tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86016609225903785012012-02-16T17:02:15.254+05:30I review movies that I watch every week. Sometimes books that I finish ..Pradoshnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1561100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-60086891853573493072009-12-13T23:51:00.004+05:302009-12-30T12:55:18.527+05:30

I am moving to a new address http://bombaycinephile.blogspot.comJust to align the name of the blog and the address - plus the address is easier to remember :)From Rocket Singh onwards, new reviews are put up at http://bombaycinephile.blogspot.com. So change your blog feeds etc This blog will remain, but wont be updated henceforth

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Rocket Singh : Salesman of the Year [IMDB]Story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the 'professional' way, and the way of his heartCast: Ranbir Kapoor, Shazahn Padamsee, Gauhar KhanDirection: Shimit Amin The Twilight Saga : New Moon [IMDB]Based on the Twilight book series. After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life,

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I watched the movie on Friday and I have had a couple of days to think over it while I was out of town. And I just don’t see what the hullabaloo about Paa is !!Paa (like Taare Zameen Par) has been almost universally acclaimed by critics and all actors, especially Amitabh Bachhan, have been praised to the skies. There is talk of even making it India’s official entry to Oscars !! Yet, if you read

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Most of you probably would never consider watching a Himesh movie. But if you decide to, I would suggest you give Radio a try. Not because he has really improved as an actor – he isn’t anywhere close. But this movie is overall entertaining, its completely set in young sensibilities (coffee, facebook etc) and is in a way pleasing on the eyes (the two leading ladies ofcourse)Debutant director

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Paa [IMDB]A politician's relationship with his unusually developed son - the child suffers from a disease that causes him to age rapidly, rendering him an old manCast: Abhishek Bachhan, Amitabh Bachhan, Vidya Balan,Direction: R. BalkiRadio A recently divorced RJ gets attracted towards his new colleague. But he is also friends with his ex-wife. Its complicatedCast: Himesh Reshammiya, Shenaz

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Priyadarshan’s De Dana Dan joins his fairly long list of slapstick, helter-skelter comedies that make us laugh for a scene or two, but leave us exasperated for the rest of the movie. This one had the added pain of Archana Puran Singh, Paresh Rawal and Manoj Joshi competing for the loudest-voice-on-cinema award and gunning solely for your eardrums. I might have viewed the movie as a timepass, if

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De Dana Dan [IMDB]The usual Priyadarshan mad-cap comedy with the Hera Pheri trio and 27 other actors Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Katrina KaifDirection: PriyadarshanNinja Assasin [IMDB]A young ninja turns his back on orphanage that raised him, leading to a confrontation with a fellow ninja from the clanCast: Sung Kang, Randall Duk KimDirection: James McTeigue New in Town

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The Disney version of one of the most famous christmas stories, A Christmas Carol was perhaps released a bit too early to cash in on the festive season. I watched it on Thanksgiving Day though, so there was some holiday spirit. Made with motion capture and in 3D, the visual quality of the movie is terrific – the animations having a wonderful life-like quality and you easily forget you aren’t

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In the Mood for Love is not a new movie – it was released way back in 2000. And it was nominated for the Palme d'Or (best movie) at Cannes that year and won Best Actor there. The director Wong Kar-Wai is one of the more acclaimed current directors in Hong Kong. The reason I am reviewing it now is that it is being shown as part of the Palador Film Festival* - which is showcasing some great world

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One of the slickest looking movies to come out of Bollywood this year, Kurbaan is worth a watch just for its high quality visuals. Rensil D’Silva and his team will wow you by their sheer technical brilliance - I cant remember the last time frames of any movie looked so good. And designer Aki Narula’s wardrobe and overall look for Kareena adds a lot to the beauty of the movie – deep kohl lined

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Kurbaan [IMDB]A love story set in background of terrorism in New York Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena KapoorDirection: Rensil D'SilvaA Christmas Story [IMDB]An animated retelling of Charles Dickens classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitionsCast: Jim Carrey (voice)Direction: Robert Zemeckis Twilight [

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2012 promises to be nothing more than a disaster movie – and it is exactly that. However, what works for the movie are the awesome action pieces that take your breath away. The CGI work is spectacular – you haven’t seen anything like this (not even from Michael Bay). Skyscrapers toppling, roads splitting up into canyons, the Sistine Chapel collapsing – and the piece de resistance – a plane taking

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Tum Mile [IMDB]Two ex-lovers separated 6 years ago meet again in Bombay on the fatal night of 26th July 2005 Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Soha Ali KhanDirection: Kunal Deshmukh2012 [IMDB]An epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel EjioforDirection: Roland Emmerich Aao Wish Karein

