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At one point, the narrator Cutter says of the audience that has just witnessed a magic trick being performed: “Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it. Because you don’t really want to know.” The Prestige tells the story of two magicians obsessed with each other’s downfall. But at a deeper level,…
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What is it with Hindi movies and infidelity? For a while now, this has been the focus of a number of movies beginning with the execrable Murder. Abbas-Mustan’s latest thriller Naqaab is yet another in this series. Much bile has been vented about the tagline – The most shocking thriller of the year – in…
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Yet another movie waiting to be made, and for a variety of reasons. Firstly, Hitch is one of the most obvious targets for a Hindi movie remake, and it was even more obvious to me, even while watching the original, that Govinda would do well in the Kevin James role. Secondly, if Govinda was making…
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Towards the end of Ghayal, Sunny Deol is chasing Amrish Puri, the man who destroyed his life. Amrish has a gun in his hand and points it at him. Sunny picks up a knife from the ground andstands there, boiling with rage. Mind you, they’re more than ten feet apart, so the idea of bringing…
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You might wonder why I did not list both Goodfellas scenes together in my previous post. Let me explain. Goodfellas and Satya are my favourite gangster movies of all time. They represent, in my opinion, the best of the genre in Hollywood and Hindi cinema. The two scenes I shall talk about here are somewhat…
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Goodfellas tells the story of Henry Hill, an Irish-American growing up in Little Italy. It charts his history with the Mafia – fascination, involvement, ascent, incarceration and eventual descent into despair and betrayal. It is a story told with such energy and obvious skill. More than any other, this movie is why I worship Martin…
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Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge is an action movie in the glorious tradition of Bollywood potboilers – a fairly racy plot, a nearly invincible hero and lots of ketchup. Did I mention a perfectly logical plot? I didn’t? Ah, well… The plot borrows a few pages from The Bourne Identity and adds its own masala to…
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Despite its dismal box office performance, I thought Dum Dum Dum was a fairly well-crafted romantic comedy. It did have a slightly tedious second half, and the big conflict between the parental units seemed a little implausible, but I found it much better than the other Madhavan movie that came around the same time and…
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Run was the movie that allowed Madhavan to break away from his romantic hero image and play an action hero. For the first half hour or so, you don’t even realize it: all you see is him chasing Meera Jasmine around, singing songs and doing his usual shtick. Then comes the scene in the subway,…
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