One of the most definitive moments in Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury’s ‘Pink’ arrives when Minal Arora (Taapsee Pannu) hastily throws the pullover hood over her head, when she over hears a couple of boys whispering to each other and wondering slightly aloud, if she weren’t the ‘Surajkund girl’.
Vinayakan Out, ‘Rustom’ Akshay Kumar In: The National Bolt Award from the Blue!
Opinions might vary regarding Tinu Suresh Desai’s Bollywood flick ‘Rustom’ that was loosely based on the Nanavati murder case. While critics remained quite mixed in their judgement of the film, ‘Rustom’ went on to become one of the blockbusters that Bollywood saw last year.
However, the 64th National Awards that were declared today, had a shocker in store with Akshay Kumar, the lead actor in ‘Rustom’ declared as the Best Actor. Akshay Kumar surprisingly leaves behind several other noteworthy performances, the most touted one being that of Malayalam actor Vinayakan in Rajeev Ravi’s ‘Kammattippadam’; a raw and delightfully coarse feat, that had fetched him the State Award for Best Actor. Continue reading “Vinayakan Out, ‘Rustom’ Akshay Kumar In: The National Bolt Award from the Blue!”
How apt would Ranbir Kapoor be as Sanjay Dutt?
Biopics require a lot of attention to detail, and it would totally depend on the actor who plays the character to make it work. The task turns out to be even more challenging when the biopic is based on the life of a person who is all alive and kicking. Continue reading “How apt would Ranbir Kapoor be as Sanjay Dutt?”
Saanson Ki Zaroorat Hain Jaise (Aashiqui) – Cover Version
‘Aashiqui’ was a one of a kind film, that stirs up quite a lot of memories in me! The year was 1990, and romance was in the year. And even as Rahul Roy and Anu Aggarwal seemed like they would be around for a 100 years more on screen, it was the music director duo, Nadeem and Shravan who stormed the Bollywood scene like never before.
There was hardly anyone around with a basic knowledge of Hindi, who wasn’t humming the tracks, and I remember standing all proud in front of Lighthouse, the then music destination at Thampanoor, Trivandrum, having finally managed to own an audio cassette that was, if I remember right, priced at twenty five rupees. The music company was T Series. Continue reading “Saanson Ki Zaroorat Hain Jaise (Aashiqui) – Cover Version”
Raees (2017) Hindi Movie Review
Running for almost three long hours, ‘Raeez’ is a grim, and yet mostly mindless gangster flick that does not leave you breathless. Appearing puffy and trite by turns, it pushes in all the gangster chestnuts in a rather bloated package.
Ecstasy gives way to an odd emotion that almost borders on the uncertain, when the protagonist in ‘Raeez’ is informed of an impending new arrival in his family, and is almost immediately assigned a task to bump someone off the line. This conflicting temperament is what marks the psyche of don that we get to see in the film, but the dazzling sparkle here and there that one gets to witness in Shahrukh Khan’s ‘Raeez’ does seem too few and very far in between.
Rahul Dholakia’s film seems to be in a no compromise mood, and sets its story in Gujarat. It tells us the rise, fall and rise of Raeez (Shahruk Khan), a Muslim gangster, who would stop at nothing, until he get to pull that mighty throne right towards him and majestically recline on it once and for all. This isn’t an undemanding ride for him, and the blood that is spattered all across an eventful life, makes him want to mull over it time and again.