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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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'Paa' - A Preview
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R.Balakrishnan or Balki as he is more popularly called has an advertising background that influences his film ventures in no small measure. He believes in making an impact, whether it is in the look he chooses for his star cast or in the very concept itself. 'Cheeni Kum', was sort of an experiment in pairing Amitabh Bachchan and Tabu in a romantic plot that somehow, just worked well. Age difference in romantic leads is not at all new in foreign films but it is a fact that Indian audiences are difficult to fathom as far as taste is concerned.
Balki's latest endeavour is “Paa”, which happens to be an AB Corp. production. But it would be safe to assume that the director would have cast Amitabh Bachchan anyways. Firstly, he is one filmmaker who creates a concept and a character around a star and not the other way round, which is more usual and perhaps more logical. Secondly, the temptation to reverse the roles of a real life star father and son on screen would have been too great for an adman to resist. There are too many eyebrows waiting to be raised and far too many moviegoers susceptible to curious experiments.
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Male Barali Manju Irali: A Feel Good Love Story
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Director Vijayalakshmi Singh has told a feel good love story in a classic style in the Kannada film “Male Barali Manju Irali”. The film has a neat narration and top class performances and is technically sound as well.
The film is about a cultured young girl Sneha who comes to her village for spending some time with her father Shivappa who works for a rich estate owner. Sneha's childhood memories are rekindled when she meets the estate owner's sons, her playmates of early days.
She takes a liking to the introvert Vishwas, elder of the two, while the younger brother Prem falls in love with her. Being closer to Prem as a child, Sneha seeks his help to build up her relationship with Vishwas. And then starts the drama.
The film is a simple triangular love story and hence doesn't have too much space for special effects, graphics and swanky visuals but still manages to cast an impact on the audience. This is Singh's second directorial venture and she shows her class by making a stylish film that will appeal to young audiences and women too.
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Chowrasta: Crossroads of Love
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Anjan Dutt, the director of Bada Din, Bong Conenction and Bow Barracks Forever, is back with his new film, Chowrasta – Crossroads Of Love. The film is entirely shooted at Darjeeling, the beautiful hill city of West Bengal, focusing on the large open area near the top of Darjeeling – Chowrasta. The word Chowrasta means the junction of four roads, and the director portrays four different stories criss-crossing each other on and around the crossroads.
The four stories revolve around the lives of an odd assortment of people. There's Victor Banerjee, the tea planter, who is lamenting over his wife's death and plans to jump off the cliff on a pleasant day. Then there's the marital blue struck couple (played by Aparajita and Naved Aslam), which has eloped and now is wondering whether it was all worth that.
There's the strict schoolteacher who can scarcely handle the revisit of his divorced wife (Rupa Ganguly), and her new lover, into his life again. And then, there is the terrorist (Atul Kulkarni) who dreams of Gorkhaland, even as the law are after him.
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