Facts and opinion from the life and work of Paul Carvill, web designer, UK
paulcarvill.com
Recently in Bollywood Category
We don't need another Heroes
Heroes is a Bollywood movie and a jingoistic attempt at a military recruitment campaign. A fatuous, blustering, simple minded melodramatic mess that could be called a Top Gun ripoff were it not so insufferably sentimental and unintentionally hilarious....
Posted on October 30, 2008 2:21 PM | Tagged with: heoes salmankhan preityzinta bollywood
Blogging Bollywood: Kismat Konnection review
Kismat Konnection (also Kismet Konnection) (IMDb / Wikipedia ) Kismat Konnection (named spelled all krazy to satisfy the fortune tellers of Bollywood - more on the mysterious practice of numerology and how it relates to box office success) is a......
Posted on July 25, 2008 6:35 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,kismat konnection,kismet konnection,review,shahid kapoor,vidya balan
Blogging Bollywood: Krrish review
Krrish stars the musclebound and supremely flexible green-eyed hunk Hrithik Roshan as a feral, mountain dwelling superman. He wears the expression of a gay woodland sprite, startled at every turn by his own special powers. He hangs out with a gang of children and his grandmother, a grey haired, bespectacled old lady played by the regal Rekha...
Posted on July 24, 2008 7:38 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,film,hrithik roshan,krrish,priyanka chopra,review
Blogging Bollywood: Part 3
Your next five Bollywood Rules of Engagement: 6. Actors and actresses are to be judged by different criteria to their Hollywood counterparts. Usual recruits include the ranks of the Miss World competition, or offspring of already famous acting parents. Women......
Posted on July 17, 2008 7:58 PM | Tagged with: acting,bollywood,film,india
Blogging Bollywood: Part Two
Here's your first five Bollywood Rules of Engagement - things to bear in mind before you sit down to watch the latest from the subcontinent: 1. Bollywood movies are long. Very long. Go to see the early showing at the......
Posted on July 10, 2008 12:15 AM | Tagged with: bachchan,bollywood,rules
Blogging Bollywood
A Western viewer comes to a Bollywood film loaded with preconceptions and expectations - syrupy melodrama, song and dance extravaganzas, cheap sets and wooden acting. Perhaps low production values? Scenes where the girls get drenched in the rain? Men with......
Posted on July 9, 2008 1:33 AM | Tagged with: bollywood,bombay,hindi,india,masala,mumbai
