kannada Naadu and it is difficult to get a chance to watch all brainless Kannada movies; but we are blessed to watch almost every Hindi movie in the...
by keshav Kulkarni at January 7th, 2010 at 12:01 am
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Essential Eighties: Tezaab (1988)
Mohini..!! Mohini..!! For The Win!! In true HIMYM fashion, I’ll start this story with – So kids, this is more of an emotional ride than anything else. Because I am a child of the Eighties. Yes, the eighties. When Windows meant ‘Khidki’ and the mouse was only a rodent. And the movie Tezaab and me got acquainted through a Durga Puja pandal who used...
by Sujoy Singha at January 6th, 2010 at 01:01 am
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Confessions of a new scriptwriter…
Ever since I was small, I loved movies. Movies of all kinds – Hollywood, Hindi movies even regional ones. Anything on TV and I would watch it. Some people go to the extent of saying that I would watch TV even when it was switched off… and I would even bow my head to a passing cinema hall (talkies) as if it was a mandir. I would try and watch at least one movie...
by scriptwritersinc at December 28th, 2009 at 03:12 am
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Can Celina Act?
Is Celina risking her glamour image by doing a realistic film like AOHR? That’s the question everybody asks me when I tell them of my cast. My film Accident On Hill Road features Celina Jaitly, Farooque Shaikh and Abhimanyu Singh in principal roles. AOHR is a realistic, hit-and-run thriller. It starts on a Saturday afternoon when Sonam Chopra, a young, ambitious nursing...
by Mahesh Nair at November 30th, 2009 at 07:11 am
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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