My date with the Oscars – 11 Predictions

 

The Oscars are here, and surprisingly this time, the fever is catching up here in India. From fierce online debates and prediction lists, the excitement this time is as high as ever.

Top 10 Films Of The Year – Honourable Mention

2015 has been a great year for the movies. A lot of movies managed to hold my imagination, so much so that a Top 10 list wouldn’t do justice to all of them. So  here are my honourable mentions:

Baahubali: The Beginning – A Clarification

Baahubali, India’s most expensive film and legendary Telugu director S S Rajamouli’s magnum opus, is the latest sensation in town. It broke all box-office records while receiving universal critical acclaim. I published a negative review of the film here on Saturday. After receiving a lot of flak for that blog, I decided to issue a clarification.

Ugly – A Haunting Tale

A police officer is walking along a corridor with a doctor. It is a police colony in the Mumbai suburb, we know. The suspect is kept in one of the rooms. The cop opens the locked door. In split second, we see the cop and the doc coming inside. As the cop opens another locked room, the doc looks straight at the camera (facing from the wall), his eyes revealing shock. I am taken aback. What is there? What did he see? We are not shown. They duo move to the next room where the suspect is kept, all battered and beaten up. After a couple of minutes, the suspect is moved. We return to the other room. This time the suspect looks straight at the camera, his expression the same as the doc! Now, we are shown what is there…. It was a boy, looking straight at them, his face expressionless. It took me a second to realize that the he was blind.

Classic Review: My dissection of “The Graduate”

Disclaimer: This is not a review. This is just a re-look at (supposedly) a classic!

To New Beginnings