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The Informant! is one of those quirky cool movies that only Hollywood can produce (any such movie here would probably result in burnt theatres and hundreds of court cases !!). Its based on a real story and the disclaimers before the movie sound like this ... some characters are composites and dialogue dramatized.So there.With that cheeky introduction, The Informant! starts off with Mark Whitacre

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This is going to be a more personal review than usual – mainly because I could so identify with the challenges of cross-state marriages – I had one myself. And as a matter of fact, most of my friends did too – they chose their own partners, usually from a different community. Infact, I am scheduled to attend one wedding next month. And it doesn’t seem abnormal at all, does it ? Choosing a life

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If you guys watched All The Best, you remember how Sanjay Mishra steals the show in it with his “Just Chiiiiiilll” dialogue ? Or Amit Mistry in the movie 99 ?Something similar happens to Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani – after the movie you remember Prem’s dad Darshan Jariwala in the movie more than anyone else (unlike the famous dialogue of the movie itself). The movie, is not much ‘Ajab’ as the

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Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani [IMDB]The movie is about a boy who is madly in love with the beautiful Jennifer and his crazy mis-adventures that follow his quest Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina KaifDirection: Raj Kumar SantoshiJail [IMDB]'Jail' is the story of a common man who is living a dream life, till he lands up in prison for unknown reasonsCast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Mugdha Ghodse, Manoj

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Watching Julie & Julia was a great culinary experience – it makes you really hungry by the time you finish the movie – and you are inspired to give cooking a shot if you haven’t done it already !! However, more than just a collection of gourmet shots, Julie & Julia works very well in cataloguing the life of its two protagonists – blogger Julie Powell and celebrated cook Julia Child. Connected by

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London Dreams [IMDB]The story revolves around two childhood friends Arjun and Munnu who find a way to get from a small village in India to Wembley as Rock stars, having overcome their personalities Cast: Salman Khan, Ajay Devgan, Asin, Rannvijay SinghDirection: Vipul ShahAladin [IMDB]A modern day take on the age-old story of Aladin and his magic lampCast: Amitabh Bachhan, Ritesh Deshmukh,

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Julie & Julia [IMDB]Julia Child's story of her start in the cooking profession is intertwined with blogger Julie Powell's 2002 challenge to cook all the recipes in Child's first book Cast: Meryl Streep, Amy AdamsDirection: Nora EphronG-Force [IMDB]A specially trained squad of guinea pigs is dispatched to stop a diabolical billionaire from taking over the worldCast: Zach Galifianakis, Nicholas

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Blue [IMDB]250ft below the sea lies a fabled treasure, guarded by sharks. Aarav, Sagar and Sam – three men with differing motives try their luck at the treasure - but they have to battle much more than just sharks Cast: Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Zayed Khan, Lara Dutta, Katrina KaifDirection: Anthony DeSouzaAll The Best [IMDB]Two friends are compelled to swap their spouses to live up a lie

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Thankfully, from now onto the end of the year, there are good big-budget Hindi movies bunched up for release on every weekend. Hollywood hasn’t been scrimping on the big budget movies exactly, but they have been really disappointing so far. But if the last 2-3 weeks are any indication, we can look forward to getting some “good” Hollywood movies as well. In the last 3 weeks, I have seen Away We Go

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Acid Factory [IMDB]5 guys wake up inside a sealed acid factory with temporary amnesia - two of them tied up, the rest free. What they do next is for you to find out Cast: Dino Morea, Aftab Shivdasani, Fardeen Khan, Dia Mirza, Manoj Bajpai, Irfan KhanDirection: Suparn VermaSurrogates [IMDB]Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (

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Why don’t hindi movies come up with supercool names like “Inglourious Basterds” ? The name itself promises so much – evil men, lot of wickedness ….(Though its never quite explained why the bastards are called Inglourious – or why they are spelled in that way)Maybe its lesser directors who bother about tying all ends neatly in their movies - Tarantino and his ilk just make up really wicked crazily

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Growing up in a middle class family, you are constantly badgered to make up your mind about your career and then expected to work towards it. From where I come, most kids follow their fathers’ footsteps and join up for engineering – irrespective of whether they have the aptitude for it or not. And most do ok in life – grabbing a software job, frequenting Bangalore’s numerous pubs, till they (or

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Wake Up Sid [IMDB]Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Konkona Sen Sharma, Rahul KhannaDirection: Ayan MukherjeeInglorious Basterds [IMDB]Cast: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph WaltzDirection: Quentin Tarantino Cloudy With A Chance of Meat Balls [IMDB]Cast: Bill Hader (voice), Anna Faris (voice), James Caan (voice)Direction: Phil Lord & Chris MillerDo Knot Disturb [IMDB]Cast: Govinda, Ritesh

