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… and then the Music kicks in!
When does cinema actually chart orgasmic levels? When do movies really evoke true exhilaration? Can the visuals alone help reaching those levels? I seriously doubt. Kubrick gave us some awesomely immersive images of the vast prehistoric terrain in his prologue of 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the actual hair-raising moment is delivered when the “Thus spoke Zarathustra”...
by Gaurang at January 15th, 2010 at 12:01 am
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PARADISO NOW
SPOILER ALERT for Lagaan, Dev.D & 3 Idiots Why am I addicted to watching movies on the big screen? Why can’t I enjoy a film as superlative as Lagaan at home as I enjoyed it on the 70mm screen? And what the hell was the need to watch movies as forgettable as Madhur Bhandarkar’s AAN or the SRK-Salman Khan starrer Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam or the Akshay Kumar starrer...
by munis syed at January 11th, 2010 at 04:01 am
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My Top 11 Hindi Films of 2009
I thought there would be a deluge of year-end top-10 posts on PFC, but that doesn’t seem to be the case, so I hereby take the plunge, fully aware that there’ll be lots of agreement and probably even more disagreement and fingers pointed at my taste and sensibilities. (“How can you like a manipulative film like 3 Idiots?” “You liked Delhi 6? It was so preachy...
by Kenny at January 10th, 2010 at 05:01 am
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2009: Band Baj Gaya Music Ka
Co-written by Tushar Shukla and Amanda Sodhi. Okay, so there were about 150 + OSTs released in 2009 and maybe 1-2 dozen private albums, too. We ended up going through the list and realized just a handful of OSTs and private albums had enough replay value…Sach mei…Band baj gaya music kaa iss saal. But we find it funny at times. No, not the years passing by, that is...
by Amanda Sodhi at December 31st, 2009 at 08:12 pm
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Underrated Films of 2009
Another eventful year comes to an end. A lot has happened in the year gone by . A lot happened in the Indian film industry also during this time. The clash of multiplexes and producers, Feroz Khan passed away, Anurag Kashyap scored his first box office hit with his cult film Dev D, Salman Khan scored a smash hit after a long time with Wanted . And yeah our very own PFC...
by Aditya Savnal at December 29th, 2009 at 05:12 am
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10 Best Hindi Films of the Noughties
The noughties saw a spurt of films, hitherto unfancied and at times unacknowledged, that dabbed the viewers and the Hindi Film industry (HFI). This decade in Indian films has perhaps been the strongest in terms of ideas, style, narration, and development of new talent. Although it is nothing like La Nouvelle Vague, it surely will find an epochal footing in the history...
by Nikhil Kumar at December 24th, 2009 at 09:12 pm
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August Rush – and my dinner went completely cold..
I had heard about August Rush during the 2008 Oscars for its Music and the super talented Mark Mancina helming the score. Of course, my music knowledge is RDB, ARR and at best Boney M. But due to the explosion of media all around me, I had heard these names and that was it. One does not get these DVDs so easily in India, that too in Kharghar rental stores where if they...
by Indraneel at August 29th, 2009 at 08:08 pm
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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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Love : Aaj Kal D(evdas) DLJ
Ye Dil ka Khel hai Dillagi, ise bedili se na kheliye Love may happen in a moment’s time but it takes time in getting maturity and depth. Love is a life long affair. One may recall his very first love, done at a tender age of 14-16, while he is attending the marriage of his grand son and if that first love had remained unfulfilled he might feel a disturbance inside...
by Rk at August 1st, 2009 at 05:08 am
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Dev on DVD
Finally saw this movie. There has been much and much written about Dev D. Most of its been flattering. Its definitely to critic’s liking, that was obvious, and don’t get me wrong here but there is this genre of movies which seems to always appeal to the critics. Anyway, I got this DVD, not expecting to like the movie. I was very much surprised. Any one of...
by ligne at June 24th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
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Dreams in the cans- A Filmmaker’s worst nightmare
A few days ago I was having a conversation over coffee with one of my friends who works in the industry and had just attended the first screenwriting workshop organized by Kamal Haasan’s Rajkmal Films in a tie-up with IIT-Madras. While my friend was sharing his insights about the workshop, he mentioned that apart from the various films screened as part of the course,...
