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WALL-E: Sorting Mankind

Tom Elce • August 28th, 2008 • Film Review, Movies, featured

A full 700 years after his creation, WALL•E (Ben Burtt) is still cleaning up humanity’s mess on Earth, sorting and organising towers of garbage that stand alongside the skyscrapers of the long-abandoned planet. The humans themselves have become sloth-like in their dependance on technology, vegetating away on a spacecraft waiting for that time to come when a return to Earth is possible.



Gandhi, My father: A Super-human Father And His Prodigal Son

Jugu Abraham • August 27th, 2008 • Film Review, Highlights, Movies, featured

It was easy for Sir Richard Attenborough to make Gandhi (1982)-he was merely narrating a story of a great individual who walked on this planet not so long ago. Comparatively, it must have been a lot tougher for director Feroz Abbas Khan making his debut as a filmmaker to make Gandhi, my father, pitting a shriveled anti-hero against an international hero, both of whom were historically real individuals, and ironically father and son.



Mumbai Meri Jaan: Close to Perfection!

Pranjal Medhi • August 25th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, featured

Mumbai Meri Jaan is an attempt to depict the lives of five different souls and how the July 11 blasts affect them. Director Nishikant Kamat has already proved his mettle with Dombivli Fast. Yet again he comes up with a poignant storyline which has a realist touch in its portrayal. And call it a coincidence, his second film also moves around the trains of Mumbai.



Phoonk: An Unintentional comedy

Aniruddha Basu • August 25th, 2008 • Film Review, Highlights, featured

As the saying goes, its difficult to make an effective comedy. Its even more difficult to make a effective horror film. Ram Gopal Verma has certainly achieved the latter in past with spine tingling efforts like Raat and Bhoot. In Phoonk however he displays a wholly unintentional flair for the comic. And the prepostero



Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam: Mind-numbing

Yasser Usman • August 25th, 2008 • Film Review, Highlights, featured

What do you expect from a film which has the following names in its credit roll-

Paresh Rawal, Rahul Bose, Kay Kay Menon and Mallika Sherawat ? I know you will say the film has to be at least a good ‘timepass flick’ because not even a trainee filmmaker can completely waste such talented actors and make a terrible film. I thought the same before entering the theatre to watch the first day first show of Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam.



Interview, Nishikant Kamat, Director, Mumbai Meri jaan

Bikas Mishra • August 25th, 2008 • Interview, Movies, featured

National award winner director Nishikant Kamat, returns to theatres this time with his highly anticipated film “Mumbai Meri Jaan”, a film around the devastating Mumbai train bomb blasts.



Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Review

Tom Elce • August 20th, 2008 • Film Review, Hollywood, Movies, featured

Tom Elce reviews director Bharat Nalluri’s film that’s releasing this Friday in India.

Upon being being dismissed from her job, destitute ex-governess Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) goes on the hunt for new employment. Penniless and desperately needing work, she comes into contact with aspiring actress/lounge singer Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams), a young woman juggling her ambitions alongside a trio of different men.



Indian Film Selected for Pusan Promotion Plan

DearCinema • August 20th, 2008 • Highlights, Movies, News, featured

Indian filmmaker Partho Sen-Gupta’s film “Arunodaya” (Sunrise) has been selected for Pusan Promotion Plan (PPP) project market. Organized on the sidelines of Pusan International Film Festival in the South Korean port city of Busan, PPP provides a platform to selected filmmakers to find co producers and financiers for their films.