tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83926864170007488642026-04-03T02:02:05.377+05:30I mostly review movies that release every week in Bombay. And sometimes the rare book that I finish ..Pradoshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11230031903157593972noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8392686417000748864.post-20271160148454297252011-07-17T15:16:00.002+05:302011-07-17T15:23:30.376+05:30

Most of us are lucky enough to have one set of friends (usually from school), among whom the grownup business doesn’t hold much sway. With them, you are always juvenile – your jokes, reminiscing about school incidents – and your laugh is unfettered and unabashed. Doesn’t matter if you are not in regular touch anymore – you may as well be meeting after years – but it takes you just 5 minutes to

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With Ready pushing all other movies out this weekend, filmgoers this weekend have very little choice if they are not enamored by Salman’s swagger. Hanna was the only Hollywood movie releasing this week and we figured it couldn’t be worse than Ready. Turns out, it isn’t – but not by muchHanna is a 16-year old teenage girl, being trained by her father in a remote frozen corner of Finland. She has

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Been quite a while since regular reviews were seen on this blog, isnt it ?Apologies to the two people who still visit the blog regularlyFirst it was the lull induced by the cricket world cup which made the movie release tap run dry. Then when the releases spluttered back to life, I took off on a 10 day holidayAnd now that I am back from the holiday, it it some other personal issues which is

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Cowboys and westerns never held too much charm for me - and I can count on my fingers the numbers of westerns I have seen. This year's oscar frontrunner True Grit has been the only western that I have really appreciated - and that was because of the brilliant portrayals of Rooster Cogburn and Mattie Ross by the leading actors. But back to our movie of the day - Rango - play on the famous 1966

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After turning several of the Bard’s works into Hindi cinema masterpieces, Vishal Bhardwaj chose to work on an Indian story this time. His choice of Ruskin Bond’s Susanna’s Seven Husbands is consistent with the dark theme of his previous movies. The high decibel promotion of the movie had made all and sundry know that it is about Susanna killing all her husbands and the implication automatically

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7 Khoon Maaf [IMDB]The highly anticipated Vishal Bhardwaj movie adaptation of Susanna's Seven Husbands by Ruskin Bond. It has Priyanka marrying 7 times in the movie as each of her husband seems to die Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh and John AbrahamDirection: Vishal BhardwajRabbit Hole [IMDB] Life for a happy couple is turned upside down after their young son dies in an accident.

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When I watch gangster capers like Yeh Saali Zindagi, I am never quite sure how to go about reviewing the movie without giving away the essence of it. Because none of these movies have much of a story in the traditional sense. But they make up for the lack of a depth with their moviemaking style – and packing the script with quirky charactersWhich Yeh Saali Zindagi has by bucketloads. Beginning

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Yeh Saali Zindagi [IMDB]A gangster caper about a strong-man who wants to do one last big job before settling down with his wife, a gangster who desperately wants to escape from jail, a crooked accountant in love with a unfaithful singer and lots of other desperadoes Cast: Irfan Khan, Chitrangada Singh, Arunoday SinghDirection: Sudhir MishraSanctum [IMDB] An underwater cave diving team

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A little late perhaps, but better late than never (and hey, the oscars are not out yet either). So presenting Bombay Cinephile's list of awesome movies of 2010 (in the order of release)Big caveat - since the name proudly proclaims the Bambaiya origins of the writer - the list contains movies released in Bombay in the year 2010 (which includes some movies which were released in 2009 worldwide )

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127 Hours [IMDB]A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive Cast: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate MaraDirection: Danny BoyleDil Toh Baccha Hai Ji [IMDB] Madhur Bhandarkar's attempt at a romantic comedy showing the extent to which three lonely men will go to avoid love or achieve it Cast:

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In case you didn’t know, Tangled is Disney’s 50th animated feature film. It has been a long journey since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, all the way back in 1934. And I really hope they go on to make another 50 of their fabulously entertaining movies which always seem to paint the world in such optimistic colors. The world could definitely use some of that good cheer And there is plenty of good

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Over the last few years, Aamir Khan movies have become an automatic must-watch - so great has been his knack in picking the right scripts/directors and his dedication to his art. Dhobi Ghat though, is being sold more as a Prateik Babbar movie - with Aamir Khan and some other new faces in the other roles. My first instinct was that he probably has a minuscule role in it – and that is why he is

