Posts Tagged ‘Ram Gopal Verma’

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    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
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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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    RGV’s Shiva 20 years Back
      The   local  college  bully   keeps  provoking  the  hero,  keeps pushing him.  The  hero   keeps  quite,  does  not  talk  much.  And  all  of  a sudden,   he  lands  one  solid  blow,  to  the  bully.  Not  just  the  bully on  screen,  but  the  entire  audiences  in  the  theater  were  as shocked.    If   that  ...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at February 12th, 2009 at 08:02 am
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    Anurag Kashyap: One needs his own method to make a film
    Second and concluding part of the excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Anurag Kashyap(AK), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), is presented here. [Following is the loose translation of the Hindi Interview and may not do full justice to the original interview. Its advisable that one should go through the original interview to read the exact sayings of Anurag...
    by Rk at November 6th, 2008 at 06:11 am
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    Anurag Kashyap: Noir is the story of underdog for me
    In continuation of the series “Initial Steps“, excerpts from a conversation occurred between Director Anurag Kashyap(AK), and Ajay Brahmatmaj (AB), are presented here. Full interview will appear in Ajay Brahmatmaj’s book “Meri pehli film” which will be published soon by Antika Prakashan. [Following is the loose translation of the Hindi...
    by Rk at November 5th, 2008 at 05:11 am
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    The RGV PFC… Face Off!
    ……and ye ye this time its for real!!! I know, the fake ones were damn entertaining. Hopefully the real one will not disappoint you. Here is my latest theory on Ramu. The filmmaker who made Satya and Compnay died long back, most probably during a film shoot. An aspiring but less talented guy who was AD on the same film set, died with Ramu. The AD knew that...
    by Phoenixnu at August 13th, 2008 at 03:08 am
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    Contract : An interview with GGV
    After years have we seen such a smashing, wonderful, gripping, movie to grace the silver screen. Guru Ghantal Varma (aka GGV) the director has definitely redeemed himself after such beautiful but badly rejected films like GGV ki Aag, NoShabd and Bekar Raj. After finishing the 90 odd minutes of Contract on a DVD, oztrac walks out for a breather. And VOILA! Across the street...
    by oz at July 24th, 2008 at 04:07 pm
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    One Scene Character
    It is time to do a list. This time, I present to you The Top 10 One Scene Characters. Not really. Just a few of my favorite One Scene Hindi Film characters, that have sorta stuck in me mind. I was meant to write on this a very long time ago. But, you know, how it is. Anyway, a few weeks back I read RK’s article on Naseeruddin Shah’s 3.5 scene in Ardh Satya...
    by Honhaar Goonda at July 7th, 2008 at 11:07 am
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    Their Crime and Our Punishment
    iView Author: Manash Bhattacharjee (New Delhi, India) EMAIL: withheld Their Crime and Our Punishment ————————————————– Despite a frightful and laughable take-off on Sholay, I was surprised to see an excited crowd queuing up on the very first day to watch Ram Gopal’s...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at June 30th, 2008 at 03:06 am
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    Phoonk, Ram Gopal Verma
    This man makes movies as if he was making jalebis..ek ke baad ek…His Sarkar Raj releases this weekend. I will surely watch it, no doubt, afterall its a freaking RGV movie, however bad it might be..it still is RGV movie. While on that note of Aamir getting splendid reviews from Raja Sen of Rediff, i chanced upon this trailer of Phoonk from RGV. Well the trailer...
    by OM at June 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
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