Posts Tagged ‘Review’

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    When Should Critics Stop Writing Official Film Reviews?
    Take a situation. If a judge wanted to take one of the sides in a proceeding. A Jury member had his own film nominated to be sent to Cannes. Or, the daughter of the promoters of a beauty pageant were to participate for the crown. Unthinkable. Right! Yes, writing this post, I know I am going to attract the wrath of some friends in the industry. One of my earlier posts already...
    by Deepak Singh at November 22nd, 2009 at 07:11 am
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    Aladin’t or Euthanasia?
    This post takes a lead from my last write-up. However, should have taken a while to write, had it not been for a “different” kind of discussion with one of the popular film-makers. It was Friday late afternoon and, it so happened that one of the creative film-makers with quite a hitlist in his kitty (in varied capacities), posted a comment on one such public...
    by Deepak Singh at November 1st, 2009 at 09:11 am
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    Pazhassi Raja – worthless lives, priceless freedom
    Pre-empting a scriptwriter like MT Vasudevan Nair is futile, as he wanders the creative landscape like an un-reined white horse. Committing that error, I walked into Audi 05 of PVR cinemas for the initial show, with ‘Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha’ and its memories still fresh as a blooming lotus petal in the mind. What showed in the screen was entirely opposed to...
    by Ram V at October 17th, 2009 at 08:10 am
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    Sid wakes up as the Viewers sleep
    The new offering from Dharma Productions and debutant director Ayan Mukerji, ‘Wake up Sid’ has nothing new to offer. Taking up a plot that has been used and reused incalculably, wake up sid narrates the story of a confused, rich, spoilt brat Siddharth Mehra (Ranbir), living a luxurious life on his father’s hard earned money. The whole story revolves around...
    by Sushant Sudhakaran at October 2nd, 2009 at 09:10 am
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    What’s Your Raashee?: Taaza meal, flavour baasee.
    Yogesh (Hurman Baweja) and Pooja (Priyanka Chopra) : Contemplating the probability of their marriage WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS What a person will do when he has to choose a bride only to solve the monetary problems of his family? Logically he’ll go in the shaadi-bazaar and see who is offering the most handsome dowry for him, given that his market value is quite high...
    by Jahanpanah at September 27th, 2009 at 08:09 pm
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    Chabiwali Pocketwatch
    Sometimes you havnt heard about a movie, or a filmmaker, or even the actors, but there’s something that attracts you immensely in a movie. There’s this small little connection, this little bond that urges you, attracts you and lures you into watching a rather unknown film, with no credits heaving names like Bergman or Truffaut. It endears you especially when it’s...
    by Jehan Handa at September 25th, 2009 at 06:09 am
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    Dil Bole Hadippa: Battered Cricket
    Yashraj movies have always been rich in characters, content, colour, Punjabi and social messages (3CPSM). Every farm fresh YR produce makes life look like a fairy tale taking the audience into an world of happiness and love with an utopian impossibility, which cynics, critics and cynical critics brand as ‘entertainment for gobar audience’. What? You have never heard...
    by ~uh~™ at September 23rd, 2009 at 01:09 am
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    9: 8-7-6-5-4-3-2-PTOOF!
    Shane Acker, all said and done, sure got one thing right. If you’re going to make an addendum to one of the most beloved artifacts in the pop culture universe and if you don’t want to commit a McG-sized (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, Terminator Salvation) motion picture embarrassment, the guy you take notes from is the one and only Mr. James Cameron. When faced...
    by Siddharth Pillai at September 9th, 2009 at 08:09 am
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    QGM : Bulletspoof Machismo !
    Mind it I saw the Tamil English version of QGM, though intention was to see the Hindi-English version. I was hooked to QGM music for last few weeks and was really keen to identify the hilariously innovative Hindi dialogues in the movie, which were highly enjoyable, interspaced within the songs. For the record, I don’t understand Tamil, not even little little, so to speak...
    by ~uh~™ at August 30th, 2009 at 02:08 am
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    Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Mince
    All mush and no myth in HP6 Confession 1: I am not a Harry Potter fan. Confession 2: I haven’t read a single Harry Potter book. I am not proud of the fact but it just happened that I somehow never got myself to pick up one of those Bibles. Confession 3: I have watched all the Harry Potter films and have followed the story sketchily over the years. I wouldn’t...
    by Pratim D. Gupta at July 15th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
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    The Orphanage & The Innocents – Two Psychological Gems!!
