tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post3315660059267649140..comments2024-01-16T22:05:07.641+01:00Comments on baba aur bollywood: Backlog. Eklavya and Gurubabaskohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10409089227879159676noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-16735680291783449462007-09-23T20:45:00.000+02:002007-09-23T20:45:00.000+02:00Nice Blog - Great Writing By writersNice Blog - Great Writing By writersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-69517195480753937482007-09-23T20:44:00.000+02:002007-09-23T20:44:00.000+02:00Guru Was ok Movie - Nothing Great Eklavya - better...Guru Was ok Movie - Nothing Great <BR/><BR/>Eklavya - better None discuss thatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-41380095347012262382007-09-10T20:02:00.000+02:002007-09-10T20:02:00.000+02:00Thanks for this two reviews. I haven't seen "Eklav...Thanks for this two reviews. I haven't seen "Eklavya" yet, but I'm looking forward to the DVD. I really can't imagine that the length matters if the actors and the visuals are great. But it was interesting to get to know your opinion about this two films. To your second fil, "Guru": I think it's a great entertainer. "Yuva", for example, was not as good as his newest outing. But you like the film, so in general I can agree you. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-20999164312062096872007-07-08T13:30:00.000+02:002007-07-08T13:30:00.000+02:00Honestly, I slept thru both!!And I didnt hv a clue...Honestly, I slept thru both!!<BR/>And I didnt hv a clue as to what Eklavya was all abt, but just thought it wud be an okay film, so I had the nerve to show it to my students.<BR/><BR/>Thank my lucky stars, I'm still alive. But they hv declared they arent gonna go for a movie ever again in their lives!<BR/><BR/>;) :P<BR/><BR/>Guru was a YAWN too, yeh and a pretty lengthy one at that.Movie Mazaahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02795149371701803414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-2570650810224558142007-07-06T23:16:00.000+02:002007-07-06T23:16:00.000+02:00Hi Babasko,Haven't seen Eklavya. About Guru, you h...Hi Babasko,<BR/>Haven't seen Eklavya. About Guru, you have a point, I suppose. Worst Ratnam movie... I remember saying (http://www.letstalkaboutbollywood.com/article-5524078.html) that what the film lacked was a certain "indianness": would you agree with that? <BR/>In fact I might not have said things quite that way today, but, well, I was still very enthusiastic about BW!<BR/>cheers<BR/>yvesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-41225354912586370692007-07-05T14:40:00.000+02:002007-07-05T14:40:00.000+02:00screen play is poor in Eklavya. you are right Baba...screen play is poor in Eklavya. you are right Babasko that VVC, should have increased the length of the film, but it can be said safely that if he was able to manage proper characterization in the present screen play and its length only, then also he could have brought more substance in the film. This is not a story for which one needs 5 years in writing. where is the depth. <BR/>Re: Guru,<BR/>If you belong to India or have seen India then director messed a potential subject for the sake of market. nice topic which provides good conflicts between ideologies but then so many foolish things are associated with the films. Gujarati characters and songs are in south indian style. Mani cant leave narcissism for his special kind of picturization of songs and hence film does not provide what it shd have provided. films can be good if two ideologies are given equal weightage. both actors did well but somewhere director lost the balance and though film earned good but nobody is going to recall it as good film or a mani ratnam's good work!Rakeshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00219977021127158223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-65900770763771105272007-07-02T23:09:00.000+02:002007-07-02T23:09:00.000+02:00Hey,First time here.Totally agree with you about E...Hey,<BR/>First time here.<BR/><BR/>Totally agree with you about Eklavya..<BR/>Haven't seen guru though.. It'll be part of my Bollywood spree.<BR/>Yes, new found bollywood love..<BR/><BR/>nice place you got here.<BR/><BR/>cheers!Corny namehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13238696577375616474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-83134178096751265332007-07-02T21:00:00.000+02:002007-07-02T21:00:00.000+02:00hmm kaushik, you have a point. i´m with you on the...hmm kaushik, you have a point. <BR/><BR/>i´m with you on the, no thanx, no more of weird wigs and tarantula nestinfested silk curtains, but i want more conflict, schemeing, drama, flashbacks in eklavya. it is all just too hurried, no?<BR/><BR/>as for guru. true no moral of story it is as real as can be. but is it really necessary to glorify guru in the end? we do (or our society as it is) tend to follow leaders like guru, but i still tend to believe that we do not accept their winning at any price (nixon anyone?) i refuse to believe otherwise. and that is why i feel ratnam failed with guru..babaskohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10409089227879159676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26378524.post-56840707948134381012007-07-02T19:24:00.000+02:002007-07-02T19:24:00.000+02:00Oye, you got it so wrong, just so wrong on both th...Oye, you got it so wrong, just so wrong on both the films. Don’t get me wrong, I concur completely with your conclusions. Eklavya(Wasted) , Guru (Not quite there, yet). <BR/><BR/>But, you actually want to see more than 107 mins of grotesque wigs in dark creepy halls with so much silk and cloth that you think a tarantula is probably breeding behind the heavy curtains? Really, more than the already bloated corpse lying for a week in a pond, aka Eklavya?<BR/><BR/>And for once, art imitates life. In cinema. No message, no moral of the story punch line. Just state it as it is. Oliver Stone had Gorden Gekko, Ray had his Dipankar Dey. Not heart wrenching, but true nevertheless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com