bangaram
Junior artiste
Posts: 55 
Favorite actor: Aamir, SRK
Favorite actress: Kajol, Tamannaah
Upcoming release you're most excited about: Bahubali
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Post by bangaram on Nov 26, 2013 21:06:54 GMT
Teenmaar, the Telugu remake of the Hindi movie Love Aaj Kal.
I have seen the original and didn't really care for it (found the characters and the story quite ludicrous, plus the actors were not at their best).
However, I strongly recommend Teenmaar which I unexpectedly found very good acting and story wise.
The film doesn't have any of the shortcomings of the original version. It ends up being what I wanted LAK to be (mature and funny).
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Havai
Dancing in the chorus
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Post by Havai on Nov 26, 2013 23:45:13 GMT
Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, which I eyed covetously when it came out but couldn't get my Bollyviewing friend interested in. Hooray for Netflix instant! I enjoyed the movie a lot-- I'm off to start a thread for it if one hasn't already begun, so won't put too much more here, except that it's very unusual for me to laugh aloud at a movie I'm watching by myself, and this one made me do it! 
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Post by ShantiSal on Nov 27, 2013 0:31:51 GMT
It's cold and sleeting here in north Texas today, so I spent the afternoon in front of a roaring fire. Just me, the dog and Bollywood. I watched 36 China Town. Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Akshaye Khanna, with Johnny Lever and Paresh Rawal. A decent 'who done it" with some funny twists. Even though I figured out who the culprit was fairly early on, it was still pretty good. Shahid was as cute as ever and I really like him and Kareena together. For a change, I didn't wince when Lever came on, he wasn't as obnoxious as he sometimes is. Not a bad film at all.
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Post by ShantiSal on Nov 27, 2013 3:27:01 GMT
John Day on Spuul. A bank manager resorts to desperate measure to avenge the death of his daughter and an assault on his wife. Violent in parts and no song & dance.
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Post by Andrew-Kenneth on Nov 30, 2013 0:31:40 GMT
Madras Café - a more serious John Abraham starrer about India's involvement in Sri Lanka's Tamil - Singhalese conflict.
After the break the movie deals with the tamil tiger's plot to assasinate Rajiv Ghandhi.
(Curiously, RG's name is never mentioned in the film at all; He's called "the former P.M." throughout the movie.)
It just so happens that I'm in the middle of reading Ramachandra Guha's "India after Ghandi", a 900 page book dealing with India's recent history (1947 - present time); and yesterday happened to read the chapter about the tamil tigers and the assasination of Rajiv Ghandhi.
And then I pop in this blind bought blu-ray (part of a haul comprising Chennai Express, Maqbool, Besharam and Satyagraha) and blessed myself that I did not watch the film last week - when I just had started reading Guha's history book.
Having some extra background knowledge about the tamil conflict made the movie more enjoyable to me.
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odadune
Star of the item number
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 Dec 2, 2013 18:36:29 GMT
Finished Aashiqui 2; felt like the first half set us up to learn more about the characters and somehow we never did. I found the story's ending kind of infuriating, and the young lovers' obsession with sacrificing EVERYTHING for each other is only palatable if you can accept it as a bit of cathartic but morbid fantasy, like the South Indian Laws of Masala Physics. The moment you start thinking about how psychologically messed-up the characters would need to be to act like this, or about the idea of impressible young people holding this up as some kind of ideal love, you will get very grumpy. Songs are pretty and Aditya was very good; Shraddha's mournful innocent schtick got old quickly, but she was cute in the brief happy scenes, and I liked her anger and frustration towards the end of the movie.
