tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91760192297867190522024-02-19T14:20:10.131+05:30Best Of CinemaBeauty is in the eye of the beholder...Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-46530052272314666712009-09-14T00:25:00.000+05:302009-09-13T18:26:34.575+05:30Cast Away (2000)Cast Away (2000)Director : Robert Zemeckis.Genere : Adventure / Drama.Cast : Tom Hanks.Rating : Classic.Have you ever thought about going back to the beginning, where man is just himself? Can he survive without the modern gadgets and tools? What about electricity, pure water and clean cooked food? Man is a social being; so can he survive by his own. In “Cast Away” Tom Hanks, a time conscious Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-58185806352242909072009-09-13T03:19:00.000+05:302009-09-13T03:21:45.878+05:30City of God (2002)Cidade de Deus (2002)Director : Fernando Meirelles.Genere : Crime.Cast : Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga.Rating : Master pieceCity of God tells the story from the poverty sunken slums of Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro is actually a battle field; survival comes with two choices, be a part of the crime element or let consumed by it. Li'l Zé (Leandro Firmino)growth from an angry Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-56665820187415246882009-03-25T18:08:00.000+05:302009-03-25T18:11:28.105+05:30Shoot 'Em Up (2007)Shoot 'Em Up (2007)Director : Michael Davis.Genere : Action / Thriller / Comedy.Cast : Clive Owen, Paul Giamatti, Monica Bellucci.Rating : Must WatchWell I can’t say this as a heartwarming movie or it carries you in its magical arms, but it does pumps up your adrenalin. At least I can say this is what one expects from a Hollywood flick of its kind. Like its name, it never stops shooting from theHarisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-67122238618621457692009-03-11T11:52:00.001+05:302009-04-03T12:40:13.046+05:30Waltz with Bashir (2008)Vals Im Bashir (2008)Director : Ari Folman.Genere : Biography / Drama / War.Cast : Animation.Rating : Master pieceMedia and movies have created a strong impression in peoples mind that heroes are someone who descend from heaven and fights for his country until his last breath. And enemy is someone who is born and raised as evil and all he has in mind is the destruction of his adversaries. There soloworldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08420899077678207008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-77422039173982425412008-10-02T09:56:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:27:44.426+05:30Gandhi (1982)Gandhi (1982)Director : Richard Attenborough.Genere : Biography / Drama / History.Cast : Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud.Rating : Master pieceAlbert Einstein said(on Mahatma Gandhi): "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth!". This might be the greatest challenge that Richard Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-37005390246748368432008-09-28T22:51:00.003+05:302008-10-07T21:27:33.096+05:30The Chess Players (1977)Shatranj Ke Khilari (1977)Director : Satyajit Ray.Genere : Comedy / Drama / History.Cast : Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Amjad Khan, Richard Attenborough.Rating : Master pieceChess is said to be the king of games and the game of the kings. The objective of the chess is to defeat the opponent’s King with tactical moves. It’s almost like a strategic diplomacy. In this movie “The Chess Players”, Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-22289262226932878822008-09-03T13:09:00.002+05:302008-10-07T21:27:25.705+05:30Pan's Labyrinth (2006)El Laberinto del fauno(2006)Director : Guillermo del Toro.Genere : Drama / Fantasy / Mystery .Cast : Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú.Rating : Master pieceOK, we have seen children with AK-47 in the face of war. But do they really belong there? Could they be interested in bloodshed or killing each other? Some times when the world around you becomes so much miserable and uninteresting Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-45996075254896803432008-07-09T23:03:00.003+05:302008-10-07T21:26:10.266+05:30Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)Director : Clint Eastwood.Genere : History / War / Drama.Cast : Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase.Rating : ClassicWar always is one sided, and so is any war movie. It is usual for a war movie to show enemies as demonic characters who is willing to do any inhuman things to kill the good or specifically the side where the camera is placed. So Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-14667951357036877422008-07-08T22:49:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:27:18.117+05:30Rear Window (1954)Rear Window (1954)Director : Alfred Hitchcock.Genere : Thriller / Drama / Crime.Cast : James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr.Rating : Master pieceVoyeurism is in human nature, people likes sneak each other’s life whenever they get the opportunity, whether it’s in the form of a novel, a movie or even through your window- it’s the same. It is this very nature that makes “Rear Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-60027943771155138992008-06-18T02:10:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:25:39.991+05:30Death Note (2006)Desu nôto (2006)Director : Shusuke Kaneko.Genere : Adventure / Crime / Mystery.Cast : Tatsuya Fujiwara, Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Asaka Seto.Rating : RegularBased on a popular Manga series, Japanese animated comic book, Death Note is a Live action thriller movie characterizing two exceptionally intelligent minds, namely L and Light. Light got possession of a book from the other world, the death-note, soloworldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08420899077678207008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-3715335126770986452008-06-17T15:32:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:25:32.216+05:30Dasavatharam (2008)Dasavatharam (2008)Director : K.S. Ravikumar.Genere : Drama / Sci-Fi.Cast : Kamal Hassan, Asin, Mallika Sherawat.Rating : RegularDasavatharam is a term from Hindu mythology for describing the ten principal Avatars of Lord Vishnu. In this film actor Kamal Hassan has done 9+1 character including the hero and the villain. Almost all important characters in this film are portrayed by him with the Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-2225352404901481422008-06-10T02:19:00.002+05:302008-10-07T21:26:21.564+05:30A Beautiful Mind (2001)A Beautiful Mind (2001)Director : Ron Howard.Genere : Biography / Drama.Cast : Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris.Rating : ClassicSolving an equation often involves many manipulations like assumption, derivations, integration, neglection, formulation etc. “A Beautiful Mind” is a well formulated, sure/safe shot, semi-fictional tale about a genius mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr, who Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-40359415858650432872008-05-24T01:53:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:27:08.664+05:30No Man's Land (2001)No Man's Land (2001)Director : Danis Tanovic.Genere : Drama / Comedy.Cast : Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic.Rating : Master pieceHow well do you know your enemy? Is he something really different like another species or an alien? Is he someone just like you or your brother? Can anybody give the actual reason or the one who is responsible? Is it really possible to love your enemy? “Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-14468371550509639082008-05-23T22:53:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:28:10.632+05:30The Prestige (2006)The Prestige (2006)Director : Christopher Nolan.Genere : Drama / Mystery.Cast : Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson.Rating : Must WatchMagic tricks consists of three parts “The Pledge”, “The Turn” and “The Prestige”. This movie is about two rival magicians who try to become the greatest magicians. They try to sabotage each other’s “Prestige” to upstage the other. But when Borden Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-80015628476339556892008-05-22T01:05:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:26:40.699+05:30Philadelphia (1993)Philadelphia (1993)Director : Jonathan Demme.Genere : Drama.Cast : Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards.Rating : Classic“Philadelphia” is all about AIDS and the societies prejudice towards AIDS victims. It’s a court room drama about a homosexual AIDS victim (Tom Hanks), and his lawyer, a homophobic family man (Denzel Washington), against Hanks’s former employers who fires him after Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-56744061402128753422008-05-21T02:18:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:25:17.378+05:30Black & White (2008)Black & White (2008)Director : Subhash Ghai.Genere : Drama / Thriller.Cast : Anil Kapoor, Anurag Sinha, Shefali Shetty.Rating : Regular“Black & White” is a fine movie from Subhash Ghai, Leaving his typical style of mere entertainment, Ghai portraits life in Delhi in the face of terrorism. The movie explores through the mind of a suicide bomber and his transformation. The story may be a bit usualJoyfulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10223272769010858037noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-88115329195852842912008-04-20T23:56:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:25:09.515+05:30The Truman Show (1998)The Truman Show (1998)Director : Peter Weir.Genere : Drama / Sci-Fi.Cast : Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris.Rating : RegularWhat if when one day, you realize that your entire life was cast for a reality show? Every thing you lived on believing to be true including your true friend from the childhood turns out as a lie someone is building for a TV show. The Truman Show is a knock towards the Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-50221175590360210452008-04-19T07:08:00.004+05:302008-10-07T21:24:40.396+05:30My Sassy Girl (2001)Yopgijeogin geunyeo (2001)Director : Jae-young Kwak.Genere : Comedy / Drama / Romance .Cast : Tae-hyun Cha, Gianna Jun.Rating : Classic My Sassy Girl is also known as the titanic of the East, it is a romantic story between an aimless college kid and an enigmatic Sassy girl. This can be said as a romantic adventure movie. They meet in a subway station in a most embarrassing situation. Each time soloworldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08420899077678207008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-75775246154054399492008-04-18T23:41:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:24:09.059+05:30Getting Home (2007)Luo ye gui gen (2007)Director : Yang Zhang.Genere : Comedy / Road Movie .Cast : Benshan Zhao, Qiwen Hong.Rating : Master pieceGetting Home is a movie with a light touch of nostalgia. The whole movie is a road travel exploring deep into the life of common people in modern China. Although the movie is made to be look like a comedy from the surface, it’s packed with inner layers of human virtues Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-89947622166163455082008-04-17T23:48:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:24:06.661+05:30Bridge to Terabithia (2007)Bridge to Terabithia (2007)Director : Gabor Csupo.Genere : Adventure / Drama / Family .Cast : Josh Hutcherson, AnnaSophia Robb, Zooey Deschanel.Rating : ClassicA warning for those who thinks all stories for children, although I disagree that this movie is just for children, should revolve round the good vs. evil thing and at the climax the evil has to be defeated. This is not a movie about such Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-68347296453775303832008-04-16T23:56:00.001+05:302008-10-07T21:23:22.649+05:30Mongol (2007)Mongol (2007)Director : Sergei Bodrov.Genere : Drama / History .Cast : Tadanobu Asano, Khulan Chuluun, Tegen Ao.Rating : Must WatchMongol is the director’s re-creation of young Temudjin’s journey to become one of the greatest conquerors the world ever saw. The movie concentrates on the early life of Temudjin before becoming the Great Genghis Khan. One of the greatest difficulties while making a Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-81693074694475828022008-04-15T15:32:00.003+05:302009-03-25T20:32:30.433+05:30Roger & Me (1989)Roger & Me (1989)Director : Michael Moore.Genere : Documentary.Cast : -NA-Rating : Must WatchRoger and me is the directorial debut of the controversial film maker Michael Moore. It documents the Moors quest to meet G.M’s chairman Roger Smith and persuade him to spend a day in Flint, so that he could see the present wretched life of people who lost their job after the shutdown of G.M in Flint soloworldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08420899077678207008noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-78698685497082348002008-04-14T14:17:00.004+05:302008-10-07T21:19:39.451+05:30The Bicycle Thief (1948)Ladri di biciclette (1948)Director : Vittorio De Sica.Genere : Drama.Cast : Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell.Rating : Master pieceAs its simple name the movie is so simple. The whole story revolves round a bicycle theft. It tells the ordinary tale of some ordinary people that lives in Rome after the WWII. The social condition and life in post war European counties have been wellHarisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-85591849347979176792008-03-21T00:10:00.002+05:302008-03-21T00:11:41.363+05:30R6reserved 6Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9176019229786719052.post-34451576374023731082008-03-21T00:10:00.001+05:302008-03-21T00:10:44.899+05:30R5reserved 5Harisankarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14152568788648547818noreply@blogger.com0