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My friend is pissed off with my pronunciation on the word Ishqiya ,some how the movie was postponed on a other friends request for watching together.All set when we tried the tickets we had to run theatre to theatre for seats.I regret of not watching it on the first day.Ishqiya will be the best movie of the year (though very early to comment ) for its superlative screenplay and the culture.Great directors bring culture to their presentation and make the movie a history,Quentin Tarantino does that often.Vishal Bharadwaj should be very proud of his assistant Abishek chaubey on his maiden venture and first it was Vishal’s Kaminey and now his script Ishqiya turning out as the finest in the recent times. Ishqiya is a complex matrix of love and betrayal,Mafia .Set in Eastern uttarpradesh the movie moves around two individuals Khalujan (Nasurudeen shah ) and Bebbon (Arshad Warsi ) who run from their boses carrying his money and reach Krishna (Vidhyabalan) whose husband ,the duo’s old ...

Now every body got their answer to their Question why James Cameroon didn ’t make even a single movie after a sensational Titanic.After 12 years James Cameroon comes with Avatar which breaks through boundaries of film making technology. New experiences make new practices,and new practices make new culture.This is one such.There was a period when a generation grew watching Star wars,then it was Jurassic Park and then came Matrix and now its for next generation.Avatar.Avatar can not be just branded as a movie it just redefines the art of story telling to presentation.With Avatar James Cameroon delivers the richest and new to earth experience a viewer can ask for ! Pandora far away from Earth , human “Sky men’ and the animated humanoid inhabitants of Pandora, the Na'vi , engage in a war over the planet's resources . Jake a paralysed Ex US Marine operative enters in to the Pandora world through the Avatar program designed in space.Jake meets Neytiri ( Zoe Saldaña ) a N...

I was in sathyam for Inglorious Bastards and I was amazed to hear the shrill whistles when the name Quentin Tarantino appeared in the Title card.Its very difficult to be Quentin Tarantino because if any thing just resembles his style ,it can be easily branded as Copy cat from Tarantino.With Inglorious Basterds he just earns the uniqueness more with style and craft which he is made of. Inglorious Bastards is told in chapter and We laugh at the scenes which aren’t funny but this what the intention of Tarantino also.Jew Hunter (Christopher Waltz) allows a girl Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent) to escape.Four years later the same girl finds her opportunity to kill a Nazi premier league in a Film premier. Aldo Raine recruits a team of eight Jewish-American soldiers to France as civilians to create panic to the Nazis.The missions of the Bastards and Shosanna meet ,Jew hunter strikes a deal with Bastards, but the Bastards remain clear to their mission. Christopher waltz as the Jew Hunter is witty ,d...

Once when Farhan Akthar director of Dil Chahta Hai was interviewed on his passion on movies ,he said “one day I want to make a movie like Mean streets”.I didn ’t realise what could be this movie that day.Some day when you feel so dull or with your usual things ,you got to watch Scorsese.Scorsese is a specimen which can be never matched.Name any of his movies; every thing has its unique style ,though mostly it revolves around drug,Mafia or violence.The other day when Mathi and I were discussing on Scorsese Mrs. Mathi was furious to say Scorsese repeats his movie in different names. Mathi jumped to justify but I kept quiet,She should watch Mean streets for it uniqueness as a movie and style. Meanstreets also involves Mafia ,Violence but it moves around friends .It deduces among two friends Good Guy Charlie( Harvey Keitel ) who is the nephew of Local Mafia boss and the other guy Johnny boy ( Robert De Niero )who is mentally unstable . Charlie is tested by his friendship with John...

I hate Sanjay Leela Bansali’s Devdas for many reasons.Its a grand and luxurious portrayal of a stupid guy which was no where close to reality.When I was watching that movie I was thinking the same ,why in 2000’s you have to make such a kind of period movie which has no meaning to what the reality of history.Abhay Deol does this with style and we can understand the movie from the beginning what a modern day Devdas would be. Dev D is the modernday version of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas conceptulized by Abey Deol and directed by talented Anurag Kashyap.Story is the same ,but they have lot of real incidents which have been grabbed inside which gives the feel for this movie.We know who is Devdas.Who is Paro and Chandramukhi /Chanda .But they have different stories behind them to become the characters what we see in the movie. I was discussing with my friend about this movie and the character Dev and Paro.He said bet you wouldn’t like this guy Dev and he wa...