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Apologies for no posts last week – last weekend was spent with family in Goa and this weekend was Durga Puja Away We Go has been labelled a lot of things – road movie, coming-of-age movie – but if you ask me, it was one of the sweetest romantic movies I have watched in sometime. Its got no recognizable stars – infact the female lead is kinda ugly – but the two lead actors produce some wonderful

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Whats Your Rashee [IMDB]Cast: Priyanka Chopra, Harman BawejaDirection: Ashutosh GowarikerVicky Cristina Barcelona [IMDB]Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Javier Bardem, Penelope CruzDirection: Woody Allen Orphan [IMDB]Cast: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle FuhrmanDirection: Jaume Collet-SerraAway We Go [IMDB]Cast: John Krasinski, Maya RudolphDirection: Sam Mendes (director

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Wanted [IMDB]Cast: Salman Khan, Ayesha TakiaDirection: PrabhudevaDil Bole Hadippa [IMDB]Cast: Rani Mukherjee, Shahid KapurDirection: Anurag Singh Up [IMDB]Cast: Edward Asner (voice), Jordan Nagai (voice)Direction: Pete Docter, Bob PetersonBlue Oranges [IMDB]Cast: Rajit Sharma, Rati Agnihotri, Harsh ChhayaDirection: Rajesh Ganguly

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Sometimes you have no clue what to make about a movie - you like it, don’t like it ! And 9 is one such head-scratcher !The movie is an animation movie first. But then its also a thriller – and a sci-fi movie. And a Matrix like man-vs-machine plot (sans the acrobatics). And a couple of other plots that I cant remember. The characters are also type-cast – the weak leader, the strong & adventurous

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Do you want to know The Ugly Truth ? Push-up bras can work wonders !! Ok that’s not what the movie is about, but you do have to marvel at the results they produce …The Ugly Truth is not too far off though – it’s a risqué comedy about the battle of sexes – with enough sexist humor for you to wonder why it didn’t have an ‘A’ rating. But then it is also supremely entertaining movie for it. Gerard

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An alien spaceship comes to halt over the city of Johannesburg. The inhabitants of the ship cant seem to operate the ship anymore, so they are housed in a separate colony called District 9 in the city – which soon becomes a slum. Twenty years into the future, the aliens – nicknamed prawns for their appearance – have become unpopular with the Johannesburg residents and are to be moved to a new

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District 9 [IMDB]Cast: Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, Nathalie BolttDirection: Neill BlomkampThe Ugly Truth [IMDB]Cast: Gerard Butler, Katherine HeiglDirection: Robert Luketic 9 [IMDB]Cast: Elijah Wood (voice), Jennifer Connelly (voice)Direction: Shane AckerBaabarr Cast: Soham, Mithun Chakraborty, Urvashi Sharma Direction: Ashu TrikhaI Cant Think Straight [IMDB]Cast: Lisa Ray, Sheetal

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Think animation movie and we usually form images of Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and maybe Wall-E in our head. But there is a school of filmmakers that use animation as a medium to depict darker themes – it provides a distinctive visual experience compared to the regular celluloid. And I am not talking about graphic novels like 300 or Sin City – you need big money bankrolling animation studios for those.

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During a particularly scary moment while driving - when you lose control for a moment or you come really close to crashing - does your mind momentarily conjure up a picture of you all smashed up, limbs bent our of shape etc ? It happens to me for sure and after watching this movie, I am just going to imagine even more vividly :) !!Coz the fourth iteration of the Final Destination franchise takes

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In a break from the usual, watched ‘Walking on Broken Das’ – standup comic Vir Das’s performance at NCPA. And all I can say that it was really great – he just doesn’t stop making you laugh. Just make sure you aren’t at the front row – he might make fun of you :) !!Deducting 0.5 star for a couple of westernized jokes – but still a 4 star show. Do try to catch it if its playing in your city

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Aagey Se Right [IMDB]Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Kay Kay MenonDirection: Indrajit NattoojiThe Final Destination [IMDB]Cast: Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Nick ZanoDirection: David R. Ellis Chintuji [IMDB]Cast: Rishi Kapoor, Sophie Chaudhary, Priyanshu ChatterjeeDirection: Ranjit KapoorMohandas [IMDB]Cast: Sushant Singh, Nakul Vaid, Sonali KulkarniDirection: Mazhar KamranFox Cast: Sunny

