What's the name of the Bollywood movie in which a scriptwriter writes about his wife’s affair?

 The movie is Shabd which stars Sunjay Dutt, Aishwarya Rai and Zayed Khan in lead roles.

Sunjay Dutt is a famous writer who sees a downfall and decides to quit writing. He changes his mind and decides to write a story on the current life of his wife Aishwarya.

He starts to make note of her every movement and comes to know that his wife Aishwarya has an admirer in a fellow teacher (played by Zayed Khan). Also that Aishwarya has not informed Zayed about her marriage.

From here onwards Sunjay Dutt fabricates a realistic story. He asks his wife to hide her marital status and pursue in a relationship with Zayed.

Soon Aishwarya starts to have real feelings for Zayed though she still loves Sunjay Dutt.

Sunjay starts to believe that he can change the fate of the other two by his writings. As per his story Zayed commits suicide after learning that Aishwarya is married.

Aishwarya comes to know about everything and lies to Sunjay that Zayed has already commited suicide. She does this in order to disillusion Sunjay. This makes Sunjay feel guilty and he becomes schizophrenic.

Finally, Aishwarya sends Sunjay to an asylum as he suffers from schizophrenia.

The plot is good and the pace of the movie is deliberately kept slow. This psychological drama exploring obsession, creativity and the danger of blurring the lines between fiction and reality did not click with the audience.

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What is a great movie with no point?

 Chupke Chupke (1975)

One of the greatest comedies of all time (Yes it is a remake of Bengali film Chadmabheshi but a worthy remake).

It is a very funny movie with great acting and hilarious situation but does the whole premise make any sense?

Why would anyone in their sane mind make such elaborate practical joke that creates unnecessarily problems. Had Professor Parimal Tripathi ended his joke on time, Professor Sukumar would have got married in a conventional way without eloping with the girl. The whole marriage charade was unnecessary as a love marriage got subsumes as the climax of a setup.

Why were so many people involved in joking with the old man. Professor Tripathi wanted to show his wife his superiority over her jijaji but what about Asrani ? And Sukumar? At the end of the day we enjoyed the process but did anyone get anything out of the whole joke? Practically speaking the Professors spent their time, vacation daysz effort and energy and money just to play a prank on jijaji!! And at the end of it the jijaji will have to content with James as the driver!!

On a side note, I have never seen so many botany students outside this film!! Somehow all the students turn out to be studying Botany!!

What are some awesome movie facts & details?

 In the movie Inception, if you take the first letters of each character's name- Dom, Robert, Eames, Arthur, Mal, Saito they spell "Dreams". Christopher Nolan doesn't like the use of computer generated imagery in his films. So, he bought 500 acres of land and grew corn for Interstellar movie and after completion of the film, he sold it for a profit.

Heath Ledger posthumously won a total of 32 Best Supporting Actor awards including the Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, SAG and Critics' Choice award. Heath Ledger actually designed the look of The Joker himself. Kilmer's movements were so effective that Fort Bragg's own Special Forces reviewed the film, incorporating elements of Kilmer's shootout scene within their training.

Billy Crystal took the role of Mike Wazowski in Monsters Inc after turning down the role of Buzz in Toy Story. He said turning down the role was the worst decision he had made in his career. Arnold Schwarzenegger earned 15 million dollars for speaking 700 words in the film Terminator 2.

All the space sequences in Interstellar have NO SOUND IN THEM. But sound requires a medium to travel, and there's no medium for it in space. In Indiana Jones and the last crusade Sean Connery played as Harrison Ford's father while in reality he is only 12 years older than him.

The symbol that introduced us to the franchise in the first place, complete with the uplifting score by John Williams, is a decrepit husk of its former self, complete with ominous female singing like something out of a funeral. The Incredible Hulk was originally going to be grey, but a printing error caused his skin to turn green, which Stan Lee liked. Voldemort awkwardly hugging Draco was not scripted, but improvised by Ralph Fiennes.