    My tryst with ghost stories started with the usual bedtime reads. With time, I graduated to movies and the horror genre became a favorite. Evil dead, Rosemary’s baby, the shining were a part of growing up. But off late, apart from a few Asian movies here and there, the genre has been churning out disappointing movies to say the least. So, I was surprised, shocked (pun...
    by perfectmisfit at July 14th, 2009 at 09:07 pm
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    Casting Ouch! A Star is Found (Book Review)
    A film stays with you when you begin to identify n actor with a role he played in it. Marlon Brando becomes synonymous with Godfather. What if Ernest Borgine and Ryan O’Neal played the roles of Marlon Brando and Al Pacino? Humphrey Bogart was not the first choice for Casablanca-George Raft was. Critics who sniggered that Daniel Craig was a loser as the new James Bond...
    by Indu Raman at July 10th, 2009 at 01:07 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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    Caligula
    The most expensive porn ever made. What crap! IMDB 1/5
    by OM at May 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
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    Frozen: The Cold Colours of Life
    Sneaking by that bylane, those deep dark eyes having so much to convey, the starkling innocence awaiting corruption, and that naïve beauty, it all was innocently real, it had nothing false about it, it was innocence packed in a plain package of innocence. The name of the movie instantly conjured up images of either awe, shock, magic and ironically pain, bondage and obviously...
    by Jehan Handa at May 12th, 2009 at 06:05 am
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    Chronicles of World Cinema II : The Mirror
    The second on my world cinema series is a film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi. Western audiences know Panahi, most recently through  his 2006 film “Offside” which depicted the efforts of two Iranian girls to get inside a football stadium, disguised as men. This film created enough of a buzz in the Western critical circles, and also bagged the Silver Bear...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at May 9th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
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    Sin Nombre : Capsule Review
    Directed by a Japanese, a story about South Americans, the journey to “North”… the land of dreams, harsh gang realities in the guts of Mexico, love lost, struggles to reach a dream… this is a universal story about love, courage, life and its non-sweetners dished out on cold plates. Highly recommended by Anurag Kashyap, we went in and came out dripped...
    by PFCdesktop at May 9th, 2009 at 08:05 am
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    Chronicles of World Cinema I: The Man Without A Past
    (Been home for a full five days now….. time to kick-start the blog again) When we finally got rid of the friendly neighbourhood cable guy and his spider-web of wires, hooks and assorted paraphernelia; and switched to a DTH service, the best thing which came with it was the World Movies channel. Now, this was a channel dedicated to showing quality cinema from around...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at May 5th, 2009 at 07:05 pm
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    Melted by Frozen
    Vipin Handa, film critic and filmmaker, is back to reviewing films, as he reviews ‘Frozen’ exclusively for PFC. Sometimes you are numb, sometimes you are robbed of words, and sometimes you are baffled. All three emotions struck me in a row, when after 25 years of reviewing films, nonsensical films, powerful films, beautiful films, and ‘run of the mill’...
    by Vipin Handa at March 28th, 2009 at 10:03 am
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    Gulaal Review- Indian cinema is freed.
    I watched Milk and Revolutionary Road over the last weekend. From the first scene to the last, Milk looked like one of those timeless movies which even while you are watching, you know is landmark. I watched Revolutionary Road the very next day. On the basis of personal experiences, the movie was so relatable that it disturbed me immensely. It was such an assault, it took...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at March 13th, 2009 at 11:03 am
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    Rachel Getting Married – Review
    iView Author: Shikha Valsalan (Atlanta, USA) Email: shiks_v[at]rediffmail[dot]com ‘ Rachel Getting Married ‘ When a movie has a limited release, the wait for it to finally come to a theatre at a drivable distance gets frustrating. And with a name that indicated a chick flick it was hard to get someone to go watch it with, even after it hit theatres. But...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at March 10th, 2009 at 04:03 pm
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    Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA (1977)
    BHUMIKA(The Role) Does a man’s philosophical perspective change with time?Does a man’s convictions change with time?Does a man’s view towards a piece of art change with time?.. for all the above questions my answer would be YES because few days ago i watched Shyam Benegal’s BHUMIKA for the second time,the first time i watched it was a couple of...
