What 2h 40m !! :shock:
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What 2h 40m !! :shock:
Watched "Once Upon a Time in Mumbai"
nice movie overall, nice touch with flashback, almost missed this one due to inclusion of the "serial kisser"
Ajay tries to play a gold-hearted character with dark childhood...emphasis on tries
Kangana as always good at playing the aloof missy not snarky as she usually is in this role
*Spoiler* it made no good sense to me why EH was even given trusted in the first place with taking care of the business when Ajay had to go to Delhi....it felt more like a convenient way to get to the ending. :roll:
yes vinod, many people left halfway into the second half...15 mins each of each adventure sport (deep sea diving, skydiving, Spain's traditional bullrun) for each of the protagonist to overcome their respective fears; Hrithik character overcomes his phobia of deep by seadiving, Farhan character overcomes his fear of heights by skydiving, and Abhay overcomes fear of death after participating in the bullrun, and thus become liberated men:-D...idhukke 45 mins aayidchu. appuram 4-5 songs another half an hour gone. micham 1 hr 10 mins thaan padam, athulayum neraya thevaillaatha scenes...some serious editing required. Critics will love to call this as 'it is not just a film, it is an experience' estra estra:).Quote:
Originally Posted by ilayapuyalvinodh_kumar
Dhilli Billy - LOL. Nice. Wish Bolly made more of these unapologetic hinglish films rather than pretend.. Laughs down to lavatory humor. Could see why its wannabe-ness might put off some people. But then it was always promoted as such a film.
Pyaar Ka Punchnama - Brilliant :clap:
:clap:...kg, have u watched Stanley Ka Dabba?Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Will watch Ragini MMS today..
how is it? is it worth a watch?Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
worth a watch? oh definitely, my friend. one of the best of bolly that i've seen this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Balaji.r
Good to know. Havent seen it yet. Aamir took Amol's credits away. Acc. to AG, TZP's flaws are down to rewrites & changes brought about by Aamir.
i thought so that there should've been issues between them, when there were thanks to all and sundry including 'Heartfelt thanks for Karan Johar:roll:' in the title card of SKD, but no mention of Aamir!Quote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Thanks Jinju. let me d/l SKDQuote:
Originally Posted by kid-glove
Didnt AG shot the movie atleast for a week or two? I read somewhere that Aamir is not happy at AG way execution/taking.
:shock: :omg: It's not a good movie !! There were only 2 hair raising scenes and that too only 1 among them was fit enough to send the adrenaline pumping !! Waiting for your review !! I suggest Haunted 3D !! A mix of little horror + sentiments !!Quote:
Originally Posted by ajaybaskar
They could have done the same acrobatics in some reality show !! Why to waste in a movie ??Quote:
Originally Posted by jinju
Well, already i remember one from a popular site calling it a scintillating experience !! Will give it a watch later !! Of late Hrithick's movies aren't up to the mark !! Neither the songs of ZNMD make a mark in my music store nor the plot impresses me !
Laaga Chunri main Daag- Absolutely loved it :notworthy:
Yeah. AG wasn't happy about AK's creative ideas. AK wasn't happy about AG's execution & the way project was headed (if you believe him). The marriage didn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Balaji.r
Pyaar ka punchnama - Terrible. Downright silly and ugly chicks too :banghead:
as usual, BRangan nails it:-D!
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-sty...cle2305050.ece
Armchair Epiphanies
Baradwaj Rangan
Do multiples audiences want their stories of redemption shorn of rough edges?
I did not review Zoya Akhtar's multiplex hit “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” for this paper – and I didn't have to. I'd already reviewed “Wake Up Sid” in 2009, where I wrote, “It has all the weight of a television commercial showing sad people transforming into happy people in the course of thirty seconds, which is to say that nothing ever seems to be at stake.” And of “Rock On,” in 2008, I wrote, “But that's a practical way of looking at life, and [this] is, above all, a story of dreams and dreamers.”
The point in recalling these older reviews is that with “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” we're recalling these older films – and the film that birthed it all, “Dil Chahta Hai,” which, ten years later, is still the most affecting, most bracing, most honest coming-of-age film from modern-day Bollywood. Its descendants are happy to inherit its vibe, its coolness, its Indo-Western hipness, but elsewhere they are content to settle for easy epiphanies. The eponymous rich brat of “Wake Up Sid” resolves to leave home, but he instantly moves in with a girl-friend, the kind of friend who can afford to redecorate her house before she lands a job, and his existential crises thereon unfold at the level of his learning to fry an egg.