பலர் வியந்திருக்கலாம் ,ஏன் இன்னும் நான் கடவுள் விமர்சனம் இந்த பகுதியில் வரவில்லை என்று.நான் படம் திரை இட்ட அடுத்த சில கட்சிகளிலே பார்த்து விட்டாலும் ஏனோ என் மனம் ஒரு வித திருப்தி அடையாது போல் இருந்தது.பல முறை யோசித்து பார்த்தும் ,அடையாத ஒரு அதிருப்தியை அடுத்த சில நாளில் மீண்டும் ஒரு முறை தனியாக சென்று பார்க்கலாம் என்று முடிவு செய்து பார்த்தேன்.இரண்டாவது முறை படத்தை ஒரு ரசிகன் என்ற முறையில் அல்லாமல் ஒரு விமர்சகனாக இருந்து பார்க்க நினைத்தேன்.அதில் வெற்றி அடைந்தேனா என்று தெரியவில்லை,ஆனால் பாலாவின் நான் கடவுள் ஒரு மைல் கல் . பாலா என்ற படைப்பாளியாக இருப்பது ஒரு சுலபமான விஷயம் அல்ல.பாலாவின் படைப்பாக இருப்பதும் ஒரு சுலபம் அல்ல.அதற்கு உரிய வீரியமும் ,விஷயமும் அடக்கி அதை ஐந்து வருடம் கழித்து வெளியே வருவது அசாத்திய நம்பிக்கை உரிய காரியம்.பாலா என்ற மனிதனுக்குள் இருக்கும் கதைகளை நாம் என்றுமே பார்த்தது இல்லை.பாலா என்ற படைப்பாளி நமக்கு காட்டும் உலகம் நாம் பார்த்திராத உலகம்.சினிமாவை அறியாத உலகம்.இந்த முறை உலகம் கொஞ்சம் மாறுப்பட்டு இருக்கிறது,இதை நான் ஏன் சொல்கிறேன் என்றால் உலகையும் அதன் வாழ்கையையும் ...

It’s a shocker and its real .You can get many things what you want from this movie.It sweeps down all your expectations.There is no drugs,no blood ,no boss of bosses but still it’s a Martin Scorsese movie.Who else its Martin and Robert De Niero in a stunner for me .I was expecting a comedy film but it wasn ’t a comedy movie nor a Scorsese kind of movie.This movie was made right after Sensational Raging bull from the same pair. King of comedy is not your usual movie which you can sit back and relax. Its dark and it has black comedy which has to realised .Rupert Pumpkin(Robert De Niero) , a struggling and aspiring comedian who wants to prove his comedy skills through Media chases Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) a popular Comedian and TV anchor.Rupert tries through many means to reach him to get a chance for the show .When he reaches through unauthorised manner he is been humiliated by Jerry.Rupert along with his fellow friend Masha Kidnaps James and he puts very straight that if he has to ...

I have read this book Love story Eric Seagel when I was a college student and people were giving me such a over hyped reviews on that.Infact I loved that book for its movement and its purity of love.When I saw this DVD I wasn’t very sure whether it could bring me the magic of the book .Thats the reason this DVD was lying for months unviewes.Friend of mine tagged me to watch this untouched DVD. Love story is a typical Boy meets girl kind of love story with a tragic end .Millionaire Guy Oliver Barett (Ryan O Niel) meets Downtown girl Jeniffer Cavelliri(Ali Mc Graw)and he falls in love with her.It takes them a verbal argument about themselves to know what they have in themselves for each other.Oliver marries Jeniffer after leaving his Dad Barett.They live happily like before but sudden tragedy of Jeniffer puts every thing to hault. This is a story which shows the love at its different form.Director Arthur Hiller had taken pains to recreate the work of Eric Seagel.It grabs our attention mo...

Legends remain Legends . Shyam Benagal is one of the legendary movie makers of Indian Cinema and at this age he has created such a beautifully crafted movie which will remain as one more feather to his crown.Welcome to Sajjanpur will be remembered for its factor of freshness and versatility for the years to come.Yet another stunning movie from Bollywood. It’s the story how a Letter writer Mahadev ( Sherayas Talpade ) of a village Sajjanpur to a Novelist Sukhdev .He writes letters and posts for the villagers where he meets different emotions and different stories which is directly or indirectly involved.He falls in Love with Kamla ( Amrita Rao ) his school day buddy .She writes letter to her husband who is in Mumbai and has not turned for four years. Kamla is not only the character which is dealt in detail.Every character in the village has some thing to say.May it the Munni Rani who is a eunuch or Compounder (Ravi Kishan ) or the Ila Arun every body carries different stori...

