Posts Tagged ‘Javed Akhtar’

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    Wake Up S!d — Music review
    Recently John Hughes passed away who has made some of the finest coming of age films of all time like “Sixteen Candles” , “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Beuller’s Day Off”. He portrayed the young teenagers in a very real and comic way . His films are still relevant as they were 25 years ago and are also some of my favourites...
    by Saurabh at August 23rd, 2009 at 04:08 pm
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    Jukebox-Short Kut & Kailasa Chaandan Mein
    Strange are the ways of Bollywood. Fair enough. Argument taken. It doesn’t take a genius to guess it’s been a bad year. Post Delhi-6/Gulaal/Dev D that is. And the thing about bad times is that it kills one’s senses to acknowledge something minutely good that comes on the way further. I do not remember which was the last hindi film I saw and enjoyed. I guess 13B or...
    by Tushar at July 2nd, 2009 at 06:07 pm
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    Paighaam Laayaa Saawan: Songs From the Heavens
    I’ve always loved the rains. Always. And somehow the rains seem to follow me wherever I go outside of the US. As a kid, I’d enjoy walks in the neighborhood while it was pouring outside, and even now as an adult I like to avoid carrying an umbrella even when I know it’s going to rain. Oh I’ve got PLENTY of umbrellas, all right. Baat woh nahin hai....
    by Amanda Sodhi at May 1st, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Have You a Script That Tells It All In Two Lines?
    Two unrelated incidents made me put on hold a post I was writing after a gap of almost two months for pfc..These two incidents converged to give shape to this post instead.. Recently I attended a felicitation function where Javed Akhtar Saab was given an award by Enlighten Film Society for his life-time services to the world of Hindi Cinema..And during a tete-e-tete session...
    by krysh at April 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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    Shakti Samanta – A Musical Tribute
    ye kyaa huaa, kaise huaa, kab huaa kyon huaa, jab huaa, tab huaa chhodo, ye naa socho humne jo dekhaa thaa, sunaa thaa kyaa bataaye wo kyaa thaa sapnaa salonaa thaa khatam to honaa thaa, huaa When the end came, it was really sorrowful. But as all good things come to and end, so did the life of Shakti Samanta. The above lines are from his movie Amar Prem and they are so...
    by crazyrals at April 11th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
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    Hindi Cinema Recognition 2008 – Winners
    (Click on Image/Graph for bigger version of the image) Best Female Singer (Solo or Duo) – Dominique Cerejo ( Ye Tumhari Meri Baatein; Rock On!!) Best Male Singer (Solo or Duo) – A R Rahman (Khwaja Mere Khwaja; Jodha Akbar) Best Lyricist (For Entire Album) – Javed Akhtar (Rock On!!) Best Composer – A R Rahman ( Jaane Tu…ya jaane) Album...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 31st, 2009 at 11:03 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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    Hindi Cinema Recognition 2008
    (a) Jury: Non-Exclusive Authors of passionforcinema.com & Tehelka Entertainment Journalists (b) Voting will be closed on 30 March 2009 at 2359 (EST) and winners will be announced next day. Selection Process: A collaborative process between PFC and Tehelka. The nominees for each category would be arrived at based on the following procedure: 1. The nominees...
    by Honhaar Goonda at March 10th, 2009 at 12:03 am
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    filmfare awards 2009 … bucking the trend
    Finally, sanity is being restored, or at least an effort is being made to do so, in the 54th Filmfare Awards. I was so glad to see movies like Rock On, OLLO and MMJ winning, and movies like RNBDJ and Dostana taking a backseat. Although the nominations were a little fuzzy[some categories had 5 nominations and some had 6, just to please a few people I guess], but given the...
    by crazyrals at March 2nd, 2009 at 01:03 am
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    A.R.Rehman!!! Jai Ho!! – 2
    I shall pick from where Ratnakar left off, in his fantastic tribute to AR Rahman. I had actually started writing this post much earlier, the day after the Oscar ceremony, but when I found that such a beautiful tribute was already adorned to the Mozart from Madras, I changed track and decided to write a sequel starting from post-2001 phase. So, Lagaan was out and Rahman...
