Great scenes
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There’s a reason why my choice for the best screen mom of all time is Jaya Bachchan in Fiza, and the reason is this scene. (Before you ask, no, I haven’t seen Hazaar Chaurasi Ki Maa, so I can’t comment on that one.) Her son was lost years ago during some communal riots in the
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Kate Hudson won a richly deserved Oscar nomination for her part as Penny Lane in this movie. Penny is a free spirit – a groupie to the rest of the world, a “band-aid” in her own mind. She in love with Russell Hammond, the lead guitarist of Stillwater. William Miller, the boy reporter who follows
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A movie with some very smart dialogue, delivered by actors who clearly relish the material. Standout examples include Will’s monologue about why he shouldn’t join the NSA, Sean’s speech about regret, the scene in the bar when Will blows away a cocky Harvard student… the list goes on. However, my two favourite moments from the
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Towards the end of the first half, when the trip to Europe is over and SRK and Kajol are saying their goodbyes in the railway station, Kajol asks SRK if he would come to her wedding. And SRK simply smiles, shakes his head as if to say no, and walks away. Aditya Chopra sets that
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Plot: A talented youngster overcomes parental opposition to shine in his/her chosen field (ice skating) but despairs that the parent hasn’t seen what she could do, and whaddya know, the parent lands up in time for her all-important final performance. I’ll give you thirty seconds to name at least seven movies with the same premise.
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Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy Man is one of those rare instances where the movie makes wiser choices than the book. The most important of which is to end the movie when the story reaches its emotional climax. The book goes on for a while after that, but by then it has
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One of the most emotionally wrenching movies I’ve seen. I felt drained when it got over. It doesn’t put a step wrong anywhere during its running time. The story is about a woman who wants to become a boxer, and the crusty old man who becomes her trainer, her mentor, her friend, everything. There’s a
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My favourite movie of all time. A man and a woman meet on a train. He is an American, on his way to Vienna to catch a plane back home the next day. She is a student, on her way to school in Paris. They start talking, and find each other quite easy to converse
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I consider Bharathiraja to be one of the finest directors Tamil cinema has seen. Sure, he can be quite melodramatic, and there are times when he doesn’t know where to stop, but consider what he has managed to do. After 16 Vayathinilae, the village film would never be the same again. Movies that came after
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I quite loved the latest Jane Austen adaptation starring Keira Knightley. I thought it had a lot of life in it, and featured a great performance by Knightley as Elizabeth. P&P has never quite appealed to me as a book – I found it to be nice, in the way that Hum Aapke Hain Koun
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