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This is how its done: My Favorite Song of the Year so far.
Of lately I have had a grudge towards the current era Indian song makers. Either the lyrics are cliched with the same old Maula rants and Labon pe Nami bullshit or Fevicol se Chipkana Non-sense. I am not trying to mix the two here by citing examples of deep emotional songs to the contrasting fun songs..but just trying to say how cliched both of them, these days are.
Similarly, the music directors seem to have lost the ease of fitting the lyrics in a tune and often it seems hurried or forced…Example: Saans se teri saans nikli toh–however dreadful the lyrics were, Rahman did a very mediocre job at the music too. Same with tonnes of Indian rock bands that come up with desperately dark sad music and cliched lyrics. Here’s one more example: the title track of Kurbaan–Kurbaan Hua–I find it highly repelling and a zabardasti ka song…..anyways I didn’t want to make it a hate post towards the songs I don’t like but actually in appreciation of the song that I did.
This song I believe has got the perfect amalgamation of lyrics and the music…Its a fun song and the sheer blend of the words and the tune make it extremely likable..
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Tagged Amit Trivedi, Articles, Emraan Hashmi, Ghanchakkar Babu, Vidya Balan
Highly Recommended Part 2 – Death Note Manga TV Series
Death Note Manga series – One of the brilliant series that I have ever come across after Prison Break. Brilliant concept, brilliant execution, brilliant dialogues and the war between good and evil or between the world’s 2 best minds.
Death Note is about a Note Book that has fallen into the human world from the Shinigami World. Whoever touches the Death note is able to see the Shinigami (monster type from the other world who used to be the actual owner of the book) and this death note happens to be real. Whose ever names written on the book shall die of heart attack within 40sec. You can very well control the time and action of the death but all you need is the real name and face of the person whose name will be written on the death note so that others are not affected from its results if the name turns out alias.
ContinueA Note on Commando
Following is not essentially a review but more of what I feel about action movies with Commando being the case in point.
Speaking strictly from a business perspective, wouldn’t it make more sense if there were more movies that catered to the vast male population who are hungry of some quality action cinema?
The Box office verdict of a movie like Commando does not contradict or negate my aforementioned question. Commando is just a first in the line (hopefully) of some others to follow. A small budget action movie centered on a hugely talented Vidyut Jamwal and his breathtaking stunts, Commando serves exactly what has been missing from the Hindi movie Action scene.
Have you ever wondered why Die Hard is such a celebrated and loved movie all around the world? So much so, that when every other year, a new Die Hard movie comes to screen, people do think about giving the first one a watch again-just because of the sheer mention of the title!! It’s because, Die Hard shows what most action lovers want to see in a movie- “Believable Action” In the fight of one vs. many, you can’t win based on your muscles or your heavenly presence; you can only win because of your skills and your intelligence.
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Tagged Articles, Commando, Exclusive, Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi, Member Reviews, Reviews, Vidyut Jamwal
The Other Side Of Amitabh Bachchan
Well I don’t know how many of you are aware of these facts or let me say the Other side of Amitabh Bachchan.
Amitabh Bachchan had given 12 consecutive flops before Zanjeer.
Sunil Dutt signed him for a mute’s role in Reshma Aur Shera because of a letter of introduction from then PM Indira Gandhi to friend Nargis.
Kalyanji-Anandji helped him in his struggling days and even introduced him to Prakash Mehra
Comedian Mehmood was also a mentor to Mr Bachchan in his days of struggle and offered him place to stay in his own home.
Kader Khan - Former Mentor and dialogue writer of many films starring Amitabh
Bachchan lashes out at Amitabh Bachchan in an interview. “Kader Khan told that Amitabh Bachchan discouraged him to join politics, while he himself became M.P. He said that Amitabh told me, ‘if people will approach you for politics, then I would tell them that you are not the right person, I would discourage them to vote for you, I will ensure that you don’t win’. Kader Khan, who wrote dialogues for Amitabh’s hit films like Satte Pe Satta, Naseeb, Muqadder Ka Sikander, says that Amitabh was ruined by politics. Kader Khan further added ‘My relationship with Amitabh got ruined after he became MP.
