Comments on: Two thumbs WAY down

By: Akash

Akash — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 15:45:53 +0000

I need to make a movie on some poor chilluns abducted/ lost / in a rampage by a murderous Hindu mob as well. That should make me as famous as all ‘em film-makers and get me invited to LA, Europe, this that, … Of course, in my film, Hercule Poirot will find the real culprits, the khaki chaddi clad Hindutvawadis…yum yum!!

I can already count the $’scoming in, if not that- I can score with all them artsy chicks at artsy festivals!(hopefully…)

By: anji

anji — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:41:13 +0000

abhi!

i cant believe its been four years since we saw that movie. dude tho why do you want to see people die!?! i thought you were a peaceful, rational, man abhi!

i hope panch was better. pray tell it cant be worse.

anji

By: indischeschlang

indischeschlang — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:04:02 +0000

I thought the second set of shorts were pretty week as to story/acting but were technically well made - the last one (6 feet in 7 minutes) was funny and that kid deserves more work esp in non-Indian movies. he could be the indian seth green.

as for celebrity sightings - add mario van peeples (he is married/involved? with indian gal), anoushka shankar and karsh kale.

i thought "water" was filmed well but story was lacking. "widow colony" was very good. i thought the selection of movies/shorts/docs was a bit weak overall - the festival was organized very well but there weren't too many selections i was eager to see, esp when you compare to other festivals in US/UK and Canada.

BTW - if anyone who works for the festival reads this - note we indians need more than 4 pieces of chicken makhani, one spoonful of sag and three grains of rice when we eat a $60 party!

By: Deepa

Deepa — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 05:58:08 +0000

Saw the second showing of the second group of shorts this afternoon. The quality of most of them far surpassed anything I had been expecting. I wish I could have attended more of the festival! Did anyone see “Dombivili Fast” and how was it?

By: Olinda

Olinda — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 23:51:12 +0000

Abhi, thanks for validating what I suspected. I passed on a screening at the Asia Society last night because, just a fortnight after being underwhelmed by "Being Cyrus", I thought "Parzania" was just one too many off-beat-movies-about-Parsis-starring-Naseeruddin-Shah in less than a month.

Meena, interestingly enough, Deepa Mehta said this week that one of the reasons she was so pleased with Sarala, the young Sri Lankan girl to play the nine-year-old widow in "Water", was because of all the child actors she saw in India, they over-emoted all over the place, something she chalked up to being influenced by so many TV soaps and Bollywood movies.

By: nofixedadderess

nofixedadderess — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 06:24:56 +0000

doctor.chattop,

is it you chatto?the one with the institute record??

By: Pattie Kaur

Pattie Kaur — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 05:39:45 +0000

pk, thanks for the widow colonies link. it looks to be incredible.

By: J to the S

J to the S — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 23:04:16 +0000

The film, if you can call it that, made me want to hurl and stab my eyes with hot pokers....at the same time.

We should have peaced and snuck into Scary Movie 4. For realz.

By: desiCynic

desiCynic — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:54:07 +0000

It is very fashionable to talk about minorities being killed (and inflating the numbers by a factor of 10), but not at all fashionable to talk about the 500000 Hindus massacred in Kashmir

sigh Paging Rakesh Sharma, i guess.

By: Savya

Savya — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:30:59 +0000

It is very fashionable to talk about minorities being killed (and inflating the numbers by a factor of 10), but not at all fashionable to talk about the 500000 Hindus massacred in Kashmir, or the millions made refugees and driven away from their own land!

But this is the way of the "intellectuals", the neo-colonistic "liberal youth", ay?