Posts Tagged ‘naseeruddin shah’

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    Naseer on MTVIggy
    Naseer visits MTVIggy and talks quite candidly about Shah Rukh, Anurag Kashyap and among many other things… testicular fortitude! tip: Nitin Shitole
    by oz at November 18th, 2009 at 08:11 am
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    Om Puri : Unlikely Hero
    Finally an opportunity has come to read/know about the life of one of the finest actors of the world, Mr. Om Puri. His wife, Mrs Nandita Puri has written the Biography, Unlike Hero – Om Puri ( Published by Roli Books). According to CNN-IBN Om Puri Saab says,”My favourite part of the book is my childhood. It will be a very inspiring chapter and also I consider...
    by Rk at November 16th, 2009 at 02:11 pm
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    Barah Anna: A gem at the MIAAC 09, New York City
    Day 4 of the Mahindra Indo-American Film Festival (MIAAC) included a daylong industry panel session that quite frankly was the most productive day for me in the last year or so, ever since I have started hustling as an aspiring writer/ filmmaker. It covered everything from the tremendous growth opportunity that India is presenting as the media and entertainment Mecca...
    by Girimohan Coneti at November 15th, 2009 at 05:11 pm
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    Baabarr: A violent tale of a don of Kanpur
    Film starts with a good promise. Narration, first by Om Puri and later by a boy, sets the nature of the film very well for the audience. Boy’s narration sounds raw but interesting. Initial twenty minutes or so maintain the impression that rest of the film may present similar good material. A good beginning gets strength from a realistic (but/yet impressive) touch in...
    by Rk at September 14th, 2009 at 01:09 pm
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    Mirch Masala (1985) – Sonbai walks tall
    Sonbai walks in the lanes of an unnamed village with a ghada (metal matka, water container) on her head.  She is in the middle of her hen-party, with all members skillfully balancing the ghadas on their heads, and you know that Sonbai is a leader. As the group of these exotically dressed women pass through a gang of by-sitters loitering around the quintessential banyan-tree-chowraha...
    by tejas at September 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
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    ISHQIYA Trailer – a PFC Exclusive
    Now this is what I call a trailer!
    by Anurag Kashyap at August 12th, 2009 at 07:08 am
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    Manthan : Churning a revolution
    Manthan was second in the series of rural trilogy of Shyam Benegal, the other two being Ankur and Nishant. With the most unconventional idea and the most unconventional sources of fund at hand, Shyam Benegal made this rural drama showcasing the success of cooperative dairies in Gujarat. Inspired from the life of Varghese Kurien, Manthan talks of the life of Dr. Rao,...
    by Arjun Narayanan at June 30th, 2009 at 12:06 am
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    ‘Passenger’- A tale of trains, scams and the common man
    Right from the days when I was a kid, I used to enjoy traveling by train. Whether it were the long distance journeys usually in the summer vacation or the suburban train traveling in a Mumbai or Chennai, I would always look forward to it. Over years I have gone on to notice how Indian Railways seems to have become a home away from home for a lot many people who travel...
    by Sethumadhavan at June 14th, 2009 at 01:06 pm
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    The Multiple Roles of Bhumika
    iView Author: Arjun Narayanan (UP, India) Email: arju1987 [at] hotmail.com The Multiple Roles of Bhumika How will it be for an actress to act like an actress? Effortless, one may think. But one gets used to ‘act’ different roles to such an extent that one often forgets to ‘live’ it. Shyam Benegal’s Bhumika is the tale of one such actress, who, in the course...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 1st, 2009 at 06:06 pm
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    Hero Hiralal – A Reality Show Ahead Of Its Time
    The advent of cable-tv happened in India in the early 1990’s when foreign channels were beaming in the houses of the privileged upper-middle-class. A decade later came the age of the reality shows with Channel V running a contest to form a girl-band on the lines of Spice Girls; and in 2002 Viva happened. But much before cable-tv was introduced and much before reality...
    by crazyrals at April 21st, 2009 at 06:04 pm
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    Chakra : Slum woman becomes poorer in every field of her life
    [ Remembring a significant film on the lives of slum dwellers. Advisable for those who want to know about it and its premise and for those who have seen it and want to refresh their memories about the film]. There are few directors who could make only 1 film and there w’d be very few directors who died before the release of their very first film. They could not see...
    by Rk at April 6th, 2009 at 03:04 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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    FIRAAQ : The Aftermath
    iView Author: Timtomlee (Thane, India) Email: withheld FIRAAQ : The Aftermath A mob is marching towards you. They have all the weapons, swords, guns, gas-cylinders, you name it. They are shouting slogans against your community. Now they have spotted you. You can’t run. You can’t hide. You just watch them, coming closer and closer and closer….FIRAAQ...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 25th, 2009 at 07:03 am
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    Barah Aana : Count you chillar before they change
    Last Friday was a deluge of low budget low key movie releases. There were Firaq (Directoral debut of Nandita Das), Barah Aana, Staright, Aloo Chat and Lottery (acting debut of the first Indian Idol Abhijit Sawant). Now, mentally I was still smeared with Gulaal and wanted to watch it again. After much planning and deliberation with wife, we settled for Barah Aana for Saturday...
    by ~uh~™ at March 24th, 2009 at 09:03 am
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    Barah Aana Review – Aamir Khan Recommends It, and So Do I ;)
    “Eh?” you ask. “Aamir Khan recommends it – that’s okay. Who the hell are YOU?” All right all right, I’m still not significant enough for my opinion to carry a ton of weight. It’s just that I believe in catchy titles. For the C grade movie tribute I’ll direct someday, I have in mind titles like Chiffon Sari Baarish...
