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Aamir Khan’s ‘Talaash’ is a Slice of Life

By • Dec 10th, 2012 • Category: 24/7 Talk is Cheap - The Blog

‘Talaash’ has spawned a zillion reviews – in fact, reviewing the film seems to have become a mini cottage industry, and reading some of these reviews I feel I must have gone to a different movie than many of the reviewers. “Mesmerizing’ – ‘Amazing’ it was not, nor did I sit on the edge of my seat from start to finish as some have claimed they did. Nor does it deserve some of the negative comments spawned by movie-goers, after reading the reviews.

No, it’s not the greatest thing since ready-made rotis but it is definitely good cinema.


Prashant Bhargava’s ‘Patang’ Soars

By • Jun 12th, 2012 • Category: Cinema

What would be the best way to spend 95 minutes? I would recommend catching ‘Patang’, a small, spunky colorful kite of a film which will make your spirits soar. Made by US-based Prashant Bhargava, it’s his first feature film and took six years to make. With it, he’s thrown filmi convention to the winds – going off on a limb, using hand-held cameras, no storyboards and mostly non-actors.

The little film has won big praise, showing at The Berlin Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and scores of other festivals. I think the biggest compliment one can pay ‘Patang’ is that you forget it’s a movie, that it’s all been ‘shot’. ‘Patang’ is the real life of small towns, the intricacies of familial bonds and the joy of small moments shared together.