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  Rituparno Ghosh’s The Last Lear was premiered at the Toronto Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
International Film Festival 07. An IndiaFM fan (nickname: hap) who attended the event sent us the Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
following.- Each of the stars arrived one at a time at the theatre. First was Preity’s limousine, to Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.
which many fans were crowded past barricades trying to get her to come over. She simply got out of Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
the car, smiled to the crowd and then walked over to the press tent - and then headed inside. - Blessed is the person who can laugh at himself — he’ll never cease to be amused.
Arjun came next, and much to the happiness of the girls there - he walked right over from the RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, “Homo ventrambulans”.
limousine, signed autographs, took pictures and even hugged a few of the girls - to which they The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father’s children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would. We will then warm the hearts of those who may be suffering in silence. As we meet people with special needs along life’s way, we can then make their journey brighter by the things that we say. Christlike communications will help us to develop righteous relationships and ultimately to return to our heavenly home safely. May we treasure the divine gift of communication, and may we use it wisely to build and to assist others on this marvelous journey through mortality.
started crying - But the eruption came when Amitabh arrived. He went, signed autographs - and You teach best what you most need to learn.
continued to do so until he went inside. Even inside the Gala hall - the person they were all I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
waiting for was Amitabh. - Needless to say, it was a very intelligently made film - with yet ANOTHER I don’t believe in art. I believe in artists.
career performance by Amitabh Bachchan. Here I thought he could never top BLACK, but in this one, For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.
he’s truly a revelation - Preity Zinta: It’s great to see her doing a completely natural role. She Love is the greatest gift that one generation can leave to another.
played her role with real dignity and it was a pleasure seeing her getting back to her initial style You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart. —Novem Iovis concordes filiae sorores
of acting - Arjun Rampal: The film should have given him more scope - as a director, his role with Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world — the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
Amitabh was a major one - and while the scenes between him and AB were fantastic, his role was truly The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.
a supporting one - and as such, the impact is reduced - Shefali Shah: She does not have a single Christmas Greeting from a Fairy to a Child Lady, dear, if Fairies may For a moment lay aside Cunning tricks and elfish play, ‘Tis at happy Christmas-tide. We have heard the children say— Gentle children’ whom we love— Long ago on Christmas Day, Came a message from above. Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again— Echo still the joyful sound “Peace on earth, good-will to men!” Yet the hearts must childlike be Where such heavenly guests abide; Unto children, in their glee, All the year is Christmas-tide! Thus, forgetting tricks and play For a moment, Lady dear, We would wish you, if we may, Merry Christmas, glad New Year!
scene with Amitabh Bachchan - and yet, her character, as his wife/his love, is so convincing, so Like a twisted olive tree in its 500th year, giving then its finest fruit, is man. How can he give forth wisdom until he has been crushed and turned in the Hand of God.
internalized, and so well characterized - it was an eye-opening experience. She was truly the show My kitchen is a mystical place, a kind of temple for me. It is a place where the surfaces seem to have significance, where the sounds and odors carry meaning that transfers from the past and bridges to the future.
stealer in this one. - This is clearly Amitabh’s movie. His character is extremely crass, very Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
intelligent, and extremely direct. He showers the praise of Shakespeare and the transition he makes Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
from being a theatre actor to a Hindi film actor is well etched. This is not a Bollywood movie with One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
singing and dancing. This is a serious film which is mostly in English. This is Amitabh’s best A dreamer lives for eternity.
performance to date. He should sweep all the award shows next year for best actor. - I enjoyed the Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
pokes at traditional Hindi cinema, “box office hits”, Diwali movies and the way that stars react - There once was an old person of Dean, Who dined on one pea and one bean; For he said, “More than that, Would make me too fat,” That cautious old person of Dean.
Background score in the film was beautiful, touching on the traditional side of Indian The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.
instrumentation - The “battle” of the film, of sorts, is that of attitudes - the attitude of Arjun, Spring makes everything look filthy.
as the director, and the attitude of Amitabh, as the actor. There is an underlying competition as Scared out of his seven senses.
the two of them try to bring their own visions. - The most brilliant scene of the film was initially What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
the last - just as with Black - where the title “The Last Lear” - and yes, “The King” make true A government with the policy to rob Peter to pay Paul can be assured of the support of Paul.
sense. For it is Amitabh that comes out in trumps in this film, and comes through with yet another Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow. Seize the day, trust as little as possible in tomorrow. —Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero (Odes, I.xi.1)
career performance! What’s the movie all about? When first we meet veteran thespian Harish Mishra Things are only worth what one makes them worth.
(Bachchan), he is gravely ill. The punishments of a film shoot have left the old man in a coma. His If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn’t be so anxious.
co-star, Shabnam (Preity Zinta), is wracked with worry, but their director, Siddharth (Arjun That best portion of a good man’s life,— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
Rampal), keeps strangely distant and refuses to visit his ailing star. In flashbacks, their story Custom is almost second nature.
emerges. Siddharth first had to woo Harish from the comforts of his retirement, and the interaction Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth. . . .
between the two yields some of the film’s most delightful scenes. The impatient young auteur It’s the notion that there is no perfection — that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
attempts to win the trust and collaboration of the aged performer, who sits raging against the We teach them proper principles and let them govern themselves.
modern world from the sanctuary of his study. Sporting a silver mane, Bachchan is irresistible here There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
- vain, forceful and impetuous. He trumpets the superiority of Shakespeare over anything cinema can I am glad to see that men are getting their rights, but I want women to get theirs, and while the water is stirring, I will step into the pool.
create. And yet, the movies hold out a new challenge. Once he agrees to act in the film, The Last Women like silent men. They think they’re listening.
Lear becomes a captivating reflection on the comparative artifices of stagecraft and cinema. As the Too many folks go through life running from something that isn’t after them.
outsider in the cast, Harish is hilarious in dismissing movie fakery. His theatre skills are He can who thinks he can.
grander. Standing on a hillside, he teaches Shabnam how to project her voice clear across a valley We must do all in our power to educate the public, for I believe that in the end only a change of heart is really effective.
to the next hill. CreditsProduction Company: Planman Motion PicturesExecutive Producer: Shubho There is an ancient tale about a king who wanted to pick the wisest man among his subjects to be his prime minister. When the search finally narrowed down to just three men, he decided to put them to the supreme test. Accordingly, he placed them together in a room in his palace, and on the room door he had installed a lock which was the last word in mechanical ingenuity. The candidates were informed that whoever was able to open the door first would be appointed to the post of honor. Setting themselves to the task, two of the men began to work out complicated mathematical formulas to discover the lock combination. The third man, however, just sat down in his chair, lost in thought. Finally, without bothering to put pen to paper, he got up, walked to the door, and turned the handle. The door opened. It had been unlocked all the time!
Shekhar BhattacharjeeProducer: Arindam ChaudhuriScreenplay: Rituparno Ghosh, based on the play Aajke With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.
Shahjahan by Utpal DuttCinematographer: Abhik MukhopadhyayEditor: Arghya Kamal MitraProduction . . . it would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice.
Designer: Indroneel GhoshSound: Bishwadeep ChatterjeeMusic: 21 GramsPrincipal Cast: Amitabh One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal, Shefali Shah, Jisshu Sengupta  

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