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One of the little pleasures of Jab We Met is its amazing array of supporting characters. Many of them have no more than a few minutes of screen time, but they manage to leave their mark. No one illustrates this better than the desk clerk at Hotel Decent in Ratlaam, where the couple decide to…
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The title of this post refers to a compilation of Roger Ebert’s reviews of movies he hated. I wouldn’t be surprised if it sells very well. Every once in a while, someone posts a message on this blog saying, “I’d like to read your review of Ramgopal Verma Ki Aag” or something along those lines.…
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Let me dispense with the formalities first: Jodhaa Akbar is not a bad movie. However, it does fall distressingly short of being a good one. The movie tells the story of Akbar as a young Mughal king on the way to greatness, and his marriage to the Rajput princess Jodhaa. It was, to be sure,…
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Wedged quietly in between all those high-profile romantic comedies that established Meg Ryan as a star is this little treasure of a movie. I watched it a long time ago, liked it and then forgot all about it. This, of course, was back when I still thought that “You have two minutes to defuse this…
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No, I still don’t like Himes-bhai‘s voice. Although I will admit that the occasional Mika number works for me – Mauja Hi Mauja from Jab We Met being an example. This post is mostly about A. R. Rehman. Not his singing voice (which I’m not very fond of but works well for some songs), but…
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For most Americans, especially Spielberg fans, Gandhi is simply the movie that beat E.T. to win the Oscar for Best Picture. For many of us in India, this is one of the best-known movies about the man and one we grew up with. Pretty much every year, on October 2 and/or January 30, Doordarshan used…
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I planned to write this one ages ago, soon after watching the movie. However, I found that I had very little to say about the movie. It is a Nana Patekar – Anil Kapoor comedy with assorted extras including Akshay I’m-on-a-roll Kumar, Paresh If-it-involves-comedy-I-have-to-be-present-even-if-I’m-not-funny-in-it Rawal, Katrina Gorgeous-trumps-acting-every-time Kaif and Mallika A-C-cup-trumps-acting-every-time-too Sherawat. When the aforementioned…
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Sunday is one of those movies that works best when it isn’t trying to tell the story. The premise is interesting: a girl goes out partying on Saturday night and wakes up on Monday morning. It takes her ages to find that she has lost an entire day, during which time she is chased by…
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He is an aristocrat from the previous century who landed up in present day NY. She is an ad executive who lives inn the apartment above where he stays. (In the present, that is. I doubt they had ad execs back then.) He’s doing his best to cope with the future, and she is doing…
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Not the (relatively) new one starring Venkatesh and Karisma Kapoor. I’m referring to the old one with Raj Kapoor, Motilal and Nutan. For the most part, this is just a standard simpleton-in-the-big-bad-city movie, the cinematic equivalent of comfort food. What makes it memorable, however, is a courtroom scene right at the end. Raj (Kapoor) has…
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