Creative Movies of all Times

Jhonny Mera Naam!

jagmohan said:
Rrreeeee, JOHNY MERA NAAM bhool ge!!!!!

Premnath at his best. Vo Padma Khanna ka dialouge aaj tak yaad se bhai: "Kuchh to hoga mujhmein jo tumhare wafadar Babu ka dil dol gaya" or words to that effect, just before that song 'Husn ke lakhon rang'.

Dharmendar is and would remain the greatest actor who has ever walked this earth. No arguments please!!!!
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Aji Sir, ...."naam hai, Jhonniieeee" (read in Devanand style, complete with the shake of the head and crinkling of the eyes!') wali es movie ko kaise bhool sakte hain....
['Pal bhar ke liye koi hume pyaaaaar kar le, jhoota hi saheee!', the most romatic and stylished song ever....wasn't it in there!?!]....and well, you mention Dharmendra....reminds me Dream girl Hema Malini was also at her devastating best with Devanand in this!!!.......

I always thought Prem Nath was good when he was 'bad', but really bad when he was 'good'....makes sense? (well pretty much like what they say for another character actor, super anti hero Pran! Now that guy is another discussion of his own! All are invited....;) )
 
Another good one was Teesri Manzil

Prem Nath was doing what he did best, and not to forget the music and the songs. This is one of Shammi Kapoor's finest performances.

Another murder mystery that comes to mind - Gumnaam. An impressive cast and performances to match. Unlike other hindi movies where you can guess the killer, the suspense in this movie is maintained till the end.

Oh and another one would be Jewel Thief.
 
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Pran

shailendra said:


I always thought Prem Nath was good when he was 'bad', but really bad when he was 'good'....makes sense? (well pretty much like what they say for another character actor, super anti hero Pran! Now that guy is another discussion of his own! All are invited....;) )
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Speaking of Pran, it reminds me of an article I read a while ago. Some journalist was interviewed him on his 80th birthday. Upon being asked about not winning too many awards, he jokingly said that had he been born in England he would be knighted and people would refer to him as "Sir Prawn".
 
movies with a difference

movies with lot of Social values and social isssues.
>Guide
>Prem Pujari
>Purab aur Paschim
>Anand
>Jis desh mein ganga behti hai
>Shree 420
>Shaheed (Manoj Kumar)
>Hum Hidustaani
>Dhanna Jatt
>Khaandaan
>1084 ki maa
>Hazaron Khwahishen Aisi
>Aman
>Pukar(Dharmendra)
>Roja

" unambiguously the legendry " DHARMENDER " is the smartest ever jat on screen,his persona, his comic timing , his energy and zeal is unmacthed.
To me "Dharamender" is GOD.
 
Munich

[hi all,

Read an article about "Munich" by stevan spillberg(i am sure i have not spelt him correctly) few months back in TIME which was full of praises for the real life drama based on a Israeli hit squad which went on killing terrorist involved in hijack drama during munich olympic.

The movie is finally out and i cant wait to watch, any views from people who have seen it.[/COLOR]
 
rameshlakra said:
[hi all,

Read an article about "Munich" by stevan spillberg(i am sure i have not spelt him correctly) few months back in TIME which was full of praises for the real life drama based on a Israeli hit squad which went on killing terrorist involved in hijack drama during munich olympic.

The movie is finally out and i cant wait to watch, any views from people who have seen it.[/COLOR]
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Yes, unfortunately missed it on the screen and now it should be out on the DVD's (soon... it not already)...
It is supposed to have been woven around that Black Munich day when Israeli athletes were first taken hostages in their Sports Village rooms by Arab terrorists, and then a very botched German police commando action ensured that the athletes were all excecuted by their kidnappers enroute to the getaway aircraft or something!... That is the true fact, but have no idea how much of that has been shown/inter-woven in the movie!

Supposedly the movie is about the mossad agents trying to track down those very terrorists in the hope of executing them after those killers had been captured but released by the Germans, as lack of evidence!

