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Beware: Here be spoilers! There is a crucial moment in Up in the Air when Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) finds himself having to talk someone out out of a course of action. It doesn’t help that the other man’s beliefs echo what he has been preaching all these years. Bingham even moonlights as a self-help…
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We find it easier to kow-tow to the Thackerays of the world, simply because we wish to go about our daily lives in peace. When asked about our vertebrae, we respond that we, the mango people, cannot afford one — the price tag is too high. Then something like this happens. Maybe it’s a calculated…
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Vishal Bharadwaj brought The Bard into this milieu. And now, here’s his protege Abhishek Chaubey with some film noir. The ingredients are all there — criminals, a femme fatale, a dog-eat-dog world, betrayals, a tenuous code of honour… Except, it isn’t quite film noir. At a crucial point in the story, one character is revealed…
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Aayirathil Oruvan starts off by depicting an archeological expedition to find the remains of a lost Chola settlement somewhere off the coast of Vietnam. As it happens, our explorers find not ruins, but a living Chola civilization, completely cut off from society for many centuries. It is here that Selvaraghavan makes an inspired choice. Instead…
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Beware: There be spoilers! Ranbir Kapoor’s star power — and make no mistake, the man definitely has it — seems to derive from his ability to project puppy-dog earnestness like nobody else in the business. That we haven’t tired of it yet bodes well for him, but I am eager to see if he can…
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Apropos the controversy about Chetan Bhagat’s name in the credits, I don’t remember enough of the book or what got shown in the opening or closing credits to comment. I will say, however, that I noticed at least a few jokes circulating on the Internet making their way into the movie. The one about submitting…
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… as you might have noticed. First off, I hope you have a great 2010! To those of you who wrote to me or commented on my earlier post wishing me well: thank you! A few observations: * You folks were right: there isn’t such a thing as a stress-free move. I found myself yelling…
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The most obvious reason to watch Network is that it is a satire on television that now looks almost like reality TV. However, it also plays as a wonderful drama about old men searching for relevance in a changing world. While the focus is on Peter Finch’s fantastic performance as Howard Beale, William Holden’s Max Schumacher…
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On the personal front, there’s a heck of a lot of chaos right now: we’re moving back to Bangalore after two very enjoyable years in Mumbai, and there seem to be a gazillion things to do before we drive out on Christmas morning. I doubt I’ll be able to even think about blog posts for…
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I was discussing the beauty of old Hindi film lyrics with a couple of friends here and the following observation came up: Most of these songs use some Urdu word or the other. There seem to be two reasons for this. First, the “softer” sounds in Urdu are well suited to convey the sort of…
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