It is currently Mon Sep 29, 2025 8:24 pm

View unanswered posts | View active topics


Board index » Others » Movie, TV, Music and Box-office

All times are UTC




Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 4 of 4
  [ 56 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4
  Previous topic | Next topic 
Author Message
mhafner
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:07 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:14 pm
Posts: 1086
Aarkayne wrote:
dvdisoil wrote:
is he like the Roger Ebert of India ?. Also while i am at it - Who are some the "respected" critics that you guys follow ?



That harmless comparision will have boosted TA's overly inflated ego even more !!!

Try reading Khalid Mohammed's reviews on Mid-Day (http://www.mid-day.com) under columnists.....also Dinesh Raheja's stuff on Rediff.com. I dunno which magazine he writes reviews for currently. Then there is Jitendra Kothari who used to free lance for India-Today sometime ago and for sure Anupama Chopra (also free lancing for India-Today a while ago). These are by far the best movie critics today in India writing about movies from Bollywood.


Deepa Gahlot?
Top
 Profile  
 
mhafner
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:16 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:14 pm
Posts: 1086
dvdisoil wrote:
Pardon my ignorance ( again !) . why is there such an outpour of rage against this guy , is he like the Roger Ebert of India ?. Also while i am at it - Who are some the "respected" critics that you guys follow ?

BTW i read his review of meenaxi and it sucks :roll:


Calling Adarsh India's Ebert is an insult to Ebert. :cry:
Top
 Profile  
 
dvdisoil
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:36 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri May 09, 2003 11:54 pm
Posts: 834
Location: Chennai, India
mhafner wrote:
dvdisoil wrote:
Pardon my ignorance ( again !) . why is there such an outpour of rage against this guy , is he like the Roger Ebert of India ?. Also while i am at it - Who are some the "respected" critics that you guys follow ?

BTW i read his review of meenaxi and it sucks :roll:


Calling Adarsh India's Ebert is an insult to Ebert. :cry:


Guys take it easy, all I was asking was if Taran is as famous as Ebert and if his reviews are read by many in India.

Thanks to all for the wonderful suggestions on Indian Cinema Critics. I used to read ( still do) http://www.upperstall.com. This is a nice website, in case you did not know already - Comes Highly recommended.
Top
 Profile  
 
pari
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jan 15, 2005 12:17 pm 
I used to respect this man's reviews as I didn't really know any better. But yeah, after you consistently give terrible movies like MPKDH good reviews (I'm a huge fan of the leads in that movie but I still refuse to own it) and slam down quality films while CONSTANTLY puffing up your ego for the Web to see... I pretty much stick to PlanetBollywood or other reviewing sites. I hope IndiaFM wisens up eventually and hires new reviewers, geeze.
Top
  
 
mhafner
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:42 am 
Offline

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:14 pm
Posts: 1086
I wonder about Indiafm in general. Did you notice how Amrish Puri's death was pretty much swept under the carpet? One news item. No decent eulogy. On rediff there was a lot more.
Top
 Profile  
 
mhafner
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:50 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2001 8:14 pm
Posts: 1086
Right now Indiafm is outing Vivek...
He kisses AntoniO in Kisna. :lol:
Cluelessness thy name is ....
Top
 Profile  
 
DVD Collector
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:02 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Dec 03, 2001 11:01 pm
Posts: 2070
Location: Toronto, Canada
Just cought a program called "Current Bollywood" on Sony Television. When our dog-headed friend talked about the fate of Swades at the box office. He said, "when a man watches the suffering of poor people and we see him sit for 15 mintues thinking, while doing nothing, it's all bullshit".
Top
 Profile  
 
dvdisoil
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:43 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri May 09, 2003 11:54 pm
Posts: 834
Location: Chennai, India
DVD Collector wrote:
Just cought a program called "Current Bollywood" on Sony Television. When our dog-headed friend talked about the fate of Swades at the box office. He said, "when a man watches the suffering of poor people and we see him sit for 15 mintues thinking, while doing nothing, it's all bullshit".



God - India desperately needs some good film critic(s). The theory that "the quantity of quality critics is directly proportional to the quantity of quality films made" has to be applied here.

Personally I thought Swadesh was a very good film. It felt like I was watching the movie in a ‘house of flying daggers’, which with unrelenting compassion pierced my heart and made me bleed with grief. The movie was designed for NRIs and I am sure it achieved what it set out to do.
Top
 Profile  
 
Aarkayne
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 6:23 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Feb 08, 2002 3:20 pm
Posts: 886
DVD Collector wrote:
Just cought a program called "Current Bollywood" on Sony Television. When our dog-headed friend talked about the fate of Swades at the box office. He said, "when a man watches the suffering of poor people and we see him sit for 15 mintues thinking, while doing nothing, it's all bullshit".


Obviously this idiot has no clue of the concept of 'cinematic time'....in any case he has clearly what is often termed as a 'manufacturing defect'....i rest my case.
Top
 Profile  
 
Commando303
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:22 am 
Offline

Joined: Thu Jun 16, 2005 4:34 am
Posts: 978
It's comforting to see that others HATE IndiaFM.com's movie reviewer, Taran Adarsh. Just take a look at this "review" of "Sarkar": http://www.indiafm.com/reviews/05/sarkar/index.shtml. Notice that every plot detail is happily unfolded; this is not a "review" — it's not even a "synopsis": this is KILLING a movie. I'd be a LOT angrier if I'd read this before seeing the film, but, even now, I'M PISSED. MOST of this guy's reviews are HORRIBLE. He PRAISED "Jo Bole So Nihaal," one of the year's WORST films (that's more than "just my opinion"...watch the film). Down with Taran Adarsh.
Top
 Profile  
 
Sanjay
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:11 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Dec 10, 2001 1:14 pm
Posts: 2256
Location: National Capital Region (India)
There is only one way to read Taran Adarsh's reviews, if you must read them, is to read the first para and the last para only. Never read the body of the review, not unless you want a scene by scene description of the film, along with some dialouges that is.
Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 4 of 4
  [ 56 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4

Board index » Others » Movie, TV, Music and Box-office

All times are UTC


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group