Dinosaurs have 14 minutes screentime of the 127-minute film in the Classic dinosaur movie, Jurassic Park. The movie Birdman was shot just within 30 days. In the original Star Wars movie the dark lord Darth Vader had only 12 minutes of on screen time.

What are some useless but fun facts about movies?

 Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight has seen the film Jerry Maguire and apparently is a fan. Or, if not a fan per se, he is certainly aware of Jerry Maguire’s pop culture impact.

If this seems like insane supposition, hear me out, because I can prove it.

In the scene where Batman interrogates the Joker, the Joker, with more than a touch of melodrama, says “You complete me.”

(The Joker has one strange sense of humor.)

For anyone who didn’t notice, that’s a direct quote from Jerry Maguire.

This would mean in the Christopher Nolan Batman universe Cameron Crowe was cranking out films just as he did in the real world. It would also mean enough people were watching them that quoting them would still be a thing.

As a side note, it would also suggest that Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger and Cuba Gooding, Jr. are all characters within Nolan’s world.

What are some awesome movie facts & details?

 The Black hole in Interstellar wasn't just good CGI. The VFX team accidentally created real science that even physicists had never seen before.

We all know how obsessed Christopher Nolan is when it comes down to accuracy in his movies. For the Black hole scene in Interstellar, he brought in Kip Thorne a world renowned physicist who would go on to win the Nobel prize in 2017.

To make the scene as realistic as possible, Thorne got to work and sent the VFX team equations about how light bends around a spinning black hole. They created a new software called DNGR to run the simulation. The process was so complex that each single IMAX frame took over 100 hours to render.

When it was complete, Thorne revealed that even he was seeing a fast spinning black hole in ultra high definition for the very first time.

The VFX team had accidentally made a major contribution to astrophysics. Their simulation revealed spacetime warping into shapes nobody had ever seen before.Their findings were so significant that they were published in two peer reviewed scientific journals. They also won the Oscar for Best visual effects that year.

What are some awesome movie facts & details?

 There’s a scene in Terminator 2 where the T1000 appears in the form of Linda Hamilton:

And you can’t figure out which one is the real one.

The clone was actually Linda Hamilton’s twin sister. She also appears in a scene where Sarah Conner is putting stitches on the terminator’s head in front of a mirror:

Having a movie star for a twin sibling turns out to be a good source of side hustle money.

Why does it cost millions to make a Hollywood film?

 On a big picture it is because we make EVERYTHING that you see. It might be an entire world made of plywood and minimal stick framing, but there is a lot of it and it’s all custom. Every costume is hand built. Robin Williams robot costume got an academy award or nod.

The six roof ribs each have hundreds of man-hours worth of work.

Everything in the room is custom built including the room. This is probably the largest single enclosed set I ever worked on. For 7 weeks, I hammered away just making the blank segments of the 180′ diameter perimeter wall- a twenty foot tall truncated conical shape that is totally undetectable. That was an extremely wasteful design detail, but the Hollywood designer said “Make it So”, Disney opened the checkbook, and this one million dollar Bicentennial Man set was ordered up and built for about 5 minutes of screen time.

Alcatraz TV pilot

Working ON Alcatraz is very expensive so they usually fake it in Hollywood. Or Canada! I’m standing in an Alcatraz set, on Alcatraz, next to real Alcatraz bars and cells. The set was built in Vancouver and trucked all the way south to San Francisco for a 4 day shoot at the National Park (the whole island is the park). I was just one of about a sozen carpenters- we all got a couple thousand for the work.

Carpenters are the low pay folks on set. That’s why I specialize in effects props:

The ‘escape props’ I created for a shoot in 1991 are still on display in the “MGM cells” at Alcatraz. (power drill, paper mache vent cover, hand tools)

In house Google ad that totally did NOT rip off JJ Abrams Star Trek set… (yeah, it did) Just a little plastic model… $7,500.

