Posts Tagged ‘Oscars’

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    India selects Harishchandrachi Factory for its Oscar entry
    Harishchandrachi Factory has been selected as India’s official entry for the Oscars! Congratulations to Paresh Mokashi and his team on their debut feature leaping right into the big league! In case you missed reading the movie’s reviews on PFC… here’s the first one by Gaurang and another by Salik Mokashi in an interview mentioned he is gearing up...
    by oz at September 20th, 2009 at 09:09 am
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    Lauren Bacall Named for Honorary Oscar
    The Hollywood actress Lauren Bacall famous for her sultry looks and film noir roles will be awarded an honorary Oscar for her contribution to cinema. Here are some interesting highlights from her autobiography ‘By Myself’. “The Tony nominations were announced-… I was so excited! I couldn’t believe it. At last my first nomination for anything, anywhere… And...
    by Indu Raman at September 14th, 2009 at 05:09 am
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    most memorable filmfare awards of 1992-93
    Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging. - Barbra Streisand The topic of awards is quite a sensitive one. But, at the same time its also a topic of much controversy when the right people do not get it and the wrong ones are awarded, for whatever reasons. Like the practise goes, of giving...
    by crazyrals at April 24th, 2009 at 09:04 pm
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    Revolutionary Road – A Life of Quiet Desperation
    “Can you believe it? We just ended up being like everybody else?!” John Givings: Hopeless emptiness. Now you’ve said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness. Some films relish in the aftertaste of the moments not captured in their entirety, unsettling yet no good reason to be so, poised and in-their-moment...
    by Tushar at March 7th, 2009 at 02:03 pm
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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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    Oscar Winners Acceptance Speeches
    The most interesting aspect of any award ceremony is the acceptance speech. Sometimes the acceptance speech becomes far too political, like what Sean Penn did when he went left-liberal and included the communists along with gays in his  speech, sometimes the winners become far too emotional like Gwyneth Paltrow and Halle Berry, sometimes it brings out the gymnast in them...
    by crazyrals at February 25th, 2009 at 01:02 am
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    Slumdog Millionaire: Today is Slumdog’s Day
    The poster of Slumdog Millionaire reads: What does it take to find a lost love? Money? Luck? Smarts? Destiny? Now how the hell one distinguishes between Luck and Destiny. Come to think of it even ‘Money’ gets mixed up with these two options. And then you find yourself crying for a fifth option, ‘None of the above’. Oh! forget the details. Just...
    by Padmaja Thakore at February 22nd, 2009 at 02:02 pm
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    Oscar Awards Ki Amar Dastaan
    I have long been hearing that this year’s Academy Awards will have an Indian tadka. But I was a disbeliever. How do you say that, I would ask? And, I would be given the story of how Rahman and Sukhwinder will kick-off the show with ‘Jai Ho’, the fact that the mostly India cast would walk the red carpet and that Resul is tipped to win. I would hear it...
    by Subrat at February 22nd, 2009 at 02:02 am
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    The Legend of John Ford
    Generally  while  discussing  about  great directors,  while  i  have seen many  take the  name of  Hitchcock,  Kubrick, Scorcese,  Goddard, Kurosawa,  commonly,  i  find  it  surprising,  that  many  people  rarely  mention  the  name  of   John  Ford,  or  even  his  movies.   It  just  beats  me,   because  having  seen  some ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at February 1st, 2009 at 06:02 am
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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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    Aronofsky’s The Wrestler – Review
    Passion, Pain and Loneliness – that’s the order that a man is driven when dedicating a life to an Endeavour. A passion grips you when you are young, when you are able and when you can conquer the world. Pain hits you when you realize it’s all but a gift that is cruelly snatched away from you time and again when the body & mind start slipping. And...
    by ravptor at December 27th, 2008 at 01:12 am
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    Sidney Poitier- Hollywood’s Obama
    Just a week back, as i was looking at the T.V. flashing images of Barack Obama, making his victory speech, i felt a kind of thrill in me, a sort of vicarious hapiness. I had heard many “well educated” Indians often make disparaging remarks about Kallus, and don’t go into Black dominated areas, and how Blacks were dangerous. In fact there were more...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at November 11th, 2008 at 08:11 am
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    Review: Taare Zameen Par
    Note: I did not hate Taare Zameen Par. Or Rock On. Or A Wednesday. Not even Black. But the excess praise that came to these nice, but far from extraordinary films really got to me. Somehow, too much unwarranted praise can actually make one dislike the film more and more and magnify its flaws even more. TZP’s now gone to the Oscars, and while I could bet it’s...
    by Jahan Bakshi at October 5th, 2008 at 12:10 am
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