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Murder 3 – whose BLOOD, whose BODY?
Posted: December 21, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, film, first look, plagiarism, PosterTags: Jennifer's Body, Murder3, plagiarism, poster, true Blood
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First Look : Bejoy Nambiar’s (3+2) David (Poster +Trailer+Official synopsis)
Posted: December 14, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, film, first look, News, Poster, Regional, Story / Plot / Synopsis, TrailerTags: Bejoy Nambiar, David, first look, Isha Sharvani, Jeeva, Lara, Monica Dogra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Official synopsis, poster, synopsis, Tabu, trailer, Vikram, Vinay Virmani
Bejoy Nambiar is ready with his new film, David. Interestingly, this film is in both Hindi and Tamil, and strangely, there’s a mismatch in the number of Davids in the two versions; while the Hindi one has three, Tamil version has only two Davids.
The hindi one has Vikram, Tabu, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Vinay Virmani, Lara Dutta, Isha Sharvani and Monica Dogra in the lead. The Tamil version has almost the same cast but has Jeeva instead of Vinay and Neil.
First, the hindi trailer
And now, the Tamil Trailer
The trailers look very interesting. And though they don’t tell you much about the story but the visual montage looks powerful. What we saw in Shaitan, seems Nambiar is going to deliver more of it in this film – those slo-mo action sequences drenched in blood, rain and bullets. Also, the romantic portions bear a clear stamp of Ratnam-ish playfulness, and more so in the Tamil version.
And here are the two posters…
And the official synopsis (Hindi version)….
The story revolves around the lives of 3 Davids in 3 different parts of the world in 3 different eras.
1975 London- 30 year old David works for Iqbal Ghani, a dreaded Mafia don who controls the entire Asian community. He is a protege who is poised to take over the empire until a revelation which changes the course of his future.
1999 Mumbai- 19 year old David is a musician born into a family of devout Christians. A happy go lucky teenager who loses all semblance of his peaceful existence when his family gets dragged into a political issue.
2010 Goa – 40 year old David is a fisherman living in the small fishing village of Betul in Goa. He falls in love with the deaf and mute Roma- the only hitch is that she is engaged to be married to his best friend Peter in 10 days!
All 3 Davids are about to take a step which is going to change their lives forever.
3 LIVES, 3 DESTINIES, CONNECTED BY 1 NAME – ‘DAVID’.
And like everyone else, if you are still wondering about this 3 and 2 Davids, the director clarified about it to Anurag Kashyap on Twitter..
@ankash1009 the 3rd one (neil’s) didn’t fit into the tamil mileu. Would have had to re imagine it completely which was not feasible.
Dear Leander Paes, WHY?
Posted: December 14, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, film, first look, News, WTFTags: first look, Leander Paes, Rajdhani Express
WTF is this? Can you please explain. Thanks.
Vishal Bhardwaj’s Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola (Trailer) : Can you connect the dots?
Posted: October 15, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, News, songs & videos, Story / Plot / Synopsis, TrailerTags: Anushka Sharma, first look, Imran Khan, Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola, Pankaj Kapoor, plot, SEZ, Shabana Azmi, story, synopsis, trailer, Vishal Bhardwaj
The first trailer of Vishal Bhardwaj’s new film Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola is out. The film stars Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma, Pankaj Kapoor and Shabana Azmi.
Now, this looks like Entertainment, Entertianment, Entertainment. (Ok, blame that overdose on Vidya Balan) It surely looks like great fun – mad characters, rustic setting, colourful elements and dhinchak music.
But what is it about? It says almost nothing.
If it’s a Vishal Bhardwaj, it just can’t be boy-meets-girl, right? Some of us have read the script and the same two words comes to mind again – great fun. Only issue is the hotchpotch climax.
We can also tell you that there is a serious political issue in it but the trailer has masked it completely. Because they want your bums on the seats in the first weekend itself.
So see the trailer again. And see if can you connect the dots and guess the basic plot.
“Pune 52” gets a new trailer
Posted: October 12, 2012 by moifightclub in cast & crew, cinema, film, first look, Marathi, News, Regional, Story / Plot / Synopsis, Trailer, videoTags: Abhay Gadgil, Abhijeet Deshpande, Baylon Fonseca, first look, Girish Kulkarni, Jeremy Reagan, Kiran Karmarkar, Nikhil Mahajan, Pune 52, Sai Tamhankar, Shrirang Godbole, Sonali Kulkarni, trailer, Umesh Kulkarni
And it looks so damn good! Have a look.