    by Krishna at March 6th, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    There is something about Delhi 6…
    Why do we love Ramayan love so much? Of all the factors that people can possibly come forward with, I’ve a relatively simple answer. We love Ramayana because of Ravan. Because, he distinctly draws that line. He writes it on the wall and declares which side he is standing. Now, that makes our job much more simple of where do we want to position ourselves. We need...
    by Tanul Thakur at February 20th, 2009 at 09:02 pm
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    Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
    The Dreams of Akira Kurosawa I visited a friend to get some DVD’s as I was very bored and wanted to watch a film , he tells me that he has the DVD of the movie DREAMS. I jump with joy thinking that it is Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams (1955) (I feel that I am the biggest fan of Ingmar Bergman).To my disappointment It turns out to be Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams (1990). I...
    by Krishna at February 14th, 2009 at 10:02 am
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    Dev.D- Profound,honest and outrageously brilliant.
    Dev.D – Profound,honest and Outrageously brilliant. My joy knew no bounds when I saw Dev.D get 5 star rating in TOI review yesterday. And then, last night I saw another review in Timeout Mumbai which I didn’t like. So, finally, when I went to Inox today, at 10 in the morning, to catch the first day, first show of Dev.D, there was a lot of trepidation. Is...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at February 6th, 2009 at 04:02 am
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    THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY AND THE SHAMEFUL OF 2008
    A very late list but nonetheless here is what I think of the films released in 2008. The GOOD ONES: No. 1. No film qualifies. 2. No film qualifies. 3. Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye!: With a daisy fresh treatment of urban working class people and city wannabes, Dibakar Banerjee’s Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye! tops my year’s list. The film packed with Delhi eccentricities and...
    by Padmaja Thakore at February 1st, 2009 at 03:02 pm
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    Proposal of the month _ KOKO Marry me OR Recco of the Month_ Luck By Chance!!!
    I am gonna keep this concise and precise. I have no ‘ichcha’ to spoil your fun and as Anurag and Vasan before me, I too will give you a juSHT a reaction rather than a ‘review’. (come to think of it i dont do ‘reviews’) About 2 months ago on a pretty cloudy day, I took a 1 hour bus ride to the outskirts of Melbourne to see Excel Entertainments...
    by DPac at January 30th, 2009 at 07:01 am
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    Music Review: A.R. Rahman’s Connections
    Review, review pe likhaa hai ji review writer kaa naam. Yup, that’s the second thought that came to my mind when I did a quick Google search for music review of A.R. Rahman’s Connections and realized that there really aren’t any complete reviews of the album. What was the first thought that came to my mind?—WHY THE HECK AREN’T THERE ANY REVIEWS???!!!...
    by Amanda Sodhi at January 25th, 2009 at 07:01 pm
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    “Ghajini”: Aamir Khan and joie de vivre
    I’m part of a theatre troupe in my college. I remember, about 18 months ago, it was my first day in the group, and the very first thing I was told was “exaggerate”…… A.R. Murugadoss sure seems a guy who knows the meaning of that word! For “Ghajini” is exaggerated with a capital E…..and this is likely to be the bone of contention...
    by Aditya Mani Jha at December 27th, 2008 at 04:12 am
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    Ghajini: Another Question of Answers
    This week we had Aamir Khan’s Ghajini hitting the screens across the country. As usual, our readers have a huge number of questions regarding the film. As they say in government organized functions, it is our ‘proud privilege’ to have Professor Armando Trilokesh Minimovich Yadav (Prof. ATM Yadav) among us to answer these questions. Prof ATM Yadav holds...
    by Subrat at December 25th, 2008 at 06:12 pm
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