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 17:15 | 6/Dec/2005 |
| Alright, so I skipped posting... | |
| Yesterday, I just really needed a day minus computers.Didn't quite get that, because I rushed to a cybercafe -- because the Press Information Bureau's Media Centre promptly (and prematurely) closed down its net connection as soon as the closing ceremony ended -- and sent off the IFFI awards story by noon.But then I wanted to explore Goa. You'll get...
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| 18:09 | 4/Dec/2005 |
| Mr Director? | |
| The weekend has seen me getting under movie directors' skins.Saturday saw the premiere of (the awful) Dubai Return, an Aditya Bhattacharya film starring Irrfan and Razak Khan. The cast walked in late, and the audience wouldn't have any of it. They booed as the 'stars' entered 20-25 minutes late, and this angered the director.Singling out a member o...
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| 17:50 | 4/Dec/2005 |
| And the winners are... | |
| Ah, so things finally end.And I find myself in the unenviable position of sitting through the IFFI awards ceremony and not having watched any of the three winning films. Sigh. The choices we make based on awful synopses.Despite much hype for Olga (the journos were almost unanimous in betting that the Brazilian film will win, and my unfailing wager-...
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| 13:27 | 4/Dec/2005 |
| Why I liked Perumazhakkalam | |
| Oz desi, a good friend to this blog, pointed out quite correctly that while I raved about this Malayalam film a couple of posts ago, I didn't even give a brief synopsis. My bad, sir, here you go: Kamal's Perumazhakkalam, translated roughly, means While It Rained Hard. The famed Kerala rains are an integral part of the film, in both its visual aesth...
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| 13:12 | 4/Dec/2005 |
| I'm tired of Sanjay Dutt... | |
| ... and he isn't even here yet.Don't get me wrong, I like the lanky stubbled one quite a bit, and enjoy his screen-presence, but today's the last day of IFFI, and he's irritatingly everywhere.The omnipresent posters of the latest Sanjay Gupta film, Zinda(a remake of the superb Korean flick, Oldboy! -- will this director ever stop slaughtering cult ...
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| 16:30 | 3/Dec/2005 |
| Of wild boars and wilder parties.. | |
| Yesterday saw the much-delayed (the film was made in 2002!) premiere of the French film, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra. After the first Asterix film, I was expecting nothing from this new adaptation, and sat in the theatre feeling shortchanged that the sublime Monica Bellucci (Cleopatra) hadn't flown down. Seeing her in the flesh would make u...
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| 21:32 | 1/Dec/2005 |
| Best Competition film so far.. | |
| I agree that I might be missing a lot of good cinema because of running around helter-skelter, but today I managed to catch Kamal's Perumazhakkalam.The film is brilliant, and while a lot of us might be partial to entries from countries like Iran, I urge you to phone in your local DVD store, and catch this Malayalam gem.A deeply tragic tale, the fil...
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| 12:48 | 1/Dec/2005 |
| A brimful of Bipasha | |
| A friend was reading the interview I did with Bips, for Apaharan.(at http://specials.rediff.com/movies/2005/nov/30sld1.htm, by the way)She asks, "How long did you spend with Bipasha for the interview?"Me: About 50-odd minutes, on the record.She says, "So, you spend almost an hour talking to her about a movie where she has a nine-minute role?"(Pause...
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| 13:29 | 30/Nov/2005 |
| Quote of the night | |
| At the Chief Minister's party at the Taj Village, Fort Aguada last night, I ran into director Pankaj Parashar.The director of films like Jalwa (which cast Naseer brilliantly against type) and the unbelievably trippy Peechha Karo, not to mention unforgettable TV series Karamchand, spoke to me about his upcoming film, Ek Dhun Benares Kee, starring Ur...
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| 20:07 | 29/Nov/2005 |
| Blame it on Raj Kapoor.. | |
| Because he's the one filmmaker the Europeans have gobbled up for a long while now.Bollywood has it's own set of cliches, and while they're a standard-issue lot, shuttling between melodrama and melancholy, they're very personal to Hindi cinema. Still, we've kinda tired of their predictable shackles, and Desinema Nouveau is trying to be different. We...
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