    by Kenny at March 20th, 2009 at 04:03 am
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    Baraah Aana releasing on 20th March
    We have been hearing so much about this movie. Naseer saab has been raving about it, well, he doesnt do that to every movie of “even” his. It has got some great reviews and reaction. A couple articles on PFC has shown how much we have been waiting for it. Are you going to watch it? To know more about the movie check out the website Trailers And some reactions...
    by OM at March 18th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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    viju shah – bade miyan to bade miyan, chhote miyan subhanallah
    Suddenly people around are doing a lot of discovery. India woke up rudely to the auction of Gandhi’s belongings in USA and the government set-off on a Gandhi-discovery mode, quite a few posts are trying to discover good old days of poetry and lyrics by Sahir and other dead poets, somebody discovered old movies like Bhumika, Jalwa while some were trying to discover...
    by crazyrals at March 10th, 2009 at 02:03 am
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    Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA (1977)
    BHUMIKA(The Role) Does a man’s philosophical perspective change with time?Does a man’s convictions change with time?Does a man’s view towards a piece of art change with time?.. for all the above questions my answer would be YES because few days ago i watched Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA for the second time,the first time i watched it was a couple of...
    by Krishna at March 6th, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    Parzania: Why they were speaking in English
    iview Author: Himanshu (Columbus, Ohio, USA) Email: cinemanshu [at]gmail.com Content: Parzania: Why, oh why were they speaking English ? I watched Parzania the other day and I ran through a whole gamut of emotions during the 2 hours of the movie – anticipation, surprise, fear, horror, revulsion, remorse, regret and hopelessness to name a few. I loved...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at January 22nd, 2009 at 02:01 am
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    Khamosh : Once upon a time VVChopra had made this Thriller
    Khamosh is a thriller where every time needle is pointed towards a suspect, audience may feel that no he is just usual suspect at that moment and real murderer is somebody else and one by one needle of suspicion goes to many characters and audience also keep one step ahead as director’s screen play allows him to know it that something is missing in the investigation...
    by Rk at October 15th, 2008 at 08:10 am
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    A wednesday – a 90 minute thriller –really.
    So when I picked up the DVd from the local grocery store for viewing, my wife asked me what kinda movie it was. Rarely has she seen me renting a Hindi DVD. I told her that it is supposed to be a ‘thriller’. The next question was ‘who are there in it?’ I told ‘Naseer and Anupam’. The reaction was something of a suggestion that I go have...
    by V.P. Jaiganesh at October 14th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
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    The Last Lear: Bachchan’s best? Maybe, may be not, but….
    In a Shakespearean tragedy, one cannot but get sucked into the emotional cauldron. Be it Othello or King Lear or Macbeth or Hamlet, its all about great emotional upheaval when it comes to the core of the Bard’s plays. In Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear, Amitabh Bachchan’s (as well as most of the cast’s) first full-fledged English role, Harish ‘Harry’...
    by Runumi G at September 11th, 2008 at 11:09 am
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    Flop films affect actors but not stars?
    iView Author: Sridhar Mayur (Hyderabad, India) Email: mayursridhar [at] gmail [dot] com ——————————————————– ‘Whose Flop is it anyway? ——————————————————– Why...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 11th, 2008 at 06:09 am
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    Rangeele Babu : Premchandian revolutionary character dares to challenge the God
    It is said and it has been said all over the world in every country and in every civilization that there is no man who does not face sorrows. There have been philosophers who have been investigating existence of God or his role in the life of any human being. Raju (Dev Anand) says in the Guide, one of the most wonderful films of the hindi cinema. “Now this question...
    by Rk at August 29th, 2008 at 06:08 am
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    Prakash Jha : Hrishikesh Mukharjee cried after watching my film
    To continue the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from an interview of Director Prakash Jha, taken by Ajay Brahmatmaj , are presented here. Ajay writes I had started my interview series with the interview of Prakash Jha. He is my elder and to some extent my guide also. Perhaps it is difficult, at present, to evaluate the contribution of Prakash Jha to...
    by Rk at July 2nd, 2008 at 09:07 am
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    Ardha Satya : Mike Lobo, Actor is The Naseeruddin Shah
    3.5 scenes in the film and he still deserves to be called as The Naseeruddin Shah! Simply because of his brilliant portrayal of Inspector Mike Lobo. “Short role can still be great” is proved by Naseeruddin Shah in Ardha Satya. Mike Lobo is often discussed among policemen before he actually appears on screen. In the present time, he is a broken man, a drunkard...
    by Rk at June 26th, 2008 at 05:06 am
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    Maqbool—Taking Macbeth to Bollywood
    Maqbool—Taking Macbeth to Bollywood I was going through some old college assignments and came across a film review of Maqbool I wrote for a Theatre History course I took. Below follows the write-up for those interested in reading it: Vishal Bharadwaj is a name which has almost become synonymous with excellence—whether it be his music score for critically acclaimed...
    by Amanda Sodhi at June 16th, 2008 at 08:06 am
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    Nishant : Vijay Tendulkar’s illustrious entry in to hindi cinema!
    Great, powerful and impressive writers possess one thing for sure and that is the art to present stories in their own words/ways/manners and though it’s very much possible that they are taking inspirations from mythology or stories, already told in the past, but they weave the plot in such a way that their stories remain successful in presenting issues prevalent...
    by Rk at May 19th, 2008 at 08:05 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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    Khuda Kay Liye (In The Name of God): A Flight of Reason
    How do you create division among people? Etch a line with the tip of your shoe in the dust between them and give them opposite sides to belong to. The rift may not be immediate but gradually across time there will be category and classification. There will be further division, conflicting systems of belief and later, fanaticism and dogma. Before long the dust line you...
    by Siddharth Pillai at April 10th, 2008 at 08:04 am
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