Greetings my well wishers
I’ve blogged after a long long time, hell I can say its almost been eternity since I last blogged. Anyways I won’t make any excuses for not being active for so long.
Lets begin with the issue I’m addressing with this blog.
There have many many of those so called PATRIOTIC Indians who have [...]
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LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN: An Anti-Climax Treat
Posted in Movies on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cast: – Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Sir Ben Kingsley, Stanley Tucci & Sam Jaeger
Director: – Paul McGuigan
Screenplay: – Jason Smilovic
Year Released: – 2006
Run Time: – 1hr & 52 Minutes
We all know almost every story moves like a tidal wave with a linear format. First comes the Exposition, then the Rising Action, then [...]
Johnny Gaddaar: A Cinematic Masterpiece
Posted in Movies on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greetings My Well Wishers
Most of you know that I’m not in love with Bollywood movies. I don’t like most of them, especially the post 1980s movies. With predictable story lines, irrelevant songs & dances, larger than life characters, unnecessary melodrama and bad acting by most cast members, 90% of Bollywood Movies are Extremely Crappy & Totally [...]
Joker vs Joker
Posted in Movies, Videos on October 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Greetings my well wishers
In my opinion, The Joker (not any circus clown or court jester but the psychotic criminal from “Batman” series) is the Greatest Fictional Supervillain of all time, and even the Batman comics never give a reason to his nature.
He is an absolute, there is no origin story to him. Even his entry [...]
4 Underrated and Under-appreciated Movies of Indian Hindi Cinema
Posted in Movies on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In the past 60 years, as Indian Hindi Cinema evolved, there were some movies that were gems & masterpieces in their own right, some were seriously overwhelming gems, but were unfortunately commercially unsuccessful. The simple reasons for the box office failures for those movies were the fact that most of the movies either had no [...]
The 10 Greatest Films of Hindi Cinema
Posted in Movies on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Greetings My Well Wishers
I had vowed to write more and more on diverse topics, making the Blog as intriguing as possible.
But a You Tube Video compelled me to write this piece on Cinema Appreciation, something I was trying to avoid for some time. Sorry Adit & Shankar, I’d promised you that I’ll take on more [...]
Two Underrated Movies that You Must See
Posted in Movies on June 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The following movies were no Box Office Success in their respective countries. Maybe because as they were a “Breath of Fresh Air” in today’s world of Over the top cinema, most people avoided these movies. As a result, 9 out of 10 people wouldn’t have seen them and 5 out of 10 people would [...]