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June 27, 2013

Why wait until you are dying to start living? The message of Kal Ho Naa Ho- Miriam Gaistman

Kal Ho Naa Ho, also known as Tomorrow May Never Come, is a romantic film which not only made Naina question how she lived and looked at life, but put a lot of things in a different perspective for me on a personal level. Naina is angry at life because her father committed suicide and […]

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A blessing in disguise…-Miriam Gaistman

Main Hoon Na is a movie that is filled with disguises; mainly a blessing in disguise. If you think about it the first curse and terrible thing we see as the antagonist is Raghavan who is diguised by his mask. If it weren’t for him threatening the prime minister Ram wouldn’t be protecting Sanja, thus meeting […]

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Shahrukh Khan: A Hunk of an Actor-Miriam Gaistman

This is a video where Shahrukh Khan is being interviewed about being an actor and a star, in this case in Om Shanti Om. I think he is so successful because he knows himself and knows who he is; he knows he is a great actor and great to work with. He does his acting from his […]

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Modernization and Brotherhood in Kaminey-Miriam Gaistman

Kaminey has been one of my favorite movies watched throughout the course. It is one of the most westernized films in Bollywood; first of all it only lated around 2 hours and the whole ambience was full of intensity in the whole realm of sexuality, violence, and breaking through society’s expectations. In Bollywood it is rarely […]

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Dil Se: Everything shown from the heart with the whole passionate heart…-Miriam Gaistman

The title Dil Se, with all my heart or from the heart resonates throughout the movie at all times; everything that is done is done in a very passionate manner. At the beginning of the film we see how Amar is immediately drawn to Meghna when her vail uncovers her with the wind; he is […]

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June 25, 2013

The Shekhar and Amit Bromance: A love and promise in the most heterosexual way-Miriam Gaistman

We have come to learn that Silsila was a very controversial film because of the perceived extra marital affair; even more so it was rumored that actors Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha were involved in a real affair making the movie more appealing . I believe more so the controversy was accompanied a little by the extreme closeness […]

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June 1, 2013

Simran and Baldev = Miri and David-Miriam Gaistman

I really enjoyed watching DDLJ because it is a film I can greatly relate to. My family and I also came to live to the United States from Mexico City and come from a close knit Jewish community where it is very rare to let anyone “in.” Just like Baldev in London, it was very […]

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Riches and fame; greed and “king of the reign”?-Miriam Gaistman

Guide is a film which left me uneasy because of the manner the characters unraveled. When I watch a film I like to know which characters are villains and which characters are the heros clearly; however, in Guide there was a double standard to how the characters were presented. At first glance one would think that Raju was […]

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