Gulaal-First Look

Kick-Ass posters.
I think red in the poster represents the history of rajputs as well the present time, along with the lost pride.
AK has a knack of using the most artistic posters for his films.
I hope the movie gives the true picture of politics in Rajasthan and the role of rajputs in it.

For a movie that has been in the can for past two and half years it looks spectacular.Eagerly looking forward to the trailer.

The movie is set in futuristic Rajasthan in which democracy has failed, and royals have made it RAJPUTANA.

Ghajini-Questioning Your Intelligence

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN FOR PASSIONFORCINEMA HERE

I am suffering from short term memory loss I’ve completely forgotten what happened in last three hours, I am still regarding Aamir khan as the most cinematically intelligent actor who believes in good cinema. His record speaks for him- Acted ,produced and directed TZP, acted in RDB, DCH,Mangal Pandey, Sarfarosh etc,and who can forget Lagaan. But all the posters of Ghajini, all the reviews and all the promos of Ghajini are constantly reminding me of the pain and agony I endured when I watched Ghajini.

Movie starts with Jiah Khan discussing Aamir’s short term memory loss disease with a Doctor, Woosh Woosh Aamir’s entry  he beats the hell out of the bad guy Woosh Woosh bad guy retaliates Woosh Woosh Aamir takes a tap out from the washbasin and shoves it in the bad guy’s stomach. At this moment I half expected Aamir to open the tap and let the bad guy’s blood on the floor, but it did not happen. Aamir walks off the crime scene unscathed, unperturbed, don’t ask me how. Dead Body is discovered and a MAVERICK police Inspector visits the crime scene who swears to find the killer in 48 hours. He searches for evidence and after a thorough search of crime scene he finds the ALL IMPORTANT EVIDENCE ,a local bus ticket. Meanwhile Aamir comes back to his lair Woosh Woosh and dozes off. His house is filled with graffiti all over the walls because it reminds him of his aim. Aamir wakes up Woosh Woosh goes to bathroom looking confused Woosh Woosh takes his shirt off Woosh Woosh sees tattoos remembers everything and screams Woosh Woosh.

NOTE:Woosh Woosh here is nothing but the sound effects we here when the camera comes into focus or operates in multiple frames.

The MAVERICK inspector traces the bus ticket back to Aamir and goes to catch him. Aamir gets readyWoosh Woosh and boards the bus. MAVERICK misses him but chases the bus, he runs faster than the bus and suddenly himself becomes the bus. Oops sorry too much imagination!! He catches the bus BUT Toinks! Aamir is not there. Aamir goes to his Doctor meets Jiah Khan comes back to his house and works on a plan to find and kill Ghajini. MAVERICK finds Aamir and comes to his flat creeps up from behind and hits Aamir on the head ties him and searches for evidence. He finds a diary which tells him that Aamir was once a very handsome business tycoon who folded sleeves of his half shirts and loved a struggling model. Aamir’s lovelife comes into focus how he fell in love with the do-gooder, messiah of the poor and the disabled ASIN. Love comes into picture by mistaken identities and what follows is THE GREAT LOVE STORY OF Aamir and Asin spiced with two songs. Which I think were described WORD TO WORD and STEP TO STEP in the diary. MAVERICK then finds the other diary, but Aamir is back to his senses, breaks his bonds and beats the hell out of MAVERICK. Aamir then finds Ghajini in Jiah Khan’s college function and tries to kill him but kills one of Ghajini’s men.

TRIVIA:The stage of Jiah khan’s college had the property of transforming itself into big Hi-tech dance floor whenever Jiah Khan performed on it.

Jiah Khan visits Aamir’s house rescues MAVERICK is chased by Aamir but escapes, goes to Ghajini tells him Aamir is after him. Meanwhile, MAVERICK is  dead in a road accident when chased by Aamir and Ghajini is killing all his enemies. Woosh Woosh Ghajini goes to kill Aamir Woosh Woosh Aamir goes to kill Ghajini. Phone rings in Ghajini’s house Aamir picks it up Jiah is on the phone and Aamir knows that Jiah has betrayed him. He goes to Jiah’s hostel instead climbs three stories of pipe and tries to kill Jiah through the window. Jiah gets him caught. In police station police calls all the numbers tattooed on Aamir’s body to identify him. They call Ghajini who comes to Police Station. Aamir is bailed by his manager. Ghajini decides that killing Aamir would not be ‘SAFE’, so he wipes all Aamir’s memory out by destroying his photographs and other notes and wiping out his Tattoos. Making Aamir ‘JUST LIKE A VEGETABLE’  in words of The GREAT GHAJINI.

