Akshay Kumar's 'Baby' banned in Pakistan. Can they stop pirated DVD's VCD's also ?

As largely expected, Akshay Kumar Starr-er Baby will not be seeing the light of day in Pakistan as the censor board of Islamabad and Karachi decided not to screen the film owing to its controversial content.

A representative of the film's distributor, Everready Pictures informed Dawn that the film has been banned in Pakistan.

“Censor boards in Islamabad and Karachi have decided to ban the film because it portrays a negative image of Muslims and the negative characters in the film also have Muslim names. CDs and DVDs of the film have also been banned in Islamabad. The company has taken a similar stance on this issue and will not go-ahead with its release.”

Now, This is becoming Regular activity. Any movie which says, in one way or the other, that all Muslims are terrorists will face a ban in Pakistan. But will it really impact? People will watch movie anyway either through pirated CD's or DVD's or Online in few days with perfect HDrip, 720p or 1080p print at comfort of their home without spending a buck.

What I am trying to say here is that who is getting impacted here? Pakistani Muslims ? Indian Muslims ? Hindus ? Sikhs ? Christians ? I would say not a god damn single person. The only people are at loss are the distributors or the theatre owners who always have Friday to look forward to for some fun and entertainment.

It is only Pakistani Entertainment industry who will be at loss. They don't see that their already going down Economy will go down further with such acts. So what will be the Circle ??

• Ban a Movie. Loss to Distributors and Theatre Owners.
• Food stalls at theatre will be empty. Some crowd might be there for other movies but there are    movies which are crowd pullers (Hindi Movies in Asian Countries-You can't Argue that). 
• Already tired and fatigued people from their Jobs who wish to have some entertainment will again start looking for other options in dismay.
• Less people out means less sale of products, less currency movement and no rejuvenation of overall environment of the Society.

You might contradict to what I am saying but if you think deeply then my points will start making some sense. Even though it might impact 15-20% of people who like watching movie in theatres but we can't ignore the impact one mind can have on other and that 15-20% of people can impact atleast 10-15% more and hence a overall fun environment everywhere.

Remember, They are doing all the harm to their own common people only who are tired of going through same orthodox life with threat to life Everywhere.

Wishing for a better and Happy Environment there..!!

Burfi Out of Oscars Race

So finally, the Oscars final list is out and as expected, India's official nomination in Foreign Film Category: Barfi is out of the race. To be frank I loved the Movie but always doubted its way to Oscars. Everyone is saying that Barfi shouldn't have been sent as a nomination at first place.

They believe that many of the scenes were copied from different Movies and hence Barfi has been rejected. For those people I would suggest to watch Departed(2006) which was the remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs and won 4 Oscars.

Coming back to Barfi, which may not be the best but its nothing less than a good Oscar nomination either. Acting was perfect, picturization was good,story was nice and even the Music was also very good. What else do we look in a good Movie? 

Some also believe that either Pan Singh Tomar or Kahaani should have been sent as official nomination, but come on guys , don't you understand how our Indian authorities work. Pan Singh Tomar was based on real story which shows how bad our sport ministry is , which can't take care of its national level players properly and and because of which they are turning to dacoits or their life is getting ruined. We still need open minded people to face the bitter reality but sorry for now. They will keep eating the country like termite but they don't want the whole world to see the reality.

Kahaani could have been a great option but I don't know what made Indian Jury think about it as not an apt choice. Kahaani is wonderful combination of Mystery, politics,revenge. Anyway its over now.

Our Indian Directors are making great Movies these days and some of the low budget out of the box movies are also wonderful pieces. So I hope that before deciding anything Jury will consider them at least once in the list.

And finally here is the list of nine films in the race for Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language film which I would love to watch to know what make them best and different:

• “Amour” by Michael Haneke (Austria)
• “War Witch” by Kim Nguyen (Canada)
• “No” by Pablo Larraín (Chile)
• “A Royal Affair” by Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark)
• “The Intouchables” by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano (France)
• “The Deep” by  Baltasar Kormákur (Iceland)
• “Kon-Tiki” by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Norway)
• “Beyond the Hills” by Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
• “Sister” by Ursula Meier (Switzerland)

What Movies Teach

Got this in my mail box so thought of sharing it....

AMERICAN MOVIES TEACH US:

1. Chinese have nothing better to do than teaching or practice Kung Fu.

2. More than 50% of U.S. population are FBI/CIA agents, working undercover.

3. The purpose of school system of U.S. is to promote basketball/baseball.

4. Aliens have special interest in attacking U.S.

5. U.S. is a place where you can meet all mythical creatures like werewolves and vampires.

INDIAN MOVIES TEACH US:

1. At least one of the identical twins is born evil.

2. While defusing a bomb, do not worry, whichever wire you cut… you “always choose the right one".

3. A hero will show no pain, while getting beaten up; but will show pain when a girl cleans up his wound.

4. A detective can solve a case only when he is suspended from duty.

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5. If you decide to start dancing on the street, everyone you meet will know the steps...