Toyota Prius “jet pack” $4,000

It’s all custom. Lights and camera equipment cost millions and millions of dollars too. And because everything is so high stakes, everyone above the carpenters gets paid eye watering chunks of change.

Which Bollywood movie felt like a complete waste of a big budget?

 Ganpath (2023)

The film was announced with the promise of a dystopian cinema delaying with futuristic technology in an unethical world.

What it turned out to be was a horrible mess and money laundering scheme by the Pooja Entertainment.

With a 200 crores budget and a plan to make it in two parts by a talented director like Vikas Bahl (the man behind Queen, Shaitan, Super 30) the film only had one concern- will Tiger Shroff do justice to a high concept film. Eventually it turned out that the whole high concept facade was just a PR gimmick to sell a terrible movie.

I sincerely think that the makers and actors lost faith in the project during the making of the film. So they made even minimal effort to salvage the film. Amitabh Bachchan who was supposed to have a significant role in the film was exited in the first half itself. The technicians didn't even put the green screen properly. Imagine a 200 crores film where you can literally see the green screen behind the actors!!

And the film reinforced the belief that Tiger Shroff cannot do anything except jumping and scaling. And there was no concrete reason why the film was titled Ganpath but given the problems in the script this was the least of problem of the film. The film was as fake and unoriginal as the robotic dog they showed in the film.

Eventually a 200 crores film ended up earning a grand total of 12 crores loosing almost all its investment. I am not sure how much the film recovered by their UK rebate scheme but as one of the writers working for Pooja Entertainment said in his interview- the UK rebate scam was exposed during Mission Raniganj itself and the UK government refused to give the rebate. So I guess the film was a total loss for the makers.

What is the biggest movie plothole you've found?

 Ant-Man

In the movie Hank Pym said that the mass of the body that was shrinkified doesn't change, only the space between the molecules, so Scott Lang always weight 80 kg.

So how was the ants able to carry Scot, i know ants are extremely strong but he still weighs 80 kg.

Later on we see Hank Pym has a freaking Soviet T-34 combat tank on his keychain. Hank must have superhuman strength if he was able to carry a 32 metric tons tank with ease.

Not to mention he shrinked a entire building and was carrying it like a suitcase.

What are some scenes in Indian movies that show lack of creativity?

 Okay, there are several scenes that come to my mind. Let me pen down a few here.

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Scene One:

Heroine doing charity which makes the hero fall in love with heroine:

If the director is not able to think of a proper reason to make hero and heroine fall in love with each other, then there is one millennia old trick to overcome it.

• Heroine does some charity or social service.
• Hero coincidentally witnesses it, yeah trust me, by pure coincidence hero arrives there and witnesses the social service done by heroine.
• Hero smiles, which shows that he has fallen in love with the heroine.

I can remember several scenes in which the same scene appears.

Ghajini:

Sura:

In this movie, Heroine (Tamanna) witnesses Hero (Vijay na) doing charity and social service.

Just help the kAsHtApAdRa people to fall in love.

Am I still single because I seldom do social service? Or why, no one witnesses me doing charity?

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Scene Two:

Heroine has no role to play in the movie? No problem, just keep a scene where heroine consoles (or motivates) the hero.

Hundred examples can be shown. A few for you.

Anushka motivating Surya in Singham 1

Velaikaran: This scene from velaikaran movie is worse. At least, in Singham, the heroine got a bunch of dialogue to motivate the demotivated hero.

But, in Velaikaran, the hero Sivakarthikeyan na just vents out his grief to the heroine. She simply listens, utters no word and just holds his hands when he completes his sad story.

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Scene 3:

Villain who is super-powerful in the beginning of the movie, but doesn’t even have a shaving razor to defend him in the end.

This is the main concept in a lot of movies. Don’t be surprised if the villain is identified as the most powerful person in the continent, in the start of the movie. At the end, he won’t even have a small shaving razor to defend himself from hero.

Pokkiri:

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Scene 4:

Heroine gets captured by the villain. Hero fights to release her.

