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Déjà les souvenirs!
(30/08/2010
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Bonjour à tous, Voilà, nous sommes rentrés... Normal, évidemment, mais bon, que cela a été vite! Le séjour dans le Rajasthan, avec notre chauffeur privé VIP, les passages endiablés à Delhi, et ... -
Retour a Manali
(24/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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Bonjour a tous, Pas de photos pour ce post, desole, j'ai laisse l'appareil au "cottage" ou nous loge "Himalayan Adventurers", l'agence de trek avec qui nous sommes partis faire la rando. Donc nous ... -
2eme partie du voyage
(19/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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Bonjour a tous, Apres quelques difficultes de connection pour vous tenir au courant de nos vacances, voici quelques nouvelles fraiches! Notre tour du Rajasthan est fini, mais nous l'avons ecourte ... -
Allers et venues au Rajathan
(13/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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Bonjour! Aujourd'hui vendredi 13 aout, nous sommes a Udaipur, sous la mousson, qui nous a fait rebrousser chemin puisque nous avions quitte la ville pour aller dormir a Ranakpur (a vos cartes!), ... -
La couronne et les singes
(09/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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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 ... -
Arrivee a Delhi!!!
(07/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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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 ... -
A passage to India - mine!
(05/08/2010
publié dans : Trip to India
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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 ... -
Solva saal, a tale of stolen pleasure!
(04/08/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
My name is Khan, or: what can blunt truth achieve?
(09/07/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
Yaadon ki baaraat: classics can also be bland
(01/07/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
The city with a beating heart: Delhi 6
(26/06/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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, ... -
Dulhan ek raat ki: is tragedy more beautiful than comedy?
(20/06/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
The Householder: does "spiritual India" mean anything?
(01/06/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
The reluctant fundamentalist
(27/05/2010
publié dans : Book reviews
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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 ... -
Om Shanti Omy Gawd!
(21/05/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
Why aren't there more Nutan fans?
(13/05/2010
publié dans : letstalkaboutbollywood
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As unofficially self-proclaimed supporter and glorifier of Nutan, I am proud to admit within the very close circle of Nutan worshippers Sharmi, whose site is devoted to pastime movies, and ... -
Those movies that shaped my beginnings and which I never reviewed
(08/05/2010
publié dans : letstalkaboutbollywood
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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 ... -
Nayak (1966), the distant star
(29/04/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
Anupama, where the dream-fairies slumber
(12/04/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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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 ... -
Love aaj kal, a vindication of the past?
(07/04/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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For once I thought I’d jump back to the present and enjoy a little contemporary Bollywood. So I pored in my box of unwatched movies and saw Love aaj kal (Imtiaz Ali, 2009) with the alluring eyes ... -
Manzil (1960), a photographer's camera obscura
(31/03/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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Manzil (Mandi Burman, 1960) was a partial disappointment. Not that I had so much to expect from a film that I didn’t know before, and that I just got hold of because of Nutan. But it starts ... -
Distant thunder, or how Ray recreates the World
(21/03/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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Ashani Sanket, shot by Satyajit Ray in 1973 is again one of those movies people lift to the skies, but for which you have to wonder why what they find so important or interesting in it is so vague ... -
Family Matters
(16/03/2010
publié dans : Book reviews
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T here are two « mysteries » in Rohinton Mistry’s 2002 novel Family Matters. One concerns the character of Nariman Vakeel, the 79 year old Professor suffering from Parkinson and osteoporosis, who ... -
Provoked, a battle for battered women's freedom
(07/02/2010
publié dans : film reviews
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Strange that it was Jagmohan Mundhra (of the fame of Sexual Malice and other cheap erotic thrillers) who was fortunate enough to have been able to shoot this story, the true story of a battered ... -
Paying guest (1957) and a celebration of Nutan's perfection
(14/01/2010
publié dans : letstalkaboutbollywood
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Paying guest by Subodh Mukherji (1957) is not completely worth its two and a half hours of watching: it’s just another 2nd class romantic comedy with elements of drama and thriller. It ... -
The white tiger
(02/01/2010
publié dans : Book reviews
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The white tiger is a rare genetic variation of the normally ochre-skinned feline that is both feared and respected as the king of animals in Asia. But it’s also a 2008 novel by Aravind Adiga which ... -
Shatranj ke Khilari, ode to a lost kingdom
(28/12/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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("Make way for Queen Victoria!") Shatranj ke Khilari (1977, The chess players) shows how close Satyajit Ray has come to Shakespearian inspiration. In this story of two gentlemen of Lucknow we have ... -
Saudagar (1973): marriage is a business, alas!
