MY PERSPECTIVES

IP MAN IN MOVIES !!!

2010-09-18T15:03:00.021+05:30

You may be aware of plenty of folk / historic heroes who had been introduced by Chinese movies all these years. A hero who had been depicted a hundred times, may be Wong Fei Hung, portrayed by martial arts stars Kwan Tak-hing, Jackey Chan, Jet li, Vincent Zhao etc. Others may include Huo Yuanjia, Chen Zhen(fictional) etc. But not too many films have been there to tell us something about the

The Karate Kid - Everybody was kung fu fighting !!!

2010-06-22T13:38:00.005+05:30

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TAARE ZAMEEN PAR -That's what is called cinema !!!

2008-02-18T13:53:00.007+05:30

I have certain prejudices about bollywood films, and I watch them very rarely .But Amir's debut directorial movie "Tare Zmeen Par" is something which is different from contemporary bollywood flicks.What impressed me much in TZP is that even being a film which is crafted by a main stream actor ,it never tries to boost up his star image. In fact we won’t get to see the star "Amir Khan", we see only

A truthful Account Of Grief - La Stanza Del figlio (The Son’s Room), Italy

2008-01-12T03:46:00.004+05:30

Basically people watch movies for entertainment and/or time pass .If you come under this category, I suggest never watch this movie. Because ,at certain parts,the movie “The Son’s Room” would make you one of the characters in the movie itself, while you watch it. The Son’s Room, directed by “Nanni Moretti”, is a simple movie which doesn’t claim any technical brilliance, but extremely touching.

Sathyajith Ray - The Master Craftsman

2007-10-19T23:09:00.003+05:30

A famous quote by the Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurazoa goes like this.‘‘ If you have a chance to born as man in the world, do you don’t know about Sathyajith Ray?...more better than this you say that you don’t know about SUN and MOON ." A perfect simile which doesn't need much explainations. As far as Sathyajith Ray is concerned; cinema was not an accidental thing happened in his life; rather

The journey through a fairy tale : El Laberinto del fauno, (Pan's Labyrinth ) ,SPANISH

2007-10-09T21:16:00.001+05:30

The Mexican director Guillermo Del Toro’s Blade 2 which I had watched earlier was just another vampire action movie, the sequel of Blade: narrated in a usual way . So I didn’t have much expectations when I got a DVD of his Spanish movie “EL Laberinto del fauno” aka “ Pan’s Labyrinth”. But I was wrong. This Oscar winning movie was not at all comparable to his hollywood ventures in quality .

Remembering a classic -"THAZHVARAM"

2007-10-05T23:34:00.003+05:30

Today, watched the 90's classic malayalam movie "Thazhavaram-The valley" once again, in a TV channel,after a long period. But this time ,thought of writing something here about the movie . This movie, I would say, one of the best movie by Bharathan,. I know that there is no point in describing the story of the movie and tell you repeatedly that the movie is excellent ,because its already known

Sivaji - A disappointing episode from Shankar

2007-07-17T19:04:00.000+05:30

Watched the most expected movie Sivaji-the boss , last week at PVR cinemas in Forum Mall Bangalore . The only inspiration was that it's a Shankar movie and ,with 86 crores budget , it was expected that he would have made a hilarious movie. Moreover the hype which arised all over south india including kerala when the film was released ,has given a good image of the film .Unfortunately ,it's very