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SO I WATCHED SOME STUFF AND THEN THINGS CAME INTO MY HEAD AND THESE ARE THOSE THINGS AS WORDS

Jalaibee Dear Pakistan, you don’t make films very often, so next time you do, please make sure that you have something, ANYTHING, to say.

Tamiluku En Ondrai Aluthavum Was this film trying to make some existential statement about the nature of digital communication, or was it actually just a bunch of cool stuff happening? Margarita With A Straw A very, very special film and a narrative that shouldn't have needed to leave India to make it’s point.

Valiyavan The most retarded story of the cinematic year and the most retardley sexy Silk Smitha-esque dance sequence from Andrea Jeremiah; kind of impossible to not embrace this as a masterpiece of filmmaking. Komban The total lack of any point  to this film made me wonder how good the ‘rural’ movies of the 2000s actually were and how much of it was just novel voyeurism.

Nannbenda If you want a watch a stupid comedy without five awesome songs, no needlessly complicated and unnecessary dramatic plot twists involving murder and prison breaks, and no Nayantara wearing the fuck out of some thigh-high boots, then piss off and watch a Will Ferrell movie and let me enjoy this ridiculousness in peace.

Gun & Goal I thought this would be about the role of sport in combating the youth drug crisis in rural Punjab but it was actually a really pathetically made sub-standard TV drama that made me want to hug a dvd of Punjab 1984 and weep.

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! I mean yeah, this was an intelligently made and entertaining piece of cinema but....meh. Haram There is a flashback scene in the film where after all the guests have left a dinner party, the husband asks his wife why she joked about his teenage political ideologies in front of all their friends. He is deeply embarrassed and angry. She is in shock at the ease with which he took offence. We never see the incident. We never even see the dinner party - just empty bottles of wine and used cutlery spread over a table. This is interesting writing, direction and filmmaking. The camera lingers on moments that other stories would miss completely. It makes a mess out of a lot of things too, but when the overall piece is so deliciously meaty, why complain? 

Leather Life For me, the most confusing thing about this experience was not asking how yet another film was produced on this topic and why it’s so badly made its actually offensive to the victims of 1984, but what this great warrior of Sikkhi is doing with such a neatly trimmed crew-cut under his dastaar!

Oru Vaddakan Selfie The Malayalam film press refer to this type of thing as a “decent family entertainer” because they have such a heightened sense of cinema that even truly awesome nuggets of storytelling like this are totally regular for them.

Nanak Shah Fakir A dull but ultimately lovely ghazal in the form of a film; there is literally no offence to be taken from this, you bunch of fools. Mr. X The fat guy from All India Bakchod was in this movie which is CONFIRMATION that this is not meant to be taken seriously and is just Bollywood’s very own brand of intentionally terrible exploitation film. I adored this heap of crap. Dohchay I love how mainstream Telugu movies each have a distinct colour pallet - S/o Satyamurthy was pinky orange and this was a bold blue and green - but really despise the replacement of solid masala drama and emotion with annoying comedy.

Kanchana 2 Please don’t take drugs and watch this, you will have a heart attack and you will die. Gabbar is Back Better than falling down the stairs I guess. That’s about as positive as I can be without descending into objectifying Shruti Hassan.

Dum Laga Ke Haisha I thought this was going to be a film which takes an abstract concept - sound, smell, light, or in this case flesh and, like a Picasso painting, explores it through human emotions and makes you think about it in ways you never thought possible. But it was actually just a pleasant rom-com with a magnificent sense of time and place, where the lead actress just happens to be fat. Damn you, expectations.

Lion Makes a Rajnikanth movie look like The Seventh Seal.

Mili An interesting character study of a vaguely autistic social outcast is ruined by cheesy aesthetics and terrible symbolism involving a plastic rubbish bin in the shape of a teddy bear. That stupid bin really got on my nerves.

Oh Yaara Ainvayi Ainvayi Lut Gaya You have a charismatic cast, some nice songs, some limited understanding of colour, lighting and cinematography - how hard can it be to not make an absolutely shit rom-com? Clearly harder than you’d think.

Bombay Velvet A mighty fine artistic achievement which I may not have been so open to enjoying if the press had praised it as some “on par with Hollywood” masterpiece.  Purampokku There was a time when I would have gone gaga over a proudly communist, anti-establishment, subaltern film like this, regardless of its quality, but I just wished the film-makers had learnt as much from Satyajit Ray as they did from Lenin. Maybe I’m getting old.

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Thoughts on Pakistani cinema

My hope for the Pakistani film industry rises and then drops. 

Na Maloom Afraad was whatever. It made a $260,000 profit (which is not bad for Pakistani films). 

Jalaibee was so so soooooo incredibly stupid and it was a huge flop as well. The film lost $370,000.

The upcoming movie Ho Mann Jahaan turned me off just with the trailer. It looked fun, but Mahira Khan’s lip-syncing throughout the movie looked so unnatural. The actual singer’s voice didn’t match her at all. 

I think the only movies that were good were:

Bol

Dukhtar

Waar

Each of these movies had such a great message, especially Bol! I understand when Pakistani celebrities say to go watch Pakistani films and support their industry, but ugh some films are so hard to enjoy. I just hope Pakistani cinema continues to create movies with great messages (like Bol) and stops with item songs. 

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Sabeeka Imam on a roll! Wearing a stunning custom made dress by Mohsin Ali for Sana Safinaz at her movie (Jalaibee)’s premiere! 

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Waiting for “ Jalaibee ”? One Day To Go!!!

Waiting for “ Jalaibee ”? One Day To Go!!!

Awaited Pakistani film “ Jalaibee ” is all set to release on March 20, 2015. Yasir Jaswal’s first directorial venture is ready to hit the cinemas tomorrow. The crime-thriller movie is being promoted well. Last night, the film’s premier was held in Karachi where many film and TV celebrities were invited along with film’s cast. Jalaibee’s star cast is a mix of talented actors including senior actor…

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