Making a sequel of a film is an old trend. Sometimes there is a genuine scope of taking the story forward from the point it left in the original movie. Sometimes the story have chance to look into the possible events which actually shaped the incidents, and hence we have prequels also. And sometimes the story itself is so long ... Read More »
If you are a regular reader of ThinkerViews, you have often found us mentioning that “Kindness of the Strangers” is one of our favorite segment in Reader’s Digest magazine. It explores the real life incidents where people acts “out of the way” to help others, just for the sake of humanity. Clearly, if you have heart, you can help, anybody. ... Read More »
Movie remaking should be allowed or not, is a million dollar question (literally:)). Let us talk only in the aspects of Indian films, specifically Bollywood movies. At one end we see some movie disasters like “Ram Gopal Verma Ki Aag” (remake of “Sholay”) and “Zanzeer” (remake of “Zanzeer” starring Amitabh Bachchan and Pran); on the other end there are films ... Read More »
It is always a nice experience to see Ram Gopal Verma film when he is in full form. He trademarked some camera angles and way of filming. Ab Tak Chhappan -2 is not the film by him. It is directed by Aejaz Gulab. But it reminds of Ram Gopal Verma at various places. Following the typical commercial movie path, he ... Read More »
Acting is a very specific art. You need to pretend doing things very convincingly which you may not do in your real life. If you are good at doing so, you are definitely a legend. Sometimes you need to look tired when you are actually very fresh, you need to smile when you are going through sad moments, you need ... Read More »
Revenge is a very scary thing. You cannot think of leaving the demon unpunished and if you punish him/her you will eventually find that you are stripped down to his/her level. Probably, this is the philosophy – the great epic – The Mahabharat (aka The Mahabharata) tries telling us. Probably that is the reason – forgiving – is considered the ... Read More »
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