Wednesday, August 1, 2012

22, Female, Kottayam [2012] Malayalam - I Spit on Your Grave [1978] - I Spit on Your Grave [2010]

 


22 Female Kottayam, also known as 22FK, is a 2012 Indian rape and revenge film directed by Aashiq Abu and starring Rima Kallingal and Fahad Fazil in the lead roles. The film deals with the travails of a nurse who was victimised for no fault of hers and who takes revenge on her tormentors in a rather unusual manner. Set and filmed in Bangalore, the film released on April 13, 2012, and received strongly positive reviews from critics. It was also well received at the box-office.

Tessa (Rima Kallingal) is a nursing student in Bangalore with plans of traveling to Canada for a career. She meets Cyril (Fahad Fazil) from a travel consultancy while working with the agency for setting up her visa. Cyril has been advised to be practical by his boss and friends that it is not a big deal if a man seduces a woman to bed with him or even pimps her if she is willing to do so. But he seems lovable and very reliable person who meets him. They soon fall in love and start living together. Tessa loves him with all her heart and takes their relationship and living together seriously. It makes some impact on Cyril's nature as he is confronting with a girl who loves him sincerely.
One day they go to a pub where a guy misbehaves with Tessa and out of his unconscious possessiveness towards Tessa Cyril beats him up badly. The guy who was beaten up is son of a famous political figure and now they were in search of Cyril to chop off his arms. Cyril goes underground for two days and with the help of his boss Hegde (Prathap Pothen), tries to calm the situation down. But Hegde asked Cyril for Tessa as a reward and he agrees the deal though unwillingly. Cyril thinks that Tessa is going to be a difficult customer for Hegde as he exactly knows that she is not a slut and her love is true; but not his boss. Hedge arrives Cyril's home informing Tessa about this situation and his part in his protection. He asks her plainly " Can I have sex with you" thinking she is a slut who enjoys her life with a pimp. As Tessa can't believe her ears he attacks and rapes her brutally. When Cyril comes to know about it, he becomes violent and wants to kill Hegde as he never expected a brutal rape even though he had his promise to his boss. Tessa calms him down saying that she does not want to make a mess with the incident but reach Canada at the earliest. Now Cyril also thinks that it would be better if they separate as he finds her a wrong choice for his business. Once Tessa recovers from her injuries, Hegde visits her again to ask for forgiveness by the advice of Cyril so that she would be other girl trapped but satisfied with her new profession abroad. He comes while Cyril is not around but ends up raping her again. As Cyril's own words " The first time(rape)it was my commitment, the second time was your (Hegde) madness." Tessa decides not to travel abroad and plans to murder Hegde with the help of her partner.
Cyril makes urgent discussion with his boss about the new situation. Hegde opts to kill Tessa and appoints Cyril to perform it for his sake. Cyril is very crooked that just by one shot he gets two birds. He can rob Hegde's pocket as well as can avoid Tessa, a difficult customer. Anyway Cyril does not kill Tessa but traps her by putting some drugs in her bag. Police arrests and puts her in jail. Later Cyril flees to Cochin and engages himself in modelling business. In prison Tessa meets a rough lady but pregnant named Zubeida (Rashmi Sathish) who is sentenced in a murder case. She has had some criminal world connections also. Through that connections Tessa realises that Cyril was cheating her with the support of Hegde, a hopeless satyr. Tessa decides to take her revenge.
After the court set her free, with the help of DK (Sathar)- another man of a kind who thrills when a girl is ready to bed with him willingly - she kills Hegde and makes Cyril understand her true love by penectomising him.Tessa wants Cyril to be alive so that her plan about him may be fulfilled. It is up to the spectator to decide whether the intention is a revenge oriented one or a love oriented one.

Day of the Woman (better known by its re-release title, I Spit on Your Grave) is a controversial 1978 rape and revenge film. The film received a limited release, with a wider release in 1980. Prominent film critics condemned the film for its graphic violence and lengthy depictions of gang rape, and the motion picture remains controversial to this day. The film was named in 2010 one of TIME's Top 10 Ridiculously Violent Movies.

