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Little Miss Sunshine is a good example of an enduring Hollywood sub-genre – Dysfunctional Families. Its setting is not Thanksgiving, but a road trip to California, where the youngest of the family is to take part in a beauty pageant for six year olds. The dramatis personae has more than its quota of oddballs, the…
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There are a few song sequences, especially an item number, that prove to be an unwelcome distraction. The first thirty minutes could do with some editing. The comedy track doesn’t really tickle the funny bone. The aforementioned flaws are the only ones I can think of. Outside of that, Polladhavan is just about perfect. The…
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Honestly, I didn’t like this movie much. It was a calculated sort of script that knew exactly what buttons it was pushing. Not a problem per se — even a lot of good movies do that. But the good ones also manage to convey something genuine in the midst of all that machinery. This one,…
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Okay, so here’s what happened. I was channel surfing this weekend and found that my viewing choices boiled down to: Die Hard 2 – The one where Bruce Willis fights off a bunch of terrorists in an airport Lizzie McGuire – The Disney TV series, not the movie version And, put your drink down before…
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I remember the first time I heard a remixed song — Bally Sagoo’s version of Chura Liya. In the beginning, I wasn’t sure what to make of it. The original is such a thing of beauty that the idea of adding random extra stuff to it seemed sacriligeous. This one didn’t work, but I could…
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I just came across this chat transcript with Anurag Kashyap, the maker of No Smoking on rediff. A fair number of questions in the chat are from people seeking an explanation for the events in the movie. For those of you who are interested, I have reproduced parts of the Q&A here. Q: I loved…
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Usually, when I review new releases these days, I add a spoiler warning. Thankfully, this time neither movie needs one.. In some ways, these two movies are diametrically opposite each other. Jab We Met is a formulaic rom-com that simply tries to do the best it can within the framework of that genre. No Smoking is an experimental…
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Warning: Here be spoilers! Here is a movie that could have been wonderful, if only the makers had chosen to tell the story that had the most potential. A woman from a once-rich family in Benares goes to Mumbai to earn a living and solve her family’s financial problems. To paraphrase Simon & Garfunkel, she…
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He’s a bank robber, she’s a US Marshal he and his buddy hold hostage when they’re busting out of prison, and they spend some time on the way discussing Faye Dunaway movies. It’s a cramped sort of space for a Meet Cute, but it works amazingly well. It’s not surprising to find this sort of…
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In recent times, I’ve been a regular reader of the Bolly Woods column on rediff. The woman writers pretty sensible stuff on the whole, and it’s good fun to read. Her latest column titled The Mind of Karan Johar made a reference to a recent interview with the man in question. It was a fairly…
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