Five for Slumdog, not eight!

Slumdog Millionaire won awards for Best Director, Best Motion Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Editing and Best Cinematography. It does not deserve the first three awards because it failed to show Real India..

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Ten Years With Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey

Abrar Alvi, the writer of Aar Paar, Mr and Mrs 55, Pyaasa, Kagaz ke Phool, Chaudahvin ka Chand and Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam, who also directed Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam for Guru Dutt, recalls his association with the cinemascope maestro.

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Delhi 6: Better not to watch this one

Delhi 6 is a just series of several sequences, which do not connect. The film is trying to say a lot at the same time, which leads the story nowhere. Abhishek and Sonam also need to come out of their parents shadow and actually learn acting.

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Smile Pinki smiles at Oscars

The Oscar is the biggest news for cleft children. The girl born with a cleft lip, Pinki (9), once teased as 'hothkati' in her neighborhood, left for Los Angeles, on Monday, sporting a big smile for the Oscar ceremony, where she is the protagonist..

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Jai Ho Oscars!

AR Rahman is a music director who has the power to sell his music. Just his name is enough. His name is assurance enough for good and original score. But why, may I ask, has this international recognition come today?.

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Bollywood: On a copying spree

Bollywood has led the rapid growth of the Indian film Industry. But Inspite of having all the resources, the director almost always rely on copied ideas and remakes to make a film. Is it that they do not have any writers with original ideas.

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Flurry of Awards for Slumdog at the Oscars

Hosted admirably by Hugh Jackman, the Oscar night began with all the glamour that you would normally associate with it. Slumdog, the movie that was tipped to break India’s long and bitter jinx at the Oscars, delivered all that it promised and more.

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