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..so they dance!: Objects of filmi fondness.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Objects of filmi fondness. And stayed the same until I updated it in 2012. This is the updated version. Let's be frank about this. A lot of what I watch is very male-centric, as is most Indian cinema, hell, as is most cinema. But that doesn't mean I don't have a taste for cool female characters, be they kickass or more subdued. See also: my favourite Hindi film heroines. Spoof / satire / meta / filmi inside jokes. See also: 70's week posts. Very much with you on th...

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..so they dance!: This is the story of how I got completely obsessed with Randeep Hooda.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. This is the story of how I got completely obsessed with Randeep Hooda. Everybody's allowed to gain a new quirk over the New Year, right? Mine just happened to be an instant obsession with Randeep Hooda (all thanks to Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai. It's perfectly possible. Is my interest inadvisable for others considering how many crap films I ended up watching just for him? So here's my haul so far. And safe to say it was not a very good on...

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..so they dance!: Traipsing through underwhelment; some mini-reviews of films.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Sunday, October 5, 2014. Traipsing through underwhelment; some mini-reviews of films. I could take them or leave them. The depiction of the sleazy-yet-honest world of the A rating was fantastic, but I was never sucked in, fascinated by what was happening. Was it good? Yes, definitely. But I didn't love it. October 26, 2014 at 3:14 AM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Fascinated by Kucche Dhaage. Search .so they dance! Mumbai Police: a lesson in story mechanics.

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..so they dance!: Mardaani: heroism for today.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Monday, October 6, 2014. Mardaani: heroism for today. Rani Mukherjee plays the role cool as a cucumber. You could accuse the character of the same exaggerated flawlessness as many a film cop, but what I'd argue is that men get these roles dime a dozen, whereas seeing this kind of badassery from a woman is pretty rare. Let us have it, for once, in all its exaggeration. Let's allow Shivani to be awesome without undercutting it one bit. He is essentially asking, but i...

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..so they dance!: Highway, and a journey home.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Saturday, May 10, 2014. Highway, and a journey home. Sometimes being out of the loop, not following every promo and trailer, can be so beneficial for a film aficionado. I didn't expect Imtiaz Ali's Highway. To be much more than maybe a strange, Stockholm syndrome inspired kidnapper-kidnappee romance. The pairing of Alia Bhatt and Randeep Hooda seemed strange, and considering her last performance that I saw was the wooden, unbearable turn in Student of the Year.

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..so they dance!: God made man, tailor made gentleman. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Saturday, July 19, 2008. God made man, tailor made gentleman. Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. I rewatched Jhoom Barabar Jhoom. The thing is, a part of wants to look at JBJ as meta-Bollywood. Rikki and Alvira are kids brought up on movies (despite her claim that she also watches "foreign language movies", Alvira surely has to be a Bollywood/Hollywood film buff at heart! Put into the blender of the colorful world of Bunty Aur Babli. To say much more is to spoil most of the deli...

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..so they dance!: A month in India, part 7: Sholay 3D.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Tuesday, January 21, 2014. A month in India, part 7: Sholay 3D. A blessing in disguise was my 12 hour layover in the city of Mumbai. I hadn't seen a film in what felt like ages, since I hadn't really found any theaters during my time in Madurai, and thus I hadn't had the chance to catch Sholay. The 3D release had added those gimmicky bits of things flying at the camera that send a jolt of surprise through each audience member. It was a funny collective experien...

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..so they dance!: What makes Indian cinema so easy to ignore?

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Friday, October 10, 2014. What makes Indian cinema so easy to ignore? For over a decade, or at least as long as I can remember, the Helsinki International Film Festival has had at least one Indian film in their programme, every single year. Last year, we were treated to four different films, ranging from the indie gem Monsoon Shootout. To the big budget extravaganza of Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani. A few years back, we even got the megalomaniac Enthiran. The logic of th...

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..so they dance!: Main Tera Hero. It's a film. It exists. It's not very good.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Sunday, October 12, 2014. Main Tera Hero. It's a film. It exists. It's not very good. And oh boy, was this terrible, and I laughed a lot, mostly at my stupid self. At least it didn't damage my view of anybody: I have some fondness for Varun Dhawan, and I think at one point I even had fondness for Ileana (see also: Aata. And I think I still have the same fondness for both of them. But yeah, this was not great. Still, I don't know, unless you're the type with the tas...

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..so they dance!: Diving into the aggravatingly shallow world of Karan Johar: Student of the Year.

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Reviews and ramblings on Indian cinema. Thursday, January 3, 2013. Diving into the aggravatingly shallow world of Karan Johar: Student of the Year. I knew full well going into Student of the Year. And it still gets my goat in a big way. Shanaya is introduced with a song highlighting her richness and fashion-obsessiveness. Her best friend Shruti ( Mansi Rachh). But somehow I still ended up liking him better of the two. That's the thing about Karan Johar's cinematic universes. This one is so painfully ...