New York(Kabir Khan, 2009): educating on terrorism.

**Disclaimer** This is a FILM REVIEW and is not a DECLARATION OF FAITH or IDEOLOGY or INTENTION. The ideas expressed in this piece are no pointer to how the author would think or behave in the past or future.
New York is the Godfather of terrorism films. It takes a complicated subject and simplifies it into [...]

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99 (Raj nidimoru, Krishna D K, 2009)

99 is a buddy caper film . its losely based on pulp fiction(the gangsters in it are straight out of  the big lebowski). It has a cohen brothers feel to its narrative commentary without the cohen’s smart alecky snark.  Populated with real and laugh out aloud funny charecters ,the film allows for neo realist social [...]

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Short Takes(june 09)

Shiney Ahuja slept with his servant maid. The national conference of women, the press,  the chief minister of maharashtra state and the maharashtra police found him guilty of having sex (also called rape in India). It’s now time the court to follow suit , or else.  In class conscious India, this “having sex  across class [...]

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2009 ten most beautiful in bollywood.

This is in no particular order..This is  a somewhat south India weighted list, but thats just how it happens to be…if more beautiful gujaratis or oriyas come to work in films there’ll be more of those ..
1 Anushka shetty

2. Shradha Sharma

3. Sneha(suhasini) rajaram

4. Deepika Pudukone

5. Meera Jasmine

6. Tanisha Mukharjee

7.  Sonam Kapoor

8.  Freida Pinto

9. Bhoomika Chawla

10. [...]

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Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi : A poetic translation.

Hazaaron Khwaishen Aisi is the Anthem of the ghazal buff. Everyone that reads Ghalib and Urdu sher has a translation. To some it’s philosophy (where inexplicably, the beloved is god, and the winestore is “nirvana”. ) to others it’s drunk poetry where , as the poet goes deeper into the ghazal it becomes bloodier and [...]

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Sita Sings the Blues (full movie), Nina Paley 2008 (I think…)

Available for free download at archive.com vide a creative commons liscence by nina paley at sita sings the blues dot com
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The film features the comic soundtrack of three “learned Indian voices”
Our very own Assem Chabbra,  the filmmaker Manish Acharya and Bhavna Nagulapally.. The Youtube encoding courtesy :
Drakar2002(Mike Schmitt)
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Movie catchup

Terminator salvation(franchise, 2009):  Part (the 2002 film) Reign of Fire and part disaster film 28 days later, This CGI instalment is only distinguished by its unrelenting sense of Celtic purpose as the franchise holds on to its joycean visions of privileged humanity, that elevated Aahnold into a universal studios ride. The only thing I [...]

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