Dasvidaniya
November 13, 2008
Do you make lists? A daily To-Do list? Maybe even an hourly list of things to be accomplished? Do you find these lists helpful or do you find them tyrannical? Lists bind me down. Worse still, I make lists and then forget where I have kept them. So making those lists doesn’t work for me. Yet there are scores of people who find lists a great help. They find it a source of joy when they keep ticking off the items one by one on that list. For someone like Amar Kaul (played by Vinay Pathak) in the film Dasvidaniya, (means goodbye in Russian) he lives for the to-do lists. That gives him a meaning in his life. He looks forward to the next to-do so that he can complete all those things marked in his list. For all his obsession with accomplishing tasks on his To-Do list, Amar Kaul is not successful in any sense of the term unlike his friend Rajiv Julka played by Rajat Kapoor. Read more
A Wednesday
October 31, 2008
Jan 1st 2008: Bomb blasts in Rampur
May 13th, 2008: Bomb blasts in Jaipur
July 25th 2008: Bomb blasts in Bangalore
July 26th 2008: Bomb blasts in Ahmedabad
Sep 13th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 27th 2008: Bomb blasts in Delhi
Sep 29th 2008: Bomb blasts in Malegaon
October 30th 2008: Bomb blasts in Guwahati
Show and Tale
October 18, 2008
Do books that tell a great story also make great films? Are these two different forms where the twain shall not meet? While I can instantly think of films like Ben-Hur, Frankenstein, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest or for that matter most of the films made by Satyajit Ray who always chose great stories and turned them into visual delights on celluloid. One can also think of great books that turned into horrible films.
Mumbai Meri Jaan
August 27, 2008
I have been lucky enough to live in several different cities of India. Having grown up in New Delhi, India my view of Mumbai (actually it was called Bombay then) was colored by a collage Bollywood cinema scenes from various movies from the black and white era to the times when color films were the norm. They would always show the millions of daily commuters who would cramp themselves in local suburban trains and spill out at Churchgate Railway Station or Victoria Terminus Railway station to get to their office in the commercial hub of India. Read more
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
July 12, 2008
Plot Summary: A bunch of rich kids have spent five years hanging out together. They drive around in fancy cars. Lead responsibility free lives. One of them is a poor boy - we know that because he said he cannot afford a cell phone and only has a land line. He is in love with the rich girl. Everyone knows that they are in love with each other, except the “each other” in question. Will they get to know that they have always been in love is the big question being answered in the film. Read more
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