VOTD : If only this was the real Oscar

…it would have been so much fun. Like us, if you also woke up at 6am, stared at the tv screen for 4 hours, got bored and felt like killing someone by the end of it, then just click on the play button. Enjoy! And dear Academy Members, go chew those marbles of Hooper & [...]

Vishal Bhardwaj, Ranjan Palit, 7 Khoon Maaf – what we are still reading

This is not going to end so soon. We started with this post, Varun wrote this one, and Subrat took the Mir route with this post. And in this post we are putting out some of the interesting links that we read recently…VB, Ranjan Palit, 7KM, Ismat Chugtai, prosthetics and more.   Time Out’s Nandini [...]

Dekh to dil ke jaan se uthta hai, Subrat spots the Poet Bhardwaj in 7 Khoon Maaf

Having divided audiences and critics, the discussion on 7 Khoon Maaf refuses to die down. And we are not complaining. First, we had a post expressing disappointment at a film that ‘packed so much, yet offered so little‘. Then we had Varun Grover passionately defending 7KM saying: ‘If 7 Khoon Maaf is boring, then Pratibha Patil [...]

Call for Entries – 68th International Venice Film Festival

WHAT : The Venice International Film Festival (La Biennale di Venezia – Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica) announces its Call for Entries in all categories for 2011. Essentially a World Premiere Festival, it is open to films of any format and length that have been produced during the twelve months preceding the festival. WHEN : The [...]

Call For Entries – 1st Guwahati International Short Film Festival

WHAT : The 1st Guwahati International Short Film Festival (Gisff) in inviting entries. The festival is  organized by Creovaent Productions in association with Shamiana. BUT – Entries to the Competition are restricted ONLY to filmmakers from North-East Region of India in the first year. AND entries from other parts of the country and world will [...]

If 7 Khoon Maaf is boring, then Pratibha Patil is exciting, argues Varun Grover

The header is from one of the tweets of Varun Grover. He has posted a long comment on this post also. Just when we thought that we all agree on one film finally, Varun felt otherwise – Aha, the joy and beauty of cinema! One film but so many things for so many souls.  He [...]

Ang Lee’s Life Of Pi – (Un)Official Synopsis

Thanks to the good soul who mailed us the (un)official synopsis of Life Of Pi. The film is directed by Ang Lee and is based on Yann Martel’s novel of the same name. It has Irrfan Khan (Older Pi), Tabu (Pi’s mother), debutant Suraj Sharma (Piscine Molitor ‘Pi’ Patel) and Adil Hussain (Pi’s father) in [...]

Vishal Bhardwaj’s 7 Khoon Maaf – Packed with so much, yet offers so little

The day I got to know that Vishal Bhardwaj was adapting another Ruskin Bond short story for the big screen, I went to all the possible book stores, searched desperately for the book with the story Sussana’s Seven Husbands, found it, bought it, read it and then heaved a sigh of relief. How else can [...]

First Look : Dum Maaro Dum (Teaser) & official synopsis

The first look of Rohan Sippy’s new film Dum Maaro Dum is out. It stars Abhishek Bachchan, Bipasha Basu and Rana Daggubati. Prateik is credited as Special Appearance in the teaser. It’s written by Shridhar Raghavan, shot by Amit Roy and has Pritam’s Music. Check it out. And here is the official synopsis…. Goa. Paradise [...]

Michael Winterbottom to shoot his next film in India, stars Freida Pinto

Not sure why and how, but Freida Pinto is surely going places. As if Danny Boyle, Julian Schnabel, Woody Allen, Tarsem Singh and the Apes movie weren’t big enough for her CV, now she also has Michael Winterbottom. The film is titled Trishna and will also star Riz Ahmed (Four Lions). It’s based on Thomas [...]