Posts Tagged ‘Pankaj Advani’

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    Things in Sankat City
    Sankat City didn’t impress me that much but there were some small things that were used in the film that definitely caught my attention . Usually these small little ‘things’ tell you a lot about the director and the amount of thought he has put into the characters . I took a mental note of those things and here’s what I noticed : Title Graphics...
    by Saurabh at July 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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    Sankat City: What it could have been, what it is.
    Let’s begin with Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa. One of the few ‘Bollywood’ movies that dealt with a loser’s story. The movie made us sink into his shoes and helped revisit our vulnerabilities. It also commented intelligently on youth’s lack of choices, and only few clearly defined options of future that they gulped. Rather, forcefully. A loser who...
    by Tanul Thakur at July 22nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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    Sankat City- drives away the blues caused by Bhramaram
    We keep using the phrase ‘as different as chalk & cheese’ in our daily life so often that sometimes it takes one by surprise when you actually experience it in a very interesting way. The weekend that went by was another filmy weekend for me, but one that was rather very special. Just like enjoying a biriyani and a pizza equally or freaking out on ghazals and rock...
    by Sethumadhavan at July 14th, 2009 at 05:07 pm
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    Sankat City: Pay-off Master
    Befitting the preposterously loony & delightful characters he’s unleashed upon us, Pankaj Advani walked into the cinema-hall Friday night, veiled in a, yes, Burqa. Not surprisingly, the self-aggrandizing ploy didn’t work, at all; as the only straight-faced soul in a hall-full of hysterical communal film savouring, the maker of the film, playing the voyeur that...
    by thani at July 13th, 2009 at 06:07 am
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    Sankat City: Love in Underwar
    I watched Sankat City at the premier show on 8th July. The brief account of my experience, accompanied by few poor quality celebrity pictures can be read here. What I did not mention there, is that I was sitting beside Aamir Bashir (the other cop with Jimmy Shergil in A Wednesday) and Anurag Kashyap few seats away on the same row. Anupam Kher stood on the aisle and started...
    by ~uh~™ at July 12th, 2009 at 03:07 am
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    Mind-blasting, Mind-blowing, Chaiwalla!!! (Pankaj Advani and Sankat City!)
    Saat intertainment aur miser buyer ki peshkash, Sankat City… Nirdeshak Sai Pankaj Advani, abhineta Kay kay Man, Anupam Fauzdar Kherfree, Yashpagal Sarma, Monkey Pandey, Remixed Sen, Prilip Dabhavalkar, Virubhai Sexena, Sanjay Misri, Manoj Power ityadi. Vari Pankaj Advani kya pictude banaya sai… Ek aadmi ka achcha khaasa sabbatical khatm kar diya. Uski duniya palat...
    by Hansal Mehta at July 10th, 2009 at 02:07 am
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    Sankat City: Rats are us.
    I LOVE BOMBAY. Now to forward things, it was an exhilerating, overwhelming & ecstatic DAY (considering that the city never sleeps). It was about 5.00am and yours truly, was at the Mumbai airport, well a li’l outside it. There is the small joint where they sell snacks, cancer & other such addictions. All exhausted, I was there puffing away, where I notice...
    by Magik at July 9th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
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    Sankat City: Money is Everything
    According to Rhonda Byrne’s “The Secret“, the Need of Money, is said to be the strongest attraction point in the Law of Attractions. When you have a strong urge to Need Money, it attracts an even stronger attraction of Needing More Money, thereby sparking off a huge chain reaction of an endless Need of Money. It is this Law of Needing more Money that...
    by Sudhir Nair at July 9th, 2009 at 01:07 pm
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    Sankat City: Advani’s Walking the Talk
    Pankaj Advani walks the talk. Like his posts on PFC, his Sankat City too is great fun, to put it simply. But it is intelligent fun, the kind that speaks much without actually getting loud, though quite a few things are done over the top, perhaps deliberately, to poke fun at things that are intricate part of the Hindi potboiler narrative. The comedy is kind of zany and...
    by Runumi G at July 9th, 2009 at 08:07 am
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    Review : ‘Main kaun choon…’- Lost (and loving it) in Sankat City
    I cannot write reviews – I am constitutionally incapable of writing them. We have a very visceral approach to movies, both me and Kamayani. We like them on a very human level, irrespective of technique and craft, and we are extremely hard to please. Most of the blockbusters and biggies from Bollywood and Hollywood as well as ‘world cinema’ in the recent...
    by Nikhil. V at June 23rd, 2009 at 01:06 am
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    Dreams in the cans- A Filmmaker’s worst nightmare
    A few days ago I was having a conversation over coffee with one of my friends who works in the industry and had just attended the first screenwriting workshop organized by Kamal Haasan’s Rajkmal Films in a tie-up with IIT-Madras. While my friend was sharing his insights about the workshop, he mentioned that apart from the various films screened as part of the course,...
    by Sethumadhavan at June 16th, 2009 at 03:06 pm
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    Lick and Stick
    “Sankat City will not be released on 26th of June 2009 as planned earlier. Instead, it shall hit the screens one week later, on 3rd of July. See to it that the dates are changed in all promos.” “Promos is easy sir, but what about posters? “What about them?” “They’ve already been printed, truckloads of them, with the old date.” “Dump them in the same...
    by Pankaj Advani at June 14th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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    Jai Bollywood Baba
    Couldn’t sleep last night, kept tossing and turning, worrying – “Not even three weeks left for the release of Sankat City… 1200 sheep… the TV promos haven’t yet started… 1201 sheep… there’s no buzz in the media… 1202 sheep… nobody’s talking about the film… 1203 sheep… “ In the morning, I tottered to the washbasin, groggy and tired. When...
    by Pankaj Advani at June 7th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    Shanghai Nights in Sankat City
    THE MONK WITH WINGS - “What do you need for the scene,” asks Chikna. “A BEST bus full of passengers and of course Rimi and Chunky.” “How many junior artists?” “Well, the seating capacity is 72, give me atleast a 100.” “Out of the question, too expensive.” “Okay, get me a mini bus from BEST with 50 passengers.” “We can provide 25.” “But the...
    by Pankaj Advani at May 25th, 2009 at 11:05 am
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    Urf Professor : A Miracle in Hindi Cinema… and yet a tragedy
    Lets start out point blank by me mentioning that “Urf Professor” a movie made in 2001 and never released is amongst the top 3 best comedies made in Hindi Cinema in the last 30 – 40 years. Almost at par with Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron, this is not one of those comedies that you smile throughtout, or laugh a few here and there or perhaps burst out laughing in...
    by oz at March 19th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
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