by Sethumadhavan at June 16th, 2009 at 03:06 pm
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anurag kashyap on dev d
The language of the post is Non-English.. only the script is in english. sorry for them,who cant read and understand it. for reading in hindi log on to…http://chavannichap.blogspot.com anurag kashyap ne pichhale dinon ftii,pune men dev di ki film adaptation ke bare men baat ki thi.yah post usi ki prastuti hai… mujhe aisa lagata raha hai ki yah sharat babu ka sabase...
by ajay brahmatmaj at May 4th, 2009 at 09:05 pm
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How risky is Film Making in India today?
At the very outset I would like to make a couple of things very clear – this is not a critique on any particular kind of movie or personality and I’m not a film maker, at least not yet. So what exactly is on my mind & what am I trying to say? Well for starters what I need to impress upon is that cinema at the end of day in spite of being an art form, still has...
by Sethumadhavan at April 26th, 2009 at 11:04 am
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Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation
iView Author: Salik Shah (New Delhi, India) Email:salik.shah [at] gmail [dot]com Shyam Benegal and Anurag Kashyap : In conversation [ When I asked Benegal who were his favorite young directors, he said 'that young man' looking at Anurag's direction. And throughout the interaction @ IHC, he kept on shifting the focus to the young filmmaker] Excerpts from this conversation...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at April 10th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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Kudos to Raaz-2, Slumdog Crorepati & Dev D
The 1st Qr of 2009 is over and while the good news is that there was a lot of variety in the kind of Bollywood movies released, in terms of success there were only 3 movies which can be actually called successful in the true sense. The range of movies varied from mainstream biggies like CC2C, Jai Veeru, Aa dekhen Zara etc, small movies like Firaaq,Barah Aana,The Stoneman...
by Sethumadhavan at April 2nd, 2009 at 05:04 am
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What’s So Good About Bollywood
iView Author: Navinder Singh (Ludhiana,India) Email: withheld What’s So Good About Bollywood What’s so good about Bollywood? This is one question which you should ask yourself before reading this post. Let’s discuss most of the possible answers that one can give about Bollywood movies. Stolen Music from South Korea? Background score? Action that would appeal...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 30th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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DEATH OF ORIGINALITY
iView Author: Sonu Sureshbabu Malgee (Thane, India) Email: withheld DEATH OF ORIGINALITY “Nothing is original”, said Mahesh Bhatt. To which, Sudhir Mishra replied, “ARTH was original”. Yet he says “Nothing is original”. I don’t’ know how many of you believe in the definition of Mr. Bhatt., but I think his definition is...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 26th, 2009 at 01:03 pm
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The Art and Artistry of Depravity
iView Author: Raghu (Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.) Email: r.s.godavarthi [at] gmail.com The Art and Artistry of Depravity What is common to Dev D, Slumdog Millionaire, Watchmen, Wrestler and Delhi-6? Before you start combing film magazines to see if some unknown person worked on all these films, let me tell you. Read the title of this post. Depravity’s the answer....
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 23rd, 2009 at 06:03 am
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Literature and Cinema
Cinema and Literature: Questions of Adaptation , A seminar held at FTII, Pune, India Javed Saab said, “Jab Gulzaar sahab kisi film ke liye koi script likhte hai to woh literature nahi hoti aur wahi script agar koi publishing house panno pe chaap deti hai to woh literature ho jaati hai.” “When it comes to adaptation, Hindi cinema could not get to the...
by Rk at March 23rd, 2009 at 02:03 am
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Hmmm
iView Author: Aravind Menon (Chennai, India) Email: 2die4.com[at]gmail[dot] com Hmmm Aishu was not her name , still he preferred calling her so . It sounded romantic and he felt that it would help him to catch her attention easily She was never interested in Sidney shelton , as a matter of fact , she never liked reading . yet she knew that if a girl is sitting...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 16th, 2009 at 09:03 pm
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Gulaal : A movie par excellence
iView Author: Shweta Bhatnagar (Mumbai,India) Email: shweppes [At] gmail.com ‘ A movie par excellence ‘ There are times… well actually all times… that you wished you had that most envious job of movie reviewing (after those dreaded travel show hosts of course!) … and then once in a while come movies that make you really want to kill...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 14th, 2009 at 10:03 am
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dev d:aatmalipt yuvak kee patangatha
The language of the post is Non-English.. only the script is in english. sorry for them,who cant read and understand it. for reading in hindi log on to…http://chavannichap.blogspot.com 6 march ko dev d ko release hue mahina ho jayega.film industry aur industry ke bahar logon ko tajjub ho raha hai ki aisa kaise ho gaya.unhen yah ek chamatkaar hi lag raha hai.film...
