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The amazing thing about Sigappu Rojakkal is that it doesn’t play like a thriller, although a two line synopsis of the plot will make it seem like one. The movie is about a man named Dileep (Kamalhassan) who seduces willing women and then kills them, while secretly filming all of it. He falls in love…
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Movies about odd couple cops trying to solve a crime and bonding in the process are a dime a dozen. For that dime, you could even specify that eleven of them need to try and be funny and you’d get your wish. Ask for actual humor and you might need to fork out a bit…
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Disambiguation: Not the Clint Eastwood starrer from the eighties. I’m talking about the Dennis Quaid version where he plays a high school teacher who becomes a major league pitcher. The Rookie stars Dennis Quaid as Jim Morris, a high school chemistry teacher cum baseball coach who suddenly finds out that he can pitch faster than…
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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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By far the most interesting thing about The Dark Knight is the fact that its principal conflict is not between Batman and the Joker. That particular face-off comes third. In second place is the fight between the Joker and Harvey Dent. Dent is, by all accounts, a straight arrow who has the guts to take…
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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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George Carlin is dead. He has ceased to be. He has expired and gone on to meet his maker. He has shuffled off his mortal coil. He… As a Python fan, this is probably the best tribute I can pay to a comic I love. I first heard George Carlin on an airplane. I was…
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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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