The treatment and the mood reminds me of Johnny Gaddar meets Manorama Six Feet Under. Also, like the fact that the makers have realised that their films have the potential to go beyond Maharashtra and so have subtitles in the trailer. Hope from Marathi filmakers start doing the same.
And here’s the official synopsis…
In this engrossing thriller, Amar Apte is a private detective who gets his business from suspicious spouses out to catch their cheating partners in the act. When a femme fatale client enters his life, Apte snaps out of his uninspired domesticity-complete with a nagging wife and mounting bills-and finds himself in dangerous territory.
Set in Pune and against the backdrop of the financial reforms in 1992, Pune 52 juxtaposes the impact of globalization on a city with one man’s inner struggle. With a nod to Raymond Chandler and a hypnotic and ferocious performance by Girish Kulkarni, Mahajan’s debut fiction feature explores the aspirations and frustrations of a small man dreaming big.
The film will be screened at the Mumbai Film Festival where it will compete in India Gold category. It will have a theatrical release on 12th December.
Cast & Credit :
Starring: Girish Kulkarni, Sonali Kulkarni, Sai Tamhankar, Kiran Karmarkar
Editing: Abhijeet Deshpande
Sound Design: Baylon Fonseca
Director of Photography: Jeremy Reagan
Produced by: Abhay Gadgil, Shrirang Godbole, Girish Kulkarni, Umesh Kulkarni
Original Story, Screenplay and Directed by: Nikhil Mahajan
It’s produced by the makers of films such as Valu, Vihir, Deool and Harishchandrachi Factory and is the debut feature of writer/director Nikhil Mahajan.
To read the director’s note, click here for our previous post on the film.
First Look : Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s Celluloid Man (Teaser)
Posted: October 5, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, first look, Indie, TrailerTags: Celluloid Man, Documentary, first look, Mumbai Film festival, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, Telluride Film Festival, Tesaser
After its premiere at the Telluride Film festival, Shivendra Singh Dungarpur’s documentary, Celluloid Man will soon be screened at the Mumbai Film Festival. Here’s the first teaser of the film.
Here’s more on the film from its official FB page…
Celluloid Man is a tribute to an extraordinary man called Mr. P.K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India, and the guardian of Indian cinema. He built the Archive can by can in a country where the archiving of cinema is considered unimportant.
The fact that the Archive still has nine precious silent films of the 1700 silent films made in India, and that Dadasaheb Phalke, the father of Indian cinema, has a place in history today is because of Mr. Nair. He influenced generations of Indian filmmakers and showed us new worlds through the prism of cinema.
As Mr. Nair speaks, we see the history of Indian cinema unfold. What emerges is a portrait of a man so in love with cinema that even his family had to take a backseat to his obsession. Mr. Nair is not just the founder of the National Film Archive, but a living, breathing museum of cinema. Even in retirement, he chooses to stay across the road from the Archive watching over his legacy. The fact that India has a cinematic heritage at all is the singlehanded achievement of this man.
He is truly India’s Celluloid Man. There will be no one like him again.
Cinematography: Santosh Thundiyil, K.U. Mohanan, Avik Mukhopadhyay, P.S. Vinod, H.M. Ramachandra, R.V. Ramani, Vikas Sivaraman, Mahesh Aney, Kiran Deohans, Ranjan Palit, V.Gopinath
Editor: Irene Dhar Malik
Sound Design: Mohandas
Music: Ram Sampath
Titles/Online: Huzefa Lokhandwala, Santosh Sabherwal
Associate Director & Research: Manju Parvathy Iyer
Post Production: Pixion, Prime Focus. Processing: Kodak, EFX Prasad
– 35mm; English with Subtitles; Duration: 163 mins
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1; Dolby 5.1; Colour / B&W
To know more about the film, click here for its Facebook page.
First Look : Jaideep Varma’s Baavra Mann (Trailer)
Posted: September 18, 2012 by moifightclub in bollywood, cinema, Documentary, film, first look, Indie, News, Trailer, videoTags: Bavra Mann, Jaideep Varma, Sudhir Mishra, trailer
After Hulla and Leaving Home (documentary on Indian Ocean), filmmaker Jaideep Varma is busy working on his latest documentary film, Baavra Mann. And here’s a trailer of the film.
