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Filmi Geek
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Geek of All Trades takes on Hindi film
- Added on: Jul 23rd, 2007
- Country: United States
- Language: English
Recent Posts
Suhaag (1979)
सुहाग Manmohan Desai has a knack for satisfying masala. His movies are packed to the gills with his choice wacky elements and overloaded symbols - brothers separated in childhood, medically improbable blindness, gentleman rogues, grudges he...
Gumnaam (1965)
गुमनाम Gumnaam ("unnamed, anonymous") is a slapdash, inadequately scripted, totally non-suspenseful mystery. It is nevertheless great fun to watch, thanks entirely to a passel of thoroughly entertaining songs and fun comic performances by...
Raat aur din (1967)
रात और दिन The psychological drama is a genre I've not seen much in Hindi films. Satyen Bose's Raat aur din ("night and day") is not the finest psychodrama ever, but as a rare Hindi example of the form it......
Bombay to Goa (1972)
It is sometimes commented that if you took all the extraneous side-elements out of a masala movie and focused on the plot, you'd be left with a streamlined tale that would be done in an hour. The road movie Bombay......
Dev.D (2009)
I almost gave up on Anurag Kashyap's Dev.D after the first half hour, when it threatened to be just another retread of the classic Devdas story - a story of a pathetic, unredeemable narcissist, a story that never resonated with......
Filmi Geek metapost - Geek of a new trade
I am so sorry for the extended posting hiatus here and at my other two blogs, Geek of all Trades and Sounds Like Power. The past half-year or so has been trying for me, with lots of soul-searching and thinking......
