Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 218

Unrehearsed

28.10.2013, Mumbai  

Seldom does it happen that a choreographer makes his actors listen to a song and they start dancing. It happened the other day with Ganesh Acharya briefing his actors Saif Ali Khan and Sonakshi Sinha. The duo was so inspired that they started grooving spontaneously.  And Ganesh Acharya was so impressed with their chemistry that now he has decided to retain the unrehearsed steps as part of the dance ‘Tamanche pe disco…’ in Bullett Raja. As they say the best things in life happen unplanned. The peppy tune is sung and composed by the UK based band RDB.

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Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 217

Computer King

 25.10.2013, Mumbai   

Nikhil Bhat produced aur Saurabh Varma directed Mickey Virus Delhi ke padhe likhe, magar unemployed doston ki kahani hain.

Mickey aur Mickey ke dost – Floppy, Sankatmochan aur Chutney computer genius ya yun kahiye computer hackers hain.

Iska matlab ye hai wo koi bhi site ko bandh kara sakte hain – internet ko hang kara sakte hain aur kissi bhi data ko computer ya phone mein transfer kara sakte hain.

AC P Sidhant ek cyber case ko solve karne ke liye Mickey se madad mangte hain magar Mickey sabzi mandi mein mili Kung Fu Chameli ke saath vyast hain.

Jiss tarha se computer ke andar hardware - aur hardware ke andar softcopy hoti hain - ussi tarha se Mickey ki zindagi mein, guthli ke andar raaz – aur raaz  ko gherre  sainkdo sankat hain.

Film ki pace aur presentation energetic hain -  kahani mein har ghadi twists aur turns hain – magar film lambi aur one dimensional hain .

Saare performances naye kalakar hote hue bhi effective hain khas taurpe hero Manish Paul aur uski dost Chutney yaane Puja Gupta.

Film ka best performance Bhalla ki bhumika mein Varun Badola ka hain aur film ka worst performance jisko dekh kar mannequin  bhi sharma jaaye - heroine, Elli Avram  ka hai! 

MickeyVirus aaj ke computer obsessed generation ke liye ek sabak hain.

Agar aapko computer se zyada lagav nahi hain toh aap ye film apne bachon ko akele dekhne dijiye – ho sakta hain woh Mickey se kuch seekh le.

Mickey Virius ko aaj ki samasya ko refreshingly pesh karne ke liye Big Entertainment Ratigs milte hain 2.5 stars. 

Bhawana Somaaya / @bhawanasomaaya

Cutting Chai with Bhawana Somaaya - Day 216

Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) 

24.10.2013, Mumbai  

From El Sur directed by Victor Erice, Florian Rey’s Carmen, Yesterday Never Ends directed by Isabel Coixet and Costa Gavras’ Eden is West to Charles Chaplin’s The Floorwalker, Praveen Morchhale’s Barefoot to Goa and Axelle Ropert’s Miss and the doctors, Virgin Talkies by K.R Manoj among others ,the list of movies screened were illustrious. The Indian Popular Film screened was Baishe Srabon written and directed by Srijit Mukherji about a detective who struggles to find the killer who leaves verses from Bengali poems next to his victims. The critically acclaimed film received a boisterous round of applause from the audience.

Continuing his master class on 3D, Oscar Academy Member and Stereoscopic Department Head of Walt Disney Animation Studios Mr. Robert Neuman simplified further the complexities of 3D technology. His talk was followed by the Indian premiere of The Little Mermaid 3D.

Crowd sourcing has two important C's in them - community and credibility. India does not have a state funding and that is where crowd funding comes into place" said Yogesh Karikurve, Co-founder of Catapooolt. Director of the movie Lucia, Mr. Pawan Kumar added to the discussion saying “I realized soon enough that my film Lucia was not going to get any producer. So, a lot of frustrated blogs and Facebook status messages helped me get followers who helped me make the movie. For Lucia, we gave people distribution links as a way of returning the money."

Bhawana Somaaya/ @bhawanasomaaya