Rehman - Slumdog OST

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Hye Guzzarish!!!!

Guys check out the music of Ghazini (not the tamil/telugu one.. hindi one.. aamir khan starrer)... it rocks big time!!!!!!

Oye Lucky show listings

Galaxy Riverdale
6135 Peachtree Parkway
Norcross
GA
30092
Atlanta

Laurel 6
371 Armstrong Avenue
Laurel
MD
20724
Baltimore

Naz 8 Fremont
39160 Paseo Padre Parkway
Fremont
CA
94538
Bay Area

AMC Mercado 20
3111 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara
CA
95054
Bay Area

Columbia Park 12
3125 Kennedy Blvd
North Bergen
NJ
O7047
Bergen

Capitol 6
204 Massachusetts Ave
Arlington
MA
O2474
Boston

Showcase Bridgeport
286 Canfield Avenue
Bridgeport
CT
O6605
Bridgeport

AMC Concord Mills 24
8421 Concord Mills Blvd
Concord
NC
28027
Charlotte

AMC Barrington - Chicago
175 Studio Drive
South Barrington
IL
60010
Chicago

AMC Cantera
28250 Diehl Rd
Warrenvile
IL
60555
Chicago

Funasia
1210 E.Beltline Rd
Richardson
TX
75081
Dallas

Macarthur Marketplace
8505 Walton Blvd
Dallas
TX
75063
Dallas

Loehmann Twin
7291 Arlington Blvd
Falls Church
VA
22042
DC Metro

Novi Town Centre
26085 Town Center Drive
Novi
MI
48375
Detroit

Funasia
2703 Hwy 6 South
Houston
TX
77082
Houston

AMC First Colony 24
2949 Dunvale Rd
Houston
TX
77063
Houston

Culver Plaza Theatre
9919 W Washington Blvd
Culver City
CA
90232
Los Angeles

Naz 8 Lakewood
6440 E. South Street
Lakewood
CA
90713
Los Angeles

Laemmle Fallbrook
6731 Fallbrook Ave
West Hills
CA
91307
Los Angeles

AMC Mayfair 18
2500 N Mayfair Rd
Milwaukee
WI
53201
Milwaukee

Brookdale 8
5810 Shingle Creek Pkwy
Brooklyn Center
MN
55430
Minneapolis

MovieCity
1655 Oak Tree Road
Edison
NJ
O8820
New Jersey

Regal Commerce Centre 18<
2399 Route 1 South
North Brunswick
NJ
O8902
New Jersey

AMC Secaucus 8
495 Harmon Meadow Blvd
Secaucus
NJ
O7094
New Jersey

Regal Hadley
1000 Corporate Ct
South Plainfield
NJ
O7080
New Jersey

Regal Burlington
250 Bromley Boulevard
Burlington
NJ
O8016
New Jersey

East Windsor Towne Centre
319 Route 130 North
Highstown
NJ
O8520
New Jersey

Farmingdale Multiplex Cinemas
1001 Broad Hollow Road
Farmingdale
NY
11735
New York

AMC Village 7
66 3rd Ave.
NYC
NY
10003
New York

Imaginasian
239 East 59th Street
New York
NY
1OO22
New York

Bombay Theatre
6825 Fresh Meadow Ln
New York
NY
11365
New York

Barn Plaza
1745 Easton Road
Doyleston
PA
18901
Philadelphia

Galaxy Cinema Cary
770 Cary Towne Blvd
Cary
NC
27511
Raleigh

Century Elk Grove Laguna
9349 Big Horn Boulevard
Elk Grove
CA
95758
Sacramento

Totem Lake Cinema
12232 Totem Lake Way
Kirkland
WA
98034
Seattle

CANADA Theatres
MovieDome
Unit. 1039, 999-36 Street N.E
Calgary
AB
T2A 7X6
Calgary

AMC Montreal Forum 22
2313 St. Catherine St. West Suite 101
Montreal
QU
H3H 1N2
Montreal

AMC Winston Churchill 24
2081 Winston Park Dr
Oakville
ON
L6H 6P5
Toronto

AMC Kennedy Commons
33 William Kitchen Rd
Scarborough
ON
M1P 5B7
Toronto

Empire Square One
100 City Centre Drive
Mississauga
ON
L5T 2Y3
Toronto

Cineplex Silvercity Brampton
Hwy 410 at Bovaird Drive
Brampton
ON
L6R 2K7
Toronto

Albion
1530 Albion Road
Etobicoke
ON
M9V 1B4
Toronto

Woodside
1571 Sandhurst Circle
Scarborough
ON
M1V 1V2
Toronto

Cineplex Strawberry Hills
12161 72nd Ave
Surrey
BC
V3W 2M1
Vancouver

Cineplex Silvercity Riverport
14211 Entertainment Way
Richmond
BC
V6W 1K4
Vancouver

