Last evening, I chanced upon Children of Heaven, playing on TV; vaguely remembering this movie as having won some accolades, I sat down to watch, and am I so glad I did! It has to be one of the sweetest and saddest movies I’ve ever seen. Children of Heaven is an Iranian movie that was […]
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by apu
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I finally got around to watching ‘Fashion‘ yesterday, and the movie was not as bad as some reviews had led me to believe. I thought there were some good performances and some women with ambition, rarely seen in Hindi cinema. But. What’s with showing every fashion designer as gay and every gay man as lisping, simpering […]
Posted on November 14th, 2008 by apu
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So I finally got around to seeing Rock On, over the weekend, though I’ve been wanting to see it for some time, if only for the fact that its theme of ‘four music band members split up and meet again after 10 years’ is something unique in Hindi cinema. (Does Rock On even qualify as […]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by apu
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Also known as, How to show every other group in a demeaning way, so that a bunch of young, heterosexual men can get some kicks.
Props:
1 woman, a nurse, dressed in an impossibly short skirt (Don’t forget a nice slit at the back)
2 silly young men, just being men
2 hospital beds
A mobile phone tucked away somewhere, […]
Posted on September 8th, 2008 by apu
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I suppose none of you (in India) have escaped the recent series of Airtel ads - Vidya Balan and Madhavan as a couple in various situations? I quite like some of them, for the way they manage to integrate product features with a story. I caught something peculiar about one of them yesterday. Remember the […]
Posted on July 9th, 2008 by apu
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I recently watched ‘Horton hears a Who’, the new movie adapation of Dr. Seuss’ 1954 classic. The movie is delightful. Along with ‘Ratatouille’, this is one of the few animation movies I’ve seen recently, that focuses on the story and characters, without getting lost in fancy animation techniques.
(Pic courtesy www.smh.com.au)
It has a moral without being […]
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by apu
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