Men in white vs Men in black: ONCE UPON A TIME IN MUMBAAI
While Hollywood thrives in using black as the choice colour whenever it wishes to make a gangster film, never choosing white as the choice of colour to express a class, Hindi film industry is particularly enamored of White color whenever it wishes to make a gangster film.
Would the initiative of Indian Ocean herald a new era in music downloads in India
It seems that the film that was made on their quest for music and to give it an Indian soul by using contemporary western musical instruments, LEAVING HOME-THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF INDIAN OCEAN's success has indeed spurred the band to create new benchmark in the world of music. They have decided to allow the free download of their new album 16/330 KHAJOOR ROAD.
LAMHAA and relook at the themes of terrorism as they have evolved over the years
LAMHAA indeed is a watershed film for the Hindi film industry as it has returned to Kashmir after a really long time to shoot a movie. For its lead protagonist Sanjay Dutt it has more relevance owing to the fact that he made his debut with ROCKY which was a film that was shot primarily in Kashmir.
LAMHAA and the continuing violence in Kashmir
Though purists may not agree that cinema as a medium, when it tackles serious issues, indeed reflects the events of time. For Rahul Dholakia's LAMHAA the maxim could not be much truer, as when LAMHAA releases tomorrow it would be a cinematic expression of the violence that seems to go unabated in Kashmir.
Era of Beauties: A study in contrast
Though the Hindi film industry continues to have new female faces being launched on a regular basis, the odes that are still sung are to the beauties that lived and dazzled on the silver screen in an era gone by. It is per se not only restricted as a phenomenon to Hindi film industry, but has applicability in Hollywood as well.
PEEPLI LIVE: Political parties trying to encash the song for their political ends
Aamir Khan Production's PEEPLI LIVE before being released into India has already made waves. The waves that are being generated by PEEPLI LIVE are with relation to the song on the rising prices. It indeed is a sensitive issue with all the Indians and no wonder political parties are trying to patent it as their own song.
MILENGE MILENGE: Can the old magic work?
It is one of the apparent paradoxes that when a couple in the world of cinema develops warmth to each other and becomes romantically involved, the film making fraternity also tries to encash the euphoria and give the affair a different flavor.
Rain and Romance with locations
The manner in which rains have hit the northern part of the country with full force and have left the citizens running for cover has underlined the fact that one cannot take the natural elements for granted. Indeed, the magnificent manner in which they cascade down the landscapes around the country trigger the imagination of the filmmakers to catch it in as imaginative forms as can be possible.
M F Hussain is creating museum of Hindi cinema
While Mumbai, the Mecca of the Hindi film continues to ignore its history by not taking steps to protect and conserve the institutions that provided it the world class stature, construction of a luxury apartment over Natraj studios in Andheri, MF Hussain, the exiled painter who began his career of painting by painting film posters of Hindi films, has decided to build up a museum for Hindi film ind
A half yearly report of the Hindi film industry
Loss is the monster that is staring in the face of the Hindi film industry as it prepares to take stock of the situation at the end of the first six months of the present financial year. Near about all the big films have stumbled at the box office and the audience has not been receptive at all to the so-called experimentations, under which the films were sold to the audience
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