On Mike's Request

This is taken from PFC. For original link Click Here

"I just read something priceless. An interview of Kishore Kumar by Pritish Nandy.Don’t you just wish we had ONE guy like him today?Not just his talent, but just the sheer personality he was……mad as a hatter playing the part to the hilt watching the effect it had on people around him…..his life seems like a private in joke!
Presenting a blast from the past - A MOTHER OF A TOTALLY SCREWED UP INTERVIEW(couldn’t think of a better compliment than this except maybe Booom Boom Chik Chik eeeeeeeee yadadadadadadadada thum thum thum Heee hee hee hee ……read the interview u will understand)PN: I understand you are quitting Bombay and going away to Khandwa…
KK: Who can live in this stupid, friendless city where everyone seeks toexploit you every moment of the day? Can you trust anyone out here?Is anyone trustworthy? Is anyone a friend you can count on?I am determined to get out of this futile rat race and live as I’vealways wanted to. In my native Khandwa, the land of my forefathers.Who wants to die in this ugly city?
PN: Why did you come here in the first place?
KK: I would come to visit my brother Ashok Kumar. He was such a bigstar in those days. I thought he could introduce me to KL Saigalwho was my greatest idol. People say he used to sing through hisnose. But so what? He was a great singer. Greater than anyone else.
PN: I believe you are planning to record an album of famous Saigalsongs….
KK: They asked me to. I refused. Why should I try to outsing him?Let him remain enshrined in our memory. Let his songs remainjust HIS songs. Let not even one person say that Kishore Kumarsang them better.
PN: If you didn’t like Bombay, why did you stay back? For fame?For money?
KK: I was conned into it. I only wanted to sing. Never to act. Butsomehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded toact in the movies. I hated every moment of it and tried virtuallyevery trick to get out of it. I muffed my lines, pretended to becrazy, shaved my head off, played difficult, began yodelling inthe midst of tragic scenes, told Meena Kumari what I was supposedto tell Bina Rai in some other film - but they still wouldn’t letme go. I screamed, ranted, went cuckoo. But who cared? They werejust determined to make me a star.
PN: Why?
KK: Because I was Dadamoni’s brother. And he was a great hero.
PN: But you succeeded, after your fashion….
KK: Of course I did. I was the biggest draw after Dilip Kumar. Therewere so many films I was doing in those days that I had to runfrom one set to the other, changing on the way. Imagine me. Myshirts flying off, my trousers falling off, my wig coming offwhile I’m running from one set to the other. Very often I wouldmix up my lines and look angry in a romantic scene or romanticin the midst of a fierce battle. It was terrible and I hated it.It evoked nightmares of school. Directors were like schoolteachers.Do this. Do that. Don’t do this. Don’t do that. I dreaded it. That’swhy I would often escape.
PN: Well, you are notorious for the trouble you give your directorsand producers. Why is that?
KK: Nonsense. They give me trouble. You think they give a damn forme? I matter to them only because I sell. Who cared for me duringmy bad days? Who cares for anyone in this profession?
PN: Is that why you prefer to be a loner?
KK: Look, I don’t smoke, drink or socialise. I never go to parties.If that makes me a loner, fine. I am happy this way. I go to workand I come back straight home. To watch my horror movies, playwith my spooks, talk to my trees, sing. In this avariciousworld, every creative person is bound to be lonely. How can youdeny me that right?
PN: You don’t have many friends?
KK: None.
PN: That’s rather sweeping.
KK: People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talkingto my trees.
PN: So you like nature?
KK: That’s why I want to get away to Khandwa. I have lost all touchwith nature out here. I tried to did a canal all around mybungalow out here, so that we could sail gondolas there. Themunicipality chap would sit and watch and nod his headdisapprovingly, while my men would dig and dig. But it didn’t work.One day someone found a hand - a skeletal hand- and some toes.After that no one wanted to dig anymore. Anoop, my second brother,came charging with Ganga water and started chanting mantras. Hethought this house was built on a graveyard. Perhaps it is. ButI lost the chance of making my home like Venice.
PN: People would have thought you crazy. In fact they already do.
KK: Who said I’m crazy. The world is crazy; not me.
PN: Why do you have this reputation for doing strange things?
KK: It all began with this girl who came to interview me. In thosedays I used to live alone. So she said: You must be very lonely.I said: No, let me introduce you to some of my friends. So Itook her to the garden and introduced her to some of the friendliertrees. Janardhan; Raghunandan; Gangadhar; Jagannath; Buddhuram;Jhatpatajhatpatpat. I said they were my closest friends in thiscruel world. She went and wrote this bizarre piece, saying thatI spent long evenings with my arms entwined around them. What’swrong with that, you tell me? What’s wrong making friends withtrees?
PN: Nothing.
