27 September, 2009

Children of God (2009)



Synopsis:
A documentary which follows a group of siblings who eke out their existence from the offerings and other goods found in the sacred Bagmati River.

Director: Yi Seung-jun

Shinobi (2005)


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Synopsis :

After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans...


Starring :

Yukie Nakama ... Oboro (Iga)
Jô Odagiri ... Kouga Gennosuke (as Joe Odagiri)
Tomoka Kurotani ... Kagerou (Kouga)
Erika Sawajiri ... Hotarubi (Iga)
Kippei Shiina ... Yakushiji Tenzen (Iga)
Takeshi Masu ... Muroga Hyouma (Kouga)
Mitsuki Koga ... Chikuma Koshirou (Kouga)
Tak Sakaguchi ... Yashamaru (Iga)
Houka Kinoshita ... Kisaragi Saemon (Kouga)
Shun Ito ... Mino Nenki (Iga)
Lily ... Ogen (Head of Iga-clan) (as Riri)
Minoru Terada ... Kouga Danjou (Head of Kouga-clan)
Masaki Nishina ... Yagyu Jyubei Mitsuyoshi
Toshiya Nagasawa ... Yagyu Tajima-no-kami Munenori
Yutaka Matsushige ... Hattori Hanzou

Director : Ten Shimoyama

Kohinoor (1960)

About:
It is said that Dilip Kumar went into depression after playing tragic roles in films such as Devdas and his psychiatrist recommended to do light roles. One such role that he took up was Kohinoor. Kohinoor cast Dilip Kumar and Meena Kumari to play a prince and princess of different kingdoms and was full of sword fights, songs and dances. Its tone was light and it lacked the intense characterisations of his earlier films.

Synopsis:
'Kohinoor' is nothing short of a typical 60's Bollywood fairytale. There's a prince, a princess, an evil minister, an evil king, a dancer, horses and soldiers and what not? It's perhaps a fun watch with the family. I enjoyed the comedic moments. Meena Kumari seems to have a knack for comedy but she really does go over the top in the dramatic scenes (oh the screaming!). Too bad she wasn't offered much comedy films. She does fit the princess role. Dilip Kumar is adequate. KumKum springs a surprise as here she plays second lead to Meena, instead of the usual comedic role or heroine's sidekick. She does a fine job and she's quite a dancer. The songs are quite melodious, my favorite being 'Jaadugar katil ' sung by the legendary Asha Bhosle and filmed on Kum Kum. On the technical side, the film is okay for its time. The underwater shots are quite good. The set designs, at times look fake but I doubt anyone cares as it's a black and white film. Anyway, to put it in a nutshell, 'Kohinoor' is a decent flick that's perhaps more enjoyable to watch with the family (who know about Hindi films) than solo.
Winner of two Filmfare awards: Best Actor and Best Editor.

Starring:
Dilip Kumar
Meena Kumari
Azim
Bina (as Beena)
Leela Chitnis
Jeevan
Raja Kapur
Nazir Kashmiri
Khursheed Khan (as Khurshed Khan)
Kumar
Kumkum
Rekha Mallick
Mukri
Nissar (as Master Nisar)
Qamar
M.Y. Shaikh (as M.Y. Sheikh)
Sood
Tun Tun
Uma

Director: S.U. Sunny

Tormented (2009)



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Starring :

Alex Pettyfer ... Bradley
April Pearson ... Tasha
Dimitri Leonidas ... Alexis
Calvin Dean ... Darren Mullet
Tuppence Middleton ... Justine
Georgia King ... Sophie
Mary Nighy ... Helena
Olly Alexander ... Jason
James Floyd ... Nasser
Sophie Wu ... Mai Lee
Hugh Mitchell ... Tim
Larissa Wilson ... Khalillah
Ruby Bentall ... Emily
Tom Hopper ... Marcus
Peter Amory ... Head teacher

Director : Jon Wright

26 September, 2009

Dil Bole Hadippa! (2009)



Synopsis:
Dil Bole Hadippa! (English: Heart Goes Hurrah!) is 2009 Bollywood film directed by Anurag Singh and produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. It stars Rani Mukerji and Shahid Kapoor in pivotal roles in the story about a young woman who pretends to be a man to join an all-male cricket team, with Anupam Kher, Dalip Tahil, Rakhi Sawant and Sherlyn Chopra in supporting roles. The film released on September 18, 2009 . This movie is a country style rip-off of 2006 Hollywood romantic comedy film named , She's the man. The only difference being, in that movie it was football and in this it is cricket. Even the ending is same as original.

