rubicon
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Upcoming release you're most excited about: Rangoon, Udta Punjab
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Post by rubicon on Nov 22, 2013 3:05:30 GMT
As far as I know, this has been generally well-received by both critics and audiences. Not sure if it's hit the 100 crore mark yet, but it had a really good opening weekend. Links to some reviews: Indian ExpressBaradwaj RanganVigil Idiot
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odadune
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not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
Posts: 1,494
Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Nov 22, 2013 18:28:54 GMT
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Post by corbie on Nov 23, 2013 16:05:18 GMT
It is here for a second week. I was at a fair last weekend so we are seeing it tomorrow. The dancing looks amazing and it is my favorite part. I miss the costume dancing in the newer films with the nightclub type strobe dancing.
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Post by vanillasky on Nov 25, 2013 0:07:16 GMT
Look very interesting..love to see this film
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Post by jabimetbollywood on Nov 27, 2013 8:58:32 GMT
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Post by vanillasky on Dec 5, 2013 9:49:57 GMT
I am not going to write details opinion here. I have seen the film. The film has a very weak story, the hero Ranjeev singh need to grow up and have more confidence in acting, I am sure he will improove, Deepika she was looking good. The film song are ok, and dance look very spectacular, look very colourful and excellent choreographed.
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shabanauk
Dancing in the chorus
Posts: 30
Favorite actor: Salman khan, Mithun, Aamir Khan and others
Favorite actress: Kareena, Madhuri Dixit, Kangana Ranaut
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Many of them
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Post by shabanauk on Dec 6, 2013 4:21:28 GMT
I like this film, Ranveer singh will be super star.
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Post by corbie on Dec 8, 2013 16:20:08 GMT
Not going to end up a classic or anything, but we did like it. I loved the bit at the end what the mother said about her boy child. Do not know how spoiler we can actually be on a spoiler thread! But it was so true. The older I get and the more news I see, it just leads to the question of what is wrong with a lot of men? They just love to kill. But that is a philosophical question.
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Havai
Dancing in the chorus
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Post by Havai on Dec 19, 2013 2:03:03 GMT
I watched this on the big screen, without subtitles, and I think it may have actually benefited from my only understanding 2/3 of what was going on (and paying much more attention to the beautiful scenery)! But I did have one question- SPOILER ALERT!- about the conversation between Ram and Leela just after Ba is shot. What does she say in her outburst just before Ram snaps the selfie? I gathered it was some kind of acquiescence to the crazy idea of getting the two of them married, but I'm really curious what her motivation to agree was.
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Post by newbiefan on Feb 15, 2014 3:23:28 GMT
This movie should have tried a little harder to set up its romance. In the beginning Ranveer is presented as an incorrigible womanizer frequently getting laid, so there should have been a little more explanation for why he fell so hard for Deepika. Why did true love happen? It couldn't have been her sexual forwardness that he found intriguing since the other village girls are not presented as being coy in the least. They were fawning over his naked torso, taking pictures with their phones, a couple were allegedly sleeping with him (as mentioned by his brother in the clan meeting), so what was it then? The excitement of going after an enemy girl? And what did Deepika see in him? An enemy guy with a terrible reputation who speaks in double entendres. In the original play Romeo and Juliet are very young, so that sort of excuses their naiveté in imagining that they might have a future together, but with these lead characters there's no such excuse. The ending was also without impact. Suicides like that only work if the viewer is convinced that the characters have run out of options. It did not feel that way to me. The latest round of violence seemed no different from earlier ones, Deepika and Ranveer were both unharmed and still in love, Ba seemed to be softening her stance, so why did they feel like this was the end of the road for them? Why not try to run away a second time or something? Having said all that, the movie also has some really well crafted moments. {Click to view!} The finger chopping scene followed by a similarly mutilated Ranveer gazing at a sleeping Deepika was very well done, and so was the scene in the hospital where Ba glances at Deepika's chopped off finger stub and Deepika tells her that it doesn't hurt any more and looks away. Both women knocked it out of the park there. I really liked the music and how it was used in the movie. Ranveer was very good in the film. He had a somewhat inconsistent character, both a slick, shameless lafanga, not so different from his Band Baaja Baaraat character, but also a pacifist and a silently sacrificing true lover, a bit like his character in Lootera. The twain ought not to have met, but Ranveer manages the difficult task of integrating both facets into an organic whole. Overall I liked it well enough, but it wasn't fully satisfying.
