National Awards 2012

Best Film – PAAN SINGH TOMAR (Hindi)
Best Director- Shivaji Patil DHAG (Marathi)
Best Actor- Irrfan PAAN SINGH TOMAR; Vikram Gokhale ANUMATI (Marathi)
Best Actress- Usha Jadhav DHAG
Best Actor in a Supporting Role- Annu Kapoor VICKY DONOR (Hindi)
Best Actress in a Supporting Role- Kalpana THANICHALLA NJAN (Malayalam); Dolly Ahluwalia VICKY DONOR
Best Original Screenplay- KAHAANI (Hindi)
Best Adapted Screenplay- OH MY GOD (Hindi)
Best Production Design- VISHWAROOPAM (Tamil)
Best Cinematography KO:YAD (Mishing)
Best Editing- KAHAANI

Images from Aurangzeb

Dilip Kumar on Filmfare (Nov 25, 1955)

Images from Himmatwala (updated)

My Review of THE ATTACKS OF 26/11 (Hindi, 2013)

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Ram Gopal Varma has been a hit or miss since his debacle with RGV KI AAG, DARLING and SARKAR RAJ worked while CONTRACT didn’t. PHOONK worked, AGYAT-THE UNKNOWN didn’t. RANN and RAKTA CHARITRA 1 & 2 and NOT A LOVE STORY worked, DEPARMENT and BHOOT RETURNS failed, and now Ram Gopal Varma returns with what is undeniably his most hard-hitting film to date.

I would say this is the best film I’ve seen on a topic like this with the exception of Anurag Kashyaps BLACK FRIDAY.

Jolly LLB, Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns (ongoing), the rest of the box office

last week’s thread

Paradesi trailers (updated)

thanks to GF..

Images from Bala’s Paradesi (updated)

Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounter With Bollywood (Hollywood Reporter) (video added)

thanks to Bliss & Pradeep..

A Debate over Kai Po Che

I put up a comment here in response to this piece which I also then placed in my twitter feed. The author remarked on it and I then added a longer response today. I am extracting all of this here:

Original Exchange

and the more recent one today:

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To the Wonder trailers (updated)

thanks to GF..

The New and Improved Leading Man (GQ)

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“It’s hard to escape the logical conclusion: Movie stars just don’t matter anymore. Financially, sociologically, culturally, they’re either obsolete or doing a damn good job of pretending to be. Whether it’s because they stopped doing what movie stars are supposed to do or we stopped wanting them to do it, here we all are, apparently, in a post-movie-star universe in which the movies seem to be doing just fine without the presence of an entire category of people who have been, for the better part of the past century, the main reason a lot of people went to the movies. And we shouldn’t be surprised. If, in 2013, our primary allegiances are to genres and concepts and properties rather than to people, if our biggest modern movie stars are Batman and Bourne and Wolverine and James Bond, and if the most a flesh-and-blood actor can hope is to be chosen to serve as the temporary avatar for one of those characters, then what meaning can the term movie star possibly have?”

Saheb Biwi aur Gangster Returns, the rest of the box office

last week’s thread

Quick Poll: Which Sunny Deol film are you looking forward to the most?

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With 4 films set to hit the marquee between now and 2014, which Sunny Deol film are you looking forward to the most?