SPEAKing PICtures

	Arthur Christmas - festival, family and fantasy Jan 22, 2012 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Family, festival & fantasy are the three things to see in Arthur Christmas. Henceforth, the review will assess the movie on these pillars of its build. [read more]
	Don_Dutiya Jan 14, 2012 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Really cold winters! Lots of fog in Delhi! Loads of sleep in eyes. Gosh! Missed MI4. To socha Don2 dekhenge. Bollywood zindabad (trailer dono ke same feel wale dikh rahe hai). Here it comes, the review – [read more]
	Pappu Can’t Dance Saala...then why watch him Dec 24, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Because Pappu here is Vinay Pathak. He is back with same kind of role, same genre with same performance (again). This movie offers him the same ‘innocent-man-in-shit’ role (remember Chalo Dilli! read here). Moreover, this movie will be ... [read more]
	Rockstar feat. Rocky Ranbir Dec 19, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Few years back in 2008, a movie by the name of ‘Rock On’ bought immense popularity of band music. What Chetan Bhagat did to English writing, Rock On leveraged the same feel in youth with its music (and especially lyrics). No matter whet ... [read more]
	that night from Ghaziabad Dec 18, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Travelling in chilly cold night from Ghaziabad in an old jerking bus (route is named ALT; alternate in many ways), I am still thinking on why ‘WHY’ is bothering me again! Somewhat a strange gush is slowly coming in. “Mujhe aaj daar naza ... [read more]
	Headlines - Pa.One Mauke pe Aaya 'RA.ONE' Oct 29, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures So what it was finally released on a Pa.one day (Diwali), the destiny is stated sometimes. Destiny was stated for this movie also. It will work (even the real Raavan can guess that). But will it be appreciated and genuinely generate ‘Li ... [read more]
	Salman Khan: Bollywood ka "Bodyguard" Oct 1, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures “mujhe par ek ehsaan karna ki mujh par koi ehsaan na karna” (favour me one thing that do not do any favour to me). Cheesy masala chichoori one-liners. That is what we want and Salman Khan movies are providing that in (dangerously) high ... [read more]
	Chala Mussaddi – Office Office (a nostalgia) Aug 27, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Chala Mussaddi – Office Office is quite literally adapted from idiot box counterpart - Office Office (popular TV show based on satires on corruption in different govt. offices). The TV show was a huge hit as viewers were able to relate ... [read more]
	21st June 2011 – Longest day of the year 2011 Jul 16, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures 21st June is generally the longest day of the year (am sure you know this). Now, incidentally, this day was also marked the starting of the orientation week for PGDM batch (2011-2013) @ IMT-G. Nice to see that from the day one, we are w ... [read more]
	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara Jul 16, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Long title but simple facts. What will prompt you to watch this movie especially when Hrithik Roshan, Farhan Akhtar, Abhay Deol, Katrina Kaif, Kalki (recent addition) are all casted in a single movie. I guess casting itself is sufficien ... [read more]
	Journey from home to hostel…first time travelling on this route Jul 16, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures “We will become graduate one day, said a buddy engineer who surprising did what he said, he passed his graduation with flying rainbows”. After three long years of work-ex, he is again heading to college and this time as a hosteller to0O ... [read more]
	Movie Review: Bheja Cry 2 Jul 10, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Bheja Fry when it came had the advantage of being new. People and intelligent people (critics) started the dialogue of having low-budget-high-quality movies. Bheja Fry grossed marvellously at box office. Since then, there have been many ... [read more]
	My bags are packed, I am ready to go... Jul 5, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Away from the shor (noise) in the city, I will restart the race. God has created a highly competitive path for me, and I will walk it. There is a difference between knowing the path and walking it. Time has arrived to walk it and ace th ... [read more]
	EVERREADY - Charge yourself with Salman's Ready Jun 9, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Dhinka Chika Dhinka Chika Dhinka Chika Dhinka Chika Aey Aey Aey Aey! And here I am looking into my good English thesaurus to get the meaning of these so very filmy words. Obviously I cannot find them. They are meaningless, just like th ... [read more]
	YaaBaa DaaBaa do0O for Kung-Fu King Po0O May 30, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Heeeeee-Hawwww...YaaaHoo Po0O is back. Kung Fu Panda is that brand of cartoon movies which typifies the art of associating absurd characters with their allotted roles. Imagine a fatso Panda doing Kung-Pu (and not simple pawing)? Imagin ... [read more]
	BMW Vision (BMW Batmobile) May 22, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures In one of my earlier post where I blogged about Delhi Auto Expo 2010 (here) I was quite critical about BMW pavilion and their show of strength. May be BMW read that post and asked their headquarters in Munich (Germany) to send some stuf ... [read more]
	a light meal in 'Stanley Ka Dabba' May 18, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures I used to study in a school which had canteen among its permanent absentees. I always used to get angry about this cruel fact whenever I use to hear my after-school tuition peers discussing the day’s happenings at canteen. I relived som ... [read more]
	Enagaging 'Shor in the City' May 16, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures Horns! Bombs! Noise! Loudness! Violence! Blood! Knife! Wives! SxXx! Ashanti ! Shor are words not new to us. Infact they reside in our society quite abundantly. No wonder the material for this movie seems apna sa (familiar to us). [read more]
	"Luv Ka The End"...boring from start May 9, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures College flicks are always lovely to watch. They are free-flowing and are most fun-filled with the most important ingredients like youth-energy, rebellion against system and never-say-die attitude. But not this one. Luv ka The End can ea ... [read more]
	Chalo Dilli (with message of chalo jindagi) May 3, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures “Babu Moshai, Zindagi Badi honi chahiye, Lambi nahin” – Anand A cult movie dialogue which says a lot about philosophy. The plot of this movie is simply out of this dialogue. And like the plot is its whole set up (quite simple). May be ... [read more]
	Open letter to MDI professors on their admission policy Apr 24, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures To: apanjwani@mdi.ac.in, skumar@mdi.ac.in [read more]
	Was I prepared or was I not? Mar 23, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures May be yes…hmm…may be not. Yet another failure and yet another post for the unread category here. OK. Why? I don’t know. May be you know but then why will you know, it’s my ‘self-branded’ issue. Customized for me! See. I am exclusive…y ... [read more]
	Biutiful, its Biutiful Feb 9, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures An obvious thought - Why a person who knows only two languages – Hindi + English would like to go to a movie in Spanish in a multiplex based on principles of loot? It’s clear that this one is not meant for everybody (incase it was direc ... [read more]
	The Social Network - do get connected to it Jan 14, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures “Bosnia. They don't have roads, but they have Facebook.” Nobody can be more explicit than this. It tells the spread of the growing social networking phenomena over our globe and this is what appeals you to go for this movie, the title ... [read more]
	ये पल, मेरे पल, आने वाले पल Jan 14, 2011 \| Author: Ankit Gupta \| Source: SPEAKing PICtures written sometime in early Nov 2010...I don't know what to call it; a poem, a chandh, etc; but its genuine [read more]