Tashan

The thing with Tashan is that no one spent time on the script. The film could have been made interestingly only if the screenplay existed. Filled with loopholes bigger than the one in ozone layer, Tashan is really a let down considering that it’s been directed by a writer and produced by someone who...

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My Blueberry Nights

There was a great deal of enthusiasm surrounding My Blueberry Nights. This was Wong Kar Wai's first American film. Some years ago this move would have meant that he has 'sold' out but that argument doesn't hold water anymore. Wong's reputation of being a master filmmaker precedes him. His demigod stature...

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Juno or the Art of the giving away your child

The first thing that strikes you about Juno is that there is hardly any background score. I mean there are songs and the lead character is part of a band in school. But when Juno announces to her parents that she is pregnant, you are treated to normal sounds of her pacing around the room. Another place where she breaks down in the car and you are hearing traffic sounds. A well written script that...

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Human Error- 2001: A Space Odyssey

Arthur C Clarke once famously claimed, 'if you understood 2001 completely, we failed. We wanted to raise far more questions than we answered." When Stanley Kubrick decided to make a science fiction he picked up a short story, The Sentinel, by Clarke to serve as the skeletal outline for 2001: A Space...

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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

There was one question that I kept asking myself while watching Sidney Lumet's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Is talent timeless?The superb crime thriller proves that the Sidney Lumet, 84, still delivers. Taking its title from an Irish toast, May you be 40 years in heaven before the devil knows...

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