KK: Then, there was this interior decorator-a suited, booted fellowwho came to see me in a three-piece woollen, Saville Row suitin the thick of summer- and began to lecture me about aesthetics,design, visual sense and all that. After listening to him for abouthalf an hour and trying to figure out what he was saying throughhis peculiar American accent, I told him that I wanted somethingvery simple for my living room. Just water-several feet deep- andlittle boats floating around, instead of large sofas. I told himthat the centre-piece should be anchored down so that the teaservice could be placed on it and all of us could row up to itin our boats and take sips from our cups. But the boats shouldbe properly balanced, I said, otherwise we might whizz past eachother and conversation would be difficult.He looked a bit alarmed but that alarm gave way to sheer horrorwhen I began to describe the wall decor. I told him that I wantedlive crows hanging from the walls instead of paintings-since Iliked nature so much. And, instead of fans, we could have monkeysfarting from the ceiling. That’s when he slowly backed out fromthe room with a strange look in his eyes. The last I saw of himwas him running out of the front gate, at a pace that would haveput an electric train to shame. What’s crazy about having a livingroom like that, you tell me? If he can wear a woollen, three-piecesuit in the height of summer, why can’t I hang live crows on mywalls?
PN: Your ideas are quite original, but why do your films fare so badly?
KK: Because I tell my distributors to avoid them. I warn them at thevery outset that the film might run for a week at the most.Naturally, they go away and never come back. Where will you finda producer-director who warns you not to touch his film becauseeven he can’t understand what he has made?
PN: Then why do you make films?
KK: Because the spirit moves me. I feel I have something to say andthe films eventually do well at times.I remember this film of mine - Door Gagan ki Chhaon mein - whichstarted to an audience of 10 people in Alankar. I know because Iwas in the hall myself. There were only ten people who had come towatch the first show!Even its release was peculiar. Subhodh Mukherjee, the brother ofmy brother-in-law, had booked Alankar(the hall) for 8 weeks forhis film April Fool- which everyone knew was going to be a block-buster. My film, everyone was sure, was going to be a thunderingflop. So he offered to give me a week of his booking. Take thefirst week, he said flamboyantly, and I’ll manage within seven. Afterall, the movie can’t run beyond a week. It can’t run beyond twodays, I reassured him.When 10 people came for the first show, he tried to console me.Don’t worry, he said, it happens at times. But who was worried?Then, the word spread. Like wildfire. And within a few days thehall began to fill. It ran for all 8 weeks at Alankar, house full!Subodh Mukherjee kept screaming at me but how could I let go thehall? After 8 weeks when the booking ran out, the movie shiftedto Super, where it ran for another 21 weeks! That’s the anatomyof a hit of mine. How does one explain it? Can anyone explainit? Can Subodh Mukherjee, whose April Fool went on to become athundering flop?
PN: But you, as the director should have known?
KK: Directors know nothing. I never had the privilege of working withany good director. Except Satyen Bose and Bimal Roy, no one evenknew the ABC of film making. How can you expect me to give goodperformances under such directors?Directors like S.D. Narang didn’t even know where to place thecamera. He would take long, pensive drags from his cigarette,mumble ‘Quiet, quiet, quiet’ to everyone, walk a couple of furlongsabsentmindedly, mutter to himself and then tell the camera man toplace the camera wherever he wanted. His standard line to me was:Do something. What something? Come on, some thing! So I would gooff on my antics. Is this the way to act? Is this the way to directa movie? And yet Narangsaab made so many hits!
PN: Why didn’t you ever offer to work with a good director?
KK: Offer! I was far too scared. Satyajit Ray came to me and wanted meto act in Parash Pathar - his famous comedy - and I was so scaredthat I ran away. Later, Tulsi Chakravarti did the role. It was agreat role and I ran away from it, so scared I was of these greatdirectors.
PN: But you knew Ray.
KK: Of course I did. I loaned him five thousand rupees at the time ofPather Panchali-when he was in great financial difficulty- and eventhough he paid back the entire loan, I never gave him an opportunityto forget the fact that I had contributed to the making of theclassic. I still rib him about it. I never forget the money Iloan out!
PN: Well, some people think you are crazy about money. Others describeyou as a clown, pretending to be kinky but sane as hell. Stillothers find you cunning and manipulative. Which is the real you?
KK: I play different roles at different times. For different people.In this crazy world, only the truly sane man appears to be mad.Look at me. Do you think I’m mad? Do you think I can be manipulative?
PN: How would I know?KK: Of course you would know. It’s so easy to judge a man by justlooking at him. You look at these film people and you instantlyknow they’re rogues.
PN: I believe so.
KK: I don’t believe so. I know so. You can’t trust them an inch.I have been in this rat race for so long that I can smell troublefrom miles afar. I smelt trouble the day I came to Bombay in thehope of becoming a playback singer and got conned into acting. Ishould have just turned my back and run.
PN: Why didn’t you?
KK: Well, I’ve regretted it ever since. Boom Boom. Boompitty boom boom.Chikachikachik chik chik. Yadlehe eeee yadlehe ooooo (Goes onyodelling till the tea comes. Someone emerges from behind theupturned sofa in the living room, looking rather mournful witha bunch of rat-eaten files and holds them up for KK to see)
PN: What are those files?
KK: My income tax records.
PN: Rat-eaten?
KK: We use them as pesticides. They are very effective. The rats diequite easily after biting into them.
PN: What do you show the tax people when they ask for the papers?
KK: The dead rats.
PN: I see.
