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This is the one film in 2008 that I’m most excited about! The official trailer at last gets released!

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Check out Ravptor’s review of the movie here

To what lengths would you go to get an autograph from a superstar actor? What all would you be willing to jump to get close, very close – in you face close – to a star that has sold you dream after dream after dream all your life? Jump from a chopper! Fly your family from Bay Area to Chicago and pay tons of money? Swim through a sewer??? Nah… the mentioned tasks are too easy if the superstar in question is Amitabh Bachchan. And Ladies and gentleman, of all the directors who have in some form or the other paid tribute to the Greatest Star of the Millennium – let me declare – Danny Boyle topped all of them and beat them with none even close! And that’s just one shot in Slumdog Millionaire. 
Danny Boyle’s (Train spotting) latest is a story around how a boy …

iView Author: A. Singh (Fremont, CA, USA)

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Fate of Scene Stealers
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I had to sit through Money Hai to honey Hai on DVD this weekend and that inspired me to write this post. The film as you all know by now is a disgrace in the name of cinema and it’s hard to pinpoint any one reason that made the film so bad. Everything about the movie was bad, almost like a bad dream. The two reasons I watched the whole film were- one, it was a comedy and like a typical fan of Indian national cricket team, I kept thinking it’ll get better and I’ll at least like some jokes and two, my wife forced me to sit through it. Her taste in movies is not that bad but she has this weird compulsion …

iView Author: Sridhar Mayur (Hyderabad, India)

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‘Whose Flop is it anyway?
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Why some good actors had to struggle a lot to get into the mainstream, and after that struggle they would face Struggle-Phase 2. They’ve been a lot these days….Like the brilliant Irrfan Khan to the impeccable-comic-timer Rajpal Yadav. They all have started work from scrath working in Doordarshan(Our very own “Bapu TV”, which is still in 1980’s - torturing us to the core!!).

I hope most of us might remember watching these guys on Doordarshan(Who can forget Irrfan Khan as ‘Senapati’ in ‘Chanakya’). Not to forget Ashutosh Rana(in Shanti), wonderful actor! I am talking about them coz……critics come with brick-bats over them and it takes long time for these poor guys to come back to track after the movie …

Here’s the first extended look of Mumbai Meri Jaan… with Paresh Rawal’s voice over laced throughout, a very sensitive two minute look into the movie… the trailer grows on you!!! Looking forward to August 22nd, when Mumbai Meri Jaan hits the theaters!!!

Dearest Geeta,

Have started becoming more and more like a protagonist of a ‘feel good’ film. Have mellowed down a little.

Cigarettes ? I know that will be your first question. They have gone down from 20@day to 15@day. You, the censor board of India and honorable Mr. Anbumani Ramadoss will be very happy to hear this.

It doesn’t look as good as we wanted it to be back then. May be I too am trying for a naxalite-parallel-cinematic-revolution. “That the audiences will rise up one day and grab all the ‘different’ and ‘well made’ films.”

I can hear you snigger.

One thing I’ve noticed is that CHANGE is very uncomfy. Any new idea is not discovered on its way, but only recognized when it’s gone. People want great ideas like Lagaan, Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par.

Ideas that everyone can relate to and say “Hey Ishaan …