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LOVE, FACTUALLY

Gautham Vasudev Menon’s very real, very true-to-life, very messy romance is yet another effort, this year, that pushes the envelope far beyond the realms of “safe” commercial cinema.
MAR 7, 2010 – WHAT A YEAR THIS IS TURNING OUT to be for Tamil cinema! Forget good films or perfect films or successful films or films [...]

BOARD EXAM
A carrom whiz is constantly tested by life in a beautifully textured docudrama that keeps us at an arm’s length.
FEB 7, 2010 – SURYA (SIDDHARTH), THE MINOR-LEAGUE LEADING MAN of Striker – I hesitate to call him “hero,” for he stands resolutely, refreshingly life-sized – is someone with major dreams. He lives in the [...]

The ever-tightening web of news-channel foul play forms the focus of an engrossing melodrama. Plus, a wickedly entertaining desi-Western that pulls its punches.
Rann: RAM GOPAL VARMA’S RANN OPENS with the sun glowering on a sweltering metropolis. Inside the homes, however, the heat emanates from television, from news channels aboil with sensation mongering (underscored by shivering [...]

MUSIC FROM BEYOND THE SKIES
AR Rahman proves, once again, that love his songs or loathe them, there’s no questioning the spirit of restless creation in them.
JAN 24, 2010 – WHATEVER THE OSCARS HAVE DONE FOR AR RAHMAN on a professional level, they certainly haven’t altered an iota of his person. Ascending the stage towards the [...]

Six composers in a soundtrack is a sure-shot recipe for disaster, but in Striker, Chandan Arora gets them to produce a heady mélange!
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Hey ya’s frothy tune and Clinton’s breezy vocals perfectly complement each other, while Uff teri adaa is the soundtrack’s ebullient highlight, with a trippy techno sound that envelops the very-trio’ish [...]

Gautam’s fish-out-of-bowl state shows as he grapples with Rahman’s divergently different melodic palette. MORE HERE

Noor-e-khuda is clearly the soundtrack’s best, with Adnan and Shreya joining Shankar in a tune that navigates from lovely pop to bewitching, tabla-driven portions; the chorus, in particular, is extraordinary. Solid start to the year, by the trio!
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The mesmerizingly lilting and vaudevillian Dil to bachcha hai is reminiscent of the Raj Kapoor era.
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OH, THAT CHEEKY, MOVIE-CRAZY BASTERD!
Quentin Tarantino’s latest tribute to an inglourious genre may frustrate your inner academic but it totally floors the inner art-lover.
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RAIN DEARS
A love story set against a great downpour isn’t all that it could have been – but it isn’t nothing either.
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The unlikely team of Raj Kumar Santoshi and Ranbir Kapoor serves up a comedy that casts a spell (well, at least for a while). Plus, the latest Madhur Bhandarkar exposé.
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Shankar Ehsaan Loy deliver stadium-sized musical goodness in London Dreams! More Here

The title song ambitiously has 3 versions – a bouncy, up-tempo variant by Neeraj Shridhar, quite aptly; a reprise by Javed Ali and a rock version by Shafqat Amanat Ali…
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Tum mile’s soundtrack is consistently in character – lovelorn and soft, with a texture the composer has mastered over the years. Pritam is on a roll.
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Love Aaj Kal: Overlaying a familiar, repetitive sapera-been piece to a hyper-energetic tune in Twist is a total winner all the way; Neeraj Shridhar rocks in the catchiest track of the year, so far!
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Chaandan Mein: Kailasa does it again – getting it right the third time in Indipop is no mean task!
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The smart and endearing laugh riot Hangover, and the life-affirming animation hit Up made sure that the fast-paced, extortion thriller The Taking of Pelham 123 did not race to the top of the box office in North America last weekend.
Star-driven films should not have a problem racing to the top in summer, the busiest part [...]

99 Not Out

 
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This one is looking promising.  I hope Dhulia is in Haasil kind of form here.

IPL 2 kicks off tomorrow in SA. What’s you prediction?
Beld’s prediction:
my 4 teams for semis – delhi, mumbai, chennai and bangalore
delhi and chennai in the finals
and chennai takes it home
biggest flop in IPL 2 – rajasthan/mohali

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