Which is the last Bollywood film you saw ?

/nerd,

ur avtar is awesome, dark, rough arrogant looking rajnikant of 80z :thumbsup: /

//dign

Eq,Nerd,
Thanks [en somberithanathukku oru alave illama pochu :oops: ]

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Raja sen wrote, JG was overwrittenand overdirected for most parts!!!!

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Appadinna? :confused2:

SP, thank you. It's from muLLum malarum.

Moving on, we have Dev.D, VB's next film(kaminEy? :lol: ), Delhi 6 etc to look forward to this year :2thumbsup:

Nerd,
Ok, I guess I'd not have looked at 3 out 5 as "didn't like the film" (though personally of course I liked it a lot more than that!). Also I've to add that I don't follow the reviews from all these quarters seriously. I just think that the general response was markedly positive for the film. It's just the larger junta that kept away.

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Also this movie was overlooked when it came to *awards* last year.

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This is where I completely agree with you pumping up all my angst, etc. I remember ranting to one of my friends to no end when this film was not even nominated the awards circuit last year. Mind you I'm not talking about winning, but it was not even nominated! But I guess we shouldn't even be talking about these award functions. Their criteria invariably includes the clause that the film should also be a box office success. Nothing else would explain why none of the critically-well-received-but-failed-at-the-box-office films find a place in their nominations list. Look at all the films that got *some* good response critically but weren't nominated. Chatri Chor, No Smoking and so on. They were all flops.

Equa, I admit that I exaggerated a bit but really, the overwritten/overdirected part got on my nerves :twisted:

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(At least the star rating) Raja sen wrote, JG was overwritten and overdirected for most parts!!!! Don't remember what Masand wrote, but both of them gave a 3/5 for this film. Singh is king, OSO etc got threes on five. If the movie was something spectacular, they would have given it a 4/5 like they did for Aamir/Mithya this year. I thought this was a 4/5 movie easily.

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I think (if my memory serves me right) Masand gave 3 stars to Aamir. (Mithya, of course, he gave 4.) It was Raja Sen who went gaga over it (and gave 4 stars). But that's the whole point we often miss. We tend to club media reviewers together as one whole when our own reactions to films are as diverse as it gets. For instance, I didn't think Aamir was that good at all. At best, 2.5 stars wonly if you ask me.

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Equa, I admit that I exaggerated a bit but really, the overwritten/overdirected part got on my nerves :twisted:

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romba niyAyamana kOvam, Nerd!

And by the way, I was wondering about the Raja Sen review you've mentioned because as I remember, he loved the film (besides really championing the album!). So, did a bit of web search. The review you're referring to was written by one Mr. D Morgan. :) Here's Raja Sen's take on the film (where after some contemplation he settled for 4 stars, in case that allays your boiling blood a bit!), which was not an official review but a piece for his column.

:oops: Thats much better. Similarly, Raja Sen missed out on (writing the official review for) OLLO this year but later gave a 4/5 in his column!

He gave it 4.5 stars, in fact. As I've said elsewhere, it's my single favourite film of the year too.