Here’s more info on the trailer and the film from its youtube account – A trailer of the rough cut of the full-length documentary feature, “Baavra Mann – a film on Sudhir Mishra & other Indian realities”. A film not only on one of Mumbai cinema’s longest lasting and relevant filmmakers but through that prism on a declining cultural life in India.
Aha, finally some documentation of our cinema and some of its prominent voices. Whenever i think about Sudhir Mishra, i often wonder why is there no making of Hazaroon Khawshein Aisi. It’s such a terrific and landmark film, and has a great story behind it. That needs to be documented. Hopefully we will get to hear some bits in this docu.
This trailer surely looks interesting. Though my only concern is Sudhir Mishra is quite overexposed. If you have been tracking him or his films, you probably know everything about him. But it’s nice to see anecdotes about his personal life too. And the film seems to go beyond Sudhir Mishra and his films. So eagerly looking forward to it.
First Look : Hansal Mehta’s Shahid (Trailer)
Posted: September 14, 2012 by moifightclub in cast news, cinema, film, first look, Trailer, videoTags: first look, Hansal Mehta, Shahid, Toronto International film festival, trailer
After its world premiere at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival, the first trailer of Hansal Mehta’s new film Shahid is out. Have a look.
Aha, welcome back, Mister Mehta. Seems like the film has got the right mood and tone for the subject. And if you missed the earlier post, here’s the official synopsis of the film..
Shahid is the remarkable true story of slain human rights activist and lawyer Shahid Azmi, who was killed in 2010 by unidentified assailants in his office. From attempting to become a terrorist, to being wrongly imprisoned under a draconian anti-terrorism law, to becoming a champion of human rights (particularly of the Muslim minorities in India), Shahid traces the inspiring personal journey of a boy who became an unlikely messiah for human rights, while following the rise of communal violence in India. This story of an impoverished Muslim struggling to come to terms with injustice and inequality, whilerising above his circumstances is an inspiring testament to the human spirit.
Cast and credit list :
Director: Hansal Mehta
Language: Hindi
Runtime: 123 minutes
Exec. Producer: Jai Mehta, Kunal Rohra
Producer: Sunil Bohra, Shailesh Singh, Guneet Monga and Anurag Kashyap
Production Co: Bohra Bros Pvt. Ltd. and Anurag Kashyap Films Pvt. Ltd.
Principal Cast: Raj Kumar, Prabhleen Sandhu, Baljinder Kaur, Tigmanshu Dhulia, K K Menon, Yusuf Husain, Prabal Panjabi, Vinod Rawat, Vipin Sharma, Shalini Vatsa, Paritosh Sand, Pavan Kumar, Vivek Ghamande, Akash Sinha, Mohd Zeeshan Ayyub, Mukesh Chhabra
Screenplay: Sameer Gautam Singh, Apurva Asrani, Hansal Mehta
Cinematographer: Anuj Dhawan
Editor: Apurva Asrani
Sound: Mandar Kulkarni
Prod. Designer: Rabiul Sarkar
– To know more updates about the film, you can follow its FB page here.
List of Indian films selected for BFI London Film Festival, 2012
Posted: September 5, 2012 by moifightclub in cinema, film, Film Festival, first look, Indie, NewsTags: Aiyya, Anand Gandhi, BFI London film festival, Chakravyuh, Deepa Mehta, Midnight's Children, Mira Nair, Peddlers, Prithviraj, Rani Mukherjee, Ship of Theseus, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Vasan Bala
The BFI London Film Festival has unveiled its complete line-up for 2012. And there are quite a few Indian films in the list.
– The only film with desi connect which is in official competition section is Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children. Click here for more details.
– After its TIFF premiere, Anand Gandhi’s Ship Of Theseus is going to compete for “The Sutherland Award” in The First Feature competition category. To know more about the film click here and here.
– Mira Nair’s The Reluctant Fundamentalis had its world premiere at the Venice Festival. Now it will have its Gala in the “Dare” segment at LFF. More details about the film here.
– After Cannes and Toronto, Peddlers continues its fest run with screening in “Dare” segment of the fest. Click here and here for more details.
– Rani Mukherjee and Prithviraj starrer Aiyya will have its world premiere at the fest. This is Sachin Kundalkar first Hindi feature film.
– Prakash Jha’s Chakravyush will have a Gala in the Thrill segment and Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar will have a screening in “Treasures” seection.
– The official website of the festival also lists two more films in Indian segment – Save Your Legs and Sri Lankan production With you, Without You.
– To know more about the film festival, films and the screening schedule, click here.
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