I do wonder what is wrong with all these organizations that demand banning a movie just for the reasons that they feel it may harm