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Tagged Amitabh Bachchan, Articles, Exclusive, Jaya Bhaduri, Kader khan, Mohabbatein, Nargis, Parveen Babi, Rekha, Silsila, Sunil Dutt, Yash Chopra, Zanjeer
JTW’s most awaited films for the year 2013
I know I’m a bit late to give this post, but better late than never I suppose. So here’s my list of the most awaited films of 2013 (or those which are expected to be released in 2013; knowing big-budget films and the competition, date changes are not all that impossible these days). 2013 was supposed to be the year of the blockbuster, though the start has been lacklustre. Here’s hoping to a turn-around later on!
Films are listed in the order of their release date. Please do comment in the comments section and tell me your thoughts about this post, and about your own awaited films of this year.
ZANJEER (May 10)
The remake to the 1973 film of the same name, Zanjeer has been on my radar for some time. It has a pretty good (albeit slightly outdated) plot, which should hopefully be well-upgraded. The presence of big-name Priyanka Chopra should help. The film promises semi-classy entertainment; my only gripe is whether the makers will opt for the full-on masala route, which has witnessed a major disaster in Himmatwala recently. The production problems, however, are worrying, and its almost certain that the film won’t meet the given release; promotions have barely started, and one month is insufficient for this kind of film.
ContinueBlast from the Past: Alka Yagnik lashes out at Anuradha Paudwal
Today is Alka Yagnik’s birthday. So check out this article/interview of her from 1997 where she lashes out at Anuradha Paudwal for dubbing over her songs.
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Tagged Alka Yagnik, Amitabh Bachchan, Anuradha Paudwal, Articles, Blast from the Past, Dil, Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen, Exclusive, Gulshan Kumar, Interviews, Itihaas, Madhuri Dixit, Raj Kanwar, Retro, Twinkle Khanna
Why these filmmakers met Steven Spielberg
A couple of days ago Steven Spielberg was in India and apparently 61 filmmakers attended his masterclass. Now I don’t know all 61 one of them but here’s my idea why some of them were there.
Abhishek Kapoor – He wanted to make yet another movie on friendship and wanted to cast Dino-the Jurrasic Park Dinosaurus , Abraham the Lincoln and one of the many aliens in many of steve’s masterpieces. Allah ke naam pe ek alien de de re baba.
Anurag Kashyap – He wanted Spielberg to learn to speak French and read hindi and see Gangs of Wasseypur’s French DVD (with hindi subtitles) and then tweet about it, so that he can retweet it.
AR Murgadoss- He wanted to tell Spielberg that he should learn from Christopher Nolan to make impossible to understand movies like Memento so that the desi junta can’t get a thing of it and he can remake it with 4 songs and south indian action.
Ashutosh Gowarikar- He went there to advice Spielberg to not edit his movies that much. If it goes over 3 hours- Its okay.
Ayaan Mukherjee- Who is he?
R.Balki - He wanted to cast Spielberg as the next little thing in his movie about diminishing returns.
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Tagged Articles, Exclusive, Steven Spielberg
I Like the VERSATILITY of SRK and Hrithik
Shah Rukh Khan has been in the industry for more than 20 years now and he has been giving HITs throughout his career. Most of his Hits is in Romantic genre and So media has tagged him the ‘King of Romance’. This has made many people believe that he is just keep on doing romantic movies which is far from truth. I am covering basically two points i.e. Versatility in choosing the type of movies and Versatility in acting. I am assuming that we know the meaning of versatility so that when I mention about the movies like Ra.One, Ashoka and Paheli you will not have any chance to say that they were Flops.
