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My views on “The Wrestler” & “Frost/Nixon”

March 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Here is my short take on two movies I recently watched. I think, you must watch The Wrestler for only one purpose. That is, to watch the magnificent performance of lead cast Mickey Rourke. Other movie Frost/Nixon, is about the historic interview between David Frost & Richard Nixon. Many dramatization in the film, might distort [...]

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Views on “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”

February 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Charming! This one word that describes the entire movie – Vicky Cristina Barcelona. The swinging emotions with intermittent short & crisp narration of the characters and the story line, with two characters having different opinions on love & with two very gorgeous ladies. Man! You love it for it’s comical & yet seemingly portrayed serious [...]

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“Romulus, My Father”

February 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Wonderful. “Romulus, my father“, the movie based on a memoir. The movie is about, how father raises his child in adversity and go through the whole tough times with his not so good character wife. The story is set in Australian outbacks, looking over vast area of farm lands. Movie starts & ends with refreshing [...]

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“Milk” & “Waltz with Bashir”

February 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Movies

The weekends are becoming more and more restful & silent times. But, they are also filled with movies. Thanks to a DVD rental shop near my home, donI saw couple of incredible movies this weekend. First one is, Sean Penn starring Milk. The movie is about the politician and gay rights activist Harvey Milk. The [...]

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Slumdog Crorepati

January 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Refreshing! I would say for this film. The plot of the movie is simple. It’s about how a slum boy, joins his lady love. The movie started with police interrogation of the protagonist, who he is uneducated and from slums, for the suspicion of  cheating in a quiz game show. The story took interesting side, [...]

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Masala Gajini

January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies

Well, to add to the already existing plethora of reviews on the latest flick of Aamir Khan – Gajini. Human mind tends to compare involuntarily, if there is a counterpart exist. I saw Tamil Gajini couple of years back. Now, while watching Hindi Gajini, I were just comparing scene to scene! Nothing much changed to [...]

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Views on “Hancock”

October 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Movies

Here is my short take on the film Hancock. When Hancock (Will Smith) starts flying, in the initial phase of the film, I was wondering “what crap?”. May be, this is because, we are conditioned to see the super human stunts performed only by comic characters & also only with certain kind of uniform!   [...]

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Views on “Dasavatharam “

June 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Movies

I am an ardent fan of Kamal Haasan. I admire his acting, his hard work, his visionary thinking on Tamil Cinema.  His recent release Dasavatharam, was long ago in my ‘must watch list’. So I did watched it last weekend, after reading interestingly a very mixed response on internet. Dasavatharam   I found this film [...]

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