Posts Tagged ‘Lagaan’

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    Sports On Celluloid
    What  is   common  to  sports  and  movies? Well  at  the  end  of  the  day,  both  of  them  give  us  a  kind  of   vicarious  satisfaction,  fulfilling  our  inner  fantasies.   When a Maradona  dodges  past  10  players  to  score  the “Goal of the  Century”,  we  are  as  thrilled  to bits  as  we  are  watching ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at April 28th, 2009 at 06:04 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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    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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    With malice towards none…
    disclaimer : I admit to attributing quotes to Mr. Amitabh Bachchan in this blog which in fact are not his. I admit to writing the blog based on stories and quotes attributed to Mr. Bachchan in ‘respectable’ publications. However, I stand by my opinions and comments in the blog. My apologies to Mr. Bachchan Let me come to the point. All of us, including myself,...
    by Hansal Mehta at January 20th, 2009 at 11:01 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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    “The Feel-Good Fillum Of The Decade”
    Slumdog Millionaire has been marketed/promoted as “The Feel-Good Film of The Decade” because one of the critic used that phrase in his review to describe the film And here we have announced the film as “The Masala Fillum of The Decade” or something like that, but we mean same. However…… Surely, in last decade we must have churned out...
    by Honhaar Goonda at January 1st, 2009 at 07:01 pm
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    Chale Chalo: The Lunacy of Filmmaking
    (4/5) A thrilling, inspiring, moving and real story about courage, grit, passion for cinema and how one of the best Hindi films ever got made. IMDB
    by Jahan Bakshi at October 13th, 2008 at 09:10 pm
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    Best thriller was released on 25th of June in 1983
    The wonder that was that Victory. Victory and defeat, both are the parts of the life of any human being. One goes to surmount the whole world and he may be defeated by a small and simple thing produced before him by the nature. It is said that most difficult task in the world is to win the hearts of the people. It can only be done by the love and love is a phenomenon which...
    by Rk at June 25th, 2008 at 06:06 am
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    Ardha Satya : Silver Jubilee remembrance
    25 years have passed since Ardha Satya, one of the most hard hitting films of hindi cinema, was released and it still possess so lively and relevant presence that if its re-released today then it still may score above many films of present days. This path breaking movie had paved the ways for several films made in the later years. It has inspired several directors to...
    by Rk at June 20th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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    Ashutosh Gowarikar : Aamir Khan has sixth sense to identify a director
    In continuation with the first part of the interview( Ashutosh Gowarikar : I missed the Prem’s role in Maine Pyar Kiya ) of Director Ashutosh Gowarikar, taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , second and concluding part is presented here. AB: If you had become a successful actor then we could not have got film like Lagaan and we could have missed the director Ashutosh Gowarikar...
    by Rk at June 11th, 2008 at 04:06 am
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    Director is like a God walking on earth : Shyam Benegal
    Orson Welles, Jean Renoir, Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Bernardo Bertolucci, Frank Capra, Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Fellini, Kubrick, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roman Polanski, Sydney Pollack, Steven Soderbergh, James Ivory etc etc and PC Barua, Sohrab Modi, Mehboob, Kedar Sharma, Bimol...
    by Rk at June 6th, 2008 at 06:06 am
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    To Dearest Geeta with Love
    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...
    by kartik krishnan at April 13th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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