Starring:
Shahid Kapur ... Rohan
Rani Mukherjee ... Veera Kaur / Veer Pratap Singh
Anupam Kher ... Rohan's Father
Dalip Tahil ... Liyaqat 'Lucky' Ali Khan
Poonam Dhillon ... Noorjehan 'Noorie' Hayaat Khan
Sherlyn Chopra ... Soniya
Rakhi Sawant ... Shanno Amritsari
Tabu ... Zaara Hayaat Khan

Director: Anurag Singh

Wanted (2009)


Synopsis:
Mumbai-based middle-classed Jhanvi, who lives with her widowed mother and younger brother, has three suitors. The first is much older and considerably overweight - Sonu Gates. The second is Police Inspector Talpade, who is already married to Nandini, but lusts after Jhanvi so much so that he creates circumstances that will force her to marry him. The third is a male named Radhey - who often comes to her rescue - but breaks her heart when she finds out who is really is - a cold-blooded killer who works for a gangster named Ghanibhai. The later is a ruthless gangster who challenges Police Commissioner Ashraf Taufeeq Khan with impunity, and even abducts his daughter to ensure his personal safety.

Starring:
Salman Khan
Ayesha Takia Azmi
Vinod Khanna
Om Puri
Prakash Raj
Aseem Merchant
Mahesh Manjrekar
Sayaji Shinde
Mahek Chahal

Director: Prabhu Deva

Ek Tha Raja (1996)


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Starring:

Aditya Pancholi ... Raj / Raj Dogra
Sunil Shetty ... Inspector Jay Singh / Jay Dogra
Saif Ali Khan ... Sunny / Sunny Dogra
Neelam ... Shilpa
Pratibha Sinha ... Kitty
Indrani Banerjee ... Jyoti (as Indrani Benerjee)
Kader Khan ... Lalchand Dogra (as Kadar Khan)
Shakti Kapoor ... Lakhpat
Alok Nath ... Commissioner Paramjeet Singh
Aruna Irani ... Mrs. Anjana Lalchand Dogra (as Aroona Iarani)
Mohan Joshi ... Baba
Avtar Gill ... Iqbal
Rana Jung Bahadur (as Rana Jungbhadur)
Shiva Rindani ... Chotey (Baba's son) (as Shiva)
Jack Gaud

Director: Dayal Nihalani

Godmother (1999)


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Starring:

Shabana Azmi ... Rambhi
Milind Gunaji ... Veeram
Nirmal Pandey ... Jakhra
Govind Namdeo ... Kesubhai (as Govind Namdev)
Vinit Kumar ... Lakhubhai
Loveleen Mishra ... Ramde's Wife (as Luvleen Mishra)
Raima Sen ... Sejal
Sharman Joshi ... Karsan
Ashwin Kumar ... Asad
Anup Soni ... Meru
Anushree Shukla ... Young Karsan
Nishant Shuke ... Child Karsan
Ravi Kale ... Nagajan (policeman)
Manohar Teli ... Meena
Anil Chaudhary ... Ramde (as Anil Chowdhary)

Director: Vinay Shukla

Hum Hain Bemisaal (1994)


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Starring:

Akshay Kumar ... Vijay Sinha
Sunil Shetty ... Michael
Shilpa Shirodkar ... Didi
Madhoo ... Marya
Rami Reddy ... Tutisha
Jagdeep ... Havaldar Khadak Singh
Pran ... D'Souza
Avtar Gill ... Kaliya
Arun Bakshi
Darshan Bagga
Vikas Anand
Kunika ... Tutisha's girl
Raj Tilak
Pradeep Saxena
Narendra Bedi

Director: Deepak Bahry

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Lajja (2001)


AKA:
Shame

Synopsis:
Vaidehi (Manisha Koirala) gets married to Raghuvir (Jackie Shroff), an NRI. Suffering the agony of an unhappy marriage, she decides to run away from him when she learns that she is pregnant and he wants to take the child away from her. In her pursuit for freedom, she meets Mythili (Mahima Chaudhury) a bride-to-be, Janaki (Madhuri Dixit) a theatre artist and Ramdulari (Rekha) a village midwife - all of whom are victims of male chauvinism. They however refuse to be put down and fight for their rights.

Starring:
Rekha
Anil Kapoor
Jackie Shroff
Madhuri Dixit
Manisha Koirala

Director: Rajkumar Santoshi

Aamras (2009)


Starring:
Jiya Sarang
Pari Sehgal
Rakhi Chadda
Sanya Balsara
Zarina Wahab
Reema
Sukanya Kulkarni
Shubhi
Vikram Kapadia
Usha Bachani
Sonali Sachdev
Meher
Sunil Sinha
Manoj Pahwa

Director: Rupali Guha

17 September, 2009

Opapatika (2007)


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Synopsis :

Opapatika is a special power that makes one become practically invincible. The power remains alive so long as that person is remains alive. In this film, five Opapatikas, each with their own unique power, are brought together. They meet in the middle of a great assassination that finally brings them loss, but a new start of their lives.

