Month: April 2018

Sanju Trailer Reaction – It’s Amazing!

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I just watched the teaser trailer for Sanju, and my mouth is hanging open in amazement.

Rajkumar Hirani is the same director who made Munna Bhai MBBS and also blockbusters like PK and 3 Idiots.  This trailer is simply genius, and I love how Ranbir breaks the fourth wall and talks right to the audience.

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I am blown away by the makeup and how Ranbir carries himself just like Sanjay.  We have 2 months to wait, until June 29th.

Here’s the trailer so you can see for yourself just how well Ranbir Kapoor pulls it off:

Bharat Ane Nenu Spoiler Free Movie Review

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It’s a solid film, and a much needed hit for star Mahesh Babu.  Director Siva likes to add a message to his dramas, and he gives us an almost too perfect political hero — but gives the fans what they want with some great action sequences.  The music by Devi Sri Prasad is a standout.  The village festival number in the second half was more incredible than I imagined it would be.  From the stills in the lyrical video, I knew it would be my favorite, and it was just gorgeous!  Really good background score too.

 

 

Mahesh Babu gives a stellar performance, especially the speeches.  There’s one particular intense speech he gives at a press conference that is one of his finest spots of acting of his career.  He always looks cool in the action and songs, but here Siva has given him some meaty drama scenes to play, and he hits it out of the park.

I wasn’t surprised at the reveals in the last half hour.  I found the plot sometimes predictable, but I still enjoyed watching it all play out.

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Pardesi in The Hindu newspaper!

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Suchin Mehrotra contacted me as he was writing an article about Non-Desi promoters of Bollywood who live outside of India.  It was published in The Hindu!

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Chicago-based Melanie Greenberg looks to do just that through her YouTube channel, Pardesi, where she reviews the latest releases in Hindi, Tamil, Telegu and Malayalam cinema.

Her love was sparked three years ago when she chanced upon Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge on Netflix. She was smitten by Shah Rukh Khan and never looked back.

Her more formal induction into the world of Indian cinema was aided by bloggers Kathy Gibson of accessbollywood.net and Margaret Redlich, who runs dontcallitbollywood.com. Apart from reviewing films, accessbollywood. net maintains an up-to-date list of the Bollywood films available on Netflix and Amazon in the U.S. while dontcallitbollywood.com devotes a page to ‘Starter Kits for Indian Film’ with posts on everything from regional films to top stars and a history of the industry.

Redlich has also written a book Don’t Call It Bollywood – An Introduction to the Hindi Film Universe to tell the uninitiated that Bollywood is about more than “flashy dance sequences and unbelievable plots.”

Glad my pals Margaret of DontCallItBollywood.com and Kathy of AccessBollywood.net get shoutouts — and even pictures!

Check out the full article here.