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…starring Preity Zinta… click the image below for the trailer…

iView Author: Jehan Handa (New Delhi, India)

Email: jehanhanda580 [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] in

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Of late, we have seen a blitzkrieg of films based on bash- bash and bang bang. Alas Hijack et Tahaan. Most promos mislead the viewer no end. They promise the moon, the viewer is hooked and very often, they fail to meet the expectations. Here the promos look promising, and the star cast is blinding, with the likes of the Khan and the Deol brothers, the film looks like some Pak bashing, or anti-Pakistan or some pro- border film, honestly it is completely different from anything you expect, it delivers the unexpected.
After watching director Samir Karnik’s previous films consisting of an extremely weird Kyun Ho Gaya Na, and a sincere Nanhe Jaisalmer, you come with zilch expectations, you don’t …

Deepa Mehta’s new film Heaven On Earth recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival while Nandita Das’ first directorial venture Firaaq was first showcased at Telluride and then at TIFF. Both films look interesting and have met with uneven but some very encouraging reactions.

Heaven On Earth is a story of a domestic abuse with elements of fantasy and magic realism. While this audacious mix might not work for everyone or possibly not work at all, Preity Zinta seems to have delivered an outstanding performance in the film, and the first promo (which otherwise isn’t extraordinary) leads me to believe that- Zinta looks ‘luminous’, as a few reviews have called her, and after her impressive performance in The Last Lear, one hopes for more. Zinta’s career, in fact is on an interesting turn right now with films …

this is not a review, just random thoughts/ rants and a question]

Absolutely nothing could spoil THE LAST LEAR for me.

Not the failed alarm clock in the morning due to which I woke up just about 25 minutes before the show started, not the irritating cabbie who messed up the road delaying me further, neither my wallet which was left back home and surely, surely not the sight of an half empty theatre.

I remember being dragged to the cinema by my  parents some nine years back when BARIWALI released, remember sitting there bored to death and disturbing the hell out of  others. Obviously time has passed since then, tastes have changed. The nine years has not only lead me to understand the masterpiece that the film is, but also turned into one of my favorite film, one of the very few Bengali films whose DVD I still put into my player …

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’ Mishra too is a character full of Shakespearean pathos. Quite naturally, it is but natural to expect that Harry’s character would draw you in with its raw emotional power.

Strangely, it does not happen, except in sporadic scenes. It is hard to say who is at fault – Bachchan or the script. Bachchan gives a performance that is one of his best, but even though there have been raving reports about this being his best-ever performance, there is actually nothing much that takes forward his histrionics from the point where he …

[I am naming the article after the song 'Kash Laga' and I don't even smoke. But you know how it is...]

Socha nahin tha taqdeer yahan laayegi
Manzil pe aate hi jaan chali jaayegi
O, yeh to Sikandar ne bhi nahin tha socha
Aane se pehle khushi laut jaayegi
Humne socha tha kya, aur kya se kya hua
Jaa rahe hai aaj yeh zamaane ko bataake

‘Socha Nahi Tha’, is one of the recent song, which would describe my feelings most of the time. And after the last night of some injustice……, the aforementioned song describes my current mood. I have been listening to the song on a continuous loop and don’t feel like doing anything apart from blogging it. Only last night I was scratching my head about what to write and by today’s afternoon…

I don’t have a personal blog, so blogging it here. So somehow have to connect …