KK: You like dead rats?
PN: Not particularly.
KK: Lots of people eat them in other parts of the world.
PN: I guess so.
KK: Haute cuisine. Expensive too. Costs a lot of money.
PN: Yes?
KK: Good business, rats. One can make money from them if one isenterprising.
PN: I believe you are very fussy about money. Once, I’m told. aproducer paid you only half your dues and you came to the setswith half your head and half your moustache shaved off. And youtold him that when he paid the rest, you would shoot with your faceintact…
KK: Why should they take me for granted? These people never pay unlessyou teach them a lesson. I was shooting in the South once. I thinkthe film was Miss Mary and these chaps kept me waiting in the hotelroom for five days without shooting. So I got fed up and startedcutting my hair. First I chopped off some hair from the right sideof my head and then, to balance it, I chopped off some from theleft. By mistake I overdid it. So I cut off some more from theright. Again I overdid it. So I had to cut from the left again.This went on till I had virtually no hair left- and that’s whenthe call came from the sets. When I turned up the way I was, theyall collapsed. That’s how rumours reached Bombay. They said I hadgone cuckoo. I didn’t know. I returned and found everyone wishingme from long distance and keeping a safe distance of 10 feet whiletalking. Even those chaps who would come and embrace me waved outfrom a distance and said Hi. Then, someone asked me a littlehesitantly how I was feeling. I said: Fine. I spoke a littleabruptly perhaps. Suddenly I found him turning around and running.Far, far away from me.
PN: But are you actually so stingy about money?
KK: I have to pay my taxes.
PN: You have income tax problems I am told….
KK: Who doesn’t? My actual dues are not much but the interest haspiled up. I’m planning to sell off a lot of things before I goto Khandwa and settle this entire business once and for all.
PN: You refused to sing for Sanjay Gandhi during the emergency and,it is said, that’s why the tax hounds were set on you. Is this true?
KK: Who knows why they come. But no one can make me do what I don’twant to do. I don’t sing at anyone’s will or command. But I singfor charities, causes all the time.
[Note: Sanjay Gandhi wanted KK to sing at some Congress rally in Bombay.KK refused. Sanjay Gandhi ordered All India Radio to stop playingKishore songs. This went on for quite a while. KK refused toapologize. Finally, it took scores of prominant producers anddirectors to convince those in power to rescind the ban]
PN: What about your home life? Why has that been so turbulent?
KK: Because I like being left alone.
PN: What went wrong with Ruma Devi, your first wife?
KK: She was a very talented person but we could not get along becausewe looked at life differently. She wanted to build a choir and acareer. I wanted someone to build me a home. How can the tworeconcile? You see, I’m a simple minded villager type. I don’tunderstand this business about women making careers. Wives shouldfirst learn how to make a home. And how can you fit the twotogether? A career and a home are quite seperate things. That’s whywe went our seperate ways.
PN: Madhubala, your second wife?
KK: She was quite another matter. I knew she was very sick even beforeI married her. But a promise is a promise. So I kept my word andbrought her home as my wife, even though I knew she was dying froma congenital heart problem. For 9 long years I nursed her. I watchedher die before my own eyes. You can never understand what this meansuntil you live through this yourself. She was such a beautiful womanand she died so painfully.She would rave and rant and scream in frustration. How can such anactive person spend 9 long years bed-ridden? And I had to humour herall the time. That’s what the doctor asked me to. That’s what I didtill her very last breath. I would laugh with her. I would cry withher.
PN: What about your third marriage? To Yogeeta Bali?
KK: That was a joke. I don’t think she was serious about marriage. Shewas only obsessed with her mother. She never wanted to live here.
PN: But that’s because she says you would stay up all night andcount money..
KK: Do you think I can do that? Do you think I’m mad? Well, it’sgood we separated quickly.
PN: What about your present marriage?
KK: Leena is a very different kind of person. She too is an actress likeall of them but she’s very different. She’s seen tragedy. She’sfaced grief. When your husband is shot dead, you change. Youunderstand life. You realise the ephemeral quality of all things..I am happy now.
PN: What about your new film? Are you going to play hero in this one too?
KK: No no no. I’m just the producer-director. I’m going to be behindthe camera. Remember I told you how much I hate acting? All I mightdo is make a split second appearance on screen as an old man orsomething.
PN: Like Hitchcock?
KK: Yes, my favourite director.I’m mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I lovespooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people,actually, if you get to know them. Not like these industry chapsout here. Do you know any spooks?
PN: Not very friendly ones.
KK: But nice, frightening ones?
PN: Not really.
KK: But that’s precisely what we’re all going to become one day. Likethis chap out here (points to a skull, which he uses as part of hisdecor, with red light emerging from its eyes)- you don’t even knowwhether it’s a man or a woman. Eh? But it’s a nice sort. Friendlytoo. Look, doesn’t it look nice with my specs on its non-existentnose?
PN: Very nice indeed.
KK: You are a good man. You understand the real things of life. You aregoing to look like this one day."
-Suparn Varma

