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By time time Wanted got over, the only thought remaining in my mind was: What if one were to make it in Tamil with Vadivelu, Nayantara and Parthiban and call it Bullet Bhoopathi? There are two reasons for this. First, the movie isn’t conducive to thoughts of a coherent nature. Second, the hero gets beaten…
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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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I saw this interesting post at Shouts and Murmurs the other day. Basically, it was a tag where one had to pick a song or two to suit a bunch of situations. It seemed interesting, so I gave it a shot. Here goes: Rules of the tag: Various situations are given. You have to come…
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Disclaimer: I haven’t watched Katha Parayumbol. I plan to at the earliest available opportunity. However, I plan to evaluate Kuselan on its own terms. Literally everyone I spoke to who had watched Kuselan told me the same thing: It’s not a Rajni movie. Most of their voices were laced with a tinge of disappointment. Apparently,…
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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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To be honest, I’m not sure I really got this movie. I could see what it was getting at, but I never really found myself caring about Gogol’s journey. The stops along the way seemed familiar (inasmuch as something I haven’t experienced personally could feel familiar), but I couldn’t feel the wind in my face.…
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A link to begin with. An actor-producer who has become consistently more interesting as the years pass, in the words of a critic with a more idiosyncratic voice than most others in the business: The Creative Art of Compromise | Blogical Conclusion One interesting point that Baradwaj Rangan makes about Aamir Khan concerns how he…
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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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