Archive for the ‘Movie Reactions’ Category
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Suddenly, oz finds a job.
Suddenly, oz finds that the job entails interviewing lead stars of all new releases from Bollywood.
Suddenly, all the happiness returns back into oz's running on porn-only life.
Suddenly, the CEO of the firm calls oz on his first day at work and gives him an assignment.
Suddenly, oz finds that the assignment entails, oz has to fly to Germany... his first
Suddenly, oz blurts out of sheer happiness Bhagwan ke Ghar der hain, andher nahin (Hinglish: In God's home there is a deer but not the Mumbai suburb Andheri)
Suddenly, the CEO informs oz the assignment in Germany... interview HR the star of the recent release Aap Ka Suroor...
Suddenly, all happiness oz has been experiencing ...
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Saturday, July 21st, 2007
Letter to Cinemahindra - God of movies who travels in an Indian Jeep.
Postmarked : July 20, 2007
From: Your tuch prani (Hinglish: very bad animal)
Dear God,
I ask you for forgiveness for I have sinned. My love for movies has been labelled by this world as crazy, psychotic, snobbish by other tuch pranis (Hinglish: extremely bad animals). But I walked on and on in this crazy dreamy land of movies constantly touching the Bollywood junction each Friday for even if I've had water of ghat ghat (Hinglish: canyon canyon), I can't do without my weekly Bollywood bhaat (Hinglish: 501 Export Quality Andhra Rice consisting of 50% mexican rice and 50% dirt/shit collected off the east coast of USA with ...
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
There's something darling about FnF that makes you laugh all throughout. Sometimes hard, at times a smile or otherwise you pass on the joke with a blank look.
A hash of "Snatch" this gets so trash, that in some weird way it produces plenty of moments that having you laughing your ass off. Was it the alcohol that I was consuming while watching this? Or was it a news that lightened up my day, that made me like many a moment in this movie, I have no idea what it was... but at the end of the movie, the list of stupidities, plot holes, unforgivable errors and above all a shot to shot copy of most of "Snatch" still did ...
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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007
Originally posted on PassionForCinema
Released in 2001, Das Experiment (The Experiment) did not quite register as a must watch on my list until I picked it up yesterday. One of those rare makes your hair stand up for hours after you've watched it, The Experiment represents an amazing amalgamation of an imaginative story coupled together with etching out human nature and it's psyche in not so normal situations.
It is rumored that The Experiment has had it's inspirations from "The Stanford Prison Experiment" (link), that was quickly shut down because of it's shocking results in the participants who volunteered in the experiment.
Back to the movie, taxi driver Tarek (Moritz Bleibtreu) reading a newspaper ad ...
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Friday, May 25th, 2007
Originally posted on Passion For Cinema.
Why are movies like "Shootout at Lokhandwalla" being given the green signal? Why do two or more production houses - firms that house people, living people, - come together to produce such movies? Why is Apoorva Lakhia still directing movies? What the FUCK does "true rumors" mean?
Did the team of SAL think the audience has scrambled brains? Did the team of SAL think that we, the audience, munch these scrambled brains while watching their movie? Did the team of SAL really understand the long forgotten word in their dictionary called "script"? Does the team of SAL have the word "script" in their dictionary? Had the producers of SAL seen Apoorva Lakhia's previous mind numbing ...
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Friday, May 18th, 2007
Good Boy Bad Boy (GB3) left me with the biggest puzzle of my entire life... Where was the amazing sense of humor we are so used to seeing in Ek Phool Char Kaante, Chalti ka Naam Gaadi and other movies of those dear 50s and 60s and 70s era... where did that humor vanish?
Fear not. It is back. Whatever the critics or those who have seen the movie may say... this is a movie for the entire family and should and must be watched again and again.
What's surprising is the writer director is Ashwini Chaudhary who made the award winning Dhoop, showing the struggles of a couple who fight for ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2007
The rum's aged 12 years... maybe 8... maybe 6 or perhaps not at all. Doesn't matter. Anurag Kamat and Nishikant Kashyap were two stooges who hid in a 20 foot container and arrived in the US, five years ago on a dark black friday taking a dombivili fast local to dive into the container waiting for them in the shipping yard. Now working as waiters in a dingy Orange County Desi restaurant where kulfi falooda is actually koolfi gathiya, since the clueless owner of the restaurant relies on these two container chaap refugees.
oz is sitting in the restaurant having Old Monk Rum with Coca Cola. The only place in California where you can enjoy this super Indian treat. Suddenly the ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
There are those you would shag and move on. And then there are those where everything comes to a standstill. There is no shock. There is no revelation in a monumental moment. There is no lightning, storm brewing up, thunderstorms.
It's all still. Calm. Still yes. Calm outside. Yes. Calm Inside. No. Six hours after the movie, the hangover exists.
