Posts Tagged ‘“last lear”’

  • Bollywood 2008 My 10
    It’s kind of a ritual for critics in the West to pick their favourite 10 films of the year gone by and even here in Bollywood newspapers and news channels are pouncing on the habit. But sadly, most of the papers and channels pick the Top 10 based on box office collections. While that to me is a great barometer to judge the quality of the film, it is not necessarily...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at December 31st, 2008 at 05:12 am
  • Lear stirs, he lives…
    Towards the end of Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, in a scene, Amitabh Bachchan’s Harry is about to take a step which can put his life at risk. As the tension builds up towards the moment I suddenly felt what if Bachchan died today. Yes, what if Bachchan died today. This man, who had failure pinned on him from the day he faced the arclights, had 12 flops back...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at September 12th, 2008 at 01:09 pm