I am hoping that Rohit, other moderators, and the membership will discuss some of my concerns.

1. The issue of moderation is paramount. I do not know if this was the cause of the initial “split” but it was certainly listed as one. So the main question is this, do we need moderation? [...]

“Creating the polar opposites in Suri and Raj”
by VirtuallyReel/Caulfield
We all are aware of how Yash Raj, and for that matter Karan Johar and many other filmmakers, approach their romantic stories in films. They have a set pattern, in which the first half goes about introducing characters that joke around to successfully generate a light [...]

The poor boy, the rich best friend, and the beautiful girl next door, friends that grow up together and ultimately form a love triangle. The poor boy goes off to war to prove his worth, and eventually comes back to marry the girl.
Then he discovers something that shatters his belief in life itself! [...]

The film – Bazaar; director – Sagar Sarhadi (his only directorial venture though he wrote films like Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Chandni, Anubhav); cast – Naseer Shah, Smita Patil, Farooq Shaikh, Supriya Pathak, Sulabha Deshpande; the setting – an engagement “celebration” on a rooftop. The music by Khayyam and ghazal by the great Mir [...]

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Aamir-Hirani tiff endangers 3 Idiots
Is Aamir Khan taking the ‘perfectionist’ tag a bit too seriously? The industry is abuzz with his differences with 3 Idiots director Raju Hirani.
There are three big reasons which make 3 Idiots the most awaited film of the year. First, it is going to be Aamir’s next release after the super [...]

A spoilt brat comes of age and wakes up to his responsibilities. Such stories have been done to death in films like Lakshya, parts of Dil Chahta hai, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane na, Kabhi Haan Kabhi naa. There are the usual cliches in all such films – the [...]

Does it matter who directed it or acted in the film? I could not tell you – I recognized no name or face except that of Heather Graham and she had a 10 minute role. After resisting for weeks thinking this would be the usual frat-boy level comedy with crude and rude humor, [...]

What could 3 men (plus one., Ringo Starr joined the band in 1962), not quite 20 years old, do in 9 years of coming together and being together? You know it ain’t easy, you know how hard it can be – but that only holds true for mere mortals!

The Fab four were barely together [...]

Sir Noel Coward, eminent playwright, actor, singer, songwriter and entertainer, was known for his chic and suave style. His one act play “Still Life” was made into a classic film Brief Encounter, by the master of mood David Lean. A shared Palm D’Or at Cannes and a Criterion Collection release testifies to the [...]

It is hard to come out of Wanted and say you were bored. But as a woman, it is hard to come out and say I liked the film. At some level the film made me cringe and weep a little inside, because what Wanted will spawn is more films with creepy [...]