New York short story writer Jennifer Hills rents an isolated cottage by a lake in the countryside to write her first novel. The arrival in town of the attractive and independent young woman attracts the attention of Johnny, the gas station manager, and Stanley and Andy, two unemployed youths who hang around the gas station. Jennifer receives a grocery delivery from Matthew, who is mildly mentally challenged, and befriends him. Matthew is friends with the other three men and reports back to them about the beautiful woman he met, claiming he saw her breasts.
Stanley and Andy start cruising by the cottage in their speedboat and prowl around the house at night. One day, while Jennifer is relaxing in her canoe, they surprise her in their speedboat and tow her to shore. As she tries to escape, she is met by Johnny, while Matthew hides in bushes nearby. She realizes they planned her abduction so Matthew can lose his virginity. Jennifer fights but is chased by the men through the forest. Matthew refuses to have sex with her, so Johnny rapes her. They allow her to escape but track her down shortly afterward. Andy brutally rapes her anally; and after she crawls back to her house, they attack her again. Matthew finally rapes her after drinking alcohol, but he says that he can not reach orgasm with the other men watching. The other men ridicule her book and rip up the manuscript, and Stanley sexually assaults her. She passes out, but after the men leave, Johnny realizes she is a witness to their crimes and orders Matthew to stab her to death. Matthew cannot bring himself to do this, so he dabs the knife in her blood and returns to the other men claiming he has killed her.
In the following days, a traumatized Jennifer pieces both herself and her manuscript back together. She goes to church and asks for forgiveness for what she plans to do. The men learn Jennifer has survived and beat Matthew up for deceiving them. Jennifer calls in a grocery order, knowing Matthew will deliver it. He takes the groceries, and a knife. At the cabin Jennifer entices him to have sex with her under a tree. As he becomes oblivious to his surroundings, she strings a noose around his neck and hangs him, then cuts the rope and drops the body in the river.
Jennifer seductively collects Johnny from the gas station in her car. She stops halfway to her house and turns a gun on him and orders him to remove all his clothing. Johnny insists the rapes were her fault because she enticed the men by parading around in revealing clothing. She pretends to believe this, lowers her gun, and invites him back to her cottage for a hot bath, where she manually stimulates him. When Johnny says that Matthew has been reported missing, Jennifer states that she killed Matthew, and as he nears orgasm, Jennifer takes the knife Matthew brought with him from its hiding place under the bathmat and severs Johnny's genitals, letting him bleed to death. She later dumps the body in the basement and burns his clothes in the fireplace.
Stanley and Andy learn that Johnny is missing and take their boat to Jennifer's cabin. Andy goes ashore with an axe. Jennifer swims out to the boat and climbs aboard before Stanley realizes what she is doing and pushes him overboard. Andy tries to attack her when she speeds past him in the boat, but she escapes with the axe. Andy swims out to rescue Stanley, but Jennifer plunges the axe into Andy's back and backs the boat up to Stanley, who grabs hold of the motor to climb aboard, begging Jennifer not to kill him. She repeats his own words he used against Jennifer while assaulting her: "Suck it, bitch!", starts the engine, disemboweling him, and speeds away in the boat.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Pyar To Hona Hi Tha [1998] - French Kiss [1995]


Sanjana loves Rahul, but Rahul treats Sanjana as a friend. He is attracted to Nisha, and announces that he will be marrying her soon. Sanjana does not take kindly to this, and in her heart hopes to make Rahul change his mind. She hires Shekhar to be her lover/boyfriend, and go out with her, so as to make Rahul jealous. This does not work, Rahul is drawn even closer to Nisha, and Shekhar finds himself falling in love with Sanjana. Sanjana finds herself getting attracted to Shekhar, only to find out that the police, especially Inspector Khan, would like to arrest Shekhar for criminal activities

Dialogue, story, screenplay and directed by
Anees Bazmee

Cast (in credits order)

Ajay Devgn ... Shekhar
Kajol ... Sanjana
Bijay Anand ... Rahul Bajaj
Kashmira Shah ... Nisha

French Kiss is a 1995 American romantic comedy film directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline. Written by Adam Brooks, the film is about a woman who flies to France to confront her straying fiancé and gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her to smuggle a stolen diamond necklace. French Kiss was filmed on location in France.

Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Writer: Adam Brooks
Stars: Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline and Timothy Hutton

Sholay [1975] - The Magnificient Seven [1960] - Seven Samurai [1954]




Sholay (English: Ember) is a 1975 Indian action-adventure film produced by G.P. Sippy and directed by his son Ramesh Sippy. It is considered by the Encyclopaedia of Hindi cinema to be among the greatest films in Indian cinema. Released on 15 August 1975, it stars Dharmendra, Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjeev Kumar, Hema Malini, Jaya Bhaduri and Amjad Khan. The film, shot in the rocky terrain of Ramanagara, Karnataka, is the story of two criminals hired to capture a ruthless dacoit by the name of Gabbar Singh. The film drew its plot heavily from the conventions of Western films.
When first released, Sholay opened to a tepid response, but word of mouth convinced the audience to give the film a chance, and soon it became a box office phenomenon. It ran for 286 weeks straight (more than five years) in a theatre in Mumbai and achieved a still-standing record of 60 golden jubilees (50 consecutive weeks) across India. It is the first film in the history of Indian cinema to celebrate a silver jubilee (25 weeks) in over a hundred theaters across India. By some accounts, Sholay is the highest grossing film of all time in Indian cinema when inflation is considered, although such figures are not known with certainty.

The Indian Central Board of Film Certification initially mandated cuts of several scenes involving violence and death. As such,Sholay was released with a length of 188 minutes. After 15 years, the original director's cut of 204 minutes was made available. The music from the film was composed by R. D. Burman and became quite popular, with the songs topping a few music charts. Some songs have been remade by other artists and have appeared in other films. The dialogues themselves were also released to the public, which was not common at the time.

In 2005, Indiatimes ranked the film amongst the "Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films" The same year, the judges of the 50th annual Filmfare Awards gave it an award called Best Film of 50 Years. The film topped the British Film Institute's poll of "Top 10 Indian Films" of all time.


The film will be re-release in 3-D on August 15, 2012

The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American western film directed by John Sturges. It is a western-style remake based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. The film stars Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter, and Horst Buchholz who play a group of seven American gunmen who are hired to protect a small agricultural village in South Western America from a group of marauding native bandits. The film's musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein.

A Mexican village is periodically raided for food and supplies by bandits led by Calvera (Eli Wallach). As he and his men rode away from their latest visit, Calvera had promised to return for more booty and loot the village again. Taking what meager goods they have, the village leaders ride to a town just inside the American border hoping to barter for weapons to defend themselves. While there, they encounter veteran gunslinger, Chris (Yul Brynner); after listening to their tale, Chris suggests that the village hire more gunfighters as they would be cheaper than guns and ammunition. The village men relentlessly try to convince Chris to be their gunman, and he eventually agrees, though after finding six other men to join them despite the poor pay offered.

The other men include hotheaded, inexperienced Chico (Horst Buchholz); Chris's friend Harry Luck (Brad Dexter) who believes Chris is seeking out treasure; Vin (Steve McQueen) who has gone broke after a round of gambling; Bernardo O'Reilly (Charles Bronson), a gunfighter of Irish-Mexican heritage; cowpuncher Britt (James Coburn); and convict Lee (Robert Vaughn), looking for a place to lie low. The group recognizes they will be outnumbered, but hope that when Calvera realizes that the village has brought them aboard, that he will move on to a different village.

Arriving at the village, the seven begin to train the villagers how to defend themselves. They all find themselves bonding with the villagers, refusing to eat a large meal while the villagers remain hungry. Chico is fascinated by Petra, one of the village's women, while Bernardo begins to feel parental instincts with the village's youth Lee, meanwhile, struggles with nightmares and fears the loss of his skills. Calvera and his bandits soon arrive, but on observing the gunmen, they turn back. Chico, who is Mexican, follows Calvera and masks himself within his gang, learning that the Calvera plans to return and raid the village, desperate for the food and goods.

Chico reports this back to Chris and the rest of the men. Though a part of the group believes they should leave, Chris insists that they stay, and plan to make a surprise raid on Calvera's camp. However, after riding out, they find it empty, and on returning the village, they find is under Calvera's control, the fearful villagers having allowed them back in. Calvera spares the gunmens' lives, believing they have learned the lesson that the simple farmers are not worth fighting for as well as fearing reprisals from America. The seven are curtly escorted out of the village. The group debates as to their next move, but for all but Harry, they agree to return and free the village from Calvera. Harry believes the effort will lead to their deaths and rides off alone.

