Hello everybody! Its gpzippy, I've just come back from working in the backend of nowhere abroad and I'm glad to see everybody is still here.

Bought DDLJ (Christ just how bad can dvd authoring get) and got the shock of my life to see such a vile transfer onto dvd. I swear I could have made a better VCD (never mind a bloody DVD) using TMPGnc and Nero.

However I did manage to get "Bollywood Calling", another Eros Presentation Classic. Now I know people have mixed views on this film, but, I have to say its is simply the best film released this year. Om Puri is absolutely brilliant, he makes you laugh and cry in the same scene. This film is crammed with some of the funniest and wittiest lines I've heard in a long while. This film is a genuine classic in the making.

Pat (the American actor) to Sutra (the producer);

'Okay Sutra let's get this straight, I'm to play an American Indian- Indian American, whatever, who speaks Indian, we start shooting next week and you don't have a script'

and Pat again;

'Don't you just hate those days, when you realise that your're 34, a helpless alcoholic with cancer, and wife and only friend in the whole wide world has walked out on you, and you've been presented with the unique opportunity to die in a foreign country- Yea, I hate those days too!'

Needless to say you will have to suffer the slings and arrows of just the most pathetic attempt at DVD production ever by the mighty EROS, the f**kers couldn't even manage dual layer for this gem. How do they manage that washed out look on their dvds, I'll never know. Anyway Ali has done a pretty accurate preview of this junk disc. Lord have mercy on all our souls for buying such disreputable shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gpzippy

Hey welcome back! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this film is a hidden gem; I liked this too and thought it was a great comedy. It’s just one of those films that either people love or really hate. It’s also of one those films that the mainstream western audience would have enjoyed mixing in well with the likes of Brit/USA-Asian comedies of late like American Desi, East Is East and more recently Bend It Like Beckham. Opportunity missed by the people who can’t see the mass market like Eros and producers.

Ali

Bollywood Calling, a hidden gem :who:

I appreciate movies like 'East is East', 'American Desi', 'Monsoon Wedding' and the likes too... but I think 'Bollywood Calling' just doesnt qualify as a good movie... was hardly funny and not even half as good as the director's previous attempt; Hyderabad Blues.

Sometime back I saw Benegal's 'Snip'. Think that was awesome even though it bombed at the box. Sophiya looked sexy and perfectly suited the role... I recommend.

I've been wanting to watch Snip, but haven't found a copy of it anywhere - where did you watch it?

By the way, Snip was made by Sunhil Sippy if I'm not mistaken

my bad :angry:

It is Sunhil Sippy... I got it confused with Dev Benegal. I saw it in Mumbai on the pirate vcd. The movie is cool.

Bollywood Calling was quite funny actually and I regret not watching Snip when I was in India and it was showing at PVR in DTS
:angry:

PVR ???

I've just been over to the "Snip!" movie homepage [http://www.snip.co.in/], and I must say it looks quite decent from the plot synopsis and even better from the poster. But the big question is how can I get to see it?

Anybody, do you know if it has been released on vcd/dvd?

gpzippy

PVR = Priya Village Roadshow = A joint venture cinema theater chain in Delhi now expanding in other parts of the country.
The joint venture which was between the Australian company Village Roadshow and the Priya cinema in India has now be rechristened as just as PVR since Village Roadshow have sold their stake in the company to the Bijlee gropu that owned Priya cinema.

I have been waiting for the dvd or vcd too but sadly movies like this are rarely appreciated in theaters to have a good video release. Although I do have a cd of Snip's song which is very good.

Snip was advertised ages back on Eros website, I don’t think it ever got released on DVD – Eros only did the cinema distribution (very limited). A film I very much wanted to see too.

Ali