(23/12/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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I was first informed of Saudagar (« the trader » 1973), by Sudhendu Roy, through Carla and given my unruly interest for Nutan, and my unabated appreciation of Big B, I decided that I couldn’t wait ... -
Sagina: a freedom beyond politics
(07/12/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Sagina (1974), a hindi remake of the bengali Sagina Mahato, shot by the same director (Tapan Sinha) four years before, is a reflexion on work exploitation, oppression and revolution. The story is ... -
Bazaar (1982), or how to buy women
(01/12/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Sagar Sarhadi has only directed one movie, and otherwise is known for having worked as Yash Chopra’s screenplay writer. This movie, Bazaar, (1982) supposedly belongs to “New Indian Cinema”, and it ... -
Sujata, an untouchable Nutan
(21/11/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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In Sujata (The well-born, 1959), Bimal Roy has made the untouchable touching, adorable an object of disgust, and visible a pit of darkness. I’m not saying that he has made THE unique Dalit movie ... -
Anari (1959), naive hero in a naive movie
(11/11/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Anari (1959), by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, in spite of its numerous defects, represents a compromise between the quality cinema strain started by Raj Kapoor, and its commercial exploitation. The movie ... -
Taare zameen par, Aamir's Khan view of childhood
(07/11/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Taare zameen par (2007) was Aamir Khan’s début movie as director; and for a “beginner’s” movie, it’s a rather good one. Does this sound rather bland? Yes, I admit, from the point of view of ... -
The vendor of sweets
(18/10/2009
publié dans : Book reviews
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R.K. Narayan’s short novel The vendor of sweets (1967) is the story of a wise man, called Jagan, who lives in the narayanian town of Malgudi and prospers by selling quality sweetmeats appreciated ... -
Kabhie Kabhie, clumsy classic
(14/10/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Yash Chopra’s “Kabhie kabhie” (1976) was for me like a distant reference, a movie many people had seen and loved back in the exotic seventies, and so, I knew I would have to see it one day. And ... -
Brick Lane
(19/09/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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I happened to watch Brick Lane (2007, by Sarah Gavron) recently, a movie based on the acclaimed book by Monica Ali. It’s a well-made, well balanced film about emigration and multiculturalism, to ... -
Memories of rain
(24/08/2009
publié dans : Book reviews
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Memories of rain, by Sunetra Gupta (1993) is a dark jewel of a book, a sombre and dense memorial stone made of darkness and yearning, frustration and anger. We are inside a sort of cenotaph: a ... -
Why should watching older films make more recent ones seem less interesting?
(01/08/2009
publié dans : letstalkaboutbollywood
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This is a rewriting of a post dated April 4, 2007. The blog output is so low these days that I am resorting to rewrites! ( in fact, I’m busy with other things...) I don’t know if you’re like me, ... -
Roja: how can we love and live apart?
(26/06/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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Roja is an excellent little movie made by Mani Ratnam back in 1992, starring Arvind Swami and Madhoo (Raghunath); it was a real pleasure to watch another of Mani Ratnam’s works. His intelligence, ... -
Parshuramer Kuthar, motherhood and prostitution
(17/06/2009
publié dans : film reviews
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This stunning little movie (65 minutes) made in 1989 by Nabyendu Chatterjee, who died recently (2005) tells the story of Laxmi (pronounced Loki), a Bengali village woman whose husband fell from a ...