A gunfight breaks out, and the villagers, recognizing the courage of the gunmen, soon join in in the fight. Bernado is killed protecting the children he befriended earlier, and both Bernardo and Lee are taken out after killing considerable numbers of the bandits. Harry, who had a change of heart, arrives in time to protect Chris but is fatally shot. Soon, the bandits are routes, and Chris shoots Calvera. Calvera, in his dying breath, asks why men like Chris came back, but gets no answer before he passes away.

Some time later, the gunmen have helped to bury their own and the villagers. Chico announces he will be staying with Petra, while Chris and Vin begin to ride back to America. The village elder bids them farewell and comments that it is only the villagers who have really won: "You're like the wind — blowing over the land and ... passing on ... ¡Vayan con Dios!" However, as they leave and pass the graves of their fallen comrades, Chris fatalistically observes, "The Old Man was right. Only the farmers won. We lost. We always lose."

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Malamaal Weekly [2006] - Waking Ned Devine [1998]

 


Lilaram sells lottery tickets and one customer has hit the jackpot but dies of shock upon finding out that he has won. Now, Lilaram wants all the money, and so does everyone around him.
Director: Priyadarshan

When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money. 
Director: Kirk Jones


Main Aisa Hi Hoon [2005] - I Am Sam [2001]

Autistic Indraneel Thakur, who works for a living as a waiter in a Café in India, has a body of a grown man and mind of a seven year old. One day while closing the café, a young woman named Maya Trivedi, asks for his assistance as she has missed the last bus. Indraneel assists her, takes her home, finds out that she is pregnant, helps her give birth, agrees to take care of the child, Gungun, and thereafter Maya leaves, never to return. Years later, Gungun has grown up, attends school, and believes that Indraneel is her dad. Then their world is changed upside down when Maya's dad, Dayanath Trivedi, arrives from London, Britain, to take custody of his grandchild, if necessary through the courts. Indraneel refuses to part with Gungun, and as a result a case is filed in Court. The Judge initially hears this case, finds Indraneel incompetent to be a responsible father and tentatively puts Gungun in the Court's custody. Now a date is set when Indraneel must take up the gargantuan task of proving to a less than compassionate Court that he is capable of looking after Gungun, knowing fully well that he, himself, is unable to look after himself



Director: 

Harry Baweja

Writers: 

Harry Baweja (story), Anurag Kashyap (dialogue), and 1 more credit »

A mentally retarded man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Director: 

Jessie Nelson


Koi... Mil Gaya [2003] - E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial [1982]


 


A developmentally disabled young man tries to continue the work his father did in communicating with extra-terrestrials from outer space, which leads to something miraculous and wonderful. (171 mins.)
Director: Rakesh Roshan

A meek and alienated little boy finds a stranded extraterrestrial. He has to find the courage to defy the authorities to help the alien return to its home planet. (115 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg


Yeh Dillagi [1994] - Sabrina [1954]



Sapna, the daughter of the Saigal family's driver is a simple fun-loving girl, but her dreams are not as simple. She dreams about riches and day-dreams about her dream man. Vijay Saigal and Vicky Saigal, both heirs to Saigal Industries have almost all the qualities of a dream man. Almost. Because "All work and no play" makes Vijay a dull boy and "All play and no work" makes Vicky and outrageous flirt, as he does not believe in the affairs of the hearts, but only in affairs. But then even Sapna is not made of the stuff, dream girls are made of. Not until she becomes a successful model and transforms into a beautiful girl. That's when she become Vicky's dream girl. But Sapna's success hasn't changed her status. She is still the driver's daughter and Mrs. Shanti Devi may overlook her son's affairs with rich girls but not with a driver's daughter. Big brother Vijay takes upon himself to iron out the differences, but himself gets smothered by Sapna's live-wire charm and subsequently her beauty dazzles him and he finds himself falling in love with her. In this complex situation, fun takes a dramatic exit from the lives of these fun-loving people and love becomes a serious business. Serious to the extent that one brother is ready to give his life for love and the other is ready to sacrifice his love for brother's life.


Directed byNaresh Malhotra
Produced byYash Chopra
Aditya Chopra
Uday Chopra
Written bySachin Bhowmik
StarringAkshay Kumar
Saif Ali Khan
Kajol
Reema Lagoo
Saeed Jaffrey
Music byDilip Sen
Sameer Sen
Distributed byYash Raj Films
Release date(s)6 May 1994
Running time154 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi



A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur. But it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her. 


Director: Billy Wilder
Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Walter Hampden