Nutan mania
I've decided to become a full-fledged promoter of Nutan! Below you'll find pictures of her I've collected since I've started watching films with her. For those who are fed up with her, you can go here (for example!)
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I'm a French lover of Indian cinema, but I'm also interested in literature, science, art, and reflection in general. This blog will reflect these tastes more or less!
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- Carla's blog Filmigeek
- Beth loves Bollywood
- A2line's Bollyblog
- Amodini's movie reviews
- Anu's conversations over chai
- Daddy's girl's Dharmendra praise blog
- The fabulous Pitu
- Harvey's blog
- Satyam's blog
- Shweta's Apni EA Company
- Julie and Jenny's Diablog
- Post-punk CC
- Nida's Bitten by Bollywood
- Sanni's So they dance
- Stephen 's Bollywood banter
- Blissful Nirvana
- Maria's Filmiholic
- Philip Lutgendorf 's fil-ums
- Darshit's dunkdaft
- Ajnabi's Paisa Vasool - or not
- Shell's Bollyworld
- The BollywoodFan
- Alan's Bellevue to Bollywood
- Pessimisissimo's Exotic entertainment
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- Their hands can see: Sparsh
- Peepli live: long live the media!
- Subarnarekha, Ritwick Ghatak's ode to Life
- Chhalia, Nutan's contribution to the Indo-pakistani peace process
- Mera Naam Joker: too big? Too much?
- Kanchanjungha, the moment of revelation
- Dhobi ghat, looking for a new centre
- Yeh raate, yeh mausam
- Ram teri Ganga maili, RK's last opus
- Abhijan, a remarkable moral fable
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Vendredi 13 août 2010
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Bonjour! Aujourd'hui vendredi 13 aout, nous sommes à Udaipur, sous la mousson, qui nous a fait rebrousser chemin puisque nous avions quitté la ville pour aller dormir à Ranakpur (à vos cartes!), mais l'hotel a telephone alors que nous sortions de Udaipur, pour nous dire de ne pas venir, car une riviere avait gonflé jusqu'à 1,20 m de hauteur, un car de touristes s'etant fait pieger dans la crue! Je suis converti au telephone portable! Donc demain, on prend les nouvelles pour savoir si la pluie a baissé, ou si on doit passer par un autre endroit (dusra jagah se, allez, un peu de hindi!) Et la destination: Jodhpur, plein de "pur" par ici! dont on devra partir plus tôt, parce que le pqssage […]
Lundi 9 août 2010
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Bonjour a tous! (c'est vraiment enervqnt d'ecrire avec un clavier indo-je ne sais quoi!) Bon, donc apres un jour assez eprouvant a Delhi, tres chaud, tres bruyant etc., on est parti pour l'"Ulta Pradesh" - corruption amusante d'uttar pradesh, l'etat ou se trouve Agra et le Taj Mahal, et on a pu voir en quoi la conduite apprise en France ou en Europe ne sert a rien ici: tout le monde conduit a l'indienne, avec des regles a faire hurler n'importe quel chauffard parisien... Bref, on passe voir la tombe d'Humayan, grandiose, puis ayant quitté Delhi, on a foncé jusqu' Agra pour etre plongés dans le festival de Shiva TOUTE LA NUIT!! Des foules sorties tout droit d'un enfer de Awara (je […]
Samedi 7 août 2010
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Bonjour a tous, Je n'arrive pas a envoyer de message depuis ma messagerie Orange sur la becane de ce cybercafe... Alors en desespoir de cause, je mets un post ici: que ceux qui le lisent veuillent bien avertir les parents de Frederique, notamment! Donc: Juste pour vous dire que nous sommes bien arrives et que tout se passe bien pour l'instant! Nous avons fait le voyage avec prevu avec Akshay (mon eleve de l'INSA), et nous avons rencontre Manjeet alias Lucky comme prevu a l'aeroport. On est deja alle faire un tour avec sa Tata Indigo dans la bruyante Delhi, chaude et grouillante! Ouf! la douche au retour etait la bienvenue! On vous embrasse tous, faites passer le message a tous ceux dont […]
Jeudi 5 août 2010
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This isn't going to be a review of David Lean's famous movie, and my English-speaking readers will have to put up with a bit of French, because this blog is temporarily going to be used as a travelblog for my upcoming trip to India, starting this Friday! Thanks and sorry! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bonjour à tous, Voici donc la première page de reportage de notre voyage en Inde du Nord, qui doit commencer vendredi prochain, mais dont la préparation a bien sûr débuté il y a un bout de temps ! Nous partons à 4, Frédérique et moi, Vincent et Joseph, pour aller retrouver Matthieu et Margot, dont certains ont peut-être déjà […]