Saw Slumdog!!!!!!

I went to the screening of SlumDog Millioniare yesterday along with Mike. All i had to do was to change the date in the email confirmation i got after RSVP ing it from Dec 10th to Nov 18th. As simple as that :)

Exclusive for ppl in NY and NJ !!!!

Free premier screening of Oye Lucky Lucky Oye in NY on Monday, November 24th at 7:00pm at New York University Cantor Film Centre. RSVP it if you plan to attend it at the following link:Oye Lucky Lucky Oye!!

screwed up!!!!!

I have been raving about it and waiting for it from around a month but i din't bother to RSVP to the screening and today i checked and the tickets are not available for 2moro :( , i got tickets for dec 10th so i guess, that' when i am goin to catch the screening for the movie. People who cannot attend the free screening , Below is the list when its releasing at different areas:

Week #1: Wednesday, Nov. 12
1 Los Angeles2 New York3 Chicago4 San Francisco5 Washington D.C.6 Toronto
Week #2: Friday, Nov. 21st
7 Boston8 Dallas/Ft. Worth9 Philadelphia10 San Diego11 Seattle12 Denver13 Baltimore14 Minneapolis15 Phoenix16 Vancouver
More after the jump.
Week #3: Wednesday, Nov. 26th
No new markets
Week #4: Friday, Dec. 5th
17 Atlanta18 Detroit19 Indianapolis
Week #5: Friday, Dec. 12th
20 Sacramento21 St. Louis22 Austin23 Milwaukee24 Hartford/New Haven25 Madison26 Ann Arbor
Week #6: Friday, Dec. 19th
27 Houston28 Miami/Ft. Lauderdale29 Kansas City30 Cleveland31 Columbus32 Orlando33 Charlotte34 New Orleans35 Louisville36 Portland37 Rochester38 Salt Lake/Boise39 Honolulu40 Albany41 Albuquerque42 Boca Raton/W. Palm Beach43 Cincinnati44 Dayton45 Nashville46 Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill47 Asheville48 Charlottesville49 Lansing50 Northampton/Springfield51 Montreal
Week #7: Friday, Dec. 26th
52 Buffalo53 Fresno54 Las Vegas55 Tampa/St. Pete56 Champaign/Decatur/Springfield57 El Paso58 Harrisburg, PA59 Memphis60 Norfolk/Newport News61 Oklahoma City62 Omaha63 Providence64 Richmond65 San Antonio66 Spokane67 Tulsa68 Baton Rouge69 Birmingham70 Colorado Springs71 Corpus Christi72 Grand Rapids73 Knoxville74 Lexington75 Pittsburgh76 Reno77 Sarasota78 Syracuse79 Tucson80 Anchorage81 Des Moines82 Ft. Myers83 Gainesville84 Ithaca85 Jacksonville86 Portland, ME87 Santa Fe88 Tallahassee89 Calgary90 Edmonton91 Halifax92 Kitchener93 Ottawa94 St. John95 Victoria96 Winnipeg

slumdog-III

Shak....what the ****

Golmaal returns is funny. It may not be as good as the first part but its good, especially the last 30 min. Lets say around 30% of the gags are funny , it may feel like a small percentage but considering the no. of gags in the movie its a pretty good no. It starts slow , the first 30 min are tiring but once tushar and Shreyas get their act together its all fun. Tushar jokes did tend to irritate to start with but after a while it was all fun, the beauty of uttering the worst profanities possible and the censors not able to do much about it is priceless... heroines were a let down, actually nobody has nothing to do, the only funny per say dialogue for celina is 'Shak...what the ****', shreyas was more south indian than her singing 'aa ante amalapuram' whenever he meets her (celina is supposed to be a madarasi in the movie).. Kareena has some good gags but it required a bit of over the top acting like the kiron kher and sharukh's episode in om shanti om but kareena tried to 'underplay' her character may be he is thinking she was doing omkara sequel instead of golmaal sequel. Ajay devagan was his usual nothing to write about, Arshad warsi has nothing much to do either and the other heroines well we can just count the no. of lines they have i am sure its not above 5 and thats both of their lines combined. They ripped off a song from sivaji but thats rajni with rehman.. who do we have here oh we have 4 heroes and 4 heroines but thats RAJNI for godsakes!!!! Watch the movie for the last 30 min

Bond.. James Bond!!!

Now where is that... i want Bond to say that.... Quantum of Solace is not your typical Bond movie.. its more into the genre of Transporter/Bourne Series with bigger budget but bad output on par with transporter 2. Actually its like Vijayendra Varma of UK films. The climax is as mind blowing as Vijayendra Varma's climax.

Let The Right One In..Contd.....

