Sometimes, there are movies that depict a certain culture and time period that calls for intense and meticulous research. Whether it’s a period movie like Gone With The Wind, Braveheart or Pride and Prejudice, attention is paid to the details, the locations, the costume, the mannerisms and the general feel of the movie. Coming to…
Tag: Period
Lootera
Many a times, a small budget Indian movie will come along which you will not take notice off due to some big budget movie released alongside. You hear from others about this little said movie and you finally watch it to realize what a masterpiece it is. We often overlook these small budget movies, which…
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
Sometimes the less you know about the movie, the higher the entertainment value. DBB is one of those movies. Setting: 1940s, Calcutta. WW2 is in progress. We meet Byomkesh, an awkward youngster whose is requested by a stranger, Ajit, to help him locate his missing father. This being Byomkesh first detective case, we follow his…
The Great Gatsby 3D
There is so much going for this movie (acting, visuals, 3D, soundtrack) that I won’t know where to stop. The movie perfectly encapsulated the roaring 20s of NYC, with its bustling, decadent party lifestyle and the superficiality of it all. Well written characters, great dialogues, memorable quotes (after all it’s based on a classic book)….
An American Haunting
Late night last night, I saw An American Haunting, which is a horror movie based on true events, as mentioned at the end of the movie. Were it not for the”based on true events” tagline, I would not have seen this movie otherwise. An American Haunting is set in Tennessee, USA in the 1800s, and…
Water
Water is the third movie in the trilogy by Deepa Mehta. The first two movies were Fire and Earth. Fire was very controversial upon its release as it portrayed an intimate relationship between two females who were driven close to each other because of lack of love and support from their husbands. Earth was based…
Walk the Line
Hands up if you know who Johnny Cash is! I wouldn’t be surprised if not many hands went up. I for one have heard about Cash, but never really bothered to know who he is. All I knew was that he was a Country music singer in the States, and apparently, he was very popular….
The Rising: Ballad of Mangal Pandey
Aamir Khan is one of the most versatile actors in Bollywood today. His last movies were Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai, both were blockbusters, with the former even nominated for the Oscars for the best Foreign film category. He has displayed enough versatility with such ease that you forget you are watching Aamir on screen,…
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice have been turned into several movies, including an Indianized version in Bride and Prejudice. However, the latest version of Pride and Prejudice is no boring re-tread of the novel. It is in fact the closest to the book from all the previous versions I have seen, and that makes a…
Mansour Ahsan 