Contd from Part 1.
Your play ‘Gagan Damam Bajyo’ on which the movie ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ was made for which you had also written the dialogues. There was a lot of controversy regarding the issue of credits. Also, recently…
A Little Wit. A Little Wisdom. Lots of India.
Contd from Part 1.
Your play ‘Gagan Damam Bajyo’ on which the movie ‘The Legend of Bhagat Singh’ was made for which you had also written the dialogues. There was a lot of controversy regarding the issue of credits. Also, recently…
Piyush Mishra doesn’t mince words. He doesn’t need to. In an in-length in conversation with Piyush Mishra where he talks about his days in NSD and after it, the flippancy with which he dealt his early, formative years, his days…
OYE PLUCKY! PLUCKY OYE!
Dibakar Banerjee pulls off a courageous experiment, even if that’s not quite the same as a satisfying movie experience.
MAR 21, 2010 – SOME FILMS MAKE YOU GRASP FOR breathless clichés about thinking out of the box. With…
CENTURY!
Baradwaj Rangan wonders if he should, henceforth, be called a centurion (even if that sounds like someone begging for a bludgeoning by a small village of indomitable Gauls).
MAR 21, 2010 – THIS IS THE ONE-HUNDREDTH EDITION OF Between Reviews, and…
18 Mar 10
1
Hindi Movies,
Social,
Action,
Politics,
Sports
Running time: 150 minutes
Quick Review
Rating:
Watch if you have nothing better to do (rating…
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DEATH BY SLEEPLESSNESS
MAR 20, 2010 – IN THIS FIFTH AND FINAL OSCAR-NOMINATED FEATURE, a bespectacled grey-haired man, known as “Shampoo Negriz,” walks up to three youths sitting in the street in the Ajami neighbourhood of Jaffa. The greetings…
10 Mar 10
21
Hindi Movies,
Noir
Running time: 100 minutes
Quick Review
Rating:
Watch for sure, preferably in theatre (rating scale)
– Only for people who can stomach…
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On February 9, 2010, I was handed over a small cheque… for myself. It was made out by a startup company that I founded four weeks prior to that. The amount wasn’t hair raising, infact it was small that it…
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MORAL BOOSTER
Sunny Deol returns in a morality-play thriller that’s not exactly bad, but not much good either. Plus, a skit that’s too slight to amount to anything.
MAR 14, 2010 – WITHIN THE FIRST FEW MINUTES OF NEERAJ PATHAK’S…
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A MORNING TO REMEMBER
Snippets from the Oscars, and from a sleep-deprived soul who sat (and smirked) through it all…
MAR 14, 2010 – THE GROGGY EYE, ALARM-AWAKENED at a wincingly rude 6:30 on a Monday morning, lights on the…