Blog Posts by Sayoni Sinha

  • Making head of tales

    By Sayoni Sinha | Yahoo! India Movies – Mon 18 Mar, 2013 2:22 PM IST


    Neeraj Udhwani talks about his first break in Bollywood and why he doesn’t regret dropping out of college

    A script in Bollywood always comes after the director’s whims and the actor’s ambition. In the thriving film industry, which churns out more than 100 films a year, the script gets a step-motherly treatment and only the stars matter. Unless you are a high-flying writer, breaking through in Bollywood is a tedious process. For an industry where connections matter more than talent, script writers are the ignored lot.
    “It is difficult for a new writer to get a break because the industry is closed knit. You can only reach somewhere if you know someone,” says Neeraj Udhwani, writer of ‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’. This is his first solo film as a writer. Earlier, he had co-written ‘Dil Toh Bachcha Hai Ji’ with Madhur Bhandarkar and assisted Anurag Kashyap and Sudhir Mishra. In a free-wheeling chat, Neeraj talks about his first break in Bollywood and why he doesn’t regret dropping out of college.Read More »

  • ‘Embarrassed to watch my films’

    By Sayoni Sinha | 24FPS – Sun 17 Mar, 2013 5:29 PM IST

    Says Ajay Devgn on why he doesn’t like watching himself in his earlier films. Excerpts

    After ‘Rascals’ bombed at the box-office and audience rejected this crude slapstick film, Ajay Devgn came out with a statement that he will never do any film, which has double-meaning jokes or vulgarity. True to his word, he has stayed away from anything remotely corny, making sure that his family audience is happy. Now he is back in the remake of the 80s hit ‘Himmatwala’ directed by his college buddy Sajid Khan. In a candid chat, Ajay Devgn talks about wearing white keds, dancing and his biggest critic.

    Excerpts from the interview:

    How did ‘Himmatwala’ come about?

    Sajid and I are college friends and he has always been a ‘Himmatwala’ freak. Right from the college days, he has been talking about remaking ‘Himmatwala’ when he becomes the director. When he called me up, I knew what it was about. This film is an out and out commercial film with bit action, comedy and melodrama like the 80s. So it was

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  • DVD Watch: If I were you

    By Sayoni Sinha | Yahoo! India Movies – Fri 15 Mar, 2013 4:30 PM IST

    Two women meet accidentally and form an unusual friendship. But one of them has a secret

    This 2012 film has Marcia Gay Harden playing the wife whose husband is having an affair with a much younger girl. Two women who meet by chance when Madelyn (Marcia) accidentally land up in the same restaurant where her husband is having a cozy time with his mistress. After an altercation between the lovers, Lucy (Leonor Watling) tries to commit suicide, only to be saved in the nick of time by Madelyn.

    Unaware that Madelyn is the wife of the man she is in love with, the two forge a friendship for bettering their respective love-lives. Hoping to keep a track of her husbands trysts with the  other woman, things work fine for Madelyn until Lucy forces her to play Lear in a amateur production.


    The film largely belongs to Marcia Gay Harden and scores for genuine camadiere between the two women and there are a few heart touching moments which makes this watch worthwhile. Especially the scene where MadelynRead More »

  • Celebs Recommend: 'The Sessions'

    By Sayoni Sinha | Yahoo! India Movies – Fri 15 Mar, 2013 3:19 PM IST


    ‘Break Ke Baad’ director Danish Aslam recommends ‘The Sessions’

    Directed by: Ben Lewin

    Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt

    Based on: 'On Seeing a Sex Surrogate' by Mark O'Brien

    The film is based on the true story of the severely disabled author Mark O'Brien, a survivor of childhood polio. The disease left him with an iron lung and mobile wheelchair. John plays Mark while Helen Hunt is plays his therapist. At the age of 38, he decides to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapist and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his  dream a reality.(Read Review)


    Danish Aslam recommends 'The Sessions' for the steller performances by the lead cast. “The best performance by John Hawkes ever, easily one of the best performances this year and a shame that he's not even nominated. Ditto for Helen Hunt. And a hauntingly sensitive and yet funny look at a topic (sex therapy for a virgin living in an Iron Lung) that I could never imagine being handled so adeptly. One of the best movies I've

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  • '100-crore club will be outdated soon’

    By Sayoni Sinha | 24FPS – Wed 13 Mar, 2013 11:25 AM IST

    Sajid Khan talks about how ‘Himmatwala’ changed the way he viewed films 30 years ago

    When ‘Himmatwala’ released in 1983, an 11-year-old boy would go to one cinema hall every week to watch the film. Once a week, for 36 weeks, he skipped his lunch and used the lunch money to buy tickets. His love for films was so intense that he would enact few scenes from the film at Juhu beach and earn appreciation and money. 30 years later, he is all set to pay tribute to his favourite childhood film with his own version.

    It is difficult to not feel the childlike enthusiasm in Sajid Khan as it talks about his latest film, set to be released in two weeks. As he sat smoking countless cigarettes (I have to give up smoking, he says) and talking about his larger-than-life take on the ‘83 hit, Sajid makes no bones about being unfazed by the inevitable comparisons with the earlier film. “When you see the film, you will realize that the script is different. Today, every film is a remake.”

    Why the same name Read More »

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