Posts Tagged ‘sholay’

  • Gabbar Singh lives forever
    Amjad Khan and Amitabh Bachan in Muqaddar Ka Sikandar It  was  year  1992,   yours  truly  just  taking  his  tentative steps  into  adulthood,  yeah  was in my early 20’s.  It  was  also  the  age when we were all  agog,  exploring  the  brave new  world  of   Cable  TV.  What a break  from dreary  old  Doordarshan.   Its  another...
    by Ratnakar Sadasyula at July 28th, 2009 at 03:07 am
  • Jhankar Beats on the Birthday of ‘Boss’
    First things first. Today is Pancham Da’s 70th Birth Anniversary. Despite my limited knowledge of his spellbinding music, I still am a fan in my own humble way. So to not cause hurt to millions of real hardcore fans of His, I refrain from writing about the musical genius – RDB aka Pancham Da aka Boss. I thought I would rather write about something that actually...
    by Magik at June 27th, 2009 at 06:06 am
  • Have You a Script That Tells It All In Two Lines?
    Two unrelated incidents made me put on hold a post I was writing after a gap of almost two months for pfc..These two incidents converged to give shape to this post instead.. Recently I attended a felicitation function where Javed Akhtar Saab was given an award by Enlighten Film Society for his life-time services to the world of Hindi Cinema..And during a tete-e-tete session...
    by krysh at April 29th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
  • Film Editing in an Ideal World
    Editing is an invisible art form. The less people notice it, the better it is. Unless one is specifically sitting down with a film and watching it to study the way it is cut, a good editor only allows the audience to experience his or her work on a subconscious level. When editors themselves watch a movie for the first time, it is but natural to be observing the cutting...
    by Vijay at March 27th, 2009 at 01:03 am
  • Holi And The Unholy
    Wish you all a very happy and prosperous Holi. This is one of the most important festivals for us as it marks the victory of good over evil. Yes, Dussehra/Diwali are not the only festivals celebrating the end of sin/sinners; but Holi also is celebrated for the same reason. If we go back to mythology, Prahlad sat on the lap of Holika, the evil sister of Hiranyakashyap,...
    by crazyrals at March 12th, 2009 at 03:03 am
  • Happy Holi !
    Holi, the festival of colours, keeps different meaning to different people. Now nature will be more supportive to the farming. More and more flowers will be seen everywhere as spring has become the face of nature. Holi, has been the occasion when people forget their differences with each other and if they are still shy in raising hands towards each other then other...
    by Rk at March 10th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
  • One Man’s No Is Another’s Jai Ho!
    Yes this post is post Oscarmania and much awaited celebration of Indian talent therein! And it is a post that celebrates the unknown, the mysterious, the chance in the high stake world of movies!One twist of fate and the whole scenario changes! And when one looks with hindsight at these twists,there seems no real cut and dried explanation except that destiny beckoned...
    by krysh at February 28th, 2009 at 02:02 am
  • Sanjeev Kumar – Genius par Excellence
    iView Author: SATYENDRA JHA (Pune / India) Email: satyendrajha30@gmail.com Sanjeev Kumar – Genius par Excellence Hindi film industry has seen many stars, but not many actors in the true sense of having essayed a gamut of roles, each as different from the other. One such name that readily comes to mind, and which no one would dispute, is of Sanjeev Kumar. The...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at February 23rd, 2009 at 04:02 pm
  • Aamir Khan supersedes other super stars of commercial hindi cinema in 2008
    Ghazini has similarities with many films like Memento, Jhootha Kahin Ka and Pasand Apni Apni etc, but does it reduce the intensity of hard work Aamir Khan needed to put in the character, he has played? Had his job become easy because scenes or ideas have been taken from above mentioned films? Sholay is said to be inspired by many films (Hindi and Western) but does this...
    by Rk at December 28th, 2008 at 04:12 am
  • Kompromise kaun nahi karta?
    It was late last night, I was with a filmi, gettin drunk & talking films (as usual… yawn). The waiter was taking the last order. Fellow filmi barked “1 KF Strong, 1 KF Diet”. Waiter says “KF Diet illa saaaar” (no KF Diet). I chide him to ask for a KF Premium and let it go. I followed this with the “kompromise kaun nahi karta?”...
    by Magik at December 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm
  • Death : An absolute truth that changes everything
    Every second of every day we are approaching towards the death. We can ignore anything and everything in the life but we can not ignore this fact that one day death will finish this cycle of our activities and we will have to go from this planet. Before that event happens death shows us its face many times in our life time through death of people living around us. It does...
    by Rk at October 7th, 2008 at 08:10 am
  • When the extras shined a bit extra
    iView Author: Amit Singh (Fremont, CA, USA) Email: withheld When the extras shined a bit extra Remember Rangeela! One of the great musical entertainers of the 90s! It will always be remembered as the swan song of Urmila and for probably the greatest ever tapori performance by Amir Khan. Right after the movie was released, RGV, the director of the movie created a big...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at September 10th, 2008 at 07:09 am
  • Khushboo: Fragrance of love, wait, sacrifice and moral right in the relationship
    First thing first, KHUSHBOO is a PERIOD film, based upon the story of Sharat Chandra Chatterjee. So no new definitions can be imposed on the characterisation/s. It is set in an old time and hence has to be seen in that manner only. Once selected a story, the thing which matters is the fact how convincingly a director has shown his chosen story. Story may not look convincing...
    by Rk at August 13th, 2008 at 07:08 am
  • BACKGROUND SCORES IN HINDI MOVIES
    BACKGROUND SCORES IN HINDI MOVIES As hindi movies are full of songs, the music directors and film makers do not concentrate on background music. Hindi movies are not giving as much importance as foreign movies are giving. Somehow trends are changing. Now our technically confident directors and music directors take background score in consideration while planing the scenes. In...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at June 12th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
  • PERFORMANCE FAILURE
    Whenever you read or heard “Is actor ne us actor ke performance ko us film me kaccha chaba liya hai” means one actor has overshadowed another actor’s performance. What do you thinks at that time? Is it failure of actor? Sometimes it is true, sometimes it is questionable. Take example of Agneepath(1990). It was truly Amitabh Bachchan’s film. But you can not ignore...
    by Shailesh Limbachiya at May 9th, 2007 at 11:05 pm