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Devdas (2002)

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Posted on March 3, 2007 by Eugene

You watch Devdas and you hear it’s the most expensive film made and you can see where the money’s gone. It is one of the most opulent films I have seen in a long time. No longer do we care about the masses, but instead we focus on the big people who live big lives in big mansions – who love big and lose big.

Basically everything about Devdas is big.

The movie has an operatic air about it where … (read more)

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Asoka (2001)

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Posted on March 3, 2007 by Eugene

Like any genre, Sword and Sandals seems to go through its up and downs. It certainly seemed the thing to do in the days of Gladiator and it seems, with Troy to be seen soon as not to mention the Alexander the Great biopics, it still maintains a certain respectability. Of course quality films don’t rely upon the wistfulness of the general populace but it certainly helps with the marketing.

So Asoka, at its most basic, is a Sword … (read more)

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Munnabhai M.B.B.S. (2003)

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Posted on January 19, 2007 by James

Munnabhai M.B.B.S. starts energetically with a humorous car and foot chase involving an innocent jogger, a goon with a gun and a taxi driver who wants no part of the crime about to be committed. In a way it’s a shame the rest of the movie doesn’t simply build on this set-up, since as it turns out the taxi driver is Munna, a tricky gangster who excels at blindsiding the victims of his extortion racket.

One person Munna has so … (read more)

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Talaash (2003)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Eugene

Sitting here wondering what to write about this movie, I cannot help but make a comparison to a scene out of the not-as-good-but-still-amusing-sequel Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey. That scene is, of course, their descent into hell. Apart from the somewhat appropriate metaphor for the falling into endless degradation and infinite horror, the dialogue is somewhat appropriate. For those of you unfamiliar with the scene, let me transcribe it for you:

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH”

<Pause for breath>

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH”

Jokes … (read more)

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Saathiya (2002)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Ching Yee

My experience of Bollywood is pretty limited up to the point of this movie, I’m going to be honest here: Lagaan, Heart’s Desire and the one that SBS keeps showing where a woman in thrown into a river of ferocious crocodiles by her evil scheming rat of a husband. She comes back after astonishing plastic surgery and wreaks revenge on said rat. Tis rather a tragic number I know but I’m working hard to rectify my meagre Bollywood consumption. My … (read more)

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Line of Control – Kargil (2003)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Russell

It’s not often one finds an imdb review (usually written by some 12-year-old in Bumfuck Nebraska) suitable as a quotable quote but with Kargil; Line Of Control, the review which begins as “Dull, tedious and racist” is hard to beat and harder to deny.

Based on battles which took place on the line of control (a kind of fuzzy and perennially combat strewn no man’s land) in the region of the India and Pakistan border in 1999, Line Of Control… (read more)

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Kaante (2002)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Ching Yee

Is it a remake of Reservoir Dogs? Does it rip off The Usual Suspects? All of the above! Considering that Reservoir Dogs was inspired by Ringo Lam’s City on Fire and The Usual Suspects was inspired by Kurasawa’s Rashomon, it’s no surprise that this baby is a mixed kettle of fish. You can even throw in some Martin Scorsese and John Woo in there too. The director claimed that Kaante was also ‘inspired’ by several well known … (read more)

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Hum Tum (2004)

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Posted on November 25, 2005 by Helen

Hum Tum. Him and Her. Man and Woman. Yash Chopra’s Hum Tum is a classic battle-of-the-sexes romantic comedy. The story of cartoonist Karan (Saif Ali Khan) and student/businesswoman Rhea (Rani Mukerji) unfolds over a nine year period in which both characters and their relationship grow and become something the actors succeed in making you actually care about.

Karan and Rhea meet as students on a flight to New York, pack more into a six hour stopover in Amsterdam en route … (read more)

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