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It may seem strange for someone aiming to be hero of Bollywood movies to play a baddie so early in his career – this was only the fourth film starring Amitabh Bachchan to be released (June 1971).
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Three out of three? Nah. After two great first outings on screen (see my review of Saat Hindustani and Anand here), Amitabh stepped into the wrong shoes with this one.
Continue reading “Amitabh Bachchan Retrospective: Pyar Ki Kahani, 1971”Now I know those names should be the other way around, but this is the second in my series of reviews of Big B’s old movies, so AB before RK it is
Amitabh’s second outing (for his first movie click here) on the big screen and he bagged two awards out of two already – this time for best supporting actor in the Filmfare Awards for the movie Anand (released March 1971). Watch it here!
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I don’t watch much Bollywood these days, but in the 80s, I was a huge fan of Big B, as India’s biggest movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, is often called.
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I would say ‘spoilers ahead’, but if you’ve seen the five previous films then you’ll already know what happens in this movie:
Oh. My. God. What an effed-up year this has been. Goodbye and good riddance. #FU2016 as John Oliver said. He was right, this year was a bad vintage, it drove us stir crazy – just get outta my sight already.
But hang on, dead or alive, we’d better spin round and discuss it a little, or the rest of this page will be entirely blankety blank. Along the way, I’ve got to sneak in some tributes to happenings and people sadly departed this year.
2008’s The Dark Knight is the superhero movie we need, not the one we deserve
I’ve just been rewatching 2008’s The Dark Knight, the middle one of the Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale Batman trilogy and featuring Heath Ledger as The Joker. And in the context of the last few superhero movies I’ve seen (Suicide Squad, Batman V Superman and yes even Civil War) all crude eye-popping popcorn-fodder, The Dark Knight is Citizen Kane meets The Godfather.
Let me explain.
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Shah Rukh Khan both as a movie superstar and his deranged young look-a-like fan
007 is not everyman (or woman) and never should be
I do remember the original TV series, in the same way I just about recall the 1960s Mission Impossible series. Straight up I have to say I really enjoyed this big screen reboot of The Man from Uncle. But here are three things I have to get off my chest about it.
