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In Dil Se, I noticed that there were a lot more fantasy song sequences that went outside the diegesis of the film in comparison to the other movies we have watched so far this year. We talked a bit in class today about how Amar is a naive character who is ignorant about the struggles […]
Filed by pgupta at February 28th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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The Chase Begins As we discussed in class today, Amar goes to great lengths in his pursuit for the closed-off Meghna. We saw the scene in which she even tells him that she does not like him and that he should end his chase, only causing him to want her more, going as far as to […]
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Sex in Bollywood I stumbled upon this talk show and interestingly enough there is a discussion that comes up at about 11mins,15 sec until 15 mins, which focuses primarily on the depiction of sex in Bollywood films and the audience reaction to situations of sexual nature. Bollywood actors, or at least the famous ones such […]
Filed by Amit Kang at February 28th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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Shah Rukh Kahn was known to play the part of the “evil villain” in many films before he became “Raj” in DDLJ. Personally I didn’t believe that he had that type of range. I though he was perfect playing the goofy immature young hero who, grows up when true love enters the picture. He did […]
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A quintessential element of Bollywood films according to me is the existence of some form of disruption. Every film starts off on a somewhat similar note of equilibrium and peace, followed by some form of disruption, but however ends on a happy note with the equilibrium being restored. In Silsila, disruption is mostly caused by […]
Filed by Amit Kang at February 27th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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I was very interested by the song we watched called “Yeh Dosti” from the movie Sholay and how it can be compared to the homosocial relationship between Amit and Shekar in Silsila. The song lyrics describe the close friendship between the two friends and how it will never end. No matter how their friendship is […]
Filed by kefallon at February 27th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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By Elizabeth Fields The more I think about the movie Silsila, the more it reminds me of Shakespeare. While seemingly different, both the character structure of Silsila and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream or even Othello are similar. In all of these stories, there are two heterosexual couples. These two couples, as individual people and also […]
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I was discouraged but unsurprised to hear about the popular reception to “Silsila.” While watching the film I was wondering how the distinctly anti-Bollywood morality would shake out. I think this movie lacked the predictability of the previous films, but lacks a satisfactory ending due to the effort to remove the immorality of the main […]
Filed by apayne10 at February 25th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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I have never watched a film and felt so conflicted and confused. Identity crisis: the one phrase I can use to describe Guide. Raju was a tour guide who could transform himself into the perfect guide for anyone of any Indian language…and English. He transforms from a man in love to a man focused on […]
Filed by lfink at February 25th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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In today’s class as we discussed the close relationship between the characters of Shekar and Amit in Silsila it was said that there was not a word to describe their relationship. Perhaps this is true in Hindi, but in American colloquialism a terms has developed in the past few years that describes it perfectly. Looking […]
Filed by britell at February 25th, 2013 under Uncategorized
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