This is been a fabulous week.I don’t remember when I had a packed week like this watching all great movies.I am telling you if you miss A Wednesday you are missing some thing .Its not only about the movie its about all of us.A Wednesday is a movie which is from my point is the best of the year so far. Bollywood is rocking this year and I see a lots and lots of talents erupting to make movies with style and brilliance. Mumbai police commissioner Prakash Rathod receives a anonymous call about the bombs which the man has planted across the city. Nasurudeen shah who is the caller tells about his conditions for it ,to give the details about the bomb.He wants four terrorists to be released from Jail . Prakash Rathod puts his two of his men Arif(Jimmy Shergill) and Jai(Amir Bhasir) in the job to transport those terrorist.What happens is some thing which is unexpected and unimaginable. The movie is told in a different style and it can match any of the Hollywood movie.The movie takes t...

I didn ’t want to miss this movie.I had no clue of the story line as I maintained my nerves not to read the story line .The movie in released in Chennai ,a year after it released in rest of the world.I wasn ’t able to get the DVD version of it ,So I had this movie in the Queue for a quiet some time.Now Sunday evening was the perfect time for me to go for this movie at Satyam Cinemas.Why am I nowadays going repeatedly to Satyam ? Its all shown to us when a fourteen year girl dies in the arms of Anna (Noami Watts ) giving birth to a baby.The girl’s diary written in Russian becomes a pathfinder for Anna where she discovers a Card of a restaurant owned by a Siberian Semyon (Armin Mueller- Stahl ), a boss in the Russian Mafia or vory v zakone .Anna tracks down to Semyon to seek the whereabouts of the girls family to save the child.Krill who is Semyon ’s son who is involved in making the girls to whore and Kirill's driver Nikolai Luzhin ( Viggo Mortensen ) get involved with Semyo...

I don’t remember when I was fully satisfied in watching a movie in the recent past.I decided to watch Dark Knight on Friday some how missed due to some commitments.When I went to watch my ears were full with great reviews and praises about the movie.That left me biased even my friend Ashok had experienced the same.Probably the new viewers will have the same too. Batman (Christian Bale ),Jame Gordon and the new attorney of Gotham city Harvey Dent fight against Joker (Heath Ledger).The three fight against the organised crime in the city when they meet the psycho Villain Joker.The Good vs evil goes along. The movie belongs to Heath Ledger as Joker and Its so different to see a villain with no rules no boundries.He digs out even the larger than life Batman .His performance nails the good and makes us watch him in a deeper sense.He is emotionally compelling ,irritating and gives no chance for any sort .His performance differs from the way he puts forth and executes both as a actor and as a ...

When I was deeply down with love sick I was shown this movie by one of my friend.I wont say it brought me a change in me.But still it affected me a lot .But then when time passed away this movie was repeatedly watched by me for many reasons.One for feel good factor ,two for its class and three for the theme. Farhan Akthar directed this movie after Dil Chahta hai . DCH was fresh ,youthful, humorous and romantic . Lakshya was youthful ,romantic but this movie showed lots of promise from the young director.The story is about Karan Shekhar ( Hrithik roshan ) who transforms from a lazy young lad to a responsible patriotic army officer .The determination and his goal which he discovers in him after his childhood love Roami dutta ( Prety Zinta ) makes him as such.The tag line goes like this” It took him 24 years and 18000 feet to find himself” Man to watch in this movie is obviously Hrithik Roshan .I would barely say I became his fan after this movie.His movies has the depth ...

After swiping out from the company and rushing to the Russian cultural hall I was determined not to miss a even a single second of this movie.Sitting there I enjoyed a cult classic of Russian movie world.I was surprised to can the movie be made as such with a simple plot. THE WHITE SUN OF THE DESERT is a movie which shattered many things which used to be normal. A soldier of the Red Army named Sukhov Anatoli Kuznetsov has been fighting in the Russian Civil War in Russian Asia for many years. Just as he is about to return home to his wife, Sukhov is chosen to guard and protect the 12 harem(Wives ) of a guerrilla leader Abdulla ( Kakhi Kavsadze ). Abdulla is wanted by the Red Army . Abdullah incidentally left his wives behind alone as it was hindering his force. Sukhov's task proves to be more difficult than he imagined. Sukhov fights against the mighty Abdullah . The movie had the perfect and rare blend of all parts of emotions.The comedy was certainly different were you c...