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drk
Dancing in the chorus
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Post by drk on May 25, 2014 22:51:22 GMT
The story didn't work for me for the EXACT same reason SLB's Devdas didn't work for me. The hero faces one little hurdle and completely gives up on what we're told to believe was his undying passionate love for the heroine.
The film was absolutely beautiful and the dances were so beautiful I had to rewatch a few of them. Deepika has never looked better. Gorgeous.
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odadune
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not around much due to stuff in my personal life.
Posts: 1,494
Favorite actor: Currently a certain Kumar, but I like most of them
Favorite actress: whoever's in films I'm interested in this week
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Post by odadune on Oct 5, 2015 2:08:34 GMT
I felt like this was a well-made story of a feud that focused far too strongly on two of the less interesting people involved. Ram is at least a moderately consistent character with a story arc that's almost Aristotelian in the way that everything that happens to him, good and bad, follows from his impulsiveness, bro-dudeness, and sleazier tendencies. If he were a stronger personality, he would have been more successful in rebuffing his friends' overtures when they try to separate him from Leela (after the two elope), but if he were that kind of guy, he probably wouldn't have fallen for a girl from the enemy family to begin with. Dealing in adult videos allows him to smooth over some problems initially (and it's symbolic of the way lust and violence intertwine in this film's setting), but it also means that his closest associates are complete scumbags who assault Leela's sister-in-law when she's trying to carry a message from Leela to Ram. His gutlessness after the failed elopement was probably the part I found most unbelievable, and even that ties in with the general earlier impression of him as a go-along/get-along kind of guy who can be easily swept away by events. Ranveer plays him with great panache; and although I wasn't particularly rooting for Ram, I would say that I found him more sympathetic than Devdas, Sameer from Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, or Ranbir Raj from Saawariya.
Leela is the standard SLB heroine, which is to say that she's a petulant, mercurial and occasionally charming nitwit with an incoherent character arc and bad taste in men, played by a very attractive and competent actress in sparkly clothes who is trying her best to make some kind of sense out of the character, and almost succeeds. But, I mean, it's a Sanjay Leela Bhansali film-you know what you're getting into when you put the dvd in the player. And Deepika looks pretty cool waving a pistol around, in spite of whatever they did to her eyebrows for this film. (DO NOT WANT). I wanted to jump into the film and yell at her when she was so stupid about the documents the one guy was giving her to sign.
I didn't really have a problem with the ending because, inspite of their good looks and more charming moments, these two are a couple of self-absorbed idiots, and although Baa is softening they have no way of knowing about that. The characters I actually cared about-dumb archaeologist guy, Baa, Kesar and her son, Richa Chadda's character whose name escapes me-mostly get happy endings.
The songs play better in context than outside of it; I think SLB would be well-advised *not* to compose music for other people's movies, but he did a good job of coming up with material that really suited the tone and feel of his own movie here. The film's aggressive sensuality alternately bored and embarrassed me, and although I understood why the writers assigned Ram the profession that he had, those scenes were not fun to watch, and neither were the assault attempts on the two sisters-in-law.
In the visual department, I was most struck by the pretty sets (I particularly like the courtyard/garden thing outside Leela's apartment), the bird's eye views looking straight down at the temple(?) as people swarm all around, the juxtaposition of gaudy rural clothes with cell phones, the syncopated muzzle flashes during one brief dance number when one of the factions were celebrating some victory or other. And really, why else would I watch this guy's movies, save for the operaticness and the crazy visuals?
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Miss Braganza!
Junior artiste
Posts: 60
Favorite actor: Rahul Bose, Irrfan, Ranveer Singh, Rajesh Khanna
Favorite actress: Konkona Sen Sharma, Vidya Balan, Sharmila Tagore
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, Dear Zindagi, Befikre
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Post by Miss Braganza! on Oct 8, 2015 13:08:15 GMT
I saw this about a month ago and haven't really had time to think about it, but I was surprised at how much I liked it. I haaaaaaaated Guzaarish and didn't feel up for more SLB, like, ever. His general over-the-topness works way better for a Shakespearean tragedy than a PSA about euthanasia, though. And of course it looks really good, particularly Ranveer, and I loved seeing Supriya Pathak in a negative (sort of) role! She's so sweet and simple and good as Ranbir's mother in Wake Up Sid and she must have been having a time of it playing cunning and ruthless.
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