Posts Tagged With: Bollywood
Backlog: Agent Vinod
It should be difficult to pick a favourite moment from Agent Vinod, the latest Saif Ali Khan-starrer that has ended up to be about as little of a dhamaka at the box office as the nuclear bomb in the film. Perhaps Ram Kapoor as a villain named Abu Nazer who is based in Russia? Or maybe [...]
Rockstar
Somewhere near the end of Imtiaz Ali’s “Rockstar” (not to be confused with “Rock Star” starring Mark Wahlberg), Heer the heroine starts feeling faint and gets that I’m-going-to-die-soon look that veteran Bollywood watchers will recognise in a jiffy. At this point, she goes up to a room and starts rubbing her face in a dirty [...]
Many Reservations
Prakash Jha’s new film “Aarakshan” (trans. “Reservation”) has been banned in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh. The fear is that the film, which purports to be about reserved quotas in educational institutions, will inflame lower caste viewers and then there will be riots, looting and mayhem. This was so not necessary. No one who [...]
What Men
In Zoya Akhtar’s new film, “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”, Hrithik Roshan and Katrina Kaif engage in a serious lip lock. In fact, she borrows her friend’s bike and rides through picturesque Spanish countryside for what looks like many kilometres only to kiss Roshan. And if we are to glean anything from the peek-a-boo appearance of [...]
Magic Carpet
Flavorwire has a lovely little slideshow up of behind-the-scenes photos from some landmark movies. Some of the photos are absolute delights, like the one from “2001: A Space Odyssey” and another of Alfred Hitchcock and Tippi Hedren on the set of “The Birds” with evil pigeons fluttering around them. This one from “Metropolis”, however, is [...]
Not So Shor
Rediff.com called it brilliant. NDTV said it was terrific. Mid-Day commended it for its “remarkable screenplay“. IBN Live said it was a sparkling comedy thriller. MSN Entertainment described it as a film that would “mesmerize and fascinate.” The Economic Times was a little less gushy but it still lauded the directors and said it was [...]
FICCI Up
FICCI FRAMES is an annual event. FICCI stands for Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry. FRAMES has been described as the following: “a three day global convention covering the entire gamut of Media & Entertainment like Films, Broadcast (TV & Radio), Digital Entertainment, Animation, Gaming, Visual Effects, etc. with nearly 2000 Indian and [...]
Kidjo Yourself
Now I know you can’t get the feel of a concert on videos and I’m no connoisseur of Angelique Kidjo’s YouTube clips, but the few snippets I’ve seen didn’t prepare me for her concert last night at NCPA. The videos that I have seen of Kidjo all show her with a bevy of back-up singers [...]
Band Baaja Woody Allen
While on the subject of love stories (see post below), I have a confession to make. I’ve watched the ending of “Band Baaja Baaraat” about a dozen times on YouTube (it’s been taken offline very recently, hence the link to the official site. Sniff). Almost everyone I know has seen and loved “Band Baaja Baaraat”. [...]
Generating Ys
When I saw the first trailer of Vipul Shah’s new movie, “Action Replayy“, I knew two things and had one question. The two things I gathered was that the film was a barely-disguised copy of “Back to the Future” and it was going to be very bad. The question I had was, why the extra [...]
World Domination
