Hindi movies
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Towards the end of Ghayal, Sunny Deol is chasing Amrish Puri, the man who destroyed his life. Amrish has a gun in his hand and points it at him. Sunny picks up a knife from the ground andstands there, boiling with rage. Mind you, they’re more than ten feet apart, so the idea of bringing…
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You might wonder why I did not list both Goodfellas scenes together in my previous post. Let me explain. Goodfellas and Satya are my favourite gangster movies of all time. They represent, in my opinion, the best of the genre in Hollywood and Hindi cinema. The two scenes I shall talk about here are somewhat…
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Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge is an action movie in the glorious tradition of Bollywood potboilers – a fairly racy plot, a nearly invincible hero and lots of ketchup. Did I mention a perfectly logical plot? I didn’t? Ah, well… The plot borrows a few pages from The Bourne Identity and adds its own masala to…
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The problem with Honeymoon Travels Pvt. Ltd. is simply this: it never really takes flight. It is well conceived and occasionally well written. There’s much warmth and sexiness on display. And it’s far more interesting than the other honeymoon movie that came out around the same time – Just Married. But somehow, it just doesn’t…
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Apropos my comments on the box office fate of Aap Kaa Surroor in my earlier post, it appears that I am mistaken. Rediff.com reports that AKS is shaping up to be one of the biggest hits of the year. Having seen just twenty-odd people in the cinema hall when I watched the movie at the…
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Yess. I actually watched itt. Sometimes you go in expecting the worrst. Through loong, bittter experience, I’ve learnt that thiss might be a good strategy to adopt. Howeverr, instead of being an atrocious, abominable mess of a moviee, Aap Kaa Surroor: The Moviee: The Real Luv Story turns out to be merely forgettablle. Praise the…
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Karan Johar’s debut movie is arguably his best so far. There isn’t a single unpredictable moment in the entire movie, there are moments in the first half that make you cringe, and SRK hams it up like nobody’s business. But for all that, it manages to convey the palpable enthusiasm of a debutant filmmaker in…
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When I was driving back home after watching Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, I asked myself how I would describe the experience to my friends. My top three candidates were: 3. A lengthy rant involving the occasional throwing of cosmic questions into the void, such as “What were they smoking when they wrote this?” or “What moron…
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Deewar is, in my opinion, the movie that features the best Amitabh Bachchan performance of all time. It is not that he did not do a better job in any movie before or since – a number of movies come to mind where his performance has been fantastic. But the sort of raw intensity he…
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There’s an utterly captivating poem that gets recited in Ardh Satya. I think the poem has the same title as the movie, and is by this guy named Deepak Chitre. I watched the movie once a long time ago and loved it, but it was that poem that became my shortcut to reliving the experience.…
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