That one movie…
Inspired by the book meme that’s been making rounds, I have come up with a movie meme (quite creative, I know).
1. One movie that changed your life?
Drohkaal – As a college student, watching this awesome charectarization of Bhadra, and the discussion between Om Puri and Asish Vidyarthi (Nasser and Kamal in Tamil) gave me feverish sleepless moments of mental flossing for weeks.
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
Finding Nemo – Besides the amazing water effects, Aussie accents (good day mate) and the fantastic Dory (Ellen DeGeneres did an awesome job), I love the whole parent-child relationship message that is subtly conveyed by the movie. I used to play it for Nemo when I watched it initially, but my 2 year old loves the stuff and makes me play Marlin now.
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Golmaal – Period. Exclamation mark!
4. One movie that made you cry?
Mukaddar Ka Sikandar – I was nine and I hated the idea of Amithab dying.
5. One movie that made you laugh?
Golmaal – Kesto Mukherjee asking Utpal Dutt “Tumhara bhatti kidhar hain?” Cracks me up everytime!!
6. One movie you wish had been made?
Bahadhur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal – Fall of a dynasty through the eyes of its last emperor. Written by Gulzar and Directed by Mani Rathnam.
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
Superman Returns – Christopher Reeve is THE Superman and Margot Kidder is THE Luis Lane. Period.
8. One movie you have watched recently?
The Departed
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
Motorcycle Dairies – Che Guevara’s formative years, what made Che become Che. Getting the DVD this week, finally!!
10. Tag the team.
Open to all PFCers. Pass it on.
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
1. One movie that changed your life?
Pulp fiction
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
Maqbool
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Jaane bhi do yaaron (On second thoughts , does a porno movie count ???)
4. One movie that made you cry?
Sadma – for obvious reasons
5. One movie that made you laugh?
Jaane bhi do yaaron
6. One movie you wish had been made?
Marudanayagan directed by Kamal hassan – made at the backdrop of the indian freedom struggle. It was started but then was stalled due to lack of funds.
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
Oldboy- for purely selfish reasons. I wish i had made it.
8. One movie you have watched recently?
The butterfly effect
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
Memento
1. None yet actually
2. Hey, I have seen Finding Nemo also; it’s one hell of a good movie that you can watch more than once, but I have only seen it once so far.
Khatta Meetha – there is nothing wrong in this movie i.e you do not feel like forwarding any bits.
3. Satya. Hey, I am Honhaar Goonda after all…
4. Again Satya – the last scene just made me cry.
5. Golmaal
6. I can’t think of any.
7. Again I can’t think of any.
8. On DVD: Jaane Bhi Di Yaaron; In Cinema: Omakara
9. None actually. I am not sort of desperately waiting for any movies.
@KK – Pulp Fiction, Maqbool, JBDY (!!!) f***ing awesome!! Memento is one smart movie (the remake Ghajini was a huge grosser in Tamil Nadu). But I liked Following much better – and waiting for the Prestige to come to Oz land.
@ HG – Satya is pure AK man! I really wish it was someone else other than that JDChakravarthy dude though.
1. One movie that changed your life?
Bhawani Junction starring Shatrughan, Shashi, Zeenat. First movie I watched after bunking classes. Second movie I watched after bunking classes. Third movie I watched after bunking classes. Crap movie. But I found my escape.
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
Soorma Bhopali. Primarily because I wanted to see how bad could one be at movie making
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Any movie starring Jeanna Fine or Jenna Jameson. Since there would be nothing to do on a lonely island, I better take care of myself.
4. One movie that made you cry?
Rahul Rawail’s “Bekhudi” – that was the day I realized the guy, who could have been genius, had lost it completely.
5. One movie that made you laugh?
Jeetendra’s “Himmatwala” – I realized that day that if this is what movie making’s all about then I could do it too.
6. One movie you wish had been made?
Kachchi Kali
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyon Aata Hain
8. One movie you have watched recently?
Lord of the cock rings
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
Subhash Ghai’s next – whatever it turns out to be.
1. One movie that changed your life?
Requiem for a dream– by darren aronofsky
2.One movie that you have seen more than once?
Shawshank redemption
3.One movie you would want on a desert island?