Shanghai: Movie Review

Bollywood Directors are giving new Dimensions to Indian Cinema by delivering Pieces like Shanghai. And this time Dibakar Banerjee’s has done it too. Although It’s an adaptation of 'Z' (A 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa Gavras, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos.), but the way it has been molded into Indian Political system is really commendable. It’s a political thriller, in which assassination of Dr. Ahemadi (Prosenjit Chatterji) turns the city of Bharatnagar into a boiling cauldron.

It portrays the bitter truth of land Grabbing System by Indian and Foreign MNC, with complete government support, in the name of development. So anyone who tries to stand against that system and speaks for the people, whose lands are being taken away from them without proper compensation, is bound to be assassinated.

The movie took it pace when enquiry commission is set up to investigate the real cause of death which was portrayed as an Accident. Abhay Deol, as an IAS officer Krishnan who initially was bouncing between the government pressure and truth, finally took the right side after he found new evidences related to the assassination, taking his career into Jeopardy.

Emraan Hashmi as Jogi, who is having a small scale photography business has indeed delivered one of his best performance. He is shown as normal person who is also enjoying the political show until his boss was killed while trying to provide the evidence against the assassination.

The lyrics of each of the songs are bold enough to stay in mind for some time. The songs talk about how bad things are and how our country is infected with dirty politics but still we praise about it.

While the movie depicts the depressing reality of Indian political system it also gives us a ray of hope that there are some people at that higher hierarchy who are concerned with condition of poor people and can fight for Justice. Though it’s very rare to find such persons as they end up being assassinated too.

It’s a power–thirsty nation who has the most corrupted politicians, trying to make us believe that they can create a Shanghai out of a small place like Bharatnagar, but they won’t let us know that how many lives has to be taken to achieve that. There is a Speech by Dr. Ahemadi in the movie which says that the same people will be seen as guards of the malls whose houses or lands are taken away from them in the name of development.

Overall, it’s a worth watch and also for the Movie freaks from other parts of the world, don’t let the language bound you from watching good Movies. Well for me at least it doesn’t’. I keep watching good movies, no matter what in what language they are (subtitles rocks.J ). So I’ll be happy if you can share some good foreign language titles.

Movie Review: Ishaqzaade

Some one has rightly said : Movies are the Mirror of our daily lives.

Well it all depends upon whose life is being portrayed and how much we are relating it to our lives to consider it as Good or bad. No doubt story line, Direction, Acting, Music and many-many other things are related to make a good movie but we can say that movie is a hit if the audience is able to connect itself to it.

Ishaqzaade(May 11, 2012): Just came back after watching this movie and feel like writing about it. Its not a great movie to watch, but I would say watch it only if you have spare time. Made in a small town of UP ( One of the Indian State) , it portrays the life of two different political families which obviously are not in good terms with Each other and so quite common, the kids in their respective families are not friendly either. So as like most of the Indian typical Movies, girl from one Family fell in Love with the Boy of Other. 

The bad part is that, In a Country like India we still have customs where having an inter-caste or Inter-Religion Marriage is considered as a big offence and if you do so then suddenly the dearest member of your family becomes your worst enemy because he/she defies your religion by marrying the person from outer caste and they should be killed. And that's what movie is all about. 

What I feel is that writer/Director have conveyed their message by showing that they are killed in the End or rather kill each other instead of dying from their families hand(Typical Drama). And its a story of Many Young Indian Couples who marry out of their caste or Religion are killed in the Name of Honour Killing and worst thing is, our society openly supports it. 

The best part of the movie is Music and Amit Trivedi has done an excellent job in that. Its Music keeps justifies will with the pace of the movie and the background score is catchy enough to makes you feel its presence. And some Sensual Dance numbers are also there to add to the Flavor. 

From Acting Part, Parineeti Chopra has played her character well and Arjun Kapoor in his Début  has also done a very nice job. Frankly speaking I loved the character of Natasha Rastogi as Parma's Mother who is the only decent person left in the Family of Animals who doesn't care about their Political Party. And other one : Gauhar Khan as Chand Baby who and did a decent job with her dance numbers and a bit of Acting part. Rest all characters are normal and nothing much to be looked from them..

Overall One time Watch and you can really attach to it if you read the message its trying to Convey.. :):).

Well that's what i feel. You might have other opinions and my Angle may not match with yours but would like to hear your comments also.