Flashback #28
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Balraj Sahni, Bimal Roy, Bollywood, Calcutta, Cannes film festival, Cinema of India, Do Bhiga Zamin, Flashback, Neo Realism, Shambhu, villages in cinema
Do Bhiga Zamin (1953) (aka Two Acres Of Land)
Bimal Roy
Hindi
“The land is the farmer’s mother. How can I sell my mother?”
Post-war world cinema has been undoubtedly influenced by the Italian realist wave - be it the hard-hitting social commentary by Rosselini and Visconti or the soft delineation of day-to-day struggle by De Sica. After […]
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From Enochlophobia to Freedom!
Posted by KC as Bollywood, Delhi, Life, food, philosophy, weddings
I am not a very sociable person. Apart from a great reluctance to be the first one to strike up the conversation, I also think I suffer from, to say the least, a mild case of Enochlophobia. Google it if you don’t know what it means. So it is clearly established that I am, under […]
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Same Same But Different
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Bollywood, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na review, Nasseeruddin Shah, Review, a r rahman, aamir khan, aamir khan productions, abbas tyrewala, aditi, genelia d'souza, imran khan, jaane tu ya jaane na, jai, paresh rawal
No, this is not a review of Nagesh Kukunoor’s box office bomb Bombay To Bangkok (2007) but of debutant director Abbas Tyrewala’s Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na. Even before the film had got completed, the director had called it a typical Bollywood love story complete with its own quota of songs, fights and even […]
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News Blows The Fuse…
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Posts, Bollywood, HT, Today, aamir, aj tak, amitabh, awards, blog, dog, headlines, jaane tu ya jaane na, manipulation of information, media, news channel?, pappu, salman, shahrukh
Q: How many TV Today Network employees does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Nineteen. 2 guys to announce the problem and postpone it to a special show. 2 to host the special show. 3 experts to talk about problems without light bulbs. 3 experts to talk about problems with screwing in […]
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Daastan-e-Mohabbat
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as Akbar, All Blogs, Ashutosh, Bollywood, Gowariker, Hrithik, Jodhaa, Rahman, Review
The wait is over. Huge start to the project, lots of opposition from historians, religious controversies, strenuous shoot, massacre at the editing table…It has finally seen the light of the day. And how? Released on the Valentine’s day, the theme of the day blends with the theme of the movie. After having seen how inconsistent […]
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This Gaddaar Doesn’t Betray…
Posted by Srikanth Srinivasan as All Blogs, Bollywood, Gaddaar, Johnny, Raghavan, Review, Sriram, Thriller
I usually tune into the channels that play the new movie trailers. Invariably, I would think - “Hey, hold-on. This one looks like a rip off from . Upon the movie’s release, I would have confirmed that. Johnny Gaddaar didn’t look like an exception. The trailer started off like a heist movie and […]
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