Can't wait to see it either!
 
puneetsheoran said:
Another murder mystery that comes to mind - Gumnaam. An impressive cast and performances to match. Unlike other hindi movies where you can guess the killer, the suspense in this movie is maintained till the end.
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Was this movie 'Gumnaam' the one with Bharat kumar (Manoj Kumar)?... If yes, the movie was indeed such a cool murder thriller with an amazing guessing twist intertwined!
Imagine this: People abandoned on an island (Helen at her best with,"Aare maan bhi lo kya kehti hai Kelly!") ....anyways each one of these shipwrecked (or should I say Plane wrecked) passengers then dying one by one with a horrible death, and none the wiser as to the real culprit till the last frame!!!....Ramsey brothers, eat your heart out...you can never do better than that! :D

(loved Mahmood in this movie with the song,"Hum kaale hain to kya hua dilwaale hain!"... a comic par excellence!)
 
Gumnaam is copy of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" with usual bollywood masala added to it... Agatha is at her best in the book but the movies is lame adaptation with twisted ending... still its better than other Hindi suspense movies which suck even more...

-vinod

shailendra said:
Was this movie 'Gumnaam' the one with Bharat kumar (Manoj Kumar)?... If yes, the movie was indeed such a cool murder thriller with an amazing guessing twist intertwined!
Imagine this: People abandoned on an island (Helen at her best with,"Aare maan bhi lo kya kehti hai Kelly!") ....anyways each one of these shipwrecked (or should I say Plane wrecked) passengers then dying one by one with a horrible death, and none the wiser as to the real culprit till the last frame!!!....Ramsey brothers, eat your heart out...you can never do better than that! :D

(loved Mahmood in this movie with the song,"Hum kaale hain to kya hua dilwaale hain!"... a comic par excellence!)
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vinodks said:
Gumnaam is copy of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None" with usual bollywood masala added to it... Agatha is at her best in the book but the movies is lame adaptation with twisted ending... still its better than other Hindi suspense movies which suck even more...

-vinod
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Talking about Agatha Christie I must mention,

Witness for Prosecution- greatest courtroom drama (better than 12 Angry Men), Marlene Dietrich is more than even 120 angry men watch this movie for sure.

Murder on the Orient Express- Never liked Hercule Poirot until saw Alberta Finny do it, the movie is sheer class and involves a murder plot which has the higest star quality than any other murder plot has ever seen.

Cheers,

P.S. Thanks for that update on "Gumnaam" whatever it was Mehmood made that movie, although I forgot who the name of the guy who was in the main lead, must have been someone forgettable.
 
This thread was going into oblivion, so I thought of bringing it back.

Well I wanted to ask about movies based on partition, my favourite ones are
Garam Hawa
Magha Dhake Tara and
Earth

Tamas doesnt qualify as a movie but it was great.
 
Alright, latest updates:

Watched two movies over the weekend on DVD and what dramatic and opposite impacts of both!

'Munich' is everything that and more! What a move....Eric Bana plays the perfect hollywood version of Sunny Deol, a repressed anger style role!...Too intense and what moving scenes and screenplay! Loved every moment of it!
The best part is that movie is not hitting on any particular race or region as to their role in this mass confusion based directly on the events of the black day in the Munich Olympics (even the terrorists in the movie are shown with their eyes popping out of their heads with fear....) anyways, wouldn't spoil the fun for any of you people here....it is just a very cool movie, and a must watch! Go grab the copy and watch it as soon as you can!

'The New World'.....with Collen Farrell and based on those times of the Sea travellers reaching the virgin lands of the Americas, and their interaction with the locals....the tribal American Indians there (well, more famously identified as the story of 'Pocohontas'!!!) was a complete dud and such a super waste of time.....I must have dozed off a dozen times at least while it was still falshing on the screen.................. It is being called as the next big romance after 'Titanic', but guys, don't fall for that!....

Anyways Ciaos for now, hopefully will be back with more stuff...........and more movies! :D
 
Rangeeeelllaaaaa

Rangeela is definitely my favourite bollywood masala movie. Never seen so much of entertainment presented in such realistic setting with such strong characters. The movie came in 1995 and is still timeless, who knew Urmila could be so hot and Amir so funny. Rangeeellllaaaaa Re:)
 
sansanwalamit said:
Rangeela is definitely my favourite bollywood masala movie. Never seen so much of entertainment presented in such realistic setting with such strong characters. The movie came in 1995 and is still timeless, who knew Urmila could be so hot and Amir so funny. Rangeeellllaaaaa Re:)
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haan yaar ,,, rangeela is all time fav......:)
 
"Arth" for me and the song....Jhuki-jhuki si nazar bekrar hai ke nahi....tu apney dil ki jawan dhaddkano ko gin ke bata....tujhey bhi apney pe ye aitbaar hai ke nahi....the movie and this song is amazing....:)
 
Middle of the road movies

Hey I am rather a late enry to this thread and had not time to go through all the posts. Have we discusses the middle of the road movies? By Hrishikesh Mukerjee's, Basu Bhattacharya's and others, these flicks which were never out and out art movies and did not have a saleble starcast. Those immortalised by the likes of Utpal Dutt (EEEESH! Hamari Munchhey Lao), inimitable Amol Palekar, Faarukh Sheikh and, in some movies, Nasiruddin Shah and Ashok Kumar.

