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Experimentation when there is much to lose is an art that requires tremendous daring. ‘Samsaram Arogyathinnu Hanikaram’ (Speaking is injurious to health), shot simultaneously in two languages and with a happening hero-heroine duo, has no dialogues for almost a fourth of its running length. A rare epidemic breaks out....
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The winds of radical change is both refreshing and destructive, and forcefully dashes against that which stands in its path. Be Kind Rewind is atomically about the coming of technology, and holistically about the future of individual and cultural roots seemingly doomed in the onslaught of progress. Grainy, B&W...
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Why do you listen to Folk music, a youth is asked. “Because it’s honest. Unlike commercial Pop music, which is controlled and censored by the people who run society and make the rules”. Of the emerging Folk musicians back in those pioneering days, one name stands out. I’m Not...
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I don’t think the Chinese government would be highly amused. In The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, one of the generals wishes to resurrect and hand over the helm of affairs to a 2,000-year-old cruel despot, Emperor Han (Jet Li) and his ancient army because “presently, chaos and...
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“Do you think I’m going mad?” asks the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), with a solemn face, in Alice in Wonderland. “Am afraid, you’re totally bonkers”, smiles Alice (Mia Wasikowska), who, like the Hatter, is a social misfit, “But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are”. She’s...
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Wrong conditioning often leads to discrimination against the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a society diametrically opposite the one in which you were raised. However, like Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) in Gran Torino, if you interact positively with that ‘alien’ society, you will gradually discover that there...
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A Ronin, in Japan during the feudal period, was a samurai warrior with no feudal lord. It was a disgraced status. A Ronin was disallowed from serving as a samurai under another lord. 47 Ronin is a highly fictionalized account of a legendary group or forty-seven samurai warriors who...
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Old age can be a disease. If one sits in a corner the whole day long and does absolutely nothing. A certain amount of caution and rest, of course, is required when one is aged. But an excess of it can have the reverse effect. It pulls you down....
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Running into a creative block, especially at the time of an important assignment, is perhaps every artist’s worst nightmare. In Nine, a musical re-take on a famous classic, Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a highly successful filmmaker, experiences this trauma while the entire cast and crew waits for him to...
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Different kids have different kinds of pets. When Angus (Alex Etel) discovers a reptile egg and nurtures the creature that emerges from it, in The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, little does he realize that this best pal of his, Crusoe, would very soon grow up to be...
Experimentation when there is much to lose is an art that requires tremendous daring. ‘Samsaram Arogyathinnu Hanikaram’ (Speaking is injurious to health), shot simultaneously in two languages and with a happening hero-heroine duo, has no dialogues for almost a fourth of its running length. A rare epidemic breaks out....
The winds of radical change is both refreshing and destructive, and forcefully dashes against that which stands in its path. Be Kind Rewind is atomically about the coming of technology, and holistically about the future of individual and cultural roots seemingly doomed in the onslaught of progress. Grainy, B&W...
Why do you listen to Folk music, a youth is asked. “Because it’s honest. Unlike commercial Pop music, which is controlled and censored by the people who run society and make the rules”. Of the emerging Folk musicians back in those pioneering days, one name stands out. I’m Not...
I don’t think the Chinese government would be highly amused. In The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, one of the generals wishes to resurrect and hand over the helm of affairs to a 2,000-year-old cruel despot, Emperor Han (Jet Li) and his ancient army because “presently, chaos and...
“Do you think I’m going mad?” asks the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), with a solemn face, in Alice in Wonderland. “Am afraid, you’re totally bonkers”, smiles Alice (Mia Wasikowska), who, like the Hatter, is a social misfit, “But I’ll tell you a secret: all the best people are”. She’s...
Wrong conditioning often leads to discrimination against the beliefs, customs, practices, and social behavior of a society diametrically opposite the one in which you were raised. However, like Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) in Gran Torino, if you interact positively with that ‘alien’ society, you will gradually discover that there...
A Ronin, in Japan during the feudal period, was a samurai warrior with no feudal lord. It was a disgraced status. A Ronin was disallowed from serving as a samurai under another lord. 47 Ronin is a highly fictionalized account of a legendary group or forty-seven samurai warriors who...
Old age can be a disease. If one sits in a corner the whole day long and does absolutely nothing. A certain amount of caution and rest, of course, is required when one is aged. But an excess of it can have the reverse effect. It pulls you down....
Running into a creative block, especially at the time of an important assignment, is perhaps every artist’s worst nightmare. In Nine, a musical re-take on a famous classic, Guido Contini (Daniel Day-Lewis), a highly successful filmmaker, experiences this trauma while the entire cast and crew waits for him to...
Different kids have different kinds of pets. When Angus (Alex Etel) discovers a reptile egg and nurtures the creature that emerges from it, in The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep, little does he realize that this best pal of his, Crusoe, would very soon grow up to be...
