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02Jul 2011 by Sanjay Kapoor 1 Comment

PYAAR KA PANCHNAAMA

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Realisticaly Humerous ! Thanks to my wife Nidhi ,I saw Pyar Ka Panchnama last night and it was a wonderful experience. Don’t remember laughing so much in any movie lately, and that too on blatant realities of life .A blend of Dil chahta Hai & Pyaar ke Funde, this movie is better than both combined. Experimenting with new comers the producer and director have very successfully presented Male Bonding, Love affairs & Life in a chummery The story revolves around three friends, Choudhary, Nishant alais Liquid, and Rajat alais Rajjo. They seem to be management graduates or software engineers working in the corporate world and living together in a common flat. All of them are desperate to have a girlfriend, and at the very first opportunity each manages to get…

16Feb 2011 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

DHOBHI GHAT

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REALITY SUCKS !!!!!!!!!! Someone asked an artist,which is your best painting,and he replied,the next ! This realy applies to Amir Khan.............he never stops surprising you,with a movie better than his last best! and he has done it again in Dhobhi Ghat.Though the movie is the directorial debut of his wife,Kiran Rao,and even though he has been raving about it being the first movie where a wife,directed her husband,one can clearly see impressions of Amir's direction,besides his mega prescence,all over the movie. Dhobhi Ghat flopped miserably at the box office,and wasnt liked much by most, mainly because it was unlike the routine,Bollywood movies,simple.stark,hiting right in the face and sans all masala................even documentaries are more glamorous these days.It was extremely bland with no glamour or melodrama with verything being underplayed,Just a few…

16Feb 2011 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

Kites

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Kites that did not fly !! Kites was a great disappointment and an utter disaster.My sincere apologies to all related to the film,but cant resist this remark,as this was probably the only movies,in which I slipped off to sleep ! There was too much talk and pre release drama for the movie.Unique story,Blend of Hollywood & Bollywood,return of Hrithik.stunning Barbara and the works.But all this was actually missing and probably it was the extra pre release hype that added to the discontentment The story was like a modern day Laila Majnu tale,poorly presented.It revolved around an Indian guy,Hrithik,settled with a green card in Las Vegas.He did odd jobs to earn his living including using his green card to marry girls,temporarily,to help them get an entry in the country.He had great…

08Feb 2011 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

GUZARISH

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DEATH WISH !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sanjay Leela Bhansali is the real and the greatest Dream Merchant,Bollywood has ever had, who takes all the hues of the rainbow to create a painting on celluloid and could give even something as depressing and morose as death, a glamorous presentation.Guzarish was yet again one similar movie of his. I saw the movie late, and even though the movie may already be off the minds of people, I cannot refrain from talking about it, even though it’s late in the day. In fact I am doing this with a purpose of refreshing their memories again. I haven’t seen the English movie, from which it is rumored to have been inspired or even copied, but no regrets…………am very sure it could not be as good as Gujarish…

05Oct 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

MARNING WALK

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A SLOW WALK ! Was waiting very anxiously to watch Morning Walk,since It was bringing my all time favorite Sharmila ,on screen after long. Though the reviews spoke of it being different,it came and went,almost unsung.I too was a wee bit disappointed The plot revolves around a retired Professor,played by Anupam Kher,who lived alone,after his wife's death,as he was not very welcome at his daughter-in laws house.He however,after a heart attack,has to move with them,where he tries to adjust with default,and with great support from his loving grand daughter.He is made to pay a price for shifting in,with the son coaxing him to agree to sell his ancestral property to help the son buy a bigger house. During his Morning walks, he meets Sharmila,who was his old…

23Aug 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

LOVE AAJ KAL

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TWO - IN - ONE !! Luv Aaj Kal,was a double treat,and that too, a real welcome one.After a large number of off beat movies in the near past,on terrorism,abstract themes and Bollywood,it was good for a refreshing change,to see a good old poppy love story.The best part of the movie,in fact was that it had two love stories ,one of present times,and one of yester years running simultaneously.portraying the love is eternal ! The story revolves around an Indian boy,played beautifully by Saif,and a girl,acted by Deepika,who are settled abroad,and are just thick friends. Both are ambitious and want to peruse their careers,but while the boy wants to stay put there,the girl wants to return to India and peruse her passion of rerestoring heritage buildings.Confused as they are,about their…

20Mar 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

DEV D

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WAS DEV D REALLY DEVDAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saw Dev D,and have been confused ever since,as to how to react to it.!But am sure of one thing,that except for the Hero named,Dev,who had two woman named Paro and Chanda(Chandramukhi) in his life ,there is nothing really like the original story or the earlier movies,Devdas. Dev D is definitely an innovative film,very cleverly twined around the backdrop of the original story of Devdas.It has used two recent scandals,the MMS Scandal,of a public school of Delhi and the famous(or rather infamous)BMW hit and run case,to present the lifestyle of the youngsters today.The depiction of the dark side of today's life of youngsters and teenagers is authentic,highlighting,the freedom,disrespect to elders,indiscipline,extravagance,drinking,smoking,drugs,teenage experimental sex,exploitation,flesh trade ,sexual perversions,the liberated woman and the works!What has been shown…

14Mar 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

SLUM DOG MILLIONAIRE

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DESI MAAL-VIDESHI PACKING !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally saw SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE and really liked the movie! There has been much talk about the movie,but in spite of (or rather because of) all the controversies,the movie got an unimaginably welcome international recognition,including eight Oscars,as no movie ,from Hollywood or Bollywood has ever got before! Adapted from the novel.Q&A,the movie primarily focuses round the slums and poverty of India,twined beautifully around a love story,and how the young hero,a slum dweller,working as a tea-delivery-boy at a call centre,wins twenty million rupees at a TV show,representing the popular Kaun Banega Crorepati,without any formal education or training,and the key to his success being his experiences in life,staying in the slum and working at the call centre.Intermingled in the story,as an inseparable part,is the portrayal of the evils of slums …

09Feb 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

DEVDAS REVISITED!

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Whose Devdas is it ? Devdas has been discussed and mentioned in discussions on Bollywood,and in connection with jilted lovers,or failed love affairs,for over five decades now.Besides reading about him in Sharatchand Chatterjees novel,we saw him in four films, two of which went ahead to become almost immortal, the one of Dilip Kumars and the extravaganza of Leela Bhansali,and now we have another adaptation of Devdas,the DEV D. At this juncture, it becomes relevant to introspect and see as to what made Devdas, so important and famous, atleast in Indian folk lure, like Romeo and Majnu! Few pertinent questions that come to my mind are, who is Devdas, whom does he represent or infact, what is Devdas? Devdas is no longer a character from a novel or…

07Feb 2009 by Sanjay Kapoor No Comments

The Stripping Macho Cine Stars

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BARE and DARE !!!!! Movies,besides being the fashion statements for India,have always also,indicated the mood and trends of the society.The present change in the Heroes of Bollywood,from the chocolate guys to the tough he-men who bare and dare,is a reflection of the present day image of a ladies' Dream man!(Out of Flavor-THE WEEK,Feb. 8,2009) This change from the gentlemanly heroes,to the chocolate lover boys,followed by the metrosexual males,and now the rough and tough macho men, is the story of the changing attitudes of a woman towards her man,and her expectations from him,including the changing sexual trends,over the last few decades.The petite shy woman,of sixties,feared that they may get pregnant even by holding hands,and hence the soft spoken,gentlemanly heroes like Devanand,and AshokKumar survived on the screen,From mid seventies for almost a decade…