One of the best movies i've seen this year. I am slightly disappointed with the way it ended but again i am not sure how else it could end too so i guess i have no right to complain. Coming to the story , its about a 12 year old shy, loner boy who befriends a 12 year old girl who moves with her father to next door, only problem is that the girl is actually a vampire and no its not your typical vampire movie, it has its share of murders, blood sucking and gore but after watching the movie nothing registers except the sweet relationship between the kids. Its like a John Huges sugar candy movie with a dark background.So, yaa its a sweet Vampire story and there is nothing sweet about the things that happen around these kids the sweetness is just between the kids. The kids are awesome, especially the girl.
The movie is based on a book but not all the contents of the book are taken. The book is more dark and gore. FOr example, the old guy who stays with the girl is shown as a caring person for the girl but he is patroyed as a pedophile in the book and the movie has a backstory about the vampire actually being a boy who has been castrated 100 years back. Though there are subtle references to the second part, the pedophile part is completely eliminated and rightly so giving the movie the right feel. If added all these parts will take the movie into a completely different genre which is a blasphemy to what it is right now.
In my last blog, i suggested people can wait for the american remake but guys i don't think thats a good idea now for one its being directed by Matt Reeves whose last film was 'Cloverfield' which was a good movie in its style but basing on that movie i am not sure he has the sensibilities to make this movie, moreover, it is said that the movie will be based on the book rather than on the swedish movie and that makes me even more skeptical. The swedish movie right now is too perfect to be tamperered and even a slight change to it can make the movie a completely different one , the one without a soul. So guys, try to catch the film now itself and if you could'nt then pray that Reeves should pull out a miracle.

slumdog-II

I will be posting videos about slumdog millioniare as i keep find them and i guess i will keep finding them till i stop looking for them ,i.e, till i watch the movie :)

Let the right one in

Just watched this beautiful film, its a swedish film so had to rely on subtitles. Its a vampire story but totally different than any other vampire movie seen till now. Instead of the typical patroyal of vampires are scary beasts which feed on blood, the films makes us empathize with the vampires reminded me of one other movie 'Interview with the vampire' though both have nothing in common they both show vampires in a different light. A must watch!!! If at all you couldn't get hold of it due to the limited release you can always wait for the remake hit the screens sometime around end of next year but i am not sure if it would be as good as this one.

slumdog millionare

Everybody has been raving about this movie, i have been following the updates from a month now eagerly waiting for its release at last its releasing this weekend but all that enthu went into drain when i didnot find any screenings of the movie in houston , but again after some more research i found that there are some free shows all over the country and in houston its this tuesday nov 18th at 7:30 .. amar and mike get ready its only for the first 200 ppl so we better go there early. People interested to watch this movie check out when its releasing at your place at: "OC ga slumdog chuseyyandi"

and for ppl who don't have idea what this movie is about hit the youtube and check out its trailors. Its from Danny Boyle the man who directed Transpoitting and if that doesn't ring a bell well check youtube.

One small clip for the enthusiasts: (reminded me of the opening scene from city of god only this time we have rehman in the background :) )

My Encounters with the Coens

Well i am talking about the Coen Brothers, actually i saw Burn After Reading yesterday , loved it, i guess i can easily give it a second viewing right now without feeling bored and that made me think are my movie tastes changing??? This movie never interested me before , it has so many A list actors but still i was not interested till now fact being i am not a big fan of Coen cinema til now. My first 'Coen' movie was 'Fargo' which i watched like i don't know around 8-10 years back i guess, that was the time when all i know about Hollywood was Bond, Rambo, Terminator and Aliens , that was the time i thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was a great actor ( no offense) , Terminator 2 and Rambo first blood are the best movies ever made, Independence Day is a masterpiece... i guess now you have a clear idea about my approach towards cinema those days and obviously i hated Fargo, i mean the hero is a pregnant women , no good action sequences nothing i could never figure out how on earth this movie is such a rage and by know you should have realized i din't have the 'maturity' to look who is the director , who are the actors and details about any movie i watch so i don't know who are these Coens (actually i never heard about them till 'No Country for Old Men' :) i know i know i am just hopeless ) , so now where are we yaa 'Fargo' i hated it, my next encounter was 'Hudsucker Proxy' .. hmm didnot hate it .. enjoied it in parts i guess.. i still remember the scene when the fatso suddenly gets on the conference table and starts running and jumps out of the window and of course Jeniffer Jason Leigh.. well i like her... to be more specific her assets .. never looked beyond those to every think about her acting and this movie for the first time i did watch her beyond that and she was not that bad .. This was the time i saw 'shawshank redemption' so i picked up this movie just seeing 'tim robbins on the cover of the dvd no idea of the director still ... then it was 'ladykillers'.. picked it up for TomHanks and just hated it period and then was 'intolerable cruelty' which i watched for .. u know Catherine zeta jones , didnot like the movie but enjoyed watched her so paisa vasool and then came 'No Country for old men' .. i was completely bowled over , love every moment/frame of it and this is when Coens arrived for me but still i was not aware of their other movies and came 'superbad'... ok ok i know superbad is not from Coen brothers i am just talking about a scene/dialogue in this movie when jonah hill is talking about his porn website subscriptions and says to Micheal Cera who looks for good story in a porn movie that he is sorry that Coen brothers donot direct these movies and that day i opened imdb to look for other movies that they directed and was pleasantly surprised when none of them are the ones i liked and was bit more surprised when all those movies are considered to be very good (esp. Fargo) and i decided Coens are not for me , except for the occasional No Country for old men i should stay away from them and when Burn after reading opened in theatres i decided to stay away from it and after reading the reviews that this was not 'as good as' fargo i was sure i will hate it but i was pleasanty surprised when i saw it yesterday everybody were awesome , story was simple , comedy was subtle and i was never bored John Malkovich , tilda swanson being their usual self , Clooney's secret project and ofcourse the icing of the cake Brad pitt, he was just awesome
"Pitt, who plays a particularly unintelligent character in Burn After Reading, said of his role, "After reading the part, which they said was hand-written for myself, I was not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.""
"Pitt also said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine.'" (lifted from wikipedia)

Looks like my movie tastes are changing.. may be i will like Fargo if i watch it now...i guess.....

