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By: Supremely Sublime Movies of 2009 – Part 1 | Dappan Koothu

Supremely Sublime Movies of 2009 – Part 1 | Dappan Koothu — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 18:51:37 +0000

[...] going to squabble over why Kaminey was a better movie than Wake up Sid, or why Paa ought to beat Delhi-6. Instead we prefer to focus on the back of the line and movies that don’t quite get the [...]

By: Simi

Simi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:20:52 +0000

Actually I am quite impressed with Ranjani -what intellect!!
Your review was fair enough; but reading your rejoinders to the reader’s comments one feels that you are almost aplauding those who didn’t like the movie.
About the movie..i liked it for what its was conveying sublty or not so subtly(??) towards the end..khair my (bad?)choice!!!
My 60+ mom & teenage son who don’t understand metaphors so much or for that matter like or dislike a movie mostly based on the “story” part of it..seemed to enjoy it
Btw am from Delhi..& a few couples (in fifties maybe) sitting next to me were actually relishing it..

By: Ranjani

Ranjani — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:55:59 +0000

I saw the first 30 minutes of this movie and that was about all I could take…way too much going on…Abhishek Bacchan is just an overrated fat famous actor’s son who can’t emote to save his life (sorry if I sound mean!)…so disappointing, I had high expectations. The music score is phenomenal, but the tracks play for barely 30 seconds…I am so glad I didn’t pay a cent to watch this movie!

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me: and this coming from a dilli wali!

By: maxdavinci

maxdavinci — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:36:35 +0000

I gakked it form some movie I was watching over the weekend. Prnt Scrn is very handy you see!

By: maxdavinci

maxdavinci — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0000

Depends on how long you wanna spend reading my posts!

By: RukmaniRam

RukmaniRam — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:37:13 +0000

Me likey new header…
The length of your blog is 134 minutes?

By: Leena

Leena — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:51:07 +0000

Oh, btw I forgot.. very apt header.. where didya get it.. did the Indian movie board hand it over to you! Hehe.. I like it!

By: Leena

Leena — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:48:59 +0000

I liked the movie for the real cool desi-feel of it! Almost started missing home…
Good concept, but Mehra could’ve done a much better job of it… too long, too many things stuffed in an otherwise interesting collage! The songs are ammaazzing. In retrospection, listening to them over and over while driving, I think their picturization was good too.. they didnt jump out of the movie, but were just there.. its up to us to reimagine them, I guess. But thumbs up for the spirit of the movie!

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me: It’s nice to see a new genre of multiplex movies roll out that don’t stick to the old formulae. The movie did no justice tot he songs though!

By: Nandini Vishwanath

Nandini Vishwanath — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:42:52 +0000

Shoot me, but I wasn’t too impressed with the movie. Loved the songs. And parts of it. Not the whole thing, unfortunately. I did try to look it, but it was an effort

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me: Neither was I!

By: Dad

Dad — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:56:42 +0000

I am visiting ur blog site after a longtime and was struck by the new look. I also read the heat generated by this review of DL6. So I decided to see the movie today with my better half. I saw a strange similarity between DL6 and Jai ho(SD Milare). While DL6 captures the ethos and culture of Mughal Dilli, SD Milare does the same of Amchi Mumbai. While one highlights the religious bigotry of the Lalas and Mias; the other realistically depicts the sleaze and power of the Bhais. Both the movies are seen from the eyes of a phirangi, to phir kyai ke liye story chaieyahe? Does a Woody Allen or James Schlesinger movie have story line. But I felt proud of Mehrabhai for the technical finesse he has presented. Picturisation of the song Masakalli and the Id sequences was on par with Mani Sar’s standard. I asked my better half as to how she felt about the movie and she replied “not bad”.

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me: Thats more like my view as well, ‘not bad but could have been great’. Too many morals I guess.