    by crazyrals at February 28th, 2009 at 09:02 am
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    Jai ho! geet sangeet
    iView Author: dilnawaz (Patna, India) Email: syed.tauheed [at] gmail.com “Jai ho! geet sangeet ” SINCE the first Indian talkie songs are part of Hindi films.lyricists, music directors and singers from very past are successfully carrying forward the geet –sangeet tradition LYRICISTS With likes of shakil badayuni, hasrat jaypuri, shailendra, sahir, majrooh...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 25th, 2009 at 05:02 am
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    Luck By Chance – A Tautology
    Francis Voltaire has this famous quote to his credit: Chance is a word devoid of sense, nothing can exist without a cause. I too believe in it, quite strongly. In fact, the tautology has driven me to write this post. The title of the movie is a tautology and so is the content. Zoya Akhtar has used the word Luck as well as By Chance, both meaning almost the same. Zoya,...
    by crazyrals at February 21st, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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    Luck By Chance: Moments and reactions
    I avoid writing about films which every other person is writing about and voicing the same opinion as mine but what the heck! its been a one long long time since I saw a film like this. A film that I liked from first frame to the last. I think the last hindi movie that I liked was OLLO and before that? I don’t remember! Certainly nothing last year. I am not doing...
    by Neeraja at February 2nd, 2009 at 03:02 am
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    Akhtarnama
    Rajeev Masand chats with the Flava of the Season Da Akhtars Watch it here
    by DPac at January 31st, 2009 at 09:01 pm
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    Luck By Chance Review
    iView Author: Avinash Singh (India) Email: avinash.s21 [at] gmail [dot] com Luck By Chance Review Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Konkona Sen Sharma, Isha Sherwani, Dimple Kapadia, Rishi Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Sanjay Kapoor, Aly Khan, Anuj Mathur & Extended Guest Appearance by Hrithik Roshan along with cameos by many stars. Director: Zoya Akhtar Producer: Ritesh Sidhwani &...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 30th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
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    Proposal of the month _ KOKO Marry me OR Recco of the Month_ Luck By Chance!!!
    I am gonna keep this concise and precise. I have no ‘ichcha’ to spoil your fun and as Anurag and Vasan before me, I too will give you a juSHT a reaction rather than a ‘review’. (come to think of it i dont do ‘reviews’) About 2 months ago on a pretty cloudy day, I took a 1 hour bus ride to the outskirts of Melbourne to see Excel Entertainments...
    by DPac at January 30th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    Love Story 1942 – bak to da future???
    Past, present & future… some random musings of a filmi. It was long back, while I was in high skool, in a small town, very shy, silent & introvert. Not any more, but what the heck. Tax Free, for us, then was a huge incentive for watching films in a cinema hall. 1942 A Love Story was exempted from taxes & that allowed us (my & my kuzins) the liberty...
    by Magik at January 23rd, 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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    A.R.Rahman: not just Madras, Bombay, or Dilli
    iView Author: J. RAMANAND (Pune, India) Email: quatrainman@gmail.com A.R.Rahman: not just Madras, Bombay, or Dilli No Indian composer has had such pan-Indian success as A.R.Rahman. Forget ‘crossing over’ to H-Land, just being successful all across India is a feat that has escaped most Indian cultural icons (and they’ve tried hard). This is especially...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 12th, 2009 at 01:01 pm
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    Imagine Bollywood Without Bhaiyyas & Biharis !
    He was trembling, no shivering– no, no quivering– no,no shaking !..“Moss, I am leaving ! Moley toh, idhar bahut risk ho gaya hai!! Mete, ye shahar ab rehne kay liye theek nahin!!!” I was wondering at his nervousness but wondered more about the gibberish he was mumbling..And then he expressed his real fears..He was earlier scared by Raj Thackeray’s tirade...
    by krysh at May 22nd, 2008 at 01:05 pm
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    Silsila(1981) :: A Conflict of emotions Vs realities & responsibilities!
    Silsila is special in so many ways. This is the last film in which AB and Rekha worked together. It’s the last Yash Chopra Film where AB played a leading man. It’s the first film where Javed Akhtar started his career as lyricist also after being a highly successful script writer and Hari Prasad Chaurasia the famous flute player and Shiv Kumar Sharma the famous Santur...
    by Rk at March 7th, 2007 at 08:03 am
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