Andaz Apnaa Apnaa
4.One movie that made you cry?
Anjali— Mani ratnam is a genius and also mahanadi,swati mutyam
5.One movie that made you laugh?
Andaz Apnaa Apnaa— laugh roit basically
6.One movie you wish had been made?
Movie on Srinivasa Ramanujan , india’s greatest mathematician. Should have been made by mani ratnam with kamal hassan starring in it… we speak about indian movie winning an oscar..this story has the potetial to win… Heard dev benegal is already making this movie..
7.One movie you wish had never been made?
90% of the indian movies should have never been made.
8.One movie you have watched recently?
Lage raho munnabhai
9.One movie you have been waiting to watch?
The fountain— again by darren aronofsky
@ vineeth …
Seriously ??? Movie on srinivasan ramanjunam (guys … long before passion for cinema, there was and still is a passion for maths)
Dev benegal ??? But then the biggest problem is that any movie on the genius may end up resembling Beautiful mind (russel crowe) ….
Ramanujan is one person on whom a film must be made !!!! The world (even the mathematical world) hasnt given the man his due …
OZ – Don’t know if Anthony Burgess was any inspiration but your list is as awesome as the clockwork orange. Kacchi Kali, he he – When it gets made I wanna dub it to English as Vaginasaurus VS Penetrator adding a few inserts from JP4 and T3.
Vineeth – Andaz Apna Apna is on my top 5 list, along with Golmaal, Chupke Chupke, Angoor, and Jaane bhi do yaaron! BTW, I haven’t watched fountain either. How about posting a review when you are done watching it?
KK – “long before passion for cinema, there was and still is a passion for maths” Amen!
i still have a passion for maths!
1. One movie that changed your life?
“The Hunger” starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. I had spent almost every weekend of my life in the theaters with my parents, or watching the old Sunday film festivals that used to play on television here – watching Hollywood film and the classics. I then did the typical Jr. High School movie tour, watching chick flicks and horror films. But, at 15 years old, a friend’s older sister took us to see this film, and it changed everything. It was arty. It was dark. It was beautiful. It was the first time I had seen such an effective use of music in a film, made all the more remarkable as the soundtrack incorporated the gothic, punk, and classical music that I loved in a mixture that made my music-loving head spin. It was sensual, it was everything I didn’t know a movie could be. And, it was the reason that at 15 years old, my friend Michelle and I turned our backs from most Hollywood film and became addicted to art-house films and foreign films, making us even geekier to our classmates than they already thought we were, but opening us both up to a world of cinema that shaped our adult persons through our adolescent viewing habits.
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
I am one of those people that buys movies so I can see them over and over again. But, the one movie I have seen more than any other is “The Goonies”. A classic from my adolescence. I say classic because my nieces love this movie, my friend’s children love this movie, and it seems that most every family owns a copy of this film, it plays on every holiday wherever I go and is on constant rotation at my mother’s house for the sake of the kids. That said, after more than 20 years, I am still not tired of this film.
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Devdas. I can never tire of watching this film.
4. One movie that made you cry?
“Afterglow”. I have seen this about 8 times, and it gets me every time. Julie Christie is truly one of the greatest actresses of our time…
5. One movie that made you laugh?
“Dogma”. Another film I have seen numerous times and makes me laugh every time.
6. One movie you wish had been made?
“They Call Him Machete” by Robert Rodriguez. He has the trailer already made, he now just needs to turn it into a film!
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
Jurassic Park. Had it never been made I would have never walked out of it and not had to spend the next 13 years having to justify why I hate this film and why I don’t like Steven Spielberg and John Williams when they work together…
8. One movie you have watched recently?
Last movie watched was “The Stink of Flesh”. Any other cinema lovers here who also like cheesy zombie films?
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
Volver, the new Pedro Almodovar film. It is opening in New York and Los Angeles on November 3, and I am so excited that everyone is probably tiring of me talking about it…
1. One movie that changed your life?
Main Azaad Hoon – I was moved by the sheer simplicity of the film as well as AB’s best&most powerful performance till date. The scene where he confornts the minister (Sudhir pandey) and his speech ends with “50 saal mein aap apne logon ko peeney ka paani nahin de sake…is a true picture of what India today has really become. This for me was the true Angry Young Man.This reflected the angst of the common indian man.
