Category: Movies
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Apollo 13 and the Spirit of Science
Apollo 13 is the most authentic movie about space flight that I have ever seen. Director Ron Howard went to great lengths to make the movie as accurate as possible. The dialogues between Apollo 13 crew and Houston are almost verbatim reproductions of the actual manuscript.
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Mehmood’s One Man Show : Gumnaam
There are few remarkable things about the 1965 movie Gumnaam. Considering the films that were made during the sixties, the story is quite unusual, since it is based on Agatha Christie’s well known novel And Then There Were None. The film is a suspense thriller and it shows from the very first sequence itself. A…
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Dilip Kumar : The Accidental Actor
Here is an actor who set new standards for Hindi cinema. Satyajit Ray described him as “the ultimate method actor.” It’s mind boggling that Dilip Kumar entered the film profession by sheer accident.
