Which classic Bollywood movie character do you think still perfectly embodies the enduring spirit of common Indian people today?

Avtaar : This Indian classic (1983) narrates saga of common Indian couple (Rajesh Khanna and Shabana Azmi) ; who selflessly devote their money ; energy and time for their family members.

Dejected : Nevertheless, an accident changes his personal and family fortune.

His entire family starts treating him as a liability and often misbehaves with him.

Restart : Nevertheless, he restarts his life again with the help of his loving wife and a dutiful assistant.

By fate, he makes it big and becomes financially strong.

Re approach : No wonder, his family members want to accept him.

But : He flatly refuses them and donates all his wealth to social cause.

Facts :Many elders are maltreated by their family members.

Unlike past, money often decides personal relationship.

It is always good to be financially ; but also ethically strong.

Movie has good music ; superb acting ; cinematography.

Note : 1st Pic displays Avtaar in hindi language.

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Why was the Bollywood movie "Teen Deviyan" awarded an 'A' certificate by the film censor board?

 I was shocked to know that Teen Devian was awarded an “A” Certificate. I have seen the film twice and decided to watch it again before drafting this answer.

There is on obscenity, vulgarity or voilence in the film which are the major reasons for an, “A” Certificate. There can be only one reason and it is the plot.

In Teen Devian, a charming Dev Anand falls in love with the three ladies simultaneously. Sounds strange, but this is the core plot of the movie. Dev Anand is not fooling them but genuinely likes all three of them for different reasons. Further he visits a hypnotist who takes him in a hypnotized state where he dreams and visualizes his future with each one of them and arrives at a decision. The film released in 1965 and the plot was way ahead of its time. A man falling in love with three ladies at a time can be the reason why it might have received an “A” Certificate.

Personally, I also feel that it's very important how you put up your point in front of the Censor Board. Guide released in the same year and it had a sub plot of an extra marital affair.

It was the time when woman would choose to stay in a bad marriage rather than leave her husband not only in films but also in real life. Still Guide was awarded an “U” Certificate. Therefore it becomes necessary how you convey your point to the Censor Board.

Whatever the reason, Teen Devian is a must watch film with great performances and good music. Though it is a black and white film, the hypnotized dream portion is shot in colour which is the crux of the film (some versions today have the portion in black and white). Just to add on, the film also had an English version but the print was never released. It was titled, “Oh Boys and Three Girls.”

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What is the most gory horror movie ever made?

 Braindead/Dead Alive (Directed by Peter Jackson)

Bad Taste (Directed by Peter Jackson)

Planet Terror (Directed by Robert Rodriguez)

From Dusk Till Dawn (Directed by Robert Rodriguez)

Tokyo Gore Police and Ichi- The Killer

all of them were already mentioned.

I would add two more who are a bit overlook.

The 2007 French Splatter/Slasher À l’intérieur / Inside. This Film is not only very gory and disturbing, it has also great storyline and is really suspenseful.

The 2008 Horror The Midnight Meat Train directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and based on a short story from Clive Barker. This Film has a very interesting setting and a great Storyline and many Blood and Gore with Bradley Cooper as the Lead and Vinnie Jones as a evil butcher villain. One of my favourite films.

What are the film references from which the Bollywood movie Oh My God! was inspired?

 The storyline of the film Oh My God is based on a Gujarati stage-play Kanji Virudh Kanji.

The play has the same theme where an atheist sues God after his insurance claim is denied stating that his shop was destroyed by an “act of God”.

The play itself is inspired by an Australian film, The Man Who Sued God.

The producers of Oh My God had taken the rights to remake the film in Hindi with certain changes in the plotline and an altered climax.

The Gujarati play later inspired the Hindi play titled, “Kishan vs. Kanhaiya”. Interestingly Paresh Rawal plays the lead role in the Hindi film as well in the Hindi adaptation of the play.

Also, director Umesh Shukla has directed all the three versions of the story. Both the plays and the film explores themes of faith, doubt and commercialisation of religion and blind faith.

Besides this, the Boston Legal TV Series - Season 3 had an episode titled, “The Nutcrackers”, in which a woman wants to sue God after her husband is strucked and killed by lightning.

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Which movie actors are one hit wonders?

 

• Rahul Roy : He became a known actor with Aashiqui . It turned him into a super star.
• Post this mega hit ; he never got any success and had a flop career.
• He later appeared in tv reality shows (Big Boss)

• Kumar Gaurav : Kumar Gaurav- son of Rajendra Kumar, actor- debuted with Love Story.
• It turned him into a known actor . But, he never had any successful hit.
• He later appeared in Naam - a mage hit- along with Sanjay Dutt. But, latter got acclaim for it.