The scene can be dated back to Ramayana or Iliad which were written a couple of thousand years ago. But this scene can still be scene in movies.

Even a foetus inside mother's womb knows that the scene would end up with hero saving the heroine. But still, you have to wait until those stunt scenes are over.

Anjaan:

Vivegam:

These were some scenes that I could immediately remember. Almost all of these were from Tamil movies which I mostly see. Yes guys, I'm used to all this crap.

Image sources: YouTube.

I don't own the pictures in the answer. They are owned by the producers of the movies. Not something very proud to own.

What movie had a dumb concept but great execution?

 The Ruins (2008).

A group of friends go on a trip to Mexico. They hear about a secret abandoned Mayan temple. Being young thrill-seekers, they set out to explore it.

There's trouble as soon as they get there. The locals are at their heels. Aggressive. Yelling, threatening them with guns and machetes.

It's a good choice on the filmmakers’ part to not include subtitles to what the locals are saying. It serves to make us as scared and confused as the friends are. (I don't know if other versions provided subtitles. The one I saw didn't. By the way, they're speaking a native Mexican language, not Spanish).

Why are the locals mad? What are they yelling about? Is the temple sacred? Is no outsider or even just anybody allowed to go up there?

If the locals were trying to stop them from going into the temple, they failed tremendously. All that display of rage and hostility only served to send the thoroughly intimidated friends right onto it to take refuge.

This is where they meet the real big bad.

What's the dumb concept here?

Killer plants.

Not as in plants that are awesome at being plants, though that does sound like a cool concept; it's as in plants that literally kill.

Dumb as in it would be hard to take a plant as the bad guy seriously. To end its little reign of terror, you'd probably just need to hack it down, or set it on fire, or simply just walk away. It's a plant; what's it gonna do, grow menacingly after you at a deadly speed of 1 centimeter per week?

Unless...the plant is given super-plant powers such as unnatural speed, or maybe the ability to shoot poisonous darts at will. Which, in this case, the vine does have such abilities. Ha! Well, that's convenient. Now we're talking.

Even so, how would a killer vine look like in a movie that tries to take itself seriously? Like a live-action Goosebumps episode? A Jumanji movie?

So something for kids, then? It's still a bit unserious.

How is this one executed perfectly? For starters, I don't think it's perfect, just pretty decent.

The vine is terrifying, for a few reasons.

One, it eats people. Yes, the vine loves animal flesh, humans not an exception. Dead or alive. Clearly an unpicky eater.

Two, any cut of the vine - no matter how small - can slither its way into your flesh through a wound or an orifice and thrive in there like a worm from hell.

It seems to produce some kind of substance that makes its host numb - unable to feel that it is in there -, and, it makes them delirious.

Three, the vine can not only produce sound but perfectly mimic it as well. Uses this to manipulate people.

It can move around fast (otherwise none of this will work). Four, it seems to know when its being watched, or when someone can see it, so it mostly moves in the dark or out of our sight.

And five, like the Cordyceps fungi, it seems to be able to control the actions of its host, to some extent.

The locals have set up camp surrounding the temple and seem to be on guard for when they come down.

The friends are trapped. Given their reception of them, the friends don't exactly think they'll be greeted with warm hugs if they relent.

Plus, it's already a bad sign that none of those locals will put one foot anywhere near the structure.

It doesn't really scare me as much it just thoroughly disgusts me, the vine. It proves itself to be a formidable bad guy, however.

I read a good theory that says the locals weren't trying to scare the friends away; they were trying to force them onto the temple and keep them there, giving enough time to the vine to feast as it pleases.

Maybe they are not necessarily scared of it; maybe they are its caretakers, ensuring that everyone but their own people keeps its hunger sated. It could be anything from a pet to a god to them.

Still, the fact that the vine can live in a person and perhaps thrive elsewhere - wherever that person goes to - suggests the locals were trying to stop it from spreading this way.

Perhaps they were trying to save everybody else all along, and keep the vine restricted to the temple.