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Although I vastly prefer Citizen Kane (1941) to The Godfather (1972), one facet of both films that gives me some pause—especially because I believe this facet has something to do with the current and unquestioned status of both movies as towering masterworks, not simply superb entertainments—is their worship of power, including their capacity to view [...]

BY:Jonathan Rosenbaum
This article was written in 2006–specifically at the request of Ghatak’s son Ritaban, whom I met at the Jeonju International Film Festival in South Korea in the spring of that year. I was serving on one of the festival’s juries and also lectured with Ritaban at a screening of The Cloud-Capped Star during a [...]

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Mumbai, July 22 (IANS) Moving dramatically away from the Indianness of her last two films – Oscar-nominated Water and the ready-for-release “Heaven On Earth”, Canada-based Indian filmmaker Deepa Mehta now moves into the veiled society of Tehran. She is making a film on Iranian author and professor Azar Nafisi’s bestseller “Reading Lolita In Tehran”.Over 100 [...]

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This is Indian cinema, you don’t go for logic!” an assistant explains in this documentary which offers newcomers to the genre a fascinating insight into the inner workings of Bollywood.
British filmmaker Liz Mermin’s film purports to be about the troubled life of A-list leading man, Sanjay Dutt. In April 1993, Dutt was arrested [...]

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Vidya Balan has joined the gang of heroines who have gone for an image makeover. Though the other heroines (read Ameesha Patel, Soha Ali Khan and Amrita Rao) have gone from the girl-next-door look to the ultra-glamourous one, Vidya has changed her avatar from sweet harmless heroine to a wicked, scheming woman in Abhishek [...]

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While the master of political dramas, Prakash Jha is all set to mix the Mahabharat with the politics of the Gandhi family, the enterprising director of Hazaaron Khwahisein Aisi, Sudhir Mishra is also incorporating politics into his version of Devdas, which he begins filming in August.
Says Sudhir, “It’s more like Shakespeare’s Hamlet as applied [...]

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You are a part of it.
As are film journalists, directors, actors, critics, reviewers, right down to the spot boy. The most egregious offender is of course the self-effacing screenwriter, who puts up with the debasement and will often partake in it. So, you have people running around spouting sewage like, “A film [...]

PFC author:Dabba
When it comes to cinema, everyone has an opinion. Not me. This is Gospel.
What credentials have I, you say?

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Now it can be told.
The star Sanjay Leela Bhansali has zeroed in on to act with Amitabh Bachchan and Vidya Balan in his film Chenab Gandhi is newcomer Harman Baweja. There were rumours that Bhansali wanted Ranbir Kapoor, who he launched last year with Saawariya, but Ranbir’s hands were full. However, Bhansali, at the [...]

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1987. After reading the article of a new Kamal Hasan movie that was making waves in the media, I had locked myself in the room and went through all the movie’s images that were printed in the article. There was an old Kamal Hasan in a never before seen getup and makeup [...]

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This has got to be the quirkiest bit of casting. Vishal Bhardwaj has just signed Naseeruddin Shah to feature with Arshad Warsi and Vidya Balan in Ishqiya.
The film is produced by Vishal and is directed his assistant Abhishek Choubey, who co-scripted Omkara. Arshad and Naseer play uncle and nephew, while Vidya is the woman who [...]

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Passion for cinema has produced a few pages of Sudhir Mishra’s diary for readers and expectantly brilliances of Sudhir came out in open in that space.

Sudhir is a name in ‘so-called’ parallel cinema or in good cinema, if I am allowed to use Satyajit Ray’s coinage for it. As I went on reading it I [...]

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I’m mincing no words here- Aamir is great. Absolutely.

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I’m mincing no words here- Aamir is great. Absolutely.

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Director: Raj Kumar Gupta
Cast: Rajeev Khandelwal
Rating: ** ½

Gaurav Malani, INDIATIMES MOVIES

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Anurag Kashyap’s Gulal, which has been on the floors for the last six years is finally complete. It is a love story set in Rajasthan and revolves around college politics. It has Kay Kay Menon and model-turned actor Jesse Randhawa playing the lead.
Jesse confirms, “I have a completely deglamourised role in the film. I have [...]