Starring :

Somchai Kemglad ... Jirat
Shahkrit Yamnarm ... Paison
Leo Putt ... Taesit
Athip Nana ... Ramil
Ray MacDonald ... Aroot
Kemapsorn Sirisukha ... Pran
Nirut Sirichanya
Pongpat Wachirabunjong ... Thoovathit

Director : Thanakorn Pongsuwan

Ichi (2008)



Starring :

Haruka Ayase ... Ichi
Shido Nakamura ... Banki
Yôsuke Kubozuka ... Toraji Shirakawa
Takao Osawa ... Toma Fujihira
Kazuma Chiba
Akira Emoto
Yûko Endô
Daishirô Hano
Horiken
Yoshihiro Ishizuka
Masaki Katou
Mitsuki Koga
Usagi Kôno ... Blind vaudevillian
Eiko Kotake ... Blind vaudevillian
Toshiki Masuda ... Thug
Shôichirô Masumoto
Hiroki Matsukata
Wakako Matsuzaka ... Blind vaudevillian
Masaaki Nagae
Shirô Namiki
Gô Rijû
Mayumi Sada
Ryôsuke Shima
Tetta Sugimoto
Riki Takeuchi
Kumiko Tsuchiya
Eri Watanabe
Megumi Yokoyama

Director : Fumihiko Sori

Synopsis :

Ayase plays a blind woman who roams about town with her shamisen (a three-stringed Japanese guitar), but she has exceptional sword skills with which she fights off yakuza and other villains.

Kaminey (2009)


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Starring:

Patrícia Bull
Priyanka Chopra ... Sweety
Amole Gupte ... Bhope Bhau
Shahid Kapur ... Charlie / Guddu
Carlos Paca
Eric Santos ... Ragos
Shivkumar Subramaniam ... Lobo
Welkett

Director: Vishal Bhardwaj

Kissan (2009)


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Starring:

Arbaaz Khan,
Sohail Khan,
Jackie Shroff,
Diya Mirza,
Nauheed Cyrusi,
Dalip Tahil,
Sarfaraz Khan

Director : Puneet Sira

16 September, 2009

Baazi (1951)



Starring:
Dev Anand ... Madan
Geeta Bali ... Leena
Kalpana Kartik ... Rajani
Roopa Verman
K.N. Singh ... Rajani's Father
Johnny Walker (as Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi)
Krishan Dhawan ... Ramesh
Rashid Khan
Habib
Srinath
Rashid Ahmed
Abu Baker
Nirmal Kumar

Director: Guru Dutt

I Can Do Bad All by Myself (2009)


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Sorority Row (2009)


AKA:
Hermandad de Sangre >> Spanish
Soeurs de sang >> French

Synopsis:
After finding out a guy cheated on their sister, sorority house Theta Pi play a simple prank on him. They trick him into thinking that he has killed his girlfriend, then take him into the middle of nowhere to 'dismember" the body, only then revealing it was a prank. However, the prank goes horribly wrong and all involved swear never to speak of it again. A year later at graduation though, they are all reminded of the past.

Starring:
Briana Evigan
Rumer Willis
Carrie Fisher

Director: Stewart Hendler

Tulsidas (1954)



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Inglorious Bastards (2009)


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Starring:
Brad Pitt

15 September, 2009

U.S. Marshals (1998)


The High and the Mighty (1954)


2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984)


Earthquake (1974)


The Black Hole (1979)


Synopsis:
A research vessel finds a missing ship, commanded by a mysterious scientist, on the edge of a black hole.

Volcano (1997)



Polar Strom (2009)


04 September, 2009

Ilsa, the wicked Warden ()



Synopsis:
The movie was named as "Greta - Haus ohne Männer", literally "Greta - House without men" but in the USA and other English speaking world, it was publicized as "Ilsa, the wicked Warden"

Starring:
Dyanne Thorne - Greta
Tania Busselier - Abbie Phillips
Eric Falk
Lina Romay - Juana
Esther Studer
Esther Moser
Peggy Markoff
Sandra L. Brennan
Alex Exler
Jesus Franco - Dr. Milton Arcos (as Jess Franco)
Howard Maurer

Director : Jesus Franco

02 September, 2009

El niño pez (2009)


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Synopsis :

A desperate love story between two young girls of extremely social backgrounds who, unable to find a place for their love in the world they live in, are pushed to commit a crime.

Starring :

Inés Efron ... Lala
Mariela Vitale ... La Guayi
Carlos Bardem ... Pulido
Arnaldo André ... Sócrates
Julián Doregger ... Nacho
Sandra Guida ... Felicitas
Pep Munné ... Bronté
Diego Velázquez ... El Vasco

Director :

Lucía Puenzo