Hindi movies
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I stumbled upon this movie by accident. I was channel surfing and one of the channels seemed to be playing Deewar. Now, unless Citizen Kane is on another channel, and sometimes even then, if I see Deewar playing on TV, I’ll pause for a minute or three before deciding whether or not to zap on.…
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Elsewhere in the blogosphere, there’s a lovely discussion going on. Beth started things off with her analysis of a scene in Chak De India where the team gets together to beat up a bunch of eve teasers. Her point was that the violence diminished the message: Here’s what’s bugging me. Apart from this scene, Chak…
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Irrfan Khan isn’t anybody’s idea of a romantic hero. Not mine, at any rate. He isn’t all that great to look at — it’s easier to imagine him in gloomy character roles. He has a sightly hurried, slightly slurred style of dialogue delivery. And yet, he manages to make it all work. I have no…
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This is what a Hindi movie about thieves and a plan gone wrong should be like. A sharp screenplay that drips with references but has enough going for it beyond that, good acting all around, and a music video that absolutely drips with style. While the entire movie is quite good, it is the video…
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I have watched both Anees Bazmee movies released this year (Welcome and this one) and — speaking as only someone doing statistics for a living would when confronted with a sample size of two — I think I understand his method. He gets up one morning and says to himself, “I am going to write…
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I was talking to a friend yesterday about Kamalhassan. Mostly, I was trying to express why the man doesn’t do it for me anymore. Aside: This is a pre-Dasavatharam post. I figure I’ll see the movie someday, but this analysis does not account for this latest data point. Then again, I do statistics for a…
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Two best friends (Jai and Aditi, played by Imran Khan and Genelia D’Souza ) spend two and a half hours realizing that they are in love with each other, while the world and its grandmother-in-law wait patiently for them to wake up and smell the coffee. That plot alone accounts for, I think, one third…
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It starts with an accident — a rich businessman (Saif Ali Khan) runs over a couple with his car, and is sentenced to take care of their children until they reach adulthood. Either that, or spend twenty years in the slammer. I don’t imagine too many judges who would think that sticking a bunch of…
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There is the scene where you first see Sarkar. It comes right after some interesting dialogue on the nature of power wielded by the Nagre family. You see Subhash Nagre on his verandah in front of a cheering crowd on his birthday. His hands move up in a glow gesture that looks like part-benediction part-control,…
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Ages ago, I took an undergraduate elective on Shakespeare along with two of my friends. We were probably the three most interested students in our class, and had a great deal of fun discussing the Bard on hot Wednesday afternoons over shikanji at the Sky Lawns. One of our assignments was to write a paper…
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