Mercredi 4 août 2010
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My quest into Bollywood classical beauties makes me stumble on great stuff sometimes. Sometimes not: for example, I recently watched Ram aur Shyam and found it a letdown: the famed “best film that cannot be made again” (according to one IMDb user) was not much more than a passable entertainer. Still, pursuing my Waheeda Rehman quest, with Solva Saal (Raj Khosla, 1958), the pleasure level was high, and Waheeda a beautiful marvel. One is right to dig further, even if the first layer has proved disappointing! The film’s story, is perfectly told by Memsaab (thanks Greta) so please go read, she really does that well! If you know It happened one night, by Frank Capra, you'll notice a similar […]
Vendredi 9 juillet 2010
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We shall overcome... Karan Johar’s My name is Khan (2010), starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol – her great comeback since Fanaa (U me aur ham being not much more than a Devgan promotional), is a movie about truth and violence, like Fanaa in fact, with which it shares some similarities. One has a double pleasure while watching Karan’s opus – BTW, his comeback too since KANK in 2006 – first SRK’s acting, a fine piece of work (more on this in a minute) and Kajol’s, who does a great job with her role as Mandira, definitely showing she’s one of Bollywood’s most serious assets. First I’ll look at the actors, then the film’s meaning, and finally the controversies it provoked. Kajol doesn’t need […]
Jeudi 1 juillet 2010
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Oh my God, why are you saying all that! Yaadon ki baaraat (Nadir Hussain, 1973) is a classic tale of revenge, where the good but separated boys who have been witnesses of their parents’ murder will reunite and pursue revenge on the murderers. It’s a not under 15 movie, presumably because of that violence, and I suppose the immorality which is described to be that of the gang of thugs. It features Dharmendra at his most feisty, Zeenat Aman at her her curvy loveliest, and the music score (RD Burman) is simply great: so it should definitely be more than a simple entertainment picture! Alas, it is very disappointing. The story is not bad, really; there is a good mingling of the pretext […]
Samedi 26 juin 2010
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A soft breeze wafts the chimney tops on the morning terraces; night clouds trail away in the East. Bustle and rumours from the city all around; calls and shouts close and far, muffled car honks, and the familiar smell of the city. You’re in Delhi. Oh, it’s a film, of course, it’s a vision. Like a memory of a childhood place where one would like to return to, but whose charm and magic are so powerful that they recreate the reality, and this dream is what people need to continue hoping. And then there is the heart of this city, there’s a "beating": a violence which can destroy it, but which is also its blood and its life. The two communities, Muslim and Hindu coexist there and, implies […]
Dimanche 20 juin 2010
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What do you prefer? A happy ending where the two lovers unite after having defeated the villains or convinced their parents? Or the sad one where love cannot exist because the tragic and beautiful story doesn’t permit it? DDLJ or Devdas? KKHH or Fanaa? Many people would of course favour a happy ending, because life is a sad enough tale as it is, so why shouldn’t one dream and unwind at the cinema? Isn’t that what movies are for? We all know films aren’t reality, and most of us are idealists who love to be charmed by beautiful stories where love is not only possible, but victorious, and can last… forever. Besides, movies show us beautiful people in beautiful settings, and what we cannot […]
Mardi 1 juin 2010
