Posts Tagged ‘priyadarshan’

  • Sell anything in Bollywood. But…
    Sell anything in Bollywood. But… don’t try to hard-sell the same thing more than twice. In management, we read a term PLC or Product Life Cycle. It meant that every product or product category has a defined life after which its public acceptance will start drooping down, diminishing. There are so many factors behind that which range from technology to public awareness,...
    by Deepak Singh at November 10th, 2009 at 08:11 am
  • Where Kanchivaram falls short
    (This post has some spoilers) This is an unfair post title for a movie which has obviously been made with good intent and a significant degree of expertise. It’s definitely a movie which demands a watch as it dwells on topics which aren’t currently in vogue. Weavers and communism are not usually topics which inspire filmmakers nowadays and you probably won’t...
    by Anand Bharadwaj at June 2nd, 2009 at 06:06 am
  • Chithram
    The combination of Priyan+Mohanlal+Sreenivasan at their very best. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0214585/
    by Sethumadhavan at May 18th, 2009 at 07:05 am
  • Priyadarshan- The Run Machine of Indian Cinema
    So far this year we have seen the frenzy generated by SDM and the success of movies like Dev D and Raaz- the Mystery Continues. And of late we have been hearing a lot about the ongoing strike in Bollywood. But there was also one landmark that occured in the 1st Qr of 2009, something which did not really get so much of attention. This landmark was achieved on 13th February...
    by Sethumadhavan at April 24th, 2009 at 03:04 am
  • Why I look forward to Billu Barber..
    iView Author: SETHUMADHAVAN (Chennai/Vijayawada, India) Email: sethumadhavan.n@ gmail.com Why I look forward to Billu Barber Before I left home for office today, I was just customarily watching Channel V & MTV and I happened to see the first song of Billu Barber on MTV- “Marjaani“. That set me thinking a lot about the movie & then I realized that...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at December 31st, 2008 at 01:12 pm
  • IFFK’08 – Fatih Akin, Takeshi Kitano & Priyadarshan
    Kurz und schmerzlos – Short Sharp Shock(1998) Gabriel, Costa, and Bobby. Three Turkish, Serbian & Greek friends meet again after Gabriel gets out of prison( I could associate this to Spike Lee’s brilliant and lesser talked about 25th Hour). They experience their changing relationship in the darker alleys of Hamburg, Germany. Bobby, the babyface blazer-clad...
    by Tushar at December 23rd, 2008 at 01:12 am
  • Baap Re Baap !!
    ‘Lendormin’, is one of the most commonly used drug for curing insomnia. Now, the makers of the drug have stiff competition. Our own Priyadarshan has come up with a movie guaranteed to put u to sleep. It’s pace is slower than a paint peeling off a dry wall. A 150 year old snail who’s suffering from Arthritis would walk much faster. It’s called...
    by Sudhir Nair at June 14th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
  • JAAGO MOHAN PYAARE!
    JAAGO MOHAN PYAARE! “It is very easy to criticise anyone’s work than doing the actual work”. The old and experienced players of hindi cinema…started their career by redefining the rules of typical bollywood film making. But some how lost their golden touches, cinematic abilities, and trapped in their own success and intelligence. They are thinking...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at November 13th, 2007 at 03:11 am