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Dhobi Ghat [IMDB]In the teeming metropolis of Mumbai, four people separated by class and language are drawn together in compelling relationships. Cast: Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar, Monica DograDirection: Kiran RaoTangled [IMDB] The long-haired Princess Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower, but when she falls in love with a bandit who was passing by she must venture into the outside

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Yamla Pagla Deewana [IMDB]A Canadian sardar suddenly comes to know that he has a father and brother back in India. And when the three meet, mayhem happensCast: Dharmendra, Sunny Deol, Bobby DeolDirection: Samir KarnikThe Green Hornet [IMDB] Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime

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Just before writing this, I was watching the Koffee With Karan episode with Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan. It wraps up a very loud and aggressive promotion for this movie that Rani and Vidya have mounted – appearing on numerous shows (reality & otherwise), on nearly every channel. The promotion had needless sexual overtones – lesbian kisses and erotic thumb-sucking – completely at odds with the

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No One Killed Jessica [IMDB]A reporter teams up with the sister of a murdered model in order to bring her case justiceCast: Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan, Rajesh SharmaDirection: Raj Kumar GuptaParanormal Activity 2 [IMDB] After experiencing what they think are a series of "break-ins", a family sets up security cameras around their home, only to realize that the events are more sinister than they

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“Bread pakode ki kasam !”, three weeks after I watched this movie, I still look fondly back at it – and wouldn’t mind paying to watch this movie again. An unabashed Bollywoody movie after a long time, full of song, dance, laughter & dollops of “Dilli-ness”, Band Baaja Baaraat is one of those vibrant romantic movies which make Bollywood what it is – a happy-dreams factory. In the process, Yash Raj

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Gulliver's Travels [IMDB]Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizensCast: Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason SegelDirection: Rob LettermanAda ... A Way of Life [IMDB] Another story of young souls lost in the life of crime. But with A R Rahman's music Cast: Ayaan Ahmad, Nauheed Cyrusi, Saurabh

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Tees Maar Khan [IMDB]A conman sets up a fake cinema shoot as a smokescreen for a daring train robberyCast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Akshaye KhannaDirection: Farah KhanMegamind [IMDB] The supervillain Megamind finally conquers his nemesis, the hero Metro Man... but finds his life pointless without a hero to fight. Cast: Will Ferell (voice), Tina Fey (voice), Brad Pitt (voice), Jonah Hill (

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The setting is 2008, when the entire world is reeling under the financial tsunami of the Wall street collapse. And the tremors of those events are being felt as far as rural India, where a group of bumbling “khandaani” kidnappers are ruing the “recession” that has made their plight pitiful – victims are offering ridiculously low ransom payments, no one is paying protection money and things are so

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For me, Kheley Hum Jee Jaan Se will probably be the last time I am going to invest time and money in a Ashutosh Gowariker movie. It marks a very sad decline for someone regarded as one of India’s finest directors not too many years back. While length had always been his weakness, his story telling has now become a joke. What started off in the laborious Jodhaa Akbar has reached the nadir in this

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Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey [IMDB]Ashutosh Gowariker's retelling of the Chittagong uprising in 1930 - a largely forgotten event in our independence movement that we should learn something aboutCast: Abhishek Bachhan, Deepika Padukone, Sikandar KherDirection: Ashutosh GowarikerPhas Gaye Re Obama [IMDB] A comedy set against the backdrop of global recession/meltdown that originated in USA. A

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Retired, but Extremely Dangerous – put Bruce Willis in a movie named that and you are definitely looking at wolf-whistling time. And the movie RED tries not to disappoint you, especially in the opening minutes. (If you cant make out by now, I am a ‘die-hard’ Bruce Willis fan). The movie opens with Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) leading a dull retired life in the suburbs alone. And his only excitement

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Debutant director Danish Aslam serves us disappointing fare in Break Ke Baad this weekend - a crisp first half followed by a damp and soggy second half. The teekha first half has Deepika‘s sizzling act as Aaliya - bringing some life & vitality to her usually expressionless face. Imran plays the chocolate boy lover Abhay – a role he has done admirably in the past and is the likeable meethi chutney

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Red [IMDB]When his idyllic life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to surviveCast: Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, John MalkovichDirection: Robert SchwentkeBreak Ke Baad [IMDB] Abhay and Aaliya love each other, but they want to follow their individual dreams. So they take a break from each other, but will they

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