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What is the typical Western question? Perhaps this one: “Do you believe in God?” The West has a long history of belief, but also of doubt. And people from the West have long since gone East, most notably to India, to find the answer to that question. Some of the most famous representatives include Rudolf Otto and Mircea Eliade who both travelled to India and both wrote about the religious dimension as essential to man. And so when James Ivory shoots The Householder in 1963, he is following a well-travelled path, which many more people, flowery or otherwise, will also take in the wake of the hippie movement during the sixties. “Spiritual India” is a cliché of course, but when you’re […]
Jeudi 27 mai 2010
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The reluctant fundamentalist is a strange and powerful little book. It’s clearly got some autobiographical elements in it, and because of that has manage to net some darting fishes of life that jump and flash and look up from their prison wondering what will happen to them. But the fisherman, Mohsin Hamid, has a heart, and won’t kill them; on the opposite, he’s willing to let them go back to their immense liquid world after he’s used their magic. So the reader watches this magic operate, and marvels at the freshness of the scenes, the clarity of the feelings, the truth of the colours. So gentle is this fisherman – or perhaps one should say, this fish breeder, because the little wild […]
Vendredi 21 mai 2010
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I decided I would follow Astia’s remark, expressed in a recent commentary on Love aaj kal, which suggested I should review some more recent BW issues than Nutan and Bimal Roy. So as I’m of an obliging nature, I dutifully pored again in that cardboard box of mine to see what was inside, and decided I would blow the dust off that much eulogised multi-starrer which dates back *only* to 2007!! Is that recent enough? Ah well, it’s true that my choice was a little rascally… You see I like Miss Deepika’s looks, and I was ready to go through the two hour-long potential ordeal with this little life-saver. BUT… If I did reach the other side safe and sound, I can’t say I didn’t drown now and then. […]
Samedi 8 mai 2010
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This is going to be ABSOLUTE INDULGENCE. Veer-Zaara. Ah, lieutenant Veer, Zaara… and miss Saamiya! I think this is the movie I watched most, perhaps 4 times… Not a lot compared to some, but for me, yes! This is for me the “foundation movie”. Why did I (do I) like Veer-Zaara that much? Preity’s lovely eyes? SRK’s dashing uniform, and then (much later) his not so dashing stoop? Now that I can safely say so without being over sentimental, it is probably thanks to “Tere liye”, and the final scene, where Yash Chopra, that cunning old fox, plays with my heart-strings so shamelessly! That mixture of youth and greying age, of love, loss and justice! Shivers and wonder. So, just in case […]
Jeudi 29 avril 2010
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1966: The same year that she was shooting Anupama, Sharmila Tagore played in Satyajit Ray’s Nayak (The hero). Her character is quite different of course, but not without certain similarities: in both movies, she plays a sensitive, quiet and very feminine character whose main function is to change a man’s heart thanks to an understanding that goes beyond words and thoughts. The main difference being that Uma was a shy, retired girl whereas Aditi Sengupta in Nayak is a self-assertive “modern” woman. In front of her, the “hero” (Uttam Kumar, a fine actor with the features of a young Orson Welles), called Arindam Mukherjee in the story, who’s travelling from Calcutta to Delhi by train (no […]
Lundi 12 avril 2010
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Anupama, by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, centres around the character of Uma (Sharmila Tagore), a shy and silent girl, sole daughter of a cruel father (Tarun Bose) who lost this beloved wife when she gave birth to this daughter. He blamed her for the death of his wife, and has got stuck in this absurd hatred which has permanently traumatised Uma. But around this centre revolves other characters, especially Ashok (Dharmendra), the young teacher-poet who will open her up to herself and to love. Of course he will be attracted to her, to her mystery and her beauty, and the quintessential scene of revelation is one that takes place on a wooded hillside, to the tune of Kuch dil ne kaha: Now for me […]