by ajay brahmatmaj at March 3rd, 2009 at 10:03 am
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Pseudo Critics, Trade Analysts and the Aam Janata
iView Author: Aniruddha Chatterjee (Dallas, USA) Email: chatterjeeaniruddha [at] gmail.com ‘ Pseudo Critics, Trade Analysts and the ‘Aam Janata’‘ Staying put in Dallas without a job for several months now, I was really frustrated. Add to that UTV’s decision of not releasing Dev.D anywhere else other than NY and LA. The next 10 days went...
by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 2nd, 2009 at 08:03 am
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Dev D on V-Day
(Statutory warning: This reviewer has got an incurable Nostradamus complex and is prone to spouting pseudo-profundities just for the heck of it…..) Valentine’s Day is not my favourite part of the year……. I have an extraordinarily strong mush-radar, which was going haywire at about midnight on the 13th of February. My college(IIT Kharagpur) stands...
by Aditya Mani Jha at February 26th, 2009 at 11:02 am
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Q & A With Amit Trivedi – The Composer of Dev.D
The final week of December 2008 worked magic in the lives of all fans of Hindi music—It was that very week the music of Dev D was available online and was introduced to us, courtesy Tushar Shukla’s superb music review, even though the CDs of the Dev D OST weren’t out until much later. Singer, lyricist and music director Amit Trivedi’s 18 simply...
by Amanda Sodhi at February 18th, 2009 at 08:02 pm
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A Mom reviews Dev.d, who says its for the youth?
Dev.D doesnt belong to just the youth of today, it is ageless. Check out a review by the mother of a 30 year old. “My mom is 58. Born and brought up in Bombay. Highly religious and conservative. Brought up on writers like Kalki, Devan, Jayakanthan, James Hardly Chase, Leon Uris, Robert Ludlum, Arthur Healy and Ayn Rand.I dragged her to a cinema hall to watch Dev.D...
by OM at February 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
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Dev D.: Sarat C. is Smiling
Anurag Kashyap’s new film is a mixed package for me. I had thoroughly enjoyed the sub-text in Kashyap’s ‘No Smoking’ (see review), and, I admit my preoccupation while watching Dev D. was again how Kashyap and Abhay Deol (who ideated the adaptation) have interpreted Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic novella Devdas. The setting in modern...
by Padmaja Thakore at February 8th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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Dev.D: Desi Alienation
As part of the rites of passage in an engineering school in India, I read ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ in the mid-90s. As had (and I realized this later) an entire generation done before me possibly in the same rooms that I occupied. And very reassuringly, I found out a decade later, Holden Caulfield had held his ground in those rooms against the onslaught of a...
by Subrat at February 7th, 2009 at 07:02 pm
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Dev D : bandwagon, atrocities, lightyears, shut up!
(Warning: This review might contain spoilers) What a film! First reaction. Rest assured. No bakwaas. Lovely film. Right from the first shots of Punjab to the drug and sex infested underground, it is a buoyant ride all along. From spoken words to unspoken emotions, from eyes that meet to eyes that shy away, from outbursts to guilt trips, from lost causes to lazy strolls,...
by Tushar at February 6th, 2009 at 06:02 am
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Why do you want to watch DEV D?
It happened somewhere this week. I have given up riding the bike for quite some time now. I love taking the red bus. Putting on the i-Pod, taking a walk, the dust, the village now intruded by urbanity, the stares, the shades, the town appears slowly on the highway, and somewhere along all this PAAYALIYA kicks in, and I become DEV D! So ya, in other words, WHY DO YOU WANNA...
by Tushar at February 5th, 2009 at 12:02 pm