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When you see a movie has Denzel Washington as its leading man, you know the movie usually be a notch above the others. Maybe because he is good at choosing scripts or just that he is good at his work – but I cant remember him in a really trite movie. The same holds true to some extent with John Travolta, though he seems to prefer stylish movies a bit more – which makes him the perfect villain.The

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Quick Gun Murugun is a little more than what you expect – and yet falls short of your expectations. It is the wacky tale of a ‘vegetarian-cowboy’ who takes on Rice Plate Reddy and his gang of villains. It is also a spoof of too many things to count – South-Indian-movies, standard bollywood masala movies, cowboy movies and even McDonalds !! Filled with smart jokes – they will have you howling with

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Quick Gun Murugan [IMDB]Cast: Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Rambha, Raju Sundaram Direction: Shashanka GhoshThe Taking of Pelham 123 [IMDB]Cast: Denzel Washington, John Travolta Direction: Tony Scott Love Khichdi [IMDB]Cast: Randeep Hooda, Sonali Kulkarni, Riya Sen, Rituparna Sengupta, Direction: Srinivas BhashyamRace to Witch Mountain [IMDB]Cast: Dwayne Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander

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Usually guys are not the first ones to like any romantic comedy – definitely not more than girls atleast. Yet after watching Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, we two guys thought the movie was quite decent entertainment while the missus blew off the movie completely !! Turns out that the disappointment was mainly because of how jaded Matthew McConaughey looks :)Which is true ofcourse – Matthew

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Sikandar [IMDB] Cast: Parzan Dastur, Ayesha Kapoor, Sanjay Suri, Madhavan Direction: Piyush Jha G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra [IMDB] Cast: Christopher Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller Direction: Stephen Sommers Shadow Cast: Nasser Khan, Hrishita Bhatt, Milind Soman Direction: Rohit Nayyar Ghosts of Girlfriends Past [IMDB] Cast: Matthew McConaughey,

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It felt like it had been a really long time since I had watched a movie – and the missus also felt the same. Yeah we had watched Kaminey, but I guess after a full day of boozing on the beach, it isn’t the same thing :) ! And the promos of Life Partner showed some promise, so off we went last night.And surprisingly, Life Partner is actually quite a fun movie, especially in the first half ! The

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Vishal Bhardwaj’s evocatively titled Kaminey is a gangster flick on the lines of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Translation – it’s a really good movie about a bunch of thugs and bandits all running after the same big prize – and each of them are nuttier than the other !! Unfortunately, revealing any more about the prize is or the characters would take away the fun of watching the movie

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Kaminey [IMDB] Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Amol Gupte Direction: Vishal Bhardwaj Life Partner [IMDB] Cast: Govinda, Fardeen Khan, Genelia DeSouza, Tushar Kapoor, Prachi Desai Direction: Rumi Jaffrey Before The Rains [IMDB] Cast: Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Direction: Santosh Sivan

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Sorry for the delay in the reviewThe weekend was spent in some outdoorsy activity and with such an insipid movie, sometimes writing about it becomes a chore. Yes, Public Enemies – with its much vaunted cast of Johnny Depp and Christian Bale and fairly illustrious director Michael Mann - fails miserably as a movie. As a documentary covering the career of John Dillinger, maybe it works, but as a

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Agyaat [IMDB] Cast: Nitin Kumar Reddy, Gautam Rode, Nisha/Priyanka Kothari Direction: Ram Gopal Verma Public Enemies [IMDB] Cast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale Direction: Michael Mann Teree Sang Cast: Ruslaan Mumtaz, Sheena Shahabadi Direction: Satish Kaushik Dragonball Evolution [IMDB] Cast: Justin Chatwin, Yun-Fat Chow, Emmy Rossum, Jamie Chung Direction:

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Imagine the battle scenes of 300 set in the beautiful landscapes of Lord of the Rings – that’s the simplest description I can give about this epic Chinese movie. Loosely based on the actual historical battle at Red Cliff, it depicts the fight between a tyrannical Prime Minister Cao Cao and his million strong army against the 50,000 soldiers of Zhou Yu and Liu Bei. Staying true to Sun Tzu’s Art of

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-59931284280257181732009-08-02T10:11:00.004+05:302009-08-31T09:23:55.035+05:30

Boy meets girl. Boy and girl go out for sometime - before they separate (could be for any reason). Then love guru comes in and encourages boy to realise his love. Sometime later, boy suddenly realises he loves girl and rushes back to girl who has been pining away for him all this while. Happy ending !!If you deconstruct any love story, it looks as daft as this. But most of the memorable romantic

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-53732142823733186822009-07-31T09:43:00.003+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.657+05:30