Meanwhile Jiah Khan reads Aamir’s diaries and discovers that Asin had sacrificed her Ambassador for LOVE which solidifies Asin’s claim for Goddess of love and sacrifice. Jiah strives for more truth as diary was incomplete we come to know how Asin became Savior of the girls in a KIDNEY RACKET due to which Ghajini kills her and leaves Aamir with a scar. Yeah! Ghajini was involved in it don’t you already know that Ghajini is the quintessential villian. Jiah realises her mistakes goes to Aamir brings his memory back takes him to Ghajini’s lair on her MAGNIFICENT SCOOTY.

After that Aamir is Juggernaut Woosh Woosh bashing up goons , throwing men 20 feet away, making heads turn 360 degrees with one punch(literally) and in the process not getting hurt. Ghajini manages to hold him off a wee-bit by putting an iron bar in his stomach, but power of love propels Aamir into killing Ghajini. Aamir grows hair becomes sober opens an orphanage and lives on and on and on…….. and yes no police case for all the bashing.

TRIVIA: Local mobsters in Mumbai doon’t even carry a local pistol let alone an AK-47.

I think it was three months ago when Aamir announced that Ghajini is totally different from Memento (I have not seen tamil Ghajini), I was very relieved. But now I think that he should have copied Memento at least the movie would have been good.

So, don’t remember Dec 25 and don’t forgive Aamir Khan.

Emotoinal Atyachar-The Extended Look

The extended look of this great Dev.D song, its melodious the lyrics are profound and ‘PATNA KE PRESLEYS’ just rock.

Dilli 6:Official Teaser

Great Teaser gives just the right glimpses of the film, the camerawork is great and the Nostalgic music makes it even more interesting. Eagerly waiting for the trailer and music.

Dev.D – The Release Poster

It is one of the best posters.
It shows how protagonist’s body is turning into wasp through the attractive lips and the shades are making him blind but are reflecting his personality to others. At least that’s what I perceive from it.

Dev.D:Theatrical Trailer-Tera Emotional Atyachar

The maverick is back with his new offering and this time he digs deep into Indian literature and comes up with the most popular novel of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay. This is Anurag Kashyap’s take on the novel which was considered by Sarat Chandra as his worst work but became legend with the tide of time. The movie promises to be different from the previous 15 movie versions of the novel. In it Abhay Deol plays the title role of Cocaine sniffing, foul mouthed, self destructive modern Dev. The trailer takes the imagination of viewer deep into the foray of European cinema as the ‘BAND’ music provides the Indian effect.

Fashion-Faltering Ramp Walk

Hard-Hitting reality, lots of research, quirky one liners, tongue-in-cheek humour, well defined characters, actors surpassing their abilities and…….National Awards. This is a description of a usual Madhur Bhandarkar movie.  But Fashion one of his most eagerly awaited movies ever sadly falls short in many of these provinces. At least its very sad for me a loyal fan of Bhandarkar cinema. I always knew Bhandarkar was not a great storyteller, but he puts his research to good effect in the movies and transforms a very ordinary story on a strong subject into one of the best movies of Indian Cinema. This time too he took an ordinary story with a strong subject but transformation was not great, it looks as though much was lost in translation.

