Apart from an interesting idea against the backdrop of real estate politics and land grabbing in Gurgaon, Aurangzeb falters. It ends up as a film that is rather poorly executed and by the time we reach the last half hour, it ...
Gippi wins half the battle with just its choice of the tale of the underdog coming up triumphant. But, it still falls short of winning the war. The film, centred on a gawky, plump 14 year old loser finally turned winner, ...
At one point, a female zombie chases Kunal Khemu, with a romantic Bollywood score playing in the background, and they end up running around trees through the scene. Go Goa Gone is that kind of a madcap movie. Crackling with superb ...
On the surface it sounded great. 4 branded directors making one short film each with a common thread of the role that cinema plays in our lives - and this coming in a year where we are celebrating a century of ...
Celluloid Man - A film on PK Nair, the man who set up the National Film Archives of India (NFAI) single-handedly, is more than just a biographical documentary. It can be interpreted as a full-length feature film that documents the journey ...
August Club Since 1969 (Malayalam)
Anyone who has watched all the major classics would immediately remember the famous knight character who plays chess and plans his moves, and the lonely housewife who loves poetry and flirts with another man. Such is the essence of August Club ...
Goynar Baksho (Bengali)
Aparna Sen's directorial stature in world cinema did not really need the huge media hype that began with the shooting of the film and ended with the carnival-like premiere this week. The actual film reinforces this specially considering that Goynar Baksho ...
Shobdo (Bengali)
Foley sounds can be anything from the swishing of clothing and footsteps to squeaky doors and breaking glass. But Shobdo is not about the art and craft of Foley. It gets into the mind of a Foley artist whose passion ...
Celluloid (Malayalam)
Originality is an art that isn't practiced everywhere. Unfortunately, Malayalam cinema too, as Celluloid explicitly suggests, appears to have its roots in what is now a Hollywood classic.
The film's treatment is fine enough: a focus on JC Daniel preparing for, making, ...
Kadal (Tamil)
Kadal finally makes you ask that dreaded question - has Mani Ratnam lost it as a storyteller? Returning to a straight Tamil film after 2002's Kan Nathil Mutha Mittal, Kadal is one of the filmmaker's weakest films on a script and ...
Celluloid Man - A film on PK Nair, the man who set up the National Film Archives of India (NFAI) single-handedly, is more than just a biographical documentary. It can be interpreted as a full-length feature film that documents the journey of a man committed to.......
Upperstall blogs features filmmakers expressing their thoughts on cinema... and everything else.
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Reading Ray has always been as delightful as watching his films, be it fiction or his articles on cinema. His impeccably crafted prose, both English and Bengali, with its easy flow and delectable flavor, his keen observations, clarity of thought, ready wit and brevity have been the hallmark of most of his writings, just like in his films. So when I
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