Love Aaj Kal [IMDB] Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Rishi Kapoor, Rahul Khanna Direction: Imtiaz Ali Red Cliff [IMDB] Cast: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Wei Zhao Direction: John Woo

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-56539220076647595192009-07-25T11:00:00.003+05:302009-08-31T09:26:33.237+05:30

If it were not for Kahmunrah, the crazy lisping Egyptian pharaoh, Night at The Museum : The Battle of The Smithsonian would be a killer movie – it would bore us all to death !! The second edition of Night at the Museum features Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) and all his old pals – Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Octavius, Teddy Roosevelt (Robin Williams), the monkey etc. And some new characters – the

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-89812291128878511592009-07-24T10:04:00.008+05:302009-11-29T09:33:10.268+05:30

Although you might not have heard about it at all, Sankat city is a delightful surprise. First time director Pankaj Advani delivers a very enjoyable two hours – on what must have been a very tight budget. The cost cutting is visible in the opening scenes, where the Chunkey Pandey scenes look quite … handycam-ish. But the distraction is not for long and you soon adjust to the cinematography. The

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Luck [IMDB] Cast: Imran Khan, Shruthi Haasan, Mithun Chakraborty, Ravi Kissen, Sanjay Dutt Direction: Soham Shah Night At The Museum : Battle of the Smithsonian [IMDB] Cast: Ben Stiller Direction: Shawn Levy Perfect Mismatch [IMDB] Cast: Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Nandana Sen Direction: Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-33696866068655536012009-07-17T10:02:00.003+05:302009-08-31T09:31:33.550+05:30

After numerous helpful suggestions and mentions in previous posts, the missus finally makes her official debut on the blog ...Harry Potter & the Half Blood Prince happens to be my favorite book of the series and I just had to catch this movie on the first day. And was I disappointed or what! I still can’t believe how the scriptwriters managed to screw up the plot when they had one of the

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-16576889484044549672009-07-17T07:50:00.001+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.658+05:30

Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince [IMDB] Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint Direction: David Yates Jashnn Cast: Adhyayan Suman, Anjana Sukhani, Shahana Goswami Direction: Raksha Mistry, Hasnain S Hyderabadwala Dekh Bhai Dekh Cast: Siddharth Koirala, Gracy Singh, Raghuveer Yadav, Vijay Raaz Direction: Rahat Kazmi The Brothers Bloom [IMDB] Cast:

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If you ask me, what was the one scene that stood out a couple of days after watching ‘The Proposal’, I honestly cant pick up anything. Ok, maybe the beautiful Alaskan landscape, but that’s it. Its not a bad movie at all – it is a feel-good happy movie shot in beautiful locales – but you come out of the theatre thinking “Hey, haven’t we seen all this before?”Plot-wise, it’s a combination of Devil

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Can’t help but compare the two – actually three - sequels running at your nearest multiplex. While both Terminator : Salvation and Transformers : Revenge of The Fallen have completely lost their bearings, Ice Age : Dawn of The Dinosaurs remains firmly grounded in its origins and delivers yet another really enjoyable experience at the theatre.The plot is like this – Manny & Ellie have settled down

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-6687341610755868832009-07-11T01:11:00.003+05:302009-08-31T09:33:23.956+05:30

Take a hot chica Megan Fox and clothe her in really sexy clothes – and make her work on engines all day and a biker babe as well. So when she seductively says ‘camshaft’, the men just cant stop drooling over her. Then take a few giant robots and make them fight – with lot of slow-motion jumps and rollovers. And then fill in the gaps with explosions !! Big ones, even bigger ones and then some

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Transformers : Revenge of The Fallen [IMDB] Cast: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox Direction: Michael Bay Short Kut [IMDB] Cast: Arshad Warsi, Akshaye Khanna, Amrita Rao Direction: Neeraj Vora The Proposal [IMDB] Cast: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds Direction: Anne Fletcher Morning Walk Cast: Anupam Kher, Sharmila Tagore, Rajat Kapoor, Divya Dutta, Avika Gor Direction: Arup

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-41177050015328444262009-07-04T22:14:00.003+05:302009-08-31T09:34:00.777+05:30

The first Terminator movie without Arnold Schwarzenegger. How will it be – especially since the last one with Arnold was pretty terrible ?Well, Terminator Salvation manages to uphold the tradition of the third millennium Terminator movies – it is a disaster too (the first two good ones were made on the other side of 2000). If you want to cherish your memories of the ubercool Terminator, then

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-87744152712940398002009-07-03T23:03:00.001+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.659+05:30

Kambakkht Ishq [IMDB] Cast: Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor Direction: Sabir Khan Ice Age : Dawn of the Dinosaurs [IMDB] Cast: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Dennis Leary Direction: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier

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After reading/hearing decidedly mixed reviews about New York, my curiosity got the better of me and I watched it last night. (The other option was the preview show of Kambakkht Ishq – thank god didn’t go for that. Looks like its an unmitigated disaster) Going by our post-movie discussion (me and wife’s), this is surely not the final word on New York. Our usually convergent views were decidedly

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-15410189911790023552009-06-30T08:48:00.004+05:302009-08-31T09:35:50.027+05:30

I have been trying to analyze why The Hangover is such a uproariously funny movie – and I cant seem to be able to pinpoint any one single reason (or two or three or four for that matter). I mean the plot is not at all new - 4 guys have a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas two days before the marriage. The group itself is predictable – one hen pecked guy, one dashing ladies guy, one fat moron and

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-89880335714205360582009-06-26T13:00:00.002+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.660+05:30

New York [IMDB]Cast: John Abraham, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Katrina KaifDirection: Kabir KhanTerminator Salvation [IMDB]Cast: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Helena Bonham CarterDirection: McG Bolt [IMDB]Cast: John Travolta (voice), Miley Cyrus (voice)Direction: Byron Howard, Chris WilliamsThe Hangover [IMDB]Cast: Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, Ed HelmsDirection: Todd PhillipsRunway [

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Wolverine is Kick-ASS !!! That’s it – the movie summed up !!Actually a lot of people’s get their asses kicked and not necessarily by Wolverine – that just adds more to the fun :) !! Wolverine : Origins traces the origin of Logan and his brother Victor (Sabertooth of X Men 1) – over more than a century as they take part in all the major wars of their times. And all throughout the movie, Logan and

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It was one of those regular Thursday night preview shows – 10.30pm show at Cinemax, Infiniti Mall and I sauntered in after booking tickets for X-Men Origins : Wolverine at Rs.160 to find this (Apologies for blurry-cam - poor 2MP camera cant do any better)It took me a couple of seconds to register that we had walked into some sort of premiere – because of waiters going around with appetizer trays

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-58687651991702661212009-06-19T08:12:00.001+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.660+05:30

X Men Origins : Wolverine [IMDB]Cast: Hugh Jackson, Liev Schreiber, Danny HustonDirection: Gavin HoodPaying Guests [IMDB]Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Celina Jaitley, Javed Jaffrey, Ashish Chaudhary, Neha Dhupia, Riya Sen, Vatsal Seth, Sayali BhagatDirection: Paritosh Painter Hum Phirr Milenge - Even IMDB has nothing on this movie ..

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I have been wanting to write a book review for sometime now, since I started reading again after almost an year’s hiatus. No particular reason why I stopped, but I know why I restarted – because my stupid laptop keeps breaking down !! I happened to read 3-4 books in the last month – mostly trashy, but this one was impactful. Don’t know if I will be able to write about all of them ...The Reluctant

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We had planned on going to Bride Wars this weekend, but changed plans last minute to 17 Again – after reading some less-than-stellar reviews on IMDB. I figured a high school movie would be a better chance at having some fun. And thank god we did, because Bride Wars got some really horrible reviews everywhere - almost the same level as Kal Kissne Dekha :) and that’s saying something …17 Again

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After countless action-comedy roles, Jackie Chan is finally giving serious acting a try in Shinjuku Incident. Yes you heard that right – there is no ‘slam-bam-haha’ action in the movie, where Jackie Chan single handedly fights off scores of baddies. Instead, it’s a story of Chinese immigrants who enter Japan illegally in search of that elusive prosperity – but are condemned to live in ghettoes

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-44304505233448985042009-06-08T09:30:00.004+05:302009-08-31T12:24:47.812+05:30

I cant recollect how many times I have heard/read the phrase “Beam Me Up Scotty”. And it ALWAYS irritated me that I didn’t know about it – though I definitely had a vague idea what it meant. Yes, I confess I have never watched any Star Trek – neither the movies nor the TV series. So you can understand my hesitation to watch, what is the ninth film of the series … But wifey would have none of it,

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As I was scrounging around for a book to read in the weekend, I found some DVDs stacked in one corner of the cabinet. I had bought these on a whim at Crossword or Landmark, attracted by the bargains on offer – and conveniently forgotten about them. But with nothing to do in the weekends (and the missus slaving away at the office), I decided to use my time productively …Rang Birangi was the first

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There are three movies releasing this weekDetective Naani [IMDB]Ocean of an Old Man [IMDB]Border Town [IMDB]Two of them even IMDB doesnt have any information !!!So dont waste your time on these random movies and do something else - like watching 99 (if you havent done it yet).

