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Movie Review: Accident
Posted on July 26, 2006 | 5 CommentsDharmadhikarige Jai… Dharmadhikarige Jai… Dharrrmmaadhikarige Jai…. Dharrrrmmmaadhikarige Jai! A refrain that remains fresh in memory from one of the classiest Kannada movies ever made. I was tweleve when I first watched Accident on TV. It was telecast as part of the mostly-boring “Award-winning movies” charade... -
Activists’ Attack and Other Double Standards
Posted on June 26, 2006 | 9 CommentsFull marks to Andhra CM Samuel Reddy for displaying a stellar performance, so typical of neo-converts. Actually, he’s a second-generation convert but he’s ensuring that his offspring will have strong roots to look rely upon. Reddy is a second-generation Christian. His father, Mr. Raja Reddy,... -
The Most Overrated Director
Posted on June 7, 2006 | 8 CommentsWho according to you is the most overrated director in Indian films today? Don’t restrict your answers to just Bollywood movies: it doesn’t matter if the director is unknown to lots of people/makes only regional movies. A line or two on why you feel he/she... -
Movie Review: Prozac Nation
Posted on May 23, 2006 | 3 CommentsWhat a movie! These three words sum up Prozac Nation. Be warned though that it is not for weak, depressed minds. Don’t ever watch it when you are feeling down, it can get to you in a way, I’m serious. Based on Prozac Nation: Young... -
Movie Review: Escape from Alcatraz
Posted on May 1, 2006 | No CommentsPity Hollywood doesn’t make movies like these any more. I am an incurable admirer of the Old: movies, music, and books. Escape from Alcatraz is a classic on the lines of Guns of Navarone, a gripping drama based on a (non-fiction) book of the same... -
The Beast Deserves It
Posted on April 11, 2006 | 1 CommentJustice has been served after a short yawn of time, Salman Khan gets 5 years of rigorous imprisonment. Bollywood actor Salman Khan was today sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment and sent to central jail here by a local court in connection with the black... -
Rang Mat De Basanti
Posted on February 14, 2006 | 19 CommentsWatched it at last. Only to regret. Rang De Basanti must be the most slanted political movie ever to be made. I won’t bother about narrating the plot or dissecting the fine nuances and such other artistic rubbish. Rather, I’ll start with the reviews. Tweet -
What We’ve Known All Along
Posted on January 16, 2006 | 2 CommentsVia the Indian Express: Politicians assisting militants in J&K: Cops This is one of those “open” secrets but the lid is off only now. The J-K Police today said that “foreign militants have got mainstream politicians involved in their nexus, who are acting like their... -
Wham Bam Sorry Ma’am
Posted on December 23, 2005 | No CommentsGovinda assaults female reporter Bollywood actor and Congress MP Govinda was booked on charges of assault and threatening a TV reporter at his Juhu office. The actor allegedly beat her up and forcibly took his interview tapes away. Wonder what she asked him that provoked... -
Movie Review: Apaharan
Posted on December 7, 2005 | 2 CommentsI hand it to Prakash Jha for making a fine film. The theme is nothing new: we’ve seen frustrated but competent young men becoming pawns in the hands of scheming politicians a la Arjun. What makes Apaharan different is its presentation. The movie is set... -
Prakash Jha Gets His Revenge
Posted on November 28, 2005 | No CommentsBy writing against Lalu in Rediff. The last time around when Jha made Gangajal, he was threatened by one of Lalu’s henchmen and had to finally tender an apology and/or cut some scene in the movie, I forget the exact details. Jha apparently, has had... -
Mr. Bachchan, Please (Re)Join the Congress
Posted on November 11, 2005 | 2 CommentsI’m too dumbfounded, I don’t know what to call this latest vulgar display of brazenness. The Information and Broadcasting Ministry has leaned on the Goa government to cancel the invitation extended to actor Amitabh Bachchan to inaugurate next month’s 36th International Film Festival of India....