tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post5641619855169032073..comments2024-03-23T16:19:36.154+05:30Comments on A Potpourri of Vestiges: 100 Greatest Films of 21st Century: A Critical Examination of BBC's Lopsided List Murtaza Ali Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09747183316188241022noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-84743822039785817212016-08-30T08:33:09.233+05:302016-08-30T08:33:09.233+05:30ANTICIPATING "ANNVIND HAZRIWAL" ?
THIS I...ANTICIPATING "ANNVIND HAZRIWAL" ?<br />THIS IS HOW CINEMA BLINKS IN INDIA & FAILS TO BE A DRIVING FORCE IN THE MAKING OF THE NATION OR EVEN THE MAKING OF A MOVIE OR EVEN MAKING OF A RELIABLE BIOPIC. HERO WORSHIP CONTINUES UNABASHEDLY, LIES ABOUND AND REBOUND ON THE COUNTRY AND THE INDIVIDUAL IS WORSHIPPED ON A PEDESTAL OF FALSEHOOD. AND THIS IS BLATANTANTLY DONE IN FRONT OF OUR EYES WHEN WE KNOW THE TRUTH IS OTHERWISE AND ELSEWHERE. SHUBRA GUPTA WHO REVIEWS FILMS , SOME LONG AFTER THE FACT, FOR INDIAN EXPRESS AND PUTS A SPIN ON THEM AT FILM CLUB GET-TOGETHERS SHOULD BE SPENDING MORE TIME ON SUCH ANTICIPATED OBFUSCATION MAKING IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR SUCH MISINFORMATION TO GET EVEN AN AUDIENCE OF ONE. BUT THEN FILM �� CRITICISM, SUCH AS FILM �� MAKING IS DEAD IN INDIA....AND YET WE WANT TO FIGURE IN THE BEST 100 AND/OR 1000 LIST OF BBC PICKS! WHAT UNPRINCIPLED CINEMATIC ARROGANCE. (The title is meant to evoke the TRUTH that Anna & Arvind are joined @ the hip & one cannot be understood without the other...this is not about twins who are born together but go their separate ways, but about one being the consequence of the other and vice versa, such that neither can survive without the other). EVEN IF GLOBAL RANKINGS SHOULD WISH TO FEATURE OUR FILMS THEY'D BALK AT THE TOUGHT FOR NEVER KNOWING IF OUR FILMS ARE FICTION OR FACT OR DOCUMENTS OR DUDS...AKA SOAP SUDS!<br /><br />"Those looking forward to see Anna Hazare’s biopic titled Anna, which was in the making for more than three-and-half years should brace for a big disappointment as far as an important aspect of the activist’s life is concerned. Arvind Kejriwal, for...<br /><br />The Indian Express - 30 August 2016<br /><br />http://a.msn.com/r/2/AAidSgX?a=1&m=EN-IN"<br /><br />- nataranjan bohidar 9811112220<br />Film Critic & Contributing Editor @<br />A Potpourri of Vestiges.<br />THE BIOPIC IN A DEMOCRACY WITHIN A CONTINUUM . Actually that should be the BIOPICON in a Democracy within a Continuum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-49548230651550017022016-08-26T14:14:20.955+05:302016-08-26T14:14:20.955+05:30"I am dev-astated ! Guru-dev Nolan is in 3 ti..."I am dev-astated ! Guru-dev Nolan is in 3 times but no "INTERSTELLAR" ? Obviously BBC loves its own lot more ...how can anyone make a spaced out film �� better than Stanley Saheb ? Cuaron is pulled in but not by "Gravity", although Sandra sits on my lap top like a queen �� that can bull ride any disaster - herein or thereafter and back, and Jessica Chastain who rides a chariot in space �� like �� a goddess is ignored. Also sits there, on my laptop, that is, "Wolf", hammering in its steep criticism of the American market - rot, pink stock and bearell - which the Brits love ❤ to do, off & on & most other times, since the W.W., particularly 2. Let's just get used to the fact that a ranking only reveals the peculiar taste of the sponsor and/or titler, and that is the best use to put it to....savour that stiff upper lippa lippy taste. To get all knotted up �� in the stomach because some Bharatiya bolly molly tolly e-coli good golly film �� lolly did not make it to the BBC ranks ranks of a certain ganwarish local yokel's despo desire �� to be vocal global on someone else's platform just because hum kuchh kuchh type ke trains banate hain aka the 'Chatan-Peirs Syndrome', air hamein unke platform no.1 pe chadne ke liye izzazat ke hakdaar hain hum. Arrey, in Angrezo ke munh kyon lagte Ho Ho Ho, bhaya...apna ranking kyon nahin bana lete...koi padhega kya? Woh to apna he Sur kaat lete hain...Queen �� ke Sir Ridley ko to mention hi nahin kiya...tum apne prejudices se bahar aa sakte Ho Ho Ho kya? To be accepted by the wide wide film �� , and not phillum, world?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-82325988127956631102016-08-26T14:03:04.996+05:302016-08-26T14:03:04.996+05:30I am dev-astated ! Guru-dev Nolan is in 3 times bu...I am dev-astated ! Guru-dev Nolan is in 3 times but no "INTERSTELLAR" ? Obviously BBC loves its own lot more ...how can anyone make a spaced out film 🎥 better than Stanley Saheb ? Cuaron is pulled in but not by "Gravity", although Sandra sits on my lap top like a queen 👑 that can bull ride any disaster - herein or thereafter and back, Jessica Chastain who rides a chariot in space 🚀 like 👍 a goddess is ignored. Also sits there, on my laptop, that is, "Wolf", hammering in its steep criticism of the American market - rot, pink stock and bearell - which the Brits love ❤ to do, off & on & most other times. Let's just get used to the fact that a ranking only reveals the peculiar taste of the sponsor and/or titler, and that is the best use to put it to....savour that stiff upper lippy taste. To get all knotted up 👆 in the stomach because some Bharatiya bolly molly tolly e-coli good golly film 🎥 lolly did not make it to the BBC ranks ranks of a certain ganwarish local yokel's despo desire 😣 to be vocal global on someone else's platform just because hum kuchh kuchh type ke trains banate hain aka the 'Chatan-Peirs Syndrome'. Angrezo ke saath munh kyon lagte Ho Ho Ho bhaya...apna ranking kyon nahin bana lete...koi padhega kya...woh apna he Sur kaat lete hain...Queen 👑 ke Sir Ridley ko to mention hi nahin kiya...tum apne prejudices se bahar as sakte Ho Ho Ho kya? To be accepted by the wide wide film 🎥 and not phillum world?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-75410703952762526132016-08-26T07:46:54.618+05:302016-08-26T07:46:54.618+05:30A film like 'Hey Ram!' deserved to be on t...A film like 'Hey Ram!' deserved to be on this list... unfortunately, the Indian critics voted without putting much thought.Murtaza Ali Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09747183316188241022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-79793471557466943752016-08-26T07:00:05.369+05:302016-08-26T07:00:05.369+05:30No Indian film ?No Indian film ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764409720640198566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-35396059857869463382016-08-26T01:49:58.874+05:302016-08-26T01:49:58.874+05:30Interesting thoughts, I must say! :-DInteresting thoughts, I must say! :-DMurtaza Ali Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09747183316188241022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279678409089205149.post-71078463338034828832016-08-26T01:36:16.487+05:302016-08-26T01:36:16.487+05:30Interesting article :)Interesting article :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07094585011073118450noreply@blogger.com