What do you do when the film you labored over for months turns out to be an unmitigated disaster at the box office? Some times people blame shift and accuse the audiences’ incapacity to crack it. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an old hand at this. Thanks to a film called Khamoshi-The Musical and its dismal performance, Mr. Bhansali is ready to fight it out with everyone and then some. Mr. Bhansali went...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Iron Man
Iron Man might be the latest comic book infused with life but it's unlike any superhero film. That's largely because it doesn't treat the protagonist as a superhero with the weight of the world on his shoulders. The film is as straight as an arrow. I never read Iron Man comic and in a way I'm glad that...
Monday, May 5, 2008
Meenaxi- Making Sense Now
Some times you watch a film and just don’t get it. Is it that difficult to understand a film? Is it really necessary to ‘get’ it? Not understanding a film can mean so many different things. I didn't understand Meenaxi- A Tale of 3 Cities and while we are at it, I didn’t decipher Anurag Kashyap’s No Smoking, Saawariya and Tashan but it's not the same thing!I’m not of the opinion that Meenaxi is the...
Friday, May 2, 2008
The Evil That Stays Within Us
Apt Pupil(1998) was the follow up by Bryan Singer after the highly acclaimed The Usual Suspects. He later went on to do such commercial stuff like the X-Men series and Superman Returns, but none of them have the touch of the earlier films.When a student (Brad Renfro) discovers that an old man staying...