And in “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara,” the Abhay Deol character, Kabir, struggles to come to terms with his hasty engagement to Natasha, a girl he likes but does not love. Like Preity Zinta's easily caricatured one-note boyfriend in “Dil Chahta Hai,” Natasha is fleshed out as an emotional manipulator, a suspicious nag, a clinger – and you have to wonder why so obvious a talent as Zoya Akhtar has to make it so easy to identify with this girl being dumped. We experience not a twinge when she is let go. She deserves it, we tell ourselves. Kabir deserves better.
The affluent characters in these films experience life-altering revelations with as much effort as sinking into a warm bubble bath. Or at least, the audience isn't allowed to “see” too much of their discomfort; we're simply asked to enjoy, vicariously, this angst-free acquisition of emotional truth, amidst plush production values that make us feel that we should all have these problems, these eye-catching problems, and their greeting-card solutions. (“Smell the roses, and perhaps a couple of peonies too!”)
“Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara” and “Rock On” and “Wake Up Sid” are well-crafted films, glutted with good writing and acting and startling moments of discovery, and that's why it's baffling that they excuse themselves from genuine emotion. What if Natasha were a really nice girl, really in love with Kabir, and has waited for him a long time, and then he — for whatever reasons (maybe he fell for someone else) — faces the unpleasant but manful task of telling her he wants out.
There is a superb moment in James L Brooks' “As Good As It Gets,” an often rewarding and often frustrating drama, where Helen Hunt's character is mother to an asthmatic son, and her date finds himself unable to handle the child's spasmodic coughing. He leaves her home somewhat abashed, with the excuse that it's too much reality for a Friday night. Could that be the thought driving these multiplex filmmakers, who want their audiences to experience, on their Friday nights, something borderline-real without rubbing their noses in reality?
These films, therefore, are enjoyable on a superficial level, at an easy level, with real-life wrinkles airbrushed away with the skill of a “Playboy”-centrefold designer. And who will deny Zoya her success? She has learnt from the failure of her first feature, the commendable “Luck By Chance,” which laid bare the sweaty and dishonourable struggles behind professional success. It showed us what people can be like with their blinkers on and when they want something badly, and it made us squirm at the recognition of our own ethical compromises, which it reflected in an uncompromising glare – in other words, it was a little too much reality for a Friday night.
Shaitan: Pretty good . Liked it very much. Impressive debut by bejoy "shaitan" nambiar
Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal.
Yeah, I am outdated, it was on Zee TV, so I caught it.
Sports movie template, with some sort of patriotism thrown in (though it later became South Asia-ish, rather than Indian-ish), with all the cliches.
But performance made it worthwhile. I thought I would never say this but John Abraham was good. Then, the other guys, whatsisname, Arshad Warsi and Bhoman Irani, and the rest. Good script. Really keeps you at the edge of your seat except for those song moments. The first match was hillarious. Ruined my Sunday nap time, but worth it.
"Salaam Namaste" a realistic and modern dilemma concerning relationships and common-law relationships specifically that had been going well until that is the ending which turned into a pathetic clown show...i think it started with the "craving" song and went downhill from there...and that whole unnecessary cameo by abhi....really undermined whatever point they were trying to get across.
"Ready" - meh...really meh...Asin looks like a doll...it's Sallu's movie from the get go with the focus on his weird pouts, bravado lines and "zingers", him besting everyone of course...i seriously laughed harder in "Andaz Apna Apna" when he was being made to play the fool...
Watched "Udaan" haven't seen anything like it in terms of hindi films...was very impressed and surprised that it was kept to its realism throughout. Rohan and Arjun for their young age have done so well, the father plays his role to a T. Really felt like a glimpse into someone's life. BGM was appropriate, poems recited were impressive.
A review I read:
http://entertainment.oneindia.in/bol...ew-140710.html
"Viruddh .. Pamily Comes First " on some indhi channel
Amitabh B - perusa onnum illaiyE. This is the kind of role Rajini could do without much effort. Yet there's a BPM which propagates that Rajini's not an actor at all (just as it uses Kamal is not a star at all.) using these kind of films as an example.
REalism? I felt the father's role was very cinematic..As jinju said, one of those 'boys becoming men' aracha maavu :) for me udaan was averageQuote:
Originally Posted by Querida
ZNMD..it was nice touring Spain :) story/screenplay nothing great..thank god there were a few funny moments..
