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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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On the way back from the multiplex, I spent a considerable length of time trying to figure out what to put in my review of Kuruvi. I came up with nothing. I could claim that the movie was beyond even my capacity to describe it, but that would be dishonest. Truth: I just ran out…
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Much of the reason why we love good masala movies is their ability to surprise and delight us while still telling the same old story over and over again. In this respect, the last big fight sequence in Dhool ranks among the most delightful. It is not surprising for the hero to bash up a…
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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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