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<div style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">Who said nursery rhymes are only for kids? Here is the song "Twinkle Twinkle" from the movie "The Dirty Picture", directed by Milan Luthria. This film, casting Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Vicky and Tusshar kapoor<span class="reference">, emphasizes the life story of the actress, Silk Smitha.</span><img height="1" src="file:///C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="zw-133ee7c4ee2RdvPCP7af7c0" width="1" /></span><span class="reference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><img height="1" src="file:///C:/Users/hp/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif" v:shapes="zw-133ee7c51354cUMd37af7c0" width="1" /></span><span class="reference"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">The duo of music directors, Vishal Dadlani and Shekhar Ravjiani has composed five tracks, which includes "Ooh La La", "Ishq Sufiana" (Male version), "Ishq Sufiana" (Female version), "Honeymoon Ki Raat" and "Twinkle Twinkle”. Rajat Aroraa, who has been the script-writer for the films Taxi No9 2 11(2006), Chandni Chowk to China (2009), Once Upon A Time in Mumbai (2010) and The Dirty Picture (2011), now proves to be the lyricist for this film. His long-term dream of being a lyrics writer has now come true. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 150%;">“It was very nice of Vishal-Shekhar to give me a chance to write the lyrics too. When I came to Mumbai I wanted to write lyrics,” said Aroraa. “Because I have written the scripts so writing lyrics was a natural progression as I knew the characters, their feelings and situations so well,” he added. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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Amélie Poulain is a young woman who has grown up isolated from other children. Her father is an ex.military man and her mother is a nurse. Unlike other parents they were very strict to her and Amilie suffers in isolation even without having friends. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As a young woman, Amélie is a waitress in The Two Windmills, which is a small Montmartre café, run by a former circus performer. The café is staffed and frequented by a gang of eccentrics. </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><div style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">At age 23, having spurned romantic relationships following a few failed efforts, Amélie dedicates her life to simple pleasures, such as dipping her hand into sacks of grain, cracking crème brûlée with a teaspoon, skipping stones across St. Martin's Canal, guessing how many couples in Paris are having an orgasm at one moment and letting her imagination roam free. From an interesting incident of finding the memories of an old man of his child age she believes that making others happy by hiding herself hiding makes her happy and makes there guarding angel. She solves many other's troubles by showing them their small and finest happiness. Then she meets her man Nino who has the same pasts like Amilie. Artist Dufayel helps her to overcome her shyness and atlast they live happily ever after. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br />
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Miller always fought for causes. He was always keen on shedding light to social issues and problems which are faced by many </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">underprivileged</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"> people and still not solved or not even known to many of us. His documentary "</span></span><i style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><b>Children of the Secret State</b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;"> " is about the homeless North Korean orphans. </span></span><br />
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</div>Karthickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523971181456562146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-496766777416062828.post-25096477824356662292011-10-26T09:37:00.000-07:002011-10-26T11:22:40.161-07:00Cinema - Personal Connections and Impacts<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOlT9xbWaCiveOg-Vgj-7eZNW5QDm9KEA2FABoMRWyTZQ3WBz-AWHnLkn-c3cCj6kXel71LUQO9Vb03h3XXz7_1Jl7Ab_xyCH4SFLQSQYCThhy8-gFSGVUrcItUER8CnVpDicuK83pYR1o/s1600/2503505751_19ebb5724f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOlT9xbWaCiveOg-Vgj-7eZNW5QDm9KEA2FABoMRWyTZQ3WBz-AWHnLkn-c3cCj6kXel71LUQO9Vb03h3XXz7_1Jl7Ab_xyCH4SFLQSQYCThhy8-gFSGVUrcItUER8CnVpDicuK83pYR1o/s320/2503505751_19ebb5724f.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
I'm Karthick and this is my first post in this blog. Film making is my dream. By film making, I meant independent films, not the main stream industry films. I'm not interested in making movies which have commercial values. I really enjoy watching them but I think I don't have the capability of making one. By commercial values, I meant the movies which are made for pure entertainment and mindless fun. I'm always a fan of well executed commercial movies, movies which makes us forget about our problems and worries for couple of hours. But when it comes to making, I would rather go for films which share a personal connection with its viewers. Have you ever wondered about the difference between a movie and cinema?<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Some argue that cinema is just another name for movie hall. Many sites argue about this difference and some came to the conclusion that movie and cinema are synonymous to each other. But I think that there is a fine line of difference between a movie and cinema. This is just my view. Movies are made as pure entertainers and they make us really enjoy the moment and as the movie gets over, we would forget about it and get back to our normal lives. But that's not the case of a cinema. Cinema strikes you hard and creates an impact, an impact from which you can't get over so easily. Including me, I've seen many people who share a personal connection with some films. They connect their problems or situations with a film which resemble their life. Some, even find solutions to their problems. I would like to share my experience about how cinema made an impact in my life, an impact from which I'm reluctant to get out, an impact which I love and cherish. Have you ever seen the movie "Children of Heaven." ? If not, then I highly recommend it. It is an Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi. It is about two children Ali and Zahra and the pair of shoes they share in common.<br />
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