When someone stands up against Sausages the victory is that of Tofu, Baba ganoush, healthy veggie wraps and more… Add a poetry to it and it is more fun… An independent movie from 2010 it tells the story of a Graduate who majored in Poetry and starts a food stand… With no work and credit card debt the poet bill decides to start a food … Continue reading The Happy Poet – An all organic vegetarian comedy
There is controversy and as we all know controversy sells in films…. But when you touch anything that has two sides controversy comes to existence…. but if you look at the craft of movie making, it is a positive cinematic experience… When I go for a movie I don’t expect to be watching a documentary where you then start relaying in what is shown there… … Continue reading Madras Cafe – Memories of the times we grew up
“If you want to hit the ball with your left leg; you have to stand on your right leg” that is a masterpiece dialogue when you look at the what is boiling and in news in Kerala politics… Hats off to Murali Gopi and Arun Kumar Aravind for bringing the movie to us… The whole scene where this piece of dialogue is picturised unravels a … Continue reading Left Right Left – A beautiful Cinematic March
Watched Raanjhnaa during weekend… the motivation was to see Dhanush in the hindi movie and that I heard it was the story about JNU politics…. But what I saw was shades of Male chauvinism across the characters and their dialogues….. Not sure if that was intentional or the story writer and filmmaker thought that is how life should be… well then there is an issue….
The woman in the movie is the one always at fault and the men are beyond Continue reading “Raanjhnaa and the shades of Male Chauvinism…..”
We have always sat on the edge of the seat and bit our nails watching Hitchcock movies…. be it Psycho, Vertigo, The Birds or any other of his full length or short films….. But how would you like to see what went behind the scenes of Psycho…. what went through Hitchcock as he was making Psycho….
I watched the movie in flight as I was travelling to India last month…. Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock is Marvelous….. From the casting of Norman bates to working with film boards and the extend he goes to keep the suspense intact and unknown to both crew and public… the movie takes you through a journey into the life of the filmmaker as he makes his most famous movie…
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Watched Samaantar (parallel) a 2009 Marathi movie by Amol Palekar…. He also acts in the movie… for a long time at least in hindi I have not seen him on screen. And last time I experienced him behind screen was in Paheli in hindi… which for some reason did not give me a lot from Amol as a director…
But Samaantar is an interesting movie both from Amol as a director and from him as an actor that shows us that he still has that screen likability in him… Though his role is not exactly the next door guy of his younger ages.. the movie showcases the usual simplicity that is woven into his characters…
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Finally finished watching 13 episodes of the Netflix original series “House of Cards” starring one of my favorite actors of all time Kevin Spacey… The entire series takes quite some time to finish and for a person like me not used to following TV serials it was a new experience and a bit daunting… but it had an interesting flow and I loved it…. Netflix … Continue reading House of Cards – A Netflix original
There are many things special about Special 26… the cast… the story… the excitement and of course the twists and turns that it takes you through…. After Wednesday Neeraj Pandey’s Special 26 brings out a thrilling narrative… Though I wanted to watch the movie last week… did not get a chance… But today it was worth the time spend.. The movie is in my opinion … Continue reading Valentine Special was Special-26 and it was Special
Watched Vishwaroopam yesterday and all the while I had two questions in my mind…. why is this movie great and what would be the reason the protesters are blocking its screening… Both remain unanswered…. Though Unlike other movies we have seen… here one could argue that there are more references to religion… though not in a bad sense. But some specific scenes like doing Namaz … Continue reading Vishwaroopam – Nothing Great and Nothing much to Protest and BAN
Had no plans to watch Race-2 in the theaters…. but had no choice when the person at the ticket counter said there are no tickets for Vishwaroopam… We had liked Race 1 and so decided to give this a try…. It was a $7.50 ticket instead of the usual $14 so can’t complain much… The movie has some great action sequences and some nice twists … Continue reading Race 2 – Actors trapped in the director’s Labyrinth
Vinod Narayan 