I was stumped and taken back after seeing this master piece from Majid Majidi .This is the movie which was celeberated in all Film festivals and It was lying in my shelf for many months.The movie is about a simple secret which was shown so beautifully which can not be stated or explained as the way we enjoy and feel when we watch Children of heaven.It takes a ride from a Kids mindstate in dealing with the problem to the determination they show to resolve it. Ali (Mir Farrokh Hashemian ) and and his younger sister Zahra ( Bahare Seddigi ) are well behaved and polite children of Mohamed who runs his family with his sick Wife .Ali accidentally loses his sisters shoes which he takes out for repairing.Now Zahra can not start to school with out shoes.She wears Ali’s shoes and runs back from after school to return Ali’s shoes as he has to wear the same to the school.Understanding their father’s state of poverty they decide to keep it as a secret. Zahra finds her shoe worn by her schoo...

This is an oppurtunity to see how a great director started off his career in films.Knife in the water is Roman Polanski’s first film and it is one of the critically acclaimed movie in world cinema for its intense screenplay.When I started watching this movie my dad was mentioning it very easily about Roman Polanski’s works. Knife in the water is woven around only three characters.nobody other than the three even appear in the movie and it is been constructed in a wave of silence and immaculate visuals.A wealthy couple Andrej and Krystina ( Leon Niemczyk &Jolanta Umecka) gives a lift in their Yacht to a Young hiker after they almost hit him on the road by oversight. The movie travels along with the yacht as it becomes the fourth character knowingly or unknowingly for the viewers.The cynical man shows his superior attitude and treats the young guy with slavery ,which gives the hint where the movie is directed.But when the lady roams around with the bikini all long and with the young ...

This movie had a long story with me and my brother, Till he was staying with me in Chennai he was bugging me for this particular movie,but I managed to get the DVD only when he left for Hyderabad,In the end I also lost the interest to watch it.Some how last week I managed to watch Uusal suspect with out suspecting any body.My brother and my brothers friend had already given a feedback about this movie and its genre.But if you ask me we always have a special inclination towards twist ending movies and Usual suspects is one such class example of twist ending and thriller.This was the movie which made many stars in Hollywood from Bryan Singer ,Kevin spacey, Benicio Del Tiero . FBI arrest five suspects to extract answers for a crime scene involving drugs and mafia ,They were interrogated to figure out a underworld mafia named Kayser Soze , All five of these men have unknowingly crossed Soze , and hey are forced to take on a mission on a boat. in order to clear their outstanding to him. ...

Every time I see this movie I get stumped by legendary work of Sridhar and his team.Can you believe I have seen this movie for nearly 15 times and I knew still its left in me to have a experience. I would unarguably and definitely say this is the best ever movie made in our part of the world. Nenjil or Alayam starring Kalyan kumar as Dr Murali , Devika as Seetha and Muthuraman as Venu . Every body knows the story .How Dr. Murali saves the life of his old lover seetha ’s husband life from cancer.But Nenjil or Alayam is known for it Music,Camera ,screen play and sets.There is only two shots which is shot in the out door rest of it were completely shot indoor.Fifty years ago a movie is made in 23 days.! Movie uses innovative camera angles and visual effects to portray the emotions and scenes which still being wondered by modern day camera men. can we believe it. Thats Nenjil or alayam ! Nenjil or Alayam is Casablanca of Tamil Cinema. I can say with full heart. Some body mu...

I am done now .That I have seen three of all time great movies 1.Casablanca, 2. Godfather Series and 3.Citizen Kane. Every time I read about great movies in any of the articles or Blogs I come across this name and it took for me a compelling action to see Citizen Kane. Love it or criticize it Citizen Kane is special from all views .I had bought this DVD three months ago and I wanted a special time for this movie to be watched. In spite being greatest movie I never wanted to have an inclination towards this movie, until I watch it. On a narrow spectrum if you ask me I would still choose Casablanca as my all time favorite among the three. Citizen Kane starts off at Xanadu the Luxurious built by newspaper Tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles).The movie undermines the life and death of Him. Screen play moves in finding the meaning of “Rose Bud” the last word uttered by Charles Kane. Rose Bud is unarguably the timeless one-liner said in the history of Motion picture. Can you imagine a m...