Vinnaithandi Varuvaya soars.
V V is a no-nonsense love story served on a platter of common sense and, if there is one defining quality about it, it would be the fact that it successfully de-romanticises romance as depicted so far on Indian silver screen. Watch it for how it disguises the dark alleys of love under the facade of seemingly eye-candy.A good movie should have the ability to yank the carpet under you just when you thought you had it all figured out.Welcome to VV.
Road Movies-Indian Cinema.
It is funny that the only mainstream movie in the genre, worth speaking about was still the quaint Bombay to Goa (1972), (which itself was a remake of the Tamil movie Madras to Pondicherry), till Dev Benegal’s Road, Movie came along, after close to four decades! Most of our creative powerhouses of the film industry have steered clear of it, maybe due to the practical difficulties in plugging in the staple ingredients of a commercial blockbuster.
Road,Movie,Strange,Weary.
It is one thing to take you on a journey. Its a far more difficult job to keep you entertained, involved and appreciative en route. Dev Benegal’s signature references are all there – the irreverence, the subtle humor, stark beauty, and refraining from moralistic high-handedness, but somehow the experience at the end of 95 minutes seems to be a feeling of abject hollowness, inasmuch trying very hard to look for crevices and nooks in the movie to find solace.
Priyadarshan, Malaamal 2.
If media reports are to be believed, Priyadarshan’s third project in his 3-films agreement with Percept Picture Company (PPC) will be the sequel to his 2006 rip-off of Waking Ned Divine (1998) – Malamaal Weekly. Pretty soon, you will witness the second coming of Malamaal Weekly, to a theater near you, courtesy Priyadarshan.This is being written with the definitive knowledge that this expression of indignation won’t make a dime’s worth of difference to anything.
Celebrating the Razzies.
The 30th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 6, 2010, which honours the worst movies of Hollywood that had been released in the year 2009. The Razzies, which are usually held one day preceding the Oscar Ceremony stayed true to its course in announcing the ‘Winners’ for the Worst performances in Hollywood releases. Sandra Bullock became the first actor in history to receive a Razzie and an Oscar in the same year!
The Hurt Locker Effect.
Nominated for 9 Oscars, and winning 6 out of them would have looked like an insurmountable task for the makers of Hurt Locker, which is really two years old! Now, with close to 67 awards and 6 Oscars under its belt, the measly US $ 15 million-budgeted visceral statement on the Iraq war might just be unwittingly the doorway that would usher in a draft of forthrightness and honesty in making war movies.
The Oscars 2010 Winners.
Here is the complete list of the winners of the Academy Awards 2010, also called the Oscars, undoubtedly the biggest show in Hollywood, and by now the most widely watched event world wide.We have clumped the winning titles for a single entity together, which would, we feel, give a more deepened sense of respect and admiration at the toil and efforts that went in to make it to the top of the Hollywood list.
‘Crazy Heart’ gets the Oscar.
We mentioned, way back in November,2009 about this story of a washed-up country singer that held promise of this year’s dark-horse victory at the Oscars? Well, it would be prudent enough to just say that well, this Crazy Heart just won the Oscar for the Academy Award for an Actor in a Leading Role. For Jeff Bridges, the jinx of the four Oscar nominations has at last been exorcised by the resonant strains from this Crazy Heart’s guitar, and his life.