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Post by ShantiSal on Dec 2, 2013 21:54:03 GMT
Madras Café - a more serious John Abraham starrer about India's involvement in Sri Lanka's Tamil - Singhalese conflict. After the break the movie deals with the tamil tiger's plot to assasinate Rajiv Ghandhi. (Curiously, RG's name is never mentioned in the film at all; He's called "the former P.M." throughout the movie.) It just so happens that I'm in the middle of reading Ramachandra Guha's "India after Ghandi", a 900 page book dealing with India's recent history (1947 - present time); and yesterday happened to read the chapter about the tamil tigers and the assasination of Rajiv Ghandhi. And then I pop in this blind bought blu-ray (part of a haul comprising Chennai Express, Maqbool, Besharam and Satyagraha) and blessed myself that I did not watch the film last week - when I just had started reading Guha's history book. Having some extra background knowledge about the tamil conflict made the movie more enjoyable to me. Subtitles weren't available for this either on Spuul - I'm not having much luck  |
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Post by Ally Kumari on Dec 3, 2013 11:24:57 GMT
The last film I watched was Chennai Express. I love it! But it was like two weeks ago and I have not managed to watch anything since... Gone ar ethe days when I would watch a film every second day  |
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Post by ShantiSal on Dec 4, 2013 11:32:59 GMT
Madras Cafe - it was gripping and a good vehicle for John Abraham.
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bigb
Dancing in the chorus
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Post by bigb on Dec 4, 2013 20:24:53 GMT
Ram - Leela: it was a disappointment. It was being touted as a return to form for Bansali but frankly, it isn't. It's maybe a return to Sawarya form but I'm beginning to think he'll never scale the delirious heights of Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam and Devdas again.
Bombay Talkies: really enjoyed this one. Liked all of the stories but was particularly fond of #2 (with Nawazudeen Siddiqi) and #3 (about the boy entranced by dance.)
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Post by vanillasky on Dec 5, 2013 10:07:53 GMT
Ram leel, very weak story, the only good thing is making if song. Look very colourfull and the making style is amazing. Over all film is not upto mark.
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Post by Ally Kumari on Dec 5, 2013 17:28:51 GMT
Kohinoor
A delightful film sprinkled with comedy, romance and action, wrapped in pleasant visuals and stuffed with pretty songs. There is that certain naivity you have to accept, and when you do nothing can really prevent you from enjoying the movie. To see Dilip and Meena in such a film was sheer joy. Especially he gets an opportunity to tune into other than the mopy and depressing mood (which he previously crafted into perfection). And I really don´t think there has been an actor more handsome in Bollywood, ever, with possible exception of very young Sunil Dutt.
Favourite moments? A hysterical princess beating everyone over their heads with a stick, and the absolutely hilarious "missing mirror" scene between the hero and the intoxicated antagonist!
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shabanauk
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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 5, 2013 22:15:04 GMT
AATISH-Sanjay Dutt, Aditya pancholi, Raveena Tandon, Tanuja, Shekti kapoor, karsihma kapoor and Atul agnihotri.
This is one of the brilliant action film. Very impressive performance by Aditya pancholi and Sanjay Dutt.
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Post by Ally Kumari on Dec 6, 2013 11:14:06 GMT
Pyaar Impossible
I admit I expected it to be a LOT worse. In fact the beginning with over-sleazy and over-nerdy Uday as a college student was pretty bad, but once the story moved 7 years ahead it got bearable, even if it remained boring and without surprises. Priyanka looked gorgeous. All in all I found it lukewarm, but it did not insult me as a viewer. Uday Chopra is not exactly a bad actor, he is just not good looking and completely without the X-factor.
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dteaj
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Posts: 14
Favorite actor: Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar
Favorite actress: Rani Mukerjee, Kareena Kapoor
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Post by dteaj on Dec 7, 2013 1:11:40 GMT
Watching Devdas in short spurts, as usual for me. This is the SRK, Ashiwarya version. So over the top Bollywood! Compared to Dev D, which is the only other version I know, it is completely stylized and those houses! All stained glass. Does such a thing exist anywhere? The motivations are clearly spelled out, but SRK seems out of his element.
I love Bollywood, but often disagree with critics and the box office about what is best, though.
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