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Godavari Review – Kamalinee Sole Consolation

 Telugu Movies  13 Responses »
Nov 202009
 
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(Recommended by supergirl and elnino.aurora)

Move over Vimala Raman, Tabu, Meera Jasmine, Navya Nair et al.

We have a new squeeze now – Kamalinee Mukherjee. ;)

If that stupid shit Godavari (2006) has any redeeming elements, it came in the form of the talented Bengali babe Kamalinee Mukherjee.

The young lass plays the role of a feisty, independent, stubborn girl Seetamahalakshmi, who falls in love with a U.S. returned engineer Sri Ram (Sumanth), also a good samaritan who aspires to be a politician.

After seeing clowns like Kajal Agarwal and Kanagana Ranaut in Telugu films, it’s a relief to behold someone like Kamalinee Mukherjee who packs decent acting skills.

Much of film is set on a boat journey on the Godavari river from Rajahmundry to Bhadrachalam.

While that is a novelty, the photography of the river didn’t leave us spellbound notwithstanding the paeans sung to it in the film.

Consider us cuckoo if you want but we kinda felt that director Sekhar Kammula may have drawn some inspiration from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera. The river has a strong presence in the book and the final scenes involve a long romantic boat trip taken by Fermina Daza and Florentino Ariza.

Not that Godavari has any of the grandeur of Marquez’ book. In fact none of it.

This is trite romantic shit, albeit a little polished by Telugu film standards. None of those asinine fights or silly song-dances in Switzerland in Godavari. Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 3:39 am

Amazing America 5: The Homeless American

 Amazing America  2 Responses »
Nov 192009
 
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More Americans are joining the ranks of the homeless.

Folks, notwithstanding all that drivel you may have heard about the end of the recession there is no economic recovery in sight and no end to the woes of the housing market here.

Au contraire, the rising unemployment figures is making an already-bad housing market worse.

Today the Mortgage Bankers Association, a trade group representing real estate finance firms, said that the combined percentage of loans in foreclosure or at least one payment past due rose to a record 14.41%, the highest ever recorded in the association’s delinquency survey.

What the fu*k are President Obama, that moron of his Treasury Secretary Tim Geither and their underlings doing. We’d like to know.

Getting Worse
The Mortgage Bankers Association also said that the percentage of loans on which foreclosure (i.e. eviction) actions were started during the third quarter was 1.42%, up six basis points from last quarter and up 35 basis points from one year ago.

Also, the percentages of loans 90 days or more past due, loans in foreclosure and foreclosures started all set new record highs.  One saving grace is that the percentage of loans 30 days past due is still below the record set in the second quarter of 1985.

Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada continue to bear a disproportionate share of the mortgage crisis. Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 2:38 pm

Revanche Review – A Lovely Crime Gem

 Foreign Movies  16 Responses »
Nov 182009
 
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Don’t the loveliest of movies sometimes come from the unlikeliest of places.

Who’d have thought that one of the finest crime films we’d see in a long, long time would come from tiny Austria (annual film production of Austria=15% of Telugu movies in a year).

Hey, how many of you Bollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood fanatics can even locate Austria on the map?

For the life of us, we can’t remember how or where we heard of the German film Revanche.

But boy are we glad that we made the trip to Philadelphia today to see Revanche (playing at Ritz at the Bourse on 4th St).

Of course, knowledgeable (no, not you) film buffs are familiar with Revanche.

After all, this is the movie that has garnered a rich haul of awards including an Oscar Nomination last year for Best Foreign Language Film and earned high praise from a gaggle of critics.

Does a 94% favorable rating on the Tomatometer impress you?

Folks, that’s what Revanche got on the Rotten Tomatoes web site! Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 6:21 pm

Off to See a Lovely Movie

 General  16 Responses »
Nov 182009
 
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In a million years, you can’t guess which one.

Now, here’s a bet.

If you can correctly guess the name before our review, we promise to stop using the word Coolie.

That’s how confident we are. ;)

No clues. And don’t even ask. :(

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 10:01 am

New York Times Discovers Kerala’s Coconut Pluckers

 General  17 Responses »
Nov 172009
 
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There’s a reason why we love the New York Times.

Actually, there are several reasons why anyone should love and read the NYT.

Apart from being the classiest newspaper around, the NYT also comes out with some of the most unexpected stories.

For instance, today’s NYT has a piece on the severe shortage of coconut pluckers in the South Indian state of Kerala.

Now, who’d have thought the NYT would find coconut pluckers in Pettah (a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram) interesting! Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 11:30 pm

The Road Ahead for Movie Buffs – Foremost, The Road

 Hollywood, Tamil Movies, Telugu Movies  18 Responses »
Nov 172009
 
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Tis’ no secret in these circles that Viggo Mortensen is one of our favorite Hollywood actors.

We loved Viggo as the the laconic Everett Hitch in Appaloosa and adored him for his solid portrayal of a footsoldier with the Russian Mafia in Eastern Promises.

One of the fine actors of our time, Viggo won the Academy Award nomination in 2007 for his role in Eastern Promises but much to our immense chagrin when the envelopes were opened the winner turned out to be Daniel Day-Lewis (There will be Blood).

So, it is with mucho anticipation that we await the release on November 25 of Viggo Mortensen’s new film The Road, a post-apocalyptic movie in the literal sense. Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 7:46 pm
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