Many of you must have seen Pulp Fiction, the ONE breakthrough movie of the 90s if you want to name one. Quentin Tarantino has made one other movie since then, Jackie Brown and written some screenplays like Natural Born Killers. He has come out of a 7 year break to make a new movie - Kill Bill - Volume I. A short review follows. Kill Bill has a simple one line story. Black Mamba (Uma Thurman),pregnant,is shot and left for dead in the wedding chapel.This is the opening of the movie, set to a wonderful background song by Nancy Sinatra, Bang Bang - My Baby Shot Me Down. She is attacked by members of the Deadly Viper Assasination Squad whose leader is Bill. She wakes up out of coma four years later to start taking revenge on the Squad which includes four others besides Bill. She first takes care of Copperhead. This is a rather brief sequence. Next she flies to Japan to eliminate of O Ren Ishi who has in these 4 years become the leader of the underground in Tokyo . She takes her apart in a ...

The purpose of writing this review is essentially to spread some good word of mouth about Hazaaron Kwaishein Aisi (HKA) which otherwise is going to go out of theatres in a jiffy and make way for Bunty aur Babli. The Story The story revolves around three main characters Siddharth Tyabji, Vikram Malhotra and Geeta Rao, three classmates during graduation in Delhi . The story is set in the tumultuous late 60s and 70s when Naxalism, Emergency, etc. set campuses and young minds across the country on fire. The movie is in equal parts English and Hindi. 1969 : Siddharth is a typical JNU, left of centre ideologue who is increasingly veering to the left than the centre disturbing his affluent British Accented Muslim father and Hindu mother. Sid and Geeta are in love. Geeta is a Telugu girl but has spent her life across the world. High on dope and after frantic lovemaking with Geeta, Sid joins the revolution and becomes a comrade in Bhojpur in Bihar so that he can kill those pill...

My homage to Shiva written on October 5, 2004. It has been 15 years to this day that a movie by a new director was released with minimal pre-release hype and went on to be the most revolutionary movie in the history of Telugu cinema for the past 2-3 decades. There have been better movies before and better movies after. There have been more successful movies before and more successful movies after. But no other movie before or since has made a greater impact on filmgoers as this movie and become the icon of an entire generation of 15-25 year olds. The movie is Shiva, released on October 5 th , 1989. This article is a homage to that epochal day. Shiva marked an inflexion point in my life, personally, when movies stopped being an interest and became a passion. It was a wonderful time to be 15 (or 17 or 19 …) when I went into Devi theatre on November 26, 1989 feeling like a boy and came out an adult. Shiva showed me the power of cinema and the power of the visual media. Memories: Ever...

It is probably a pity of good directors (Farhan Akhtar can be called up after only one movie) that they are judged not on the basis of what is right but on what is wrong in the movie. If this review takes such a turn, it is no one’s fault. Lakshya is a single line story about how one aimlessly drifting rich kid – Karan Shergill (Hrithik Roshan) – gets a sense of purpose into his life, discovers himself and realizes his own true feelings by joining the army and facing the horrors of war. Karan turns into someone is willing to take on responsibilities for himself and of others and become a “man” in the process. The movie is set against the backdrop of the Kargil war. Romila Dutta (Preity Zinta) is Karan’s love interest. After a falling out, the love is rekindled between the two when Romila, who is an intrepid TV reporter covering the war, and Karan meet each other in the war torn land. The last Hindi movie I saw was Farhan’s Dil Chahta Hai. DCH and Lakshya have some common...