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I haven’t even heard of this movie before, and probably would never have heard of it had it not been showing on HBO. Clearly, the channel holds a dim view of the viewership on a Saturday afternoon. I am not sure what the plot is, an frankly, I don’t much care. It involves some hidden
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Most people would agree that Bharathiraja was one of Tamil cinema’s foremost directors in the late seventies and eighties, along with K. Balachander and Mani Rathnam. But where KB and Mani brought an urban sensibility and sophistication to Tamil cinema, Bharathiraja reinvented the village on celluloid. He epitomized earthiness. The acting in many of his
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Martin Scorsese’s The Departed begins with the following line uttered by Jack Nicholson: I do not want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me. To me, more than the plot itself (which is quite interesting), Dor is about two women on opposite sides of that
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Warning: There be spoilers! There is a beautiful scene late in The Brave One where Detective Mercer is having a conversation with Erica Bain about a series of vigilante killings that have rocked the city recently. He doesn’t know that she is the killer — he just befriended her after he met her during the
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I know next to nothing about Robert Downey Jr. as a person. However, if the personality that comes through in his movies is any indication, it would be safe to say that Iron Man is the sort of superhero movie you would get if you wanted Robert Downey Jr. to play the superhero. He plays
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I came across this recently and it totally made my day. A site called listverse specializes in compiling lists on various topics. Some of them are quite interesting, like the one on famous retouched photograps, but the one I found most relevant to this blog is a compilation of early film clips. Starts off with
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By far the most often quoted (and parodied) line in Deewar is: Mere paas maa hai. It comes at the point where the smuggler Vijay (Amitabh) taunts his brother Ravi (Shashi) saying he now has every material comfort he can think of, as opposed to his honest cop brother. And Ravi responds by referring to
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This story of a deaf-mute who became an international cricketer was one of the most heartwarming movies of 2005. It did not resort to much gimmickry (except maybe the chakravyuh thing which didn’t work so well for me) and placed its faith in the inherent appeal of the story it told. Add to it a
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Dear Yash Raj Films, It was thanks to me that your latest production, Tashan, was mentioned in the prestigious magazine Tehelka. If you would like to pay for my continuing promotional effort for this movie, I accept cash, PayPal and Saif. Last method of payment preferred, but I could use the money, too. You are
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I could rant and rave about how beautiful this is, and what it means to me and how more than a third of my conversations with Ratul about writing end up referring to it. But like most good poetry, if it doesn’t grab you by the short hairs, it’s just so much prose with broken
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