Category Archives: Films
Rani Mukherjee’s Aiyyaa – Preview – Comedy of a Woman’s carnal desires
Comedy of a Woman’s carnal desires. Breakaway from middle class India’s obsession with the fair skin. Meenakshi desires the dark.
Feminist Film review: ‘Fashion’ and other Bhandarkar flicks
Madhur Bhandarkar makes films for the dummies. In the wake of the release of yet another cliched film for the dummies, Heroine, I am republishing my feminist film review of Fashion and other Bhandarkar Films. I have not seen Heroine yet, but I can predict what’s is it about. Not only does he make films […]
Indian Panaroma 2009 screenings at Siri Fort Auditorium: Movies to watch
The public screenings of Indian Panaroma 2009 is going on at Siri Fort Audotorium from 24th May to 6th Jun 2010. Its an amazing line up of films. Below is my list of the must watch films. My list is based on a random google search, of course there is hardly any quality content available […]
Darana Asaan Nahi Hai – It’s not easy to scare
This weekend I was bored at home, flipping tv channels, when I saw this very cheesy, formula driven badly executed horror movie One Missed Call. It was really quite a bore but I saw it anyway because there was nothing better to do. It was late in the night and I hit the bed immediately […]
Movie review – Luck: A demented psychopathic plot with sloppy direction
I don’t know what bad ‘luck’ had befallen upon me last night that I went to see the latest release ‘Luck’. What bad karma did I do in my past life that in this life I was destined to go through such a disturbing movie? Never before in my entire life did I walk out […]
Live Blog: My reaction to Filmfare awards ceremony 2009
8th March 7.45 pm Happy woman’s day to all my readers. A male friend said this day is to be wished only to woman. I said no, you can wish it to men too, its like independence day. Wanted to write a post on W-Day but was outside most of the time so couldn’t. I […]
Celebreted child artists of today’s award winning film Slumdog Millionaire: where do they go tomorrow?
Came across this story on NDTV that touched my heart. Couldn’t stop thinking about the question – Where do they go from here? Shafiq Syed, the child artist who played the lead role ‘Krishna’ in the Oscar Nominated 1988 film Salaam Bombay, a role for which he was given the National Award for Best Child […]
A Few Good Men: The most perfect romance
My idea of a perfect romance is what you see in the movie, ‘A Few Good Men’. If you have seen the movie you’d be wondering if I have lost it completely for the film doesn’t even have romance. Exactly. That is my idea of romance where you have two people whose lives are so […]
‘Rock On’ grows on you
Disclaimer: This is not a film review. When I really like a movie, the urge to share with the world why I liked it is uncontrollable. But when I write it down and publish on my blog I get the blame of being a hypocrite, they say, “oh you keep saying we don’t need film […]
Ugly Aur Pagli: Worked for me
Before you get misguided by the high minded critics in town who fail to appreciate simple things in life and movies, who look for reasons under the earth and beyond the sky to say bad things about any and every movie ever made unless they are paid well enough to say otherwise OR unless they […]
Good truth v Bad truth: A case of incestuous relationship between Josef Fritzl and his daughter
A horror house, a dungeon with secret chambers, where lived in captivity a family for 24 long years. A tender girl child of 18 year was lured in there on a casual pretext of carrying some stuff, then she was imprisoned leashed, handcuffed, raped and impregnated for 6 times over a period of 24 years. […]
Happy Birthday Aamir
You are the best thing that happened to modern day Bollywood and I simply Love you. All, watch out this space I am going to write a long post dedicated to this man by the end of the day today. Meanwhile, you could revisit my review rip off posts first and second. The two being some of my most […]
Live Blog: Filmfare Awards 2008
Info: This post have so far got 219 297 740 unique page views. It appears on the 3rd page if you google for “Filmfare awards 2008″ — 8.20 pm I am watching the Filmfare awards ceremony right now on Sony TV. I specially earmarked this evening for this show. Have got some popcorns that I […]
Future of New Media
The writer’s strike might end by Sunday. A bright future of new media ahead. Apparently, the new tentative agreement assures writers that it “protects a future in which the Internet becomes the primary means of both content creation and delivery.” That’s a major victory for new media stake holders. The end of the strike will […]
Memento:The mind Fuck
Yet to recover the Taare Zameen Par effect. Aamir is still on mind, which is good for me otherwise I write emotional crap on my blog. We all know Aamir’s next is the remake of Tamil thriller Ghajini. What we all probably don’t know is that Ghajini is actually inspired by this mind fuck movie […]
Taare Zameen Par | My response to Rangan Baradwaj
Addendum: 20th Jan 2008 Thought will share a little bit of info with you all. This post and the previous response to Raja Sen’s review went on to become my most popular posts ever. The first one got a total of 1039 unique page views from 23rd Dec till date and second one (present post) got […]
Taare Zameen Par | My response to Raja Sen’s Review
Now you might ask why am I picking up on the critique. Two reasons, one I had to show how much I admire Aamir’s work, I can’t stand anything written against him. Yes, I am biased. Second, I find these critics arrogant and snobbish. They tend to write bad things about all movies and even […]
Feminist Film Review: Fanaa
Introduction: “Change is the only constant”. That’s not my line but I particularly like it. I know just one way of living life, change. I don’t stay tuned to anything, body, person, concept, thought, believe, system, discipline, logic, reason, philosophy for too long. I change all of them. Or let’s say I move on from […]
Shilpa Shetty’s patriarchal mindset and Feminist Film Review – Water
This hype about Shilpa shetty is getting on my nerves. I read it somewhere, can’t remember the exact words but that Shilpa Shetty said, any man showing interest in her or wanting to date her should first seek her father’s permission Really, why Ms Shetty? Because you are your father’s property? Or would ‘chattel’ be the […]
Tom Cruise
The ultimate good looks. I can’t ever fully explain how good looking do I find him. Ok I know he isn’t the tall dark handsome kinds…but there is something about him…simply irresistable…and some how I feel he is a great person too. Oh c’mon isn’t this the most good looking face on earth? […]
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