M Night Shyamalan redeemed himself with his new film The Happening, which surprised many industry forecasters, grossing an estimated three-day worldwide gross of $62 million.
Aseem Chhabra gives us the top films that enriched his year.
While last year was a great year for the Hindi film industry, the year 2007 has barely seen any big hits.
By now the whole world and their unborn children know Ghajini has traces of Memento and is a remake of a Tamil blockbuster of the same name.
'In Udaan and in Lootera, the initial sensations that drove Vikramaditya Motwane to make those pictures never quite travelled beyond the walls that contained them.' 'Here, in Trapped, this sensations-strangled-by-the-walls feeling becomes the movie's real tune,' says Sreehari Nair.
The film could have made interesting points about the economics of terror, the commoditisation of news and its sensationalised packaging as entertainment. In the final analysis, all the hints cannot distract from the fact that as a piece of entertainment, this mission is a failure.
In conversation with Sudeep on his first Hindi movie, Phoonk and furure projects.
It's been a disastrous year for Hindi cinema, what with us in Month 5 and not one unanimously loved film among the lot. What we do have, however, are films of unparallelled idiocy, comedies each more harebrained than the other, thrillers that plumb the depths of low farce.
With Chitiram Pesuthadi, Mysskin announced his arrival as a name to reckon with.
Brilliant cinema at the ongoing Mumbai Film Festival, raves Sukanya Verma.
'I end up reading everything in fiction, but am biased against more 'intellectual' works and non-fiction. I read for pure enjoyment, and if something doesn't interest me -- even if it is at the top of the best-seller lists -- I won't read it.'
Siddharth Anand talks about his directorial debut.
Director Sourabh Usha Narang denies his first film is a rip off of The Sixth Sense.
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