Well well, list time again. And the two people who do look at this blog every now and then, you already know it is all about Bollywood. And thanks to small mercies like YouTube, year-end lists have become quite a non-strenous task. Well, I didn't say non-time-consuming. Coz if you have ever just "surfed" through arguably Google's best investment, ( Read more... )

The Dark Knight - 8.5/10

Spidey-2 still holds its top slot as the greatest superhero movie I have ever seen. DK comes close, very very close, a lot closer than Iron Man did. Dark, moody, intense and very internal, the Nolan brothers just friggin rock. I'd have preferred if Katie Holmes had stayed. MG's Rachel Dawes is such a ridiculously bland ( Read more... )

People, gear up. This is quite possibly the only bad review of Taare Zameen Par you will find on the internet. You wanted it, so here it goes. The rest of you should know I have already had the slurpiest of abuses hurled at me. But there is one verdict that is quite unanimous, and probably very true - that I am as stone-hearted as people get. Well ( Read more... )

Finished watching Taare Zameen Par. What a borefest. Filmmakers tend to take themselves way too seriously. Just entertain us and sod off. Thanks.

• I finished reading Happiness by Will Ferguson. He is a very gifted writer, and if he can have someone like me, who detests books and thinks they are just for people who live in timeless and movieless dimensions, hooked on throughout the read, then I say well done. Unlike others who actually seemed to have fallen in love with his basic premise, I ( Read more... )

No no, we are still talking movies here. Actually, just one in particular. Two if you want to be all nit-picky about it. Farah Khan's Om Shanti Om is definitive filmmaking. There is just one thought process running all through it - entertainment, no matter what the means. And after being bombarded with self-indulging movies like Eklavya, No Smoking ( Read more... )

The first thing I do before deciding to watch a movie is read as many reviews as I can on the net. There are very few "critics" that I actually enjoy reading, for different reasons. Rediff's Raja Sen is one such. Not because I mostly agree with him (I very seldom do) but because his reviews are hardly ever mundane. With quite a few of them, ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: All personal opinions, and all influenced by my personal bias. And the list is based only on movies I have personally seen.

The year's best

2006 was a great year for hindi movies. The craftsmanship improved multifold, screenplays were more sophisticated and story-telling, in general, was refreshingly different.

10. Being CyrusThe ( Read more... )

Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is typical Bollywood entertainment. Let's make no bones about this one breaking any moulds. It has great looking people dwelling and working in amazing locations and striding along in even better designer outfits. It has magnificent songs, wonderful photography and typically Bollywood "dream songs". Yet, in more ways than one ( Read more... )

AR Rahman finally made it to Hollywood, quite literally this time around. In front of a packed crowd that was braying for his arrival for well more than 3 hours, Rahman walked in with the ease of a man that was enjoying his job - quite unlike many other international artists that have played at the Hollywood Bowl before. For it is quite a huge ( Read more... )