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Right from the word go, 99 seems to be a bit ‘different’ !! Even the normally humdrum disclaimers that you see in the beginning of a movie (“Any resemblance to real people or events is a coincidence .. blah blah”) sings a different tune for this movie – you will understand when you see it. And on hindsight, it was a fair warning.Coz nothing else about the movie – the unknown director pair of

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99 [IMDB]Cast: Kunal Khemu, Soha Ali Khan, Cyrus Broacha, Boman IraniDirection: Krishna D.K., Raj NidimoruDoomsday [IMDB]Cast: Rhona Mitra, Emma Cleasby, Malcolm McDowellDirection: Neil Marshall

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While the producer-multiplex strike drags on and on, cinemas are desperately hunting around for something to show. And among other things, they came up with the 2007 Russel-Crowe-and-Christian-Bale-starrer 3:10 To Yuma. (For those who do not recognize the name Christian Bale, a hint – Batman !!)It is a classic western – set in the wild west in the late 19th century when the railroads are just

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-23682211265348146852009-04-24T19:50:00.004+05:302009-08-31T07:55:26.662+05:30

My Mom's New BoyfriendCast: Antonio Banderas, Meg Ryan, Colin Hanks, Selma BlairDirection: George Gallo

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Maybe multiplex-movie producers strike is a good thing – I probably wouldn’t have gone for Monsters vs. Aliens if things had been normal – it seemed more like a kiddie flick. And as I have consistently proven over the year on this blog, I can be quite erroneous in my assumptions !! You should definitely catch this one – with or without kids !!It’s a DreamWorks animation (makers of Shrek and

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Chowrasta - Crossroads of LoveCast: Atul Kulkarni, Rupa Ganguly, Victor BannerjeeDirection: Anjan DuttaMonsters vs. Aliens Cast (voices) : Reese Witherspoon, Seth Rogan, Kiefer SutherlandDirection: Rob Letterman & Conrad Vernon Dashavatar(Hindi dubbing of Tamil original Dasavatharam)Cast: Kamal Hassan (10), Asin, Mallika SherawatDirection: K.S. Ravikumar

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Lack of new movies for the last two weeks meant that we are forced to watch movies which we would normally have passed by. Confessions of a Shopalcoholic was released two weeks back, but I watched it only yesterday. Not that it’s a particularly horrible movie – it is a typical chick flick – a romantic comedy. Just similar to the two hundred or so movies before it - but a nice feel-good movie all

Pradoshnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8601660922590378501.post-27929899143965093862009-04-13T15:20:00.002+05:302009-08-31T12:41:06.306+05:30

Apologies to everyone for not posting in a while - had gone home for a week. But then couldnt have been at a better time - since there are no new movies being released :)Although confusingly titled, this is actually the 4th iteration of the Fast & Furious franchise – and dare say, they have finally gotten their act together. Most of the people I know (including myself) kinda enjoyed the original,

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8 x 10 TasveerCast: Akshay Kumar, Ayesha TakiaDirection: Nagesh KukunoorFast & Furious(Fast & Furious 4)Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul WalkerDirection: Justlin Lin Feel The Noise(Only released in PVR cinemas)Cast: Omarion Grandberry, Zulay HenaoDirection: Alejandro Chomski

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Every once in a while ... the entire universe is out to con you :) !!Seriously !! When IMDB tells you that a superhero movie made by Zack Snyder (the maker of the ubercool 300) is rated at 8.0 by the users and newspaper reviews give it a thumbs up, you just cant wait for the weekend to come - atleast I couldnt !And after the long wait, when the movie begins with an awesome hand-to-hand combat in

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WatchmenCast: Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin AkermanDirection: Zack Snyder (Director of 300)The InternationalCast: Clive Owen, Naomi WattsDirection: Tom Tykwer Aa Dekhen ZaraCast: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha Basu, Rahul DevDirection: Sangeet SivanIt is the first casualty of the Multiplex - Cine Producers dispute over revenue sharing and is being released only in

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This movie could easily call itself the Indian Slumdog Millionaire – not only does it have Indian artistes, the makers are also Indian :) !! Having certain similarities with both Arvind Adiga’s White Tiger and the runaway Danny Boyle success, Barah Aana is a story of three have-nots who are fed up of their wretched existence and decide to take matters into their own hands.Shukla (Naseeruddin Shah

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I admit that I was quite interested about Firaaq, mainly because of the international felicitation that it has received. Yet I was a little hesitant in going for the movie – especially after a long week at work - I didn’t want to watch a heavy movie about the Gujarat riots! I instead chose what I thought would be a light movie – Straight (and regretted it). But I couldn’t be more wrong about

