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Originally posted by Jason Menard:
Wouldn't the most "loved" movie star technically be someone more along the lines of Jenna Jameson?
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Originally posted by <slacker>:
I think Manoj Night Shyamalam - the director of Sixth Sense,Signs etc is from that state.
Originally posted by Michael Matola:
Racked my brain, searched the internet for hours, and still couldn't figure out the name of the classic Indian black-and-white movie we talked about.
Shubhrajit
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Originally posted by Michael Matola:
Thread hijack!
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One of Rajnikant's movies 'Muthu' was a big big hit in Japan and he was given the title 'Dancing Maharaja'.
I would like to know if some other examples like his exists in the movie world.
Hey, Jytsika, haven't seen you in a while.
Haven't seen you in cattle drive for a while![]()
I finally did see "Lagaan." Overall I thought it was pretty good, despite my complete lack of knowledge of cricket. I liked the musical numbers -- they were quite impressive visually, but things were a bit loooong for someone with a "Western attention span" like me.
Two things I wondered about because I thought they seemed odd to me, as a very outsider watching this movie. (1) The sister of the British colonial commander dude has this secret romantic interest in the dashing villager who leads the cricket team. Is this kind of standard fare for such movies? It seemed so out-of-place and tangential to the story line. Is this the kind of thing they're likely to throw in, for example, because they know that such a story appeals to a certain viewer demographic? (Teenage girls, grandmothers, etc.)[/QB]
That was quite a clever observation. See, a big budget mainstream commercial movie has to have stuff that appeals to wide range of audiences, national and international( more technical term would be crossover appeal )
(2) The inclusion of the untouchable on the team. This, again, seemed very tangential to me, almost smacking of tokenism because no real issues having to do with untouchables/caste system were addressed. I think twice everyone gets all worked up about the untouchable guy, then the issue gets dropped. Puzzling to me what that was all about.[/QB]
The main focus was on a bunch of villagers overcoming all odds to win a cricket match( alien to them ) against oppressing whites. I dont think the film pretends to deal with issues of untouchability and caste. Just side tracks to show what life was in the 19th century.
Yeah, the music was one of the reasons for its success composed by AR Rahman. Familiar more to Londoners now who composed the musical 'Bombay Dreams'.
Originally posted by Shubhrajit Chatterjee:
Hi Michael,
You could not find about the film simply beacause ... the film does not exist ...
Actually, it is a part of a trilogy film ... ie three short films rolled into one ...
The name of the trilogy is Teen Kanya ( Three Girls ) - Released in 1961 and the story you are talking about is called Post Master.
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Originally posted by Nanhesru Ningyake:
>Just marvelling at his stature or luck or ... , damn I dont even know what to make of it
Yeah, was it luck? Rajnikant was once a BTS bus conductor in Bangalore.
Ok, maybe that's understandable. What I don't get is, them peoples fascination for Jayalalitha, India's own Imelda Marcos. (See here, and here for a glimpse into her world.)
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