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Shiva is a late-80s action movie about one man taking on an organized crime syndicate. Considering how many such movies get made regularly even today, it’s amazing that it still holds up so well. Some scenes come across as tacky, and the lighter material is of the hit-or-miss variety, but the intensity of the movie
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The Brits know Shilpa Shetty as the woman who won Big Brother. A bunch of culture-preserving gentlemen know her as the woman who kissed Richard Gere in public. (Maybe she just got kissed, but this is a minor quibble when our centuries-old culture is at stake.) Me, I will always remember her as the girl
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Ekalavya isn’t a great movie. But it is, without doubt, a very good one. It is gorgeously shot and well acted, narrates a simple plot well and doesn’t overstay its welcome. It has its flaws too, chief among them being a tendency to overstate things in its dialogue. But on balance, it’s well worth a
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Citizen Kane comes with a lot of baggage. For decades now, it has been voted the greatest movie of all time by a number of critics around the world. Mostly in the English-speaking world, I think, but that’s not the point here. The point is, it’s extremely unlikely that you’ll get to watch this movie
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There’s a scene in Serendipity, an otherwise forgettable rom-com, where the John Cusack character holds forth on The Godfather series. He speaks of how Part 2 is a great movie, maybe even better than Part 1, but it works so well only because you’ve seen Part 1. This might serve to explain why I chose
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I wasn’t very pleased when Roberto Benigni won Best Actor at the Academy Awards, danced on chairs and expressed a fervent desire to make love to everyone in the auditorium. I felt Tom Hanks deserved the statuette that year, for his portrayal of Capt. John Miller in Saving Private Ryan. Having said that, I did
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If you’re wondering why I’m on an SRK trip today, it’s because I’m planning to go see Chak De India this evening. Ram Jaane is, on the face of it, an overdone, melodramatic mess of a movie with more ham than you can find in all of Virginia. I have a sneaking affection for it,
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In my opinion, Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na is the most endearing movie of SRK’s career. This was before he refined his act, but one can see how his screen presence and his energy take the movie up a couple of notches. For those of us who first noticed him when he played Abhimanyu Rai in
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Swades is the sort of movie that is very unlikely to become a big success. It has a point to make and it takes itself , and the point it makes ultra-seriously. This is not necessarily a bad thing, but the preachy nature of one of the main characters (played by Gayatri Joshi) compounds matters.
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Warning: This post isn’t exactly G-rated, if you get my drift. If this is likely to bother you, go read something else. Jersey Girl is, above all, a sweet movie. I say this because with Kevin Smith, sweet can be hard to come by. Funny, though, is another matter entirely. The man writes funnier dialogue
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