My best friend likes cinema a lot and his birthday is coming up. He would be really happy if i gifted him something related to cienima. What should i gift him? His favourite directors are •Adoor gopalakrishnan • Martin Scorsese
•Ingmar Bergman -And his favourite movies are •Taxi driver •The seventh seal •Anantaram.

sahoo Radhe shyam Aadipurush Salaar

Almost 1000crs loss for four films

Although it is very early to comment, I feel like Premalu should be supported by any jury- national/ state for being uniquely staged, with something amounting to a revelation in script & direction, the movie found home in almost all the southern states & is travelling north too. That's quite unexpected. That's not just due to technical brilliance, which is a given when a veteran production house backs you. Rather what a director, his vision & the unique lingua franca he brings forth, obviously due to the geography he belongs to; but to elevate the genre itself with that is commendable!

With no offence to other great creators out there who are winning with unique & absolutely artistic qualities (think Krishand) it takes something else, not just nerves, but more than insane talent, to pull off a scene stealer in a tried and tired genre like rom-com & with absolute auteur rizz. Girish AD sure deserves a given there. And by its virtue, Syam Mohan might also land a surprise best actor win for the performance that surpasses the benchmarks set by other potential, strong favourite contendors (R10, maybe). I believe this is not just a fanboy gushing about his favourites and maybe, some of you guys can point that out, in case I have lost perspective. Rather it would be interesting if you can come up with you own for/against, your own winners in this case to refute or support & hopefully I may know if there are any others who feel the same as I do about this.

I just watched this movie , I I had not seen this movie and many people were telling me that it is a masterpiece. But now after seen this movie , I was like woww it's really great , we can see that Ranbir Kapoor really a real Jordan no one can do that character as Ranbir he was born for that , but I don't like the female lead she really ruined yess really...... Imtiaz Ali really shown his inner fantasy what he thinks how a man is lonely,

Its from early 80s or very late 70s ad I recall watching it on Doordarshan

Scene: Bunch of cleaners in uniforms are cleaning/sweeping a garden ( seems like a pvt bungalow or govt building ) and of them finds an earring, then another jewelry piece and another and then a womans dead body. I thnk Iftekar was in it and there is a judge or somethng, and he walking up a long series of stairs

I wish I could find that movie, I searched NFDC and no smoke

Edit: I don't believe it was mainstream, seemed more like an art or those TV tyoe NFDC movies. Its possible it could be another language

The needle drop refers to the moment when a licensed song is played in media.

My personal favorite is the beats of "khoya khoya chand khula aasman" dropping outta nowhere in Bejoy Nambiar's "Shaitan" (2011). So well executed as the backdrop for the chaos going on in that scene.

What is yours?

My ★★½ review of Monkey Man on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/6nddst

Hello,

Me and my friend were talking about a song in a movie and he said he remembers it from this certain Indian 90s film but im certain he is remembering the name wrong. Does anyone have an idea what they possibly could be talking about? We are not from India so we are not familiar with the language nor do I know anyone else to ask.

Friend: "was also in a shitty indian film from the 90s. call bakoosh da lingu"
was a huge copyright infringment movie lol"
had disney characters and nintendo look alikes, came out in 1997 or 98......one of the two"

Does anyone have an idea or are they just completely misremembering

I have been dying to watch the popular gujarati movie Vash, now I see it on shemaroo me but I don't want to buy another subscription just for this one movie! ;_; So, can someone who is already subscribed to shemaroo please share it with me for a day so that I can watch this movie in peace?

Begging over.

https://youtu.be/vxFeYNh-lZo

Finally got around to watching Okkadu and Ghilli. The plan was to post a review in the Tollywood sub if I liked the former and in the Kollywood sub if I liked the latter. I ended up looking them both so I decided to post here.

A Common Plot Archetype

It's a familiar plot archetype — a happy-go-lucky hero lives a normal life in his hometown. He goes to some distant land, meets a girl who is in some kind of trouble and brings her to his home. Eventually the girl's trouble follow them in the climax. As someone from Kerala I'm familiar with this plot archetype through films like Meleparambil Aanveedu, Thenmavin Kombathu and Godha (among many others).

Actually watching this film made me want to compile a list of such films here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MalayalamMovies/s/d7SAW4jpZ3

Please add films in other languages if you can think of any.

Review

I don't know if it's possible to avoid comparisons since Ghilli isn't a lesser adaptation in any way and since this is a double review I guess I'll compare where it's appropriate.

The most noticeable aspect of Okkadu is its making. The movie has style. It's technically really well made, from the opening fight scene to the car chase to the minor details in the fight choreography and the kabbadi choreography to the lens choices to the editing. It's something that's noticeable absent in Ghilli. The remake is technically quite clumsy, especially in the opening fight. The car chase is great in both.