Versatility in choosing movies
I feel, among the present lot, SRK is the most versatile actor when it comes to choosing movies in different genres. He has done the role of a romantic hero who lures his heroines by his charm to a wicked man who can do anything for revenge of his father’s death. A mentally challenged man to a Superhero. Just look at his filmography and you can see the Diversity. Short film with Arundhati, KHKN, DDLJ, Baazigar, Dil se, PBDHH, Pardes, Hey Raam, Ashoka, Swades, Koyla, Baadshah, MNIK, OSO, CDI, Don, Ra.one.
Hindi Cinema’s Most Lovable Comical Productions Of All Time
I have tried to list the Hindi Cinema’s Best Comedy Movies in order but no matter what you try, you will miss some movies that deserve to be named or ranked highly over others.
I have not rated “Chupke Chupke” and “Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron” in top 10 to which some may object as I personally thought others deserve better ranking than them. Any how below is the list and I think it may act as a reference point as well for comedy film fans.
PS: I have deliberately missed out few Amol Palekar’s, Shammi Kapoors, Mahmood’s and Raj Kapoor movies along with some old classical’s that i can’t remember or recall it.
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Tagged Andaz Apna Apna, Articles, Chachi 420, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Dulhe Raja, Exclusive, Golmaal, Hera Pheri, Padosan, Pushpak
Earliest Movie Memories
My Earliest Movie Memories are probably not from the the first movie I ever saw because I may have been too young and I probably have no recollection of it. This is about my first recollection of something from a movie.
All I remembered from that movie was the song John Jani Janardhan and a scene where people slip on marbles and throw cake at each other. I remember finding that scene hilarious and laughing a lot during that scene. Also remember that it rained while we were coming back from the movie. Many years later I would find out that the song John Jani Janardhan is from the movie Naseeb. Naseeb released in 1981 so I doubt that I saw the movie in the year of its release coz that would make me too young
May be we saw it during a rerun a couple of years later. I re-watched the movie in the early 90s and did not like it much though. Anyways here is the scene I am talking about which I now don’t find it that funny
Stop watching at 25 min.
And here is the song John Jani Janardhan.
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I first saw The Matrix in my early teens. All my friends saw it and they said they couldn’t understand it and so they had to see it multiple times. When I saw it, I believed I got it immediately and felt really good about it. Since then I have seen The Matrix multiple times only to realize how little I understood about the film, the first time I saw it.
For those born in the 80s, the Matrix (and its sequels) is the best Science Fiction movie out there. I could have easily called it arguably the best sci-fi movie of all time but then I believe every generation has an acceptance threshold that stretches over time and hence something that blasts a generation’s mind in majority is specific to that generation. The reason why an ‘Inception’ could be digested (given its twisted nature) was because we already had a Matrix.
What works most about The Matrix is the philosophy of good vs. bad and more importantly truth vs. unreal. “Is that Air, you’re breathing?”says Morpheus while training Neo and all of a sudden it hits the audience- they are in the Matrix, it’s their mind at work.
One of the most noteworthy features of the Matrix trilogy is the attention to detail.
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Tagged Andy Wachowski, Articles, Carrie-Anne Moss, Exclusive, Keanu Reeves, Larry Wachowski, Laurence Fishburne, The Matrix
How talking the walk makes “it” big.
First there used to be stories, then came plays and then came screenplays. The transformation of paper to stage or reel is indeed a highly likable one. People could read the text and watch it as a motion picture and compare. Sometimes it worked better, sometimes it invited criticism. In other words walking the talk is indeed something that everyone would look forward to – just to see what became of it.
Another important and fascinating development that took place as stage plays and motion pictures became really big (so big that screenplays became original and scripts were written only so that a movie can be made on them) was the reviews, features and analytical pieces written in appreciation/criticism or even interpreting the films. From occasional sections in newspapers, to film journal regulars to dedicated reviews the “about movies” texts have come a long way. These days we have an IMDb where people fight it out based on their tastes and views on movies. There are question answer sections where people discuss their interpretations of the film or how they could or couldn’t get the hidden abstract meaning of something in the film or how the film is much bigger than what others think of it.
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Check out this funny scene from the cult comedy Hera Pheri. 