Back in Action!!!!

I am seriously thinking of reviving my blog and this time mostly i will strictly write on movies , not that i have written on anything else before :) , but this time its going to be completely on movies that reminds me that long long back i guess few years when somebody has commented on my one of the posts that i should change my blog name to Movie thoughts or something as its anyway always about movies.. well i might as well do that but again who knows may be once in a while i feel like writing about something else too so i will keep the name as RandomThoughts. So guys & gals, help me in this endeavor.. keep reading , commenting , cursing and encouraging

Shraddhanjali…

It is with immense grief and sadness that we announce the untimely deaths of two of our friends and colleagues; Kiran Kumar Allam and Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma.

We are outraged by the blatant violence that has brought an end to such precious lives and condemn it. As expatriates, we know how friends become family in this land away from home. And it is this family that we turn to in our hour of need.

We would take this opportunity to thank the community, faculty and students who attended the memorial service and acted as a show of strength for the families of Chandrashekhar and Kiran. Many offers of help were made and we hope we will be able to assist the families both financially and emotionally.

As part of our small but significant Indian community here in the USA, we ask you to extend your heartfelt support to the bereaved families of these two young men in these trying times. As a first step, LSU has established a support fund for the families of the victims. We urge you to donate generously. Those wishing to donate to the "Komma & Allam Support Fund" can do so online by visiting https://www.lsufoundation.org and scrolling down For the Benefit of:" select "Komma and Allam Support Fund." or send checks, made payable to LSU Foundation, to 3838 West Lakeshore Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

We would appreciate it if this information could be communicated across the country and that the Indian community in the US would stand as a united front with the families.

If you wish to support the families by way of donating services, please let us know. Our contact information is listed on the website. Or you can email us at isa@lsu.edu.

No Smoking!!!!!

Ppl plz watch it... i am dying to discuss abt this movie with some one... I have just one word for it... 'mind blowing'.... i mean literally... there will be very few movies like this.. which makes absolutely no sense as long as u watch it but strangely makes you sit through the entire movie without feeling an iota of boredom and keeps haunting you for hrs after watching it making you think about it and may be you will end up having your own version of the movie which will be changing every time you watch it... This movie is strictly for ppl who enjoy movies. This is not for entertainment. I mean , if having a good time means just being able to leave all your tensions behind and enjoy a feel good experience for some time then this is not for you. If it includes taking you on a ride for varied emotions and leaving you with a strange calm satisfying feeling then this is for you. Ppl who have seen it and think its interesting do let me know what you understood from the movie i am eager to to know that.. and ppl who think this is the crappiest movie of all times don't bother you are not wrong too this is just not your kind of movie. BTW , after saying so much if you ask me if I understood teh movie completely .. well my answer is both yes and no . I just understand 'my version' of the movie and i am dying to add things to 'my version' after listening to 'your version' and watching it again.

jhooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!!!!!

new post after 7 months ahhh.. quite a long time... and ppl who know me will obviously know what this post is goin to be about.. as expected movies... Happenend to watch Jhoom Barabar Jhoom yesterday after watching it.. i felt review no critic has given the movie its due... i mean i have read teh reviews.. i expected the film to be bad... but i was surprised this is the first time a move fell below expections when i dint even have any expectations in the first place. I mean even quoting this movie to be 'worst' or 'crap' is also not enuf... i mean those words are too good for the movie Everybody was talking about the non-existence of any kind of story in the movie but why dint anybody talk abt the crappiest screenplay and direction of all times... But one thing is for sure , this movie has made history.... i'll tell u how..... Big B is more than a actor now.. hez more than a star.. hez an icon.. he has the charisma to take a crapiest movie and make it watchable . One thing is for sure he never lets u down... just his sheer presence in the movie is enuf.... but Shaad Ali has achieved the impossible.. He tried it in Bunty Aur Babli and he was partly successful but in this movie he has done it.. for teh first time of history of indian cinema you can't help but to hate Amitabh... everytime he comes on the screen he feel like tearing the screen , find a way to into the movie and slap him and kick him out u will just plainly hate him.... in bunty aur babli too he was bit boring but this movie he has achieved it to the fullest extent and the full credit goes to Shaad Ali. Only person who got something to do in this movie i thought was Lara Dutta , though a pretty small role atleast it has shades .. both of them interesting.. the french accent was good felt authentic.. and the tapori language was good enuf somehting i never expected she could carry off but she did.. if u say BigB became a jack ass acting in this movie.. i donno what i can say abt Bobby Deol well he needed a hit badly and yash raj film offer is irresestible but i dint know he was this desperate .. First half he was overacting.. well that is understandable but second half .. i donno what made him accept this spineless side kick role... First of all the hero character itself is boring and to be a side kick to a boring character he just made a caricature of himself and his hairstyle...ufff mindblowing .. as if threads of some brown hair definetly not human hair has been stuck to his scalp haphazardly..... I hope Yash Raj gives one more movie to him for the sacrifice he has done for this movie and the main hero and heroine.. well there is nothing to talk abt. This movie is perfectly fit to be done with the background of mumbai subway and suburbs.. they forcefully introduced London into it.. i mean everyone around , place they live everything is again indian suburbs of London so whats the point of doin it in London.. even at the train station all the shopkeepers are indian and the dance competition in the end which is the most horrible part of the movie is like some recording dance show rather than a competition. Add they have done this movie with background of mumbai , this could have been the least budgetted venture for yashraj. Only saving grace for this movie is the big poster of CHIRANJEEVI from Stalin in the background in the final scenes of the movie. That is the only scene when i could sense a change of expresssion on my face from a awestruck blank expression to a smile luckily i am a fanatic fan of Chiru and for ppl who r not and watched this movie... i hope they r alrite... god save their souls!!!!

