There’s a major difference between K.L. Saigal, Dilip Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan and Abhay Deol’s Devdas. The first three films were faithful to Sarat Chandra‘s legendary novella, while Anurag Kashyap‘s deviant take on Devdas is contemporary and in the process, differs from the original work. In Kashyap’s ‘Dev D‘, Dev is into drugs and vodka. [...]
Read MoreVersatile Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor, who played quizmaster in Danny Boyle’s Oscar-nominated rags-to-riches story “Slumdog Millionaire”, says he sees a reflection of his own life in the film. “’Slumdog…’ is like my story. I also started from scratch – a rags to riches story. I started in Chembur (a Mumbai suburb) and slowly climbed up. [...]
Read MoreOne has often heard, read and seen [on screen] the positive and negative aspects of Bollywood. It would be erroneous to state that ‘Luck by Chance’ does a pol-khol of the glamorous industry. Let’s put it this way: The film mirrors the behind-the-scenes drama and manoeuvring exactly the way it occurs in showbiz. If you’re [...]
Read MoreFilm: “Victory”; Cast: Harman Baweja, Anupam Kher, Amrita Rao,Gulshan Grover; Director: Ajitpal Mangat; Rating: *** First things first. This isn’t a film about cricket. Not entirely. It’s also about life, dreams, ambitions and nightmares and how the individual gets progressively sucked into self-seeking opportunism while chasing those elusive dreams. “Victory” takes a leaf out of [...]
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