Movie begins with an impressive credit sequence, as the audience is sucked into the dark world of fashion by Madhur Bhandarkar. But from first scene itself the movie takes a plunge as a very weak confrontation between a strict father and free daughter takes place in the backdrop of Chandigarh. The daughter portayed by the elegant and sexy Priyanka Chopra locates to the ‘City Of Dreams’ Mumbai pursuing her dreams. Mumbai is shown from the viewpoint of an aspiring model, the artificially lighted dark alleys, the gay designers , the plastic models and the Moghuls of industry are introduced. As our protagonist moves from audition to audition guided by the awfully harsh voice of Chitrashi Rawat(Komal Chautala of Chak de). You feel sleepy as Madhur Bhandarkar’s usual characters appear and makes the movie crawl. All thees characters are very self indulgent and come from previous Bhandarkar efforts. Priyanka Chopra holds her own as her charcter progresses from a small town girl to a glamorized Mumbai girl. Kangna Ranaut’s character a supermodel goes deep into the labyrinth of Fashion as she shows the ugly province of a Famed State. Mugdha Godse shows great wit and puts life into the film as the not so successful model. Film proceeds with the protagonist doing LIngerie ads due to scarcity of money, you don’t feel sorry for her. She leaves her Uncle’s house to settle with her Boyfriend, oh! did I forgot to introduce his character? He’s the lone ranger of morals in the World pof Fashion, who is not ready to ‘adjust’ with the designers. The Fashion Moghul then gets Priyanka a big show, a spat with designer gets her thrown out of the show. From this point onwards the movie brightens as the Moghul takes it on his ego and makes Priyanka the supermodel replacing Kangana Ranaut. Priyanka’s character reaches another level as the self praising, self indulgent model. She leaves her Boyfriend and takes the dark road to success.

Second half begins with Priyanka Chopra showing the traits of the supermodel with glittering shows and dazzling costumes.  Kangana’s character descends into madness as Coke and other drugs gets better of her. The famous gay designer played by Sameer Soni is shown in a new light as he marries Mugdha Godse to please his Mum and the society. She agrees to keep her life safe, world of compromises expands. Priyanka pleases the Moghul played by Arbaaz Khan. Then comes the bomb as Kangna Ranaut falls victim to wardrobe malfunction and Priyanka Chopra dubs is as publicity stunt showing her supermodel ways. Priyanka gets pregnant with Arbaaz’s child and goes into depression after abortion, as her contract makes sure that she cannot have a child. The dark side of fame is portrayed to perfection as Priyanka is booked for drunken driving splashing her on every new channel and newspaper.  She enters a rift with Arbaaz and she is replaced by someone else. The depression era continues and a brown sugar night with a Black makes her trace back her steps to Chandigarh. She fights her depression and comes back to Mumbai. In Mumbai she is helped by some old friends including Sameer Soni and Mugdha Godse. Trauma of past gets better of her as she freezes on the ramp. Then she finds out about Kangana’s condition and brings her home. She looks after her and reagins her confidence. Last sequence of the film mesmerizes the audience as a disraught Priyanka hears the news of death of Kangana on phone, just before her turn on the ramp and as friends urge her on the audience wait for the Finale, she looks distraught but finally descends into hell as artificial reality is imposedon the scree.

Acting wise Priyanka Chopra gets all the accolades as the model, she plays the multilyerd character to perfection, another revelation in the movie is Harsh Chhaya who plays the character with ease and a certain panache. Kangana Ranaut is passable, she really needs to modulate her voice. Rest of the cast Mugdha Godse, Samir Soni, Arbaaz Khan played their character well. The flaw of the movie lay in the storyline as it was not engagging enough for the audience. The subject was not close to audience as we all know very less abut the subject. The direction is good but the subject and storyline and subject prevents it from being a great film. All in all Fashion is informative and well acted but it fails to strike a chord in the hearts of people. It is a movie for Bhandarkar loyals and fashion related people not for everyone else.

Isn’t It A Pity

Isn’t it a pity
Now, isn’t it a shame
How we break each other’s hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other’s love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn’t it a pity

Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we’re all the same
And because of all their tears
Their eyes can’t hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Isn’t it a pity

Isn’t it a pity
Isn’t is a shame
How we break each other’s hearts
And cause each other pain
How we take each other’s love
Without thinking anymore
Forgetting to give back
Isn’t it a pity

Forgetting to give back
Isn’t it a pity
Forgetting to give back
Now, isn’t it a pity

(6 times, fade the 6th)
What a pity
What a pity, pity, pity
What a pity
What a pity, pity, pity

Artist-George Harrison

Album-All Things Must Pass(1970)

Composed,sung and written by-George Harrison

It was the beginning of the 70’s and hard hitting rock was taking over from rock and roll, The Beatles had disbanded and each of them were pursuing their solo careers. At that time the ‘Quiet Beatle’ produced a gem of a song ‘Isn’t it a pity’ in his album. This song is one of the most simple and straightforward song. But its main characteristic is its honesty. The writer presents his view very honestly and in very simple words and takes the listener back to its roots. We as listener go deep into the labyrinth of life with only Harrison’s voice and words to guide us, we go to the centre of labyrinth and look at the basics i.e love which we forgot, then we pity our own existence.

