Saturday, April 23, 2011

Aruna Irani in Andaz (1971)

 I have never appreciated her more than in this one movie where she was allowed to display her potent charm fully and given enough screen time for us to bond with her, not as a minor character, but as a girl with a story of her own!

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Seventeen Again

This was one cool movie. The idea was not something that hadn't been visited a gazillion times before- no matter how frustrated you are with life, the choices that brought you your family are always the right one\ you can't live in the past, can't live in regrets or the present will hold nothing for you at all\blah blah- but the two actors they got to play the adult and teenage Mike O'Donnell were fantastic!


Monday, April 18, 2011

Solva Saal (a 1958 romantic classic)

Starring a very young Waheeda Rehman and a charmingly boyish Dev Anand, who had not yet cast himself into a rigid stereotype, Solva Saal is one of my favourite movies of the black and white era!


Friday, April 8, 2011

Victoria & Albert the 2001 TV series


If you have watched The Young Victoria then maybe you will wonder how certain events in this two-part series were depicted years before, after or not at all, but truth be told- this lavish and ponderous creation delves deeper into Victoria's early years of reign and her relationship with Albert, than the movie ever could\did.