• Deepak Parashar : This model turned actor appeared in Nikaah that earned him fame.
• But, somehow, he could not maintain fame after this classic.
• Although, he had also appeared in Insaaf Ka Taraju - a hit- but it earned fame for Raj Babbar

• Sadhana Singh : She appeared in Nadia Ke Paar- a super hit movie- along with Sachin.
• Hum Aapke Hai Kaun- a successful movie- is its remake.
• Well, she did not act in another successful movie.

• Anu Aggarwal : She appeared in Aashiqui - a mega hit -along with Rahul Roy.
• It turned this model into a legend for a while. But, she gave many flops.
• A tragic accident turned her into a recluse.

• Bhagyashree: She debuted in Maine Pyar Kiya along with Salman Khan .
• Movie turned her into a national craze. But, she got later married and gave many flops.
• She keeps on appearing in small roles.
• Well : Fate does play its role !
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What is the biggest movie plothole you've found?

 There's loads. I'll add to this as they come to me.

First that pops into my head is Alien.

They were heading so far out into space the crew needed to be put into suspended animation for the duration. Yet one of the crew was an android so lifelike that it passed for human. None of the crew knew he was an android until he was torn apart.

The most obvious question is: why didn't the mining company just use androids? Why bother with the cost and hassle of a human crew when androids would be more efficient, stronger, work harder, more intelligent, wouldn't be paid and presumably not need food.

Another movie, another plothole. Three, in fact.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

1. Indiana Jones swims over and climbs aboard a U-Boat which then, for no reason, putters across the Mediterranean not bothering to submerge despite the Nazis trying to hide what they're doing or carrying.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – The Nazi Submarine – A Steven Spielberg Film

Indeed, if the nazis at around the 4-minute mark of the above clip are to be believed, they did in fact submerge. You can hear them say, “Tauchen, Tauchen das Uboot!” (“Dive, dive the Uboat!) I know he's Indiana Jones but surely even he can't hold his breath for that long!

2. If Indiana hadn't snuck onto the submarine, the Nazis wouldn't have opened the Ark until safely back in Berlin. In which case this:

Would have been Hitler. Indiana Jones' hubris resulted in WWII, the Holocaust and the deaths of an estimated 80 million. He's not a hero, he's an utter c**t.

3. The Ark of the Covenant is this incredibly powerful, destructive weapon that comes from God himself and is capable of destroying everyone within range…but only if you look at it. Close your eyes and it can't kill you. Is God a toddler with whom you can play that game where you close your eyes and say, “Where's god? Where's god? There he is!”

Another couple I just thought of:

Citizen Kane

There was no one in his room when he utters, “Rosebud” and drops the snowglobe.

Citizen Kane snow globe

So how is it possible that a newsreporter is assigned to investigate and decipher his dying words?

Batman: The Dark Knight

First shot we have of The Joker is this one:

Which means he's standing in broad daylight on a busy city crossroad in full joker make-up. Okay, not a plothole but just silly.

The plothole is the bank robbery. Every man has their own specific job to do that they need to do in order with one other of the team with them, who then kills them and goes off to do their specific task with another team member who then kills him, up until we get to the Joker who is about to be killed but is saved by the bus reversing in at high speed right where Joker's would-be killer is standing.

Anyone else see the problem with this?

The Joker had to assemble a team of highly experienced bank robbers who all have specialist skills yet did not know each other. In addition, each of these men were also cold-blooded killers who were easily convinced to kill their own (being a bank robber does not necessarily mean being a murderer). On top of of this, despite being extremely skilled in bank robbery and being heartless killers and double-crossers, they were none too bright. None of them stopped to think, “wait a minute: if I am to kill that guy after he has killed that other guy, after he has killed that other guy, might it be possible that this bloke standing next to me has been told to kill me after I've completed my job?”

Despite being so well trained, they also either did not train together or, if they did, never let on to each other their secret mission to kill.

At the end of the scene, the Joker had to rely on his killer not to shoot him earlier, to be standing in the exact spot the bus hits, for the bus to bust through at that exact time, and for the bus to be able to break through the bank wall.

Statistically this fails. Joker had to assemble a crew who were: Extremely experienced, did not know each other, were not friends, could be convinced to kill each other, did not talk to each other, were happy to be hired by someone they did not know and never meet, and were not bright enough to analyse their situation. And, iirc, Gordon (or someone) says that The Joker has done this several times. Which means he has repeatedly assembled a team of experienced killer bank robbers whom he then wipes out each time he robs a bank. You would think after the 2nd or 3rd time this happened, the bank robbers in Gotham would baulk at the next anonymous phone call requesting their services to rob and kill.