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
Actually being a movie freak..these would run in hundreds..but I would say… Sholay (actually also – bhrashtachar – for one select scene..heh heh)
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Lamhe (but wat would I see it on? ;-) )
4. One movie that made you cry?
Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham ( for extremely personal reasons..its a chapter from my life – without K’Jos gloss ofcourse)
5. One movie that made you laugh?
Hera Pheri & The Party( Peter sellers)
6. One movie you wish had been made?
The Hindi/desi version of “The Clerks” or a film with the class of “Schindler’s List” based on the Godhra riots.
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
any of shatrughan Sinha’s films, (also the english film – the hostel)
8. One movie you have watched recently?
Water. Absolutely brilliant.
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
Dhoom 2. Honestly, I really want to see what the sequel looks like!
@t! – u r a goonies fan! I absolutely loved the film! was very young when i saw it but still have lots of fond memories of sitting and laughing our guts out over this one!
@ Vineeth: Anjali was a masterpiece. So was Andaaz apna apna (main teja hoon…yeh dekh mark hai..)
@Oz: seriously I thought I was the only one who saw soorma bhopali! as for Subhash Ghai’s films – why dont u see Krishna, Taal and Yaadein again – maybe you will give up ur deathwish!
Shawshank redemption – awesome movie. Have you seen The Green Mile movie? Equally good.
t!
julie christie in Mcabe and Mrs.miller
great.just great! Watched shampoo the other day.
Sexy.damn!
My list.
1.Do the right thing.
spike lee. love and hate.
2.sweet smell of success.(more than 10 times)
dialogue.burt lanchester.tony curtis.WOW!
3.2001: A space odyssey(and some mushrooms)
4.2001 again.Makes me cry with joy.
late spring.The father slowly peels the apple?? and we just cry because we would be wondering by that time what the fuck the movie is all about.Ozu kills you.
5.any woody allen and also RGV telugu film anaganaga oka roju.
6.hustle and flow.crash.
7.lagaan.
8.funny games. you want fun? watch this.
9.only if kubrick is alive.
man push cart.
t! – That’s an amazing list and I just added 6 more movies to my list. Thank you! Devdas (!?) the SRK one?
taxydriver – Spoke like a true fan of Kubrick! I just wish Spielberg and Cruise had left him alone to pass away in peace – he didn’t deserve the Eyes Wide Shut shit. BTW, you wish Lagaan was never made? Hmmm.. wonder why. Can we hear more?
1. One movie that changed your life?
Pulp Fiction
2. One movie that you have seen more than once?
Amelie
3. One movie you would want on a desert island?
Golmaal
4. One movie that made you cry?
A Beautiful Mind
5. One movie that made you laugh?
Golmaal. Andaz Apna Apna and Kevin Smith’s Jay and Silent Bob series are a close second
6. One movie you wish had been made?
Superman vs Terminator….no seriously…i really wish they make a movie like that!
7. One movie you wish had never been made?
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
8. One movie you have watched recently?
Dhoom 2
9. One movie you have been waiting to watch?
The Departed
1. One movie that changed your life?
none as yet
2.One movie that you have seen more than once?
taxi driver
3.One movie you would want on a desert island?
pulp fiction
4.One movie that made you cry?
RDB(sarfaroshi recital), tum bin
5.One movie that made you laugh?
the big lebowski(the most)
6.One movie you wish had been made?
I ll make all those
7.One movie you wish had never been made?
the new devdas, black…
8.One movie you have watched recently?
kiss kiss bang bang
9.One movie you have been waiting to watch?
cinema paradiso
@ Tushar – can totally appreciate and understand why you mention the sarfaroshi recital. When I saw the scene – with atul kulkarni reciting it – it seriously gave me goosebumps and tears in my eyes. Its a powerful moving scene.
@sophocles-you nailed it, man! I didnt react so much to RDB only till the 3rd or 4th viewing. Lots of other films that made me cry(not for obvious reasons like wanting to run away from the theatre as in KJo films), like Maqbool, omkara, zakhm, water etc.
can someone tell me if andaz apna apna is not a copy
of a paki film “ustaadon ke ustad”
please!:)