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Parvati Balgopal's Straight tries to break the romantic comedy mould by bringing in a gay angle - but it doesnt succeed in making much of an impact on the viewer - atleast it didnt work for me. Wifey thinks it wasnt a bad timepass but I think the flaws overpower the good parts.The movie opens with a very innovative aeroplane graphic to show the generations of the Patel family who emigrated to all

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FiraaqCast: Naseeruddin Shah, Raghubir Yadav, Paresh Rawal, Deepti Naval, Sanjay Suri, Tisca ChopraDirection: Nandita Das Barah AanaCast: Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, Arjun Mathur, Violante Placido, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Benjamin GilaniDirection: Raja Menon Confessions of a ShopalcoholicCast: Isla Fisher, Vince VaughnDirection: P.J. Hogan StraightCast: Vinay Pathak, Gul Panag, Anuj Choudhry

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Intense and violent, Gulaal is a peek into the dusty Rajasthan heartland, where the bleakness of the surroundings complements its macho (and sometimes violent) men folk – the Rajputs. A dark and brooding tale about politics, lust and love - and how sometimes mixing these can go horribly wrong. The movie opens with a shot of the Thar Desert and the protagonist Raja Chaudhary walking towards a bar

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This weekend is turning out to be an embarrassment of riches ! First there was Gran Torino to recommend. Now there is Little Zizou - and Gulaal promises to be worth a watch as well.Though I have a peeve with the makers of Little Zizou - why are the trailers so bad ?? For such a wonderful movie couldn't they made the trailers a little more interesting? Even I could have made them better trailers

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If you ask me, this movie is worth watching just to see Clint Eastwood growl - at everything !!No seriously, he actually growls whenever he is angry ! And he is always angry in Gran Torino ....Clint Eastwood plays Walt Kowalski, a tough-as-nails Korean War veteran and a retired Ford worker. Living somewhere in a Midwestern suburb, Kowalski is the last remaining white man on his road. The rest of

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Even though it won the Oscar for the best actress and was nominated for best motion picture, I'd recommend you do not watch The Reader in a theater. Not that its particularly bad, no. Just that the censors have cut out scenes so horribly in the first 45 min that its a maddening exercise watching that part. There arent any more cuts thereafter, but the overall experience still has a bitter

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I have to clear one misconception first – though this movie is marketed as a horror movie, it is not. It’s a good suspense thriller with supernatural overtones. The good kind which makes you feel satisfied after coming out of the theatre – instead of the usual ‘plot hole’ discussions that follow every hindi thriller movie.The movie has Madhavan playing Manohar, a civil engineer who along with his

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Almost every couple likes to think they are special - their love is unique, their chemistry is out of this world or maybe even that they have the best sex ever!! That somehow, they are better than the others. And they try to back this up by hyping up every small celebration - an office promotion, a vacation abroad or a new car. But somewhere down the road of life, everyone comes around to the

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If you are the type who gets put off by the hype around a movie - in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, I'd recommend that you make an exception and go watch it - its really worth your time! Based on the intriguing premise of a person aging backwards - and based on a Scott F. Fitzgerald short story of the same name - Benjamin Button is an involving watch even though you already know the basic

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You know what – move over the Katrinas and the Deepikas – my new pinup-girl is Sonam Kapoor !! Man, she has an enchanting face - AND an enigmatic smile !! A little hard to quantify, but what sets her apart is that hint of mysteriousness – ahhh, beautiful :) If you don’t agree, go watch Delhi 6 (though the missus wasn’t quite floored by her, so maybe it’s just a guy thing)However, Sonam Kapoor is

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For a long time I thought The Stoneman Murders was a investigative documentary of some sort by NDTV – because I always saw the ads only on the news channels. And the ads only showed some guy shrouded in a blanket, about to smash someone with a big stone. It was only later that I saw Kay Kay Menon and Arbaaz Khan in the promos and realized it was a proper movie. But the big question about each

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Add Gabriele Muccino (maker of ‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’) & Will Smith (star of ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’) – and you should be looking at another moving, heartwarming drama about struggles and redemption. They both thought so too. Unfortunately, maybe they got a little cocky and figured that they knew exactly how to touch the audiences with emotional tear-jerker scenes - who knows. But the

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Its been a long time since I watched this movie – but it still deserves a reviewA collage of love stories is a common format used in romantic comedies – the best examples I can think of right now is Richard Curtis’ - Love Actually and our homegrown copy Salaam-e-Ishq. While both movies were panned by critics, I confess I quite liked Love Actually – but then I like Notting Hill … :)‘He’s Just Not

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