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Ah, Discworld! I remember having a discussion about aviation with one of my colleagues over lunch. His theory was, if people actually knew how airplanes worked, they wouldn’t get in one. I mean, try telling people that you have this HUGE odd-shaped tin can than you’re gonna put them inside, move it really fast and…
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Ram Gopal Varma has always been a smart, articulate chap when it comes to interviews, and his assessment of Sholay ranks among his best soundbytes. See, for me, primarily Sholay never worked on a story level. The story’s basic line is of a man taking revenge on another man who killed his family and cut…
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Judging by the reactions, seems Ramu’s Aag, has turned out to be Ramu’s Aargh. And that brings to question, do remakes of popular movies really work. While Bollywood has only recently been into this, Hollywood has been at it for some time. Hitchcock has been the prime candidate for remakes. His 39 Steps was remade…
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This might sound strange, but the most memorable moment for me, from Kill Bill Vol. 1, is the opening credits. It’s basically how it’s set up, you see. It starts with Bill (whom you don’t see) wiping blood off The Bride’s face and telling her that this is more painful for him that it is…
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Satya and Vaastav would always be two of my favorite gangster movies. Raw, hard hitting, intensely violent. Vaastav for me contained one of Sanjay Dutt’s best performances. Sanju was touted as the succesor to Amitabh Bachan, but his wild ways, his rank bad choice of movies, his trysts with the law would prove to be…
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I am starting a series of posts here on movie climaxes. Considering that climax is an important aspect of the movie, many movies keep chugging along well, but falter at the last. This is common to both Indian and English movies. So this is on some climaxes which have had a deep impact on me.…
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I have a fondness for movies that seem to go nowhere, but do it interestingly. When I settled down to watch Jon Kasdan’s In the Land of Women, I was looking forward to an experience like that. Instead, I was subjected to a string-pulling exercise that worked in fits and starts but never really got…
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I seem to have this thing for chick-flicks. I’m not entirely sure why. Before you jump the gun, no, I don’t mean stuff like The Princess Diaries. I mean stuff like The Upside of Anger. It tells the story of Terry Wolfmeyer, a middle-aged housewife who finds that her husband has just disappeared, ostensibly with…
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