There were so many holes in the bank robbery scene it became farcical. It was obviously written in order to make us all think how 'awesomecool' The Joker is. Which is not good storytelling or filmmaking.

What was Amrish Puri's first and last movie?

 Amrish Puri’s has acted totally in 450 films, his first appearance happened in 1955 in an unrecognisable or in an unimportant charachter in the film Bhai-Bhai in which he did the role of a goon.

It surprises that such an iconic figure of Bollywood did very small unimportant roles in several films in the early 1970. Amrish Puri didn't even have proper dialogues in many films. In the 1970’s film Prem Pujari he had a small role of Jerry, a hench man. In this film his brother Madan Puri also acted.

In 1971 he did a supporting role of Rehmat Khan in Sunil Dutt's film Reshma Aur Shera.

Amrish Puri had struggled very much in his early career before he established himself as an iconic villain of Bollywood. In his 50s he got the opportunity to act as a main villain in the films. Throughout 1970s he appeared as an associate to main villain.

For the first time he received wider recognition in 1980s film Hum Paanch in which he performed as a main villain for the first time. He did the role of Thakur Veer Pratap Singh and for the first time his strong performance, impressive baritone voice got noticed..

After this film he got several opportunities to exhibit his dominating screen presence as a main villain in several films like Vidhaata, Shakti, Hero, Meri Jung, Mr. India, Ghayal and Damini throughout 1980s and 90s.

Amrish Puri's last acted film acted is Kachichi Sadak which was released in 2006 in which he did the role of a jailor Hasin Kairanvi.

But his another film Aahat: Ek Ajeeb Kahani was released posthumously in 2010 as he had passed away on 12th January 2005. But this film was shot in 1971.

Amrish Puri for the last time appeared in 2023s film Gadar 2 in a computer generated imagery. His character Ashraf Ali, father of Sakina (Ameesha Patel) was briefly featured in a scene as he was the main villain in Gadar first part which was released in 2001.

So, one can consider that Amrish Puri's last acted film is Kachichi Sadak which was released in 2006.

Amrish Puri had given numerous memorable performances throughout his career as a dominating villain or as a supporting actor. He also acted in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi and Bengali films.. His character Mogambo in the film Mr. India and Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom are very popular. Amrish Puri is one of the greatest villains of the Indian cinema.

What are some major mistakes of Bollywood films?

 Krrish 3:

In the song Raghu Pati Raghav Raja Ram, the magic of Krrish continues as his shirt is sometimes full sleeve and when he has to show his muscles it turns to half sleeve. Dad ki picture hai, chalta hai …

Maine Pyar Kiya:

There is a smoking scene of Salman and Laxmikant Berde in the film. You can see here only two –three puffs are taken.

When Reema Lagoo enters they hide the cigarettes behind their back. Here you can see that merely two-three puffs are left.

As the scene moves further Salman is shown with a new cigarette. The scene is at a stretch .i.e. it’s a continuity scene.

So how can Salman lit a new cigarette in the presence of Reema Lagoo??

PK:

Alien Aamir Khan transfers all the languages and concepts and each and every detail through this lady by holding her hands.

There was surely a network problem during the process and that may be the reason that PK was unaware about what is a condom?

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara:

In this scene Katrina is shown wearing a pink top. She asks, Can I borrow your bike?, but in the next scene when she is going to meet Hrithik the top color changes to Maroon.

Seriously, Can I borrow your top??

Badlapur:

There is a scene in the film where Varun Dhawan’s character (Raghu) threatens Harman in his house. He throws a bottle of wine on the wall which gets stained but in the next scene the stains disappeared.

Who licked the wine?

Baby:

There is a car chase scene of Akshay Kumar in the film.

The chase was fine but there was surely a problem with the vehicle.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag:

While making a biopic or periodic film it becomes essential that we do not time travel in any case.

You have to take care of minor details. In one of the scenes a network tower can be seen in the frame.

Race 2:

Saif gets out of a yellow Lamborghini and as he moves towards the camera, a bomb goes off in the car.

A split second later, the car that explodes is different from the one he got out.

Pyaar Ka Punchnaama:

This 2011 Hindi romantic comedy film, directed by Luv Ranjan is the story of three working bachelors who find girls whom they fall in love with and the twists and turns of the newly developing love stories.

It has a scene where the three friends come on a bike to a Dhaba and leave in a jeep. Continuity ??????

Hum Aapke Hain Kaun:

In the song Didi Tera Devar Madhuri is first shown wearing the saree in a Gujrati style.

Later in the song it changes as per the scene’s necessity and then it again gets back to normal.

Not a big deal in Bollywood where number of sarees are changed in a single song.

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