The most bizarre part of Okkadu is the strange homage (?) to West Side Story that opens the film. I can't call it a rip off since it's different enough but it feels out of place because it's using the western musical language of West Side Story in a movie that's nowhere near that genre. Okkadu straight up repurposes the score from the classic musical including the whistling which is really jarring because the score has meaning so it's like taking a page from Little Women and just putting it in beginning of The Martian. It doesn't belong there.

Ghilli is one more movie removed from West Side Story so the finger snapping just comes across as even weirder.

Another strange borrowing in the beginning is how the fight just randomly switches into the ladder fight from that Jet Li movie. Ghilli, for some reason, replaces it with The Transporter's oil fight. It's all random.

But after all that is done the movies settle into the main plot and things become considerably more consistent. While I was neither a fan of Mahesh Babu's underplaying not Vijay's over playing the emotions I really enjoyed the family dynamics in Ghilli more. The changes that Ghilli makes give Ashish Vidyarthi a lot to do and he gets an actual character arc unlike the original. I also liked how he stood up to Prakash Raj more.

Speaking of Prakash Raj Ghilli finds a way to use him more and give him a lot of the frustrated, manic villain character that he's so good at. He seems to be having a blast in the remake.

But the way Okkadu transitions from the jeep to the train to Prakash Raj is so good. Ghilli missed the trick of that transition even though it tries to do the same thing. The following chase through the train is also much better edited in Okkadu. Okkadu consistently tries to compose and frame really cinematic shots and it's interesting to see Ghilli try and fail to capture the same kind of shots.

Trisha is a much better actor than Bhumika, at least in this movie. I haven't seen Bhumika in anything else I can remember. And acting wise there's another interesting thing I noticed. It's in the scene where the hero sees the villain drag the girl to his car. In Ghilli you can actually see Vijay considering the situation and making the decision to save her in his face and body language but in Okkadu I didn't get that from Mahesh Babu. I really like those scenes where a character has to make a decision and the actor has to sell that internal thought process without any dialog or voice over.

This isn't about who is the better actor. Mahesh Babu great at the physical side and in selling the character's intensity and rage whereas Vijay comes across as a sincere guy who is caught up in this situation.

Coming to the climax, while I liked Okkadu's ending, I also really liked how Ghilli streamlined the climax and just had everything culminate in the kabbadi match. The remake also makes it Trisha's choice to not go to the US and stay with Vijay instead of being captured and having that choice taken away from her (just remembered the original also does this. I saw them back to back so it's kinda blending together. My bad). The remake also gives the father an arc by having him accept his son's choices. In the original they don't have a conflict so there's no arc.

But the original ending where Bhumika's father kills Prakash Raj is a much more appropriate ending. And Ghilli just stops. There's no ending, it just stops.

As for the songs Okkadu has good songs but I've got to give this one to Ghilli.

Neither movie needed to be so long. Both of these should have had a scene of the hero apologizing to the girl for slapping her.

All in all I had a blast with both films. They have their own strengths and weaknesses. They're both absolutely worth your time if you're interested in this plot archetype.

So in the scene they stole a painting from museum/mansion and replace it with fake they bought in a flask/bottle.

Also they have shown selling of a fake MF Hussain painting

EDIT: Got it!

Like it just doesn't exist anymore?? Where else can I watch it? I like rewatching that dheera dheera scene from time to time

I don't remember the name of this movie but I remember some small part the movie which was like this, movie starts with a marriage scene everything was going great but an argument stared over a religious idol, i think it was a love marriage the custom was that bridegroom family will the the idol of the goddess to their house but bride's family argumed that in their family bride's family takes the idol to their house. The argument escalated and both family end up hitting each other and marriage was cancelled but towards the end they got two idols and was married Happily.

I would really appreciate if anybody can tell me the name of the movie as I don't remember the name of actors also just this small part. Thank you.

Just watched chamkila and it got me thinking. If chamkila’s songs can be justified as a “mirror of the society”, what went wrong with animal? Before we jump to conclusions, hear me out!

While animal was criticised for glorifying misogynistic behaviour, weren’t chamkila and his songs misogynistic too? Isn’t making a movie on that glorifying it? Would chamkila (the movie) be equally criticised if SRV directed it? Would a story like animal get positive recognition if it was directed by imtiaz ali? Did the critics only criticise animal because the protagonist was rich? Would they have the same stance if the protagonist was poor and hence not “relatable”? Haven’t we had many problematic characters from poorer backgrounds?

P.S before anyone makes any personal attacks, I liked both the movies and I am a woman. And let’s talk only about the stories here and not editing or cinematography here.

It is a South Indian thriller movie. A man and his wife are in a troubled relationship. He fights with her and kills his wife and hides her in the bathroom. His friends come over. But later it is revealed that the wife is alive and murdered her husband instead and drove to the police station with his body.