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… appears in a Rajni movie called Kazhugu. The film itself contains such wonders as human sacrifice conducted in a large room containing massive statues of Rameses (looking like he’s undergoing a colonoscopy), fistfights involving large men seemingly made of steel (imagine a cross between Jaws from The Spy Who Loved Me and Fat Bastard from Austin Powers: The
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Maria, Amrita & Beth go medieval on Karan Johar’s a** in their latest podcast: Filmistan High Class Reunion: Koffee with Karan Season 3 in Review I watched a fair bit of Season 1 of KwK, a little less of Season 2 and not even a single full episode of the last season. But from what
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Sometime back in seventh grade, I developed a fascination for long sentences. I once wrote a 100-word answer on Mother Teresa’s contribution to humanity in 3 sentences — the middle sentence was 63 words long. So you will understand why I was fascinated by this paragraph by Brit humorist and cricket writer Andy Zaltzman: The
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So my first spoken blog post is up, courtesy the wonderful folks who run Masala Zindabad. Thanks, Beth & Amrita for putting this up on your site! This one’s about my experience of going to the movies. Specifically about watching B-movies in a ramshackle single-screen theatre in a little village in Rajasthan. You can listen
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I wrote this for the GE Global Research blog – Edison’s Desk. An excerpt: We go to the movies for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is vicarious wish fulfillment. For the more scientifically inclined among us, much of this aspect has to do with the cool gadgetry in the movies. It’s
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Banno has a lovely article on the relationship between a filmmaker and his subject here: getting up close | Upperstall Blogs My favourite line from the article, just to get you off your lazy ass and click on that link: When he chooses to film a bar singer, he also chooses to film his own
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The opening credits of Luck by Chance appear over a montage of shots that depict the frayed boundaries of what is sometimes referred to as the Dream Factory. Old security guards, projectionists, dilapidated buildings serving as make-up rooms for the extras… The funny thing is, it strikes you neither as a preview to a Madhur Bhandarkar-esque expose,
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Not from me, although I have much to be thankful for. This one is about acceptance speeches. My friend Rajendran posted a comment to my Kate Winslet post asking whether the reference to Emma Thompson was due to her acceptance speech at the Globes years ago, for Sense and Sensibility (Thompson won for Best Adapted Screenplay).
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This is, absolutely, without doubt, the best performance of The Beatles’ Hey Jude I have ever heard. ’nuff said. Hat tip: To Nithya, who posted the link on her facebook page and alerted me to this gem.
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I found this little gem when I was searching for some other link in my bookmarks. It got filed under a work-related folder by accident. I think. If ever you feel like reading a nasty review of a bad movie would make your day a bit better, go search for Roger Ebert’s zero star reviews.
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