Kiska Rasta Dekhe

Kiska Rasta Dekhe Aye Dil Aye Saudaai
Meelon Hai Khamoshi Barson Hai Tanhaee
Bhooli Duniya Kabhiki Tujhe Bhi Mujhe Bhi
Phir Kyon Aankh Bhar Aayee

Koi Bhi Saaya Nahin Raahon Mein
Koi Bhi Aayega Na Baahon Mein
Tere Liye Mere Liye Koi Nahin Ronewala
Jhoota Bhi Naata Nahin Chaahon Mein
Tu Hi Kyon Dooba Rahe Aahon Mein
Koi Kisi Sang Mare Aaisa Nahin Honewala
Koi Nahin Jo Yoon Hi Jahan Mein Baate Peer Parayee
Kiska Rasta Dekhe Aye Dil Aye Saudaai…

Tujhe Kya Beeti Hui Raaton Se
Mujhe Kya Khoi Hui Baaton Se
Sej Nahin Chita Sahi Jo Bhi Mile Sona Hoga
Gai Jo Dori Chhooti Haathon Se
Lena Kya Toote Hue Saathon Se
Khushi Jahan Maangi Toone Wahin Mujhe Rona Hoga
Na Koi Tera Na Koi Mera Phir Kiski Yaad Aai
Kiska Rasta Dekhe Aye Dil Aye Saudaai…

Movie-Joshilaa(1973)

Music-R.D.Burman

Lyrics-Saahir Ludhiyanavi

Singer-Kishore Kumar

Song of a prisoner thinking about his past life and the road ahead sung by the magnificient Kishore Kumar as you see Dev Anand in pain and agony howling in the beautiful voice. we watch the protagonist’s past in flashes where a beautiful Rakhi captures your imagination and you feel mesmerized by the natural beauty,cut! the gloomy Dev Anand again singing through the dark depths of his prison cell. It is more than a song it is the story of a wrongly imprisoned guy thinking about what all he had and how it was taken away, how everything changed. Saahir sahab does it again as he brings R.D.Buraman’s tunes to life.

Outside

And you…..Could bring me to my knees…Again.
All the times…..When I could beg you please…In vein.
All the times…..When I felt insecure…For you
And I leave…..My burdens at the door…

But I’m on the outside, I’m lookin in.
I can see through you, see your true colors.
Cuz inside your ugly, your ugly like me.
I can see through you, see to the real you.

All the times…..That I felt like this won’t end…It’s for you.
And I taste…..What I could never have…It was from you.
All the times…That I’ve cried…My intentions…Were full of pride.
But I watse…..More time than anyone…

But I’m on the outside, I’m lookin in.
I can see through you, see your true colors.
Cuz inside your ugly, your ugly like me.
I can see through you, see to the real you.

All the times…..That I’ve cried…
All this wasted….It’s all inside…
And I feel…..All this pain…
Stuffed it down…..It’s back again…
And I lie…..Here in bed…
All alone…..I can’t mend…But I feel…Tomorrow will be ok.

I’m on the outside and I’m lookin in.
I can see through you, see your true colors.
Cuz inside your ugly, your ugly like me.

I can see through you, see to the real you.

Artist-Staind

Album-Break The Cycle(2001)

Written and Sung By-Aaron Lewis

Aaron Lewis called this song accidental but I call this song sheer brilliance. Lyrics of this song came straight from Lewis’ heart and strike you sharp on your heart. This song makes every listener feel as if it were his lyrics written long ago coming back as Deja Vu. It is the song of a social outcast, song of a ragged poet and song of a common man who would’ve felt something like this at some point in his life. A point where all of us understand everything, a point where some people become great and shine on and some people fade away without spark. Outside starts with simple acoustic Guitaring and progresses with the emotions and metal riffs and at the end Acoustic Guitar speaks as Aaron Lewis’ voice becomes a mere whisper and overwhelms the listener.