Dont ask how many times I've seen Golmaal, I've lost the count, nevertheless I still burst into laughters when I see the flick. Same goes for Jaane bhi do yaaron.

My personal favorite among them, however, is Chhoti Si baat, a cult movie in which Col.(Retd) Julious Nagendranath Wilfred Singh (Ashok Kumar) teaches a simple, down to earth and suffering form inferiority complex Arun Pradip tricks to woo a girl among other things. Oh gosh! For the first time I am short of words.

Then there is Baaton Baaton Mein, one of the most authentic romantic movies ever made in Bollywood. Chashmebaddur, Hamari Bahu Alka, Angur and Khatta Meetha also are part of the same genre.

I would recommend Katha as well where Farrukh Sheikh is a flamboyant and unscruplous man while his roommate Nasir plays a simple and honest man character to near perfection. Nice guys finish second. Lest I forget a great number sing by the one and only Kishore 'Maine Tumse Kuch Nahi Maanga...'

Awesome.
 
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The movie: Da Vinci Code; your take?

....and now Indian government has supposedly put a hold on the screening of the movie: 'Da Vinci Code'in India!

Supposedly the Catholics of the country are up in arms against the portrayal and suggestions in the movie that Christ was actually married and that he had a lineage!...and that since India is such a big secular state the government wants to make sure they are not offending anyone!!!..... Even though the Movie makes it clear that everything shown is fiction and it is based on the book of a same name under the fiction section, I guess that is not enough for some sects of people!!!....

Read the book, from which the movie is directly adapted from... it makes an interesting read and you gotta give the author kudos for having done his homework on the research part at least! The Architectural and even some historical facts and events etc. are so detailed and accurate that it is no wonder that the Catholic Church is uncomfortable in it's seat....who knows where the fact becomes fiction!?!...
 
shailendra said:
....and now Indian government has supposedly put a hold on the screening of the movie: 'Da Vinci Code'in India!...
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Yeah, keep hearing lot of noise about the movie/book. Didn’t get a chance to read though. Thanks for the update ..more curious now..:)
 
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Goa mein taal ho bhee ja gi to ke ho gya...apna apna tarika he bhai..koi movie dekh ke maje le ga, koi ban kraa ke arr koi tod phod kar ke...bakki producer ki investment safe he katti
 
Da vinci

yes i read it too that the screening has been postponed for a day or too. who cares? The book is worth a read and i feel novels are always better than novel based movies. But for Da vini code, i'll have to see the architectural details brown has mentioned in the novel. Tom Hanks is anyhow a must watch ;) so will definitely go.

shailendra said:
....and now Indian government has supposedly put a hold on the screening of the movie: 'Da Vinci Code'in India!

Read the book, from which the movie is directly adapted from... it makes an interesting read and you gotta give the author kudos for having done his homework on the research part at least! The Architectural and even some historical facts and events etc. are so detailed and accurate that it is no wonder that the Catholic Church is uncomfortable in it's seat....who knows where the fact becomes fiction!?!...
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I got to see "Parineeta" and found the movie simply perfect. It was heartening to see such an original and fresh effort from bollywood, the movie had everything bollywood in the most perfect blend, was certainly a celebration of Indian culture and a great story.

And about "Da Vinci Code", I have not read the book and not interested in seeing the movie either. That is because, I do not like Ron Howard's movies, I found his "A Beautiful Mind" a very dishonest movie which showed the main hero Noble Laureatte in a very false light I suppose he was better off in "Happy Days" and "Parenthood" was the best he could do. Still I do not see a point in people being against this movie, I am sure all these contoversies are free publicity for a movie which I expect to be nothing more than a mere mediocrity.

Cheers,

P.S. Here is a link for the most informative and well complied web site for a better view of Indian Cinema :)
http://www.upperstall.com/home.html
 
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