Posts Tagged ‘thani’

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    Firaaq: Cathartic Cinema
    The present decade has been the best for Hindi cinema in a long while. Nandita Das’ Firaaq joins the list of outstanding d'©buts made in the period. Firaaq is a day in the life of Ahmedabad in the aftermath of the Gujarat carnage of 2002. An ensemble narrative, Firaaq is peopled with stories that happen to converge on a particular day, of the ones who return from...
    by thani at March 23rd, 2009 at 03:03 am
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    Dev.D: Can love be monogamous?
    Every filmmaker seems to have a Devdas in him. Emir Kusturica has made two Devdases back to back, in 1989 (Time of the Gypsies) and 1993 (Arizona Dream). While Time of the Gypsies could be described as a (sort of) Devdas sans Chanda, Arizona Dream is a full-blooded recasting of the Devdas affezione, where Johnny Depp is torn between his love for Faye Dunaway’s...
    by thani at February 7th, 2009 at 04:02 pm
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    An Interview With Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’s Dolly – Richa Chadda
    Script deadline panic is on my brain as I write this, but I felt like doing whatever little I could to promote a good movie. This is a conversation and dinner with Oye Lucky Lucky Oye’s Richa Chadda, who’s impressed everyone with her performance as Dolly. I was also the cook for the night at Richa and Radhika’s place, but I’ll come to that later....
    by Kenny at December 3rd, 2008 at 11:12 pm
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    Aamir Review: Counterfeit Cinema
    Rajkumar Gupta: “Kaun kehta hain ki aadmi apni kismat khud likhta hain?” thani: “Kismat agar khud likh sakte, to usey kismat kyon kehte!” Anurag Kashyap is India’s most provocative filmmaker. With his filmmaking, he creates avenues for scores of cinephiles to dream their cinematic dreams, and when that’s not satisfactorily accomplished he angers them...
    by thani at June 6th, 2008 at 01:06 pm
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    India and Cannes: A Reluctant Courtship
    “India embraces the cinema of the whole world…In a future issue, I shall show why India is the creation of the whole world.” Jean-Luc Godard It has been 14 long years since an Indian Film has made the Competition Selection of the Cannes International Film Festival. And that particular Competition Selection, Shaji Karun’s second feature Swaham (1994), happens to...
    by thani at May 12th, 2008 at 07:05 am
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    Dan in Real Life review: the Amritrajs, Nude Juliette Binoche, & my de-nuded Accent.
    Friday April 11th 2008. Fame Adlabs Multiplex, Andheri, Mumbai – The 11.15 p.m. show. Dan In Real Life is essentially a romantic comedy (romcom), albeit of the much-abused feel-good variety, a genre who’s abuser & the abused is ironically the very same entity – Hollywood. Television’s Steve Carell & French thespian Juliette Binoche star in this...
    by thani at April 12th, 2008 at 01:04 pm
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