No reaction to this movie can be done in a review clinic. It should be straight from the heart. Yet, how does one react when there is a storm in the density of stillness.
I, remain, still struck by The Namesake. Never in a long time have I been stripped naked by a movie. In the darkness of the theater.
The ...
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
It was the summer of '99. I lived in Australia along with my divorced mom. The school I went to had many students from Indian, students - who's parents had sent them to Australia to study, since I was told there is a dearth of good schools in India. I soon became fast friends with PimpleTop and then one day when he suggested that I come with him to see his hometown in India during our summer vacations... I readily agreed.
But that is not the reason, I, Jioz... am standing here on my toilet seat ready to dive into it and commit suicide. The reasons are much intense, one that shook my life and as it will yours O dear ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
10,000 years ago.
Mankind is learning the art of procreation. Action, Erection, Shoot & Lumpination. Alas the duffer, that man is, he hasn't learnt to shoot his love at the right spot. That secret, is held by a select few, who learn the art of shooting at the right spot for procreation by the reverend Groanacharya.
And then there is ozLuvya. His application for learning the hidden art has been rejected by the Erection for Procreation High School run by Groanacharya. But ozLuvya isn't deterred.
Respectfully, he goes deep into the jungle on a Mangal (Hinglish: Tuesday) and creates something, that laid the foundation of present day Porn Industry. ozLuvya created a naked woman from clay. Which is those ages was enough ...
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Sunday, January 21st, 2007
Background story:
Don Dawooz lives in Mumbai, posh area that is hidden behind Mumbai's coconut trees. Perfect hideout. Police jeeps, police vans, police bicycles and police handcarts go by Dawooz's house but can never see the house because of perfect covering and shelter provided by those coconut trees.
But wait... only two people know where Don lives. Politician Ma'am Mamtoz and Commissioner of Police Mr. Satkeloz.
But there is an other honest, forthright, upright, all right Police Inspector RanDuckoz who wants to end Dawooz's terror reign. And thus starts war between RanDuckoz and Dawooz.
Dawooz is losing. Frustrated he picks up his Sidekick brand mobile phone and climbs one of the coconut trees to get the network signal, so he can dial a ...
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Monday, January 15th, 2007
Now much has been said, punched, forced, viewed, counter viewed on the recent released "Guru". It's a different fact that now after the Abhiwarya engagement, Guru is no longer being talked about anywhere... ofcourse until the box office reports come out.
But since everyone has written about "Guru"... right from the "I-get-to-write-internet" blogger to the one who is more outrageous than Mr. Taran Adarsh... the ever sleek and hidden Mr. Subhash K. Jha, it wasn't worth taking the time to write about Guru.
So in short I'll say this. In Guru, I found Ratnam to be at his mediocre best. Which means he has made an absolutely jolly good movie, by Bollywood standards.
But if we look at "Guru" against a ...
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Thursday, January 4th, 2007
Backdrop: oz has received a call from Granny (Mom's side) and Granny (Dad's side). Ultimatum: Come to India and get married or else we will not be alive to see our 89th and 93rd birthdays respectively. Calls are followed by more calls from Dad (Come to India and get married or I will pluck out the last remaining hair on my skull and stop pouring your mom's handmade stupid oil that grows hair on the arms but not on the head) and Mom (Come to India and get married or I will stop making gajjar ka halwa, aloo parathas, mutter rice, kadhi, saron ka saag etc... for your Dad, Granny, Granny, Neighbors in Nainital, Neighbors in Bombay, the 986 members ...
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Friday, November 24th, 2006
Hero No. 1 flies down from the air onto the train. Background music... bang bang bang... The wind plays wonders with his Greek Godly hair. He is brazen bronze head to toe. Get up get up from your seats and bow as he gives a pose on the roof of the train to fashion photographers.
Hero No. 2 flies from the shore on his motor cycle and lands on the boat. The bad guys growl and frown. Mama didn't serve them breakfast hash browns. They stick guns on Hero No. 2's head and just stay there. Quick Click click click. Hero No. 2 goes into some odd dialogue baazi, that makes some grandpa sitting next to you, hide into grandma's pallu. ...
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Saturday, October 21st, 2006
It’s difficult to find a central location in SoCal (Southern California). An apartment/house which is in walking proximity to the mall, blockbuster video, Walmart, Grocery stores, Desi stores, 24 hour Fitness and hot blondes floating in the community swimming pool. It’s next to impossible.
But Farhan Akhtar has it all. Cinematic genes, films injected in his blood, a father who once was the sultan of screenplays and now is the king of lyrics, an army of craftsmen waiting at his beck and call to carve out his latest ideas into movies, a mom who literally grew up in Bollywood, a first movie which dared to defy the conventional dhishum-dhishum Bollywood story telling, a second movie which may have had good intentions, ...
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