Jinju correcta sonninga abt ZNMD :)
ZNMD - yawn
interesting locations but convenient anecdotes and characterizations to fit the "discovery travel" style of film.........Abhay Deol neglected as a weak metrosexual third fiddle was sad.......adhe high pitch rock meesic, yung guys running, zooming cameras over exotic locations etc - shabba
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/broa...ler-Force.html
Pluses
-Harris has another winner in Bollywood after RHTD
-Genelia
Minuses
-Johny boy excessive stripping doesnt make him look like a cop
-villain no match to jeevan
Whats with johny's steroid pumped body.. :banghead:
John Abraham gives a new definition of being wooden :lol:
yes i know bildungsroman is a popular theme used in cinema and novels but after being inundated by masala mindlessness this was a nice refreshing change.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mahen
I felt the father's character complex in parts...it wasn't a bad father realizing and changing his ways, nor was it a full-on evil man wrecking havoc, it was a man surviving as he always had waning in and out of attempts of guilt-ridden goodness, he regresses further I guess while the son graduates to a question-laden ending...the journey of which will take him and his brother being successful is highly suspect for me.
recently i seen the movie zindagi na milegi dobara nice smooth story not any twist ...
saw it yesterday, no twist but funny and enjoyable and of course great tourism advert for Spain and "Bagwati"Quote:
Originally Posted by roosevelt92
Hum ApkE Hain Kaun on TV.
Yes - I like it
Yes - when it is on TV I can't change channels
Yes - I like the 'light' parts too
Yes - I like the songs....sometimes I sing along
Yes - I get lump-in-the throat and all
Yes - I need therapy
Ah! Skeleton in feeyar's cupboard - finally.
P_R - :lol:
Awwwww :razz:
Not necessarily Therapy PR...nothing that a good dose of recent Sallu movies couldn't fix!
Yes- they will make you cry, especially if you've lost the remote control :lol:
Actually it is very good I say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Plum
Some other channel was showing Johar's K3G - unbearable. They were trying paasam moments now and then between Saarugaan and Krithigai. kaNraaviyA irundhadhu.
The people in HAHK, their relationships are far more genuine.
Climax-la oru sila idangaL analysis-worthy-A thONichu.
Reema Lagoo has the child when reading the letter.
She too chose one good man over another in her youth. We know not of her reasons then. It is not as if her 'lesser' choice is less fulfilling, but she is shown to have never fully made peace with the loss. As she sings in the song with AlokNath in the aaj hamaarE dhil mein song:
Now her daughter, for reasons of her own, was about to make a similar decision. How curious? Could she call it a 'mistake'? She can relate to the situation, but would she really be able to give voice to 'why' she things it would be a wrong decision for Madhuri, citing her own personal example! No.Quote:
Meri Chaya Hai Jo, Aapke Ghar Chali
Sapna Ban Ke Meri, Palkon Mein Hai Pali
And while these thoughts - allegedly - pass through her mind, she has the next generation in her hand.
And the way Monish Behl speaks to both of them - tugs at heartstrings, without getting all melodramatic.
The kiddishness of Salman keeps coming up in the film again and again - and I guess put off many people (kudhichu kudhichu viLayAndukkittu..)
He is shown to have a childlike 'innocence' and love, but also shown as desiring to grow up - which he says in assumed childlike petulant voice (kab thak rahoon....sab sE chOttA)
But then he has to make the giant leap. No other choice even seems considerable to him. It is not just selfishness to announce his love, but also having to declare to the world that he is not a 'boy' anymore. Behl says of Salman to the rest of them in the room: "ithnA badA baath..uskE hasi mein dhabA kE, mujhE parAyA karAyA".
The only line of reprimand he actually addresses to Salman is the one bubbling with melodramatic fury in all of twenty decibels: yeh thum tIk nahi kiyA PrEm :lol2:
adappOngappA...indha padam pudikkin. Sue me.
Dhamaal
Good fun. Pasangga ellAm nallA nadikkurAnggapA. Good comedy (I know, they stole the soap gun from Woody, but it was still funny) God knows when Tamizh films will go in this direction.
Bala padam analysis worthy illainu sollittu barjatyakku analysisA? :shock:
I think you are mellowing down, feeyaar, mellowing down.
kiLikku kalyANa vayasu vandhuduthOlliyO, paRandhu pOchu
idhellAm over analysis Feeyar. North Indies-la indha cross-joLLu (even after marriage, pEran pEthi etc) quite common. Sub-textlAm padikkAdhinga. If you want to say it is natural, yes, quite natural for that class of people. Sub-text padikkaRa aLavukku oNNum illai. I'd reckon that Alok Nath character will say that( I hearted you in my youthu) to any sambandhi whom he knew from college time. Such flirting - even invented childhood/youth stories for flirting - is quite common no in their culture?Quote:
Reema Lagoo has the child when reading the letter.
She too chose one good man over another in her youth. We know not of her reasons then. It is not as if her 'lesser' choice is less fulfilling, but she is shown to have never fully made peace with the loss. As she sings in the song with AlokNath in the aaj hamaarE dhil mein song:
Well, if you want to point that it is better than the derivatives it spawned, yes, am with you. DDLJ is intolerable - and I felt it even as a target audience for Saarug when it released. I had all the demographic attributes to fall for it yet it seemed so fake and intolerable then, forget now. Karan Joker paththi sollavE vENAm