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November 16, 2015. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (2015). प र म रतन धन प य. Some of the most awkward moments of. Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. 0160;Is he a little repulsed that the woman he idealizes and adores is so ready to succumb to an immoral desire? 0160;The scene doesnt make it clear, and that inscrutability may be a bit of sleight of hand by director Sooraj Barjatya - you, dear viewer, may supply whatever interpretation best suits your worldview. Hum Aapke Hain Kaun. To be whisked away into a sparkling kind of.
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Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 and Part 2 (2012) - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Julie (1975). The Preposterous Lady Carla ». July 31, 2015. Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 and Part 2 (2012). With Anurag Kashyaps magnum opus recently becoming available on various streaming services in the US, I sat down to watch it with Beth. As to the violence - dont get me wrong,. Has plenty of it - it doesnt get under my skin in the same way as, say, that in. Ive given some thought to why, and concluded that it is more cartoonish than it is horrifying, more hitting the ew, gross! I am trying to ...
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Filmi Geek: Carla's favorites
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June 04, 2016. Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013). ग ल य क र सल ल र म-ल ल. Dir Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Bhansali films have been a mixed bag for me. For instance, while I am very fond of. 0160;hits some terribly wrong notes, and my seething hatred of. 0160;is well-documented. Bhansalis aesthetic sense is strong, and even if he doesnt always pull it off, its clear that he always has a grand vision in mind. In. Inspired by Romeo and Juliet, as the title cards put it,. The film is full of sequences like th...
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Conversations Over Chai: Ijaazat (1987)
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Come in, sit down, converse. Let's talk movies, music, books. Starring: Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel,. Shammi Kapoor, Shashi Kapoor,. Sulabha Deshpande, Dina Pathak. Over the weekend, while we were driving, my husband played The Kronos Quartet. Songs from RD Burman's Bollywood. One of the songs they picked for this particular album was Mera kuch samaan. And when Mahender goes into the bathroom, she hurriedly goes outside and asks the station master whether there is a ladies' waiting room at th...
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March 20, 2016. Kapoor and Sons (2016). This is not to criticize my friends family - to paraphrase Tolstoy, each dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way, and more of us than not have something unhealthy in our families interaction. But before the end credits of . Even more than in the recent. Is a lovely film. I cant wait to find out what my friend and her family think of it. . Posted at 11:09 AM in 2010s. Very good (but not favorite). January 11, 2016. Bollywood Podcast - 2015 round-up.
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NH10 (2015) - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Dil apna aur preet parai (1960). The Khans at 50, and women taking revenge ». March 17, 2015. The lawless countryside does have a law of its own, explains a character in. 0160;presents this argument but does not endorse it. It does not take the side of so-called honor killers, of the people who enforce the rules by killing their sisters and daughters. But it does present a troubling moral conundrum. . 0160;Certainly turning a blind eye toward the violence he witnesses cannot be the morally righ...
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Tere Bin Laden (2010) - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Chori chori (2003). Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008) ». January 15, 2011. Tere Bin Laden (2010). I am not sure I have ever seen a movie quite like. A pun meaning both your Bin Laden and without you, Laden). It takes what could be a charged, angry, minefield of a premise and turns it into a film that is light on its feet, absurd, and utterly charming. . After watching the darkly wry. I suppose I expected similar bleakness from. The other characters in the gang add color and depth, resulting in a movie...
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Baahubali (2015) - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Jugnu (1973). Bajrangi Bhaijaan (2015) ». July 18, 2015. Dir SS. Rajamouli. Obviously, Southern films draw on their own set of narrative traditions, their own idioms and archetypes. These are not entirely disjoint from those of Hindi films, but are nevertheless different. And I think at least a part of why the very evident craft of. Is wasted on me is that I dont have sufficient familiarity with them to fully surrender to its aesthetic. . I dont mean the visual aesthetic; the visuals of. That he ...
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Masoom (1983) - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Bombay Talkie (1970). Filmi Geek metapost ». November 20, 2006. Is a sweet, sad story about the repercussions of bad decisions made by basically good people. Indu ( Shabana Azmi. The film's title,. I've expressed this particular fan-girl gushiness before, but. Inspires it afresh: one of the things I love best about Shabana Azmi is that she conveys so much in her silences. She never needs a lot of dialogue to make plain the contents of her character's heart and mind. Her performance in. I understan...
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Alphabetical Index - Filmi Geek
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Laquo; Sholay (1975). Fire (1996) ». October 01, 2006. Please see the new index. Posted at 10:57 PM in Other stuff. Please see the new index. Reviews on Filmi Geek. To read Carla's latest columns in Outlook India. On Ankhon Dekhi (2013). On Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013). On Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013). On Ankhon Dekhi (2013). On OK Kanmani (2015). On OK Kanmani (2015). Commerical hits in India. Very good (but not favorite). Tweets by @carla filmigeek. Filmi blogs and resources.
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