Taggedddddddd!!!!!!!!

I've been tagged.. well took me a while to understand what it means.. Prathyusha this post is for you..for making the effort to 'tag' me.. looks like my non-filmi post after sooooooo many filmi posts ..... now here we go...

9 Favorites:

Favorite Season: Nothing .. like everything.. every season is good and bad for some or other reason..
Favorite Sport: Cricket or Raquet ball.. hmmm cannot make up my mind on one.....
Favorite Time: 6:00-7:00 ( will be playing raquet ball or eatin something at this time ).
Favorite Month: End of Nov and Dec (Holidays time.. thanksgiving , christmas and new yr).
Favorite Singers: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan , KK , Shankar Mahadevan , Shreya Ghosal , AR Rehman.
Favorite Ice Cream: Anything n Everything.
Favorite Food: Indian, Thai, Chinese, Italian….the list goes on.
Favorite Drink: Water.
Favorite Place: Visakhapatnam.

9 Currents:

Current Feeling: 1 more hr to go before i pack up and go home.
Current O/S: Windows XP.
Current Windows Open: Gmail, Orkut , Meebo , Google,
Current Drink: Water.
Current Time: 16:45 PM.
Current Mobile(s) Used:Nokia 6620.
Current Show on TV: God knows no TV around .
Current Thought: Too lazy to work for the day...
Current Cloths: The Usual.

9 Firsts:

First Nickname: Street Hawk (not the obvious reason)
First Kiss: ************************************.
First Crush: I think in school but dont remember who.
First Computer: Samsung Hardisk and KeyBoard , LG monitor , Mercury MotherBoard , Intel Processor .. the best of all brands...
First Vehicle I drove: BSA-SLR.
First Job: Data Entry Job in LSU .
First Movie I watched: Ten Commandments or Veta (dont remember exactly)
First Pet: sorry no pets.
First Shave: dont remember year must be 1999

7 Lasts:

Last Chai (Tea) : A week back with pakodis ( Tea by Maama , Pakodis by Sharbari).
Last Movie: 4 weddings and a funeral.(worth a watch 10 yrs back not now.. definetly not now..)
Last Time I Drove: 3 hrs back for Lunch..
Last Time Shaved: Today Morning.
Last Web Site Visited: Gmail
Last Software Installed: ITunes ( for updating my Ipod)
Last Pill I Had: Long Long Back.. should be crocin


6 Have You Evers:

Have You Ever Broken the Law: All the time..make it a point to skip a red once a week atleast.
Have You Ever Been Drunk: hmmm…drunk.. Yes.. wasted .. No.
Have You Ever Climbed a Tree: zillion times.
Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: Nope
Have You Ever Been in the Middle/Close to Gunfire or Bomb Blast: Gun fire.. yes fired a beretta and M16 myself at a Shooting Range
Have You Ever Broken Anyone’s Heart: hehehe, good question..

5 Things:

Things You Can Hear Right Now: Tu hi Mera Shab Hai (Gangster) from my ipod... too loud to hear anything else...
Things on Your Computer Table: An extra monitor, a phone , loads of papers and computer glasses which i seldom use and a bottle of water.
Things on Your Bed: A pillow and a blanket
Things You Ate Today: Cornflakes , chinese buffet so lots of unknown stuff..
Things in Mind: 45 min more to go........

4 Places You Have Been Today:

Home
Office
Chinese Inn

2 Choices

Black or White: Black.
Hot or Cold: Hot.

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die:

What ever i do or not do ..but should be content and with no regrets when i die..

Now my turn to tag…..

well i donno.. ppl who read this post.. u r totally jobless like me so u r tagged start blogging best passtime for u...