2012 … the year that was

2012 … the year that was

It is as usual the award season, and while I was disappointed as always by the nomination list of the Academy Awards 2013 and the winners at the Golden Globes, I was even more shocked by our own Filmfare Awards that were held recently. Let’s be honest here, everyone...
Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part II

Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part II

50 First Dates (2004)   Director: Peter Segal Starring: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore   A prime area where a romantic comedy fails is that fact that it is considered to be a complete female territory. It is all roses and unreal men, but once a while comes a film that...
Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part I

Favourite Romantic Comedies – Part I

(500) Days of Summer (2009) Director: Marc Webb Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Zooey Deschanel   Bollywood did try to rip this one with the disappointing ‘Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu’, but some films are best experienced in their original form. This beautifully fresh film is...
Damn You, Rachel Dawes!

Damn You, Rachel Dawes!

Katie Holmes and Maggie Gyllenhal as Rachel Dawes * (This is purely derived from the Christopher Nolan Batman franchise)   So I was thinking about how massively depressing watching ‘The Dark Knight’ is and how the dude (Batman) cannot catch a break ever and I somehow...
Blasts from the past

Blasts from the past

L-R: Satish Kaushik, Anil Kapoor and Anupam Kher in ‘Jamai Raja’ As a young child you don’t have much of a choice in terms of what you watch. My time was spent lapping up whatever was there on Doordarshan and DD2 (the more entertaining of the two)....
200 and more to go

200 and more to go

These are the best from the 200 films i have watched this year. 100 more to go before the year ends…. 1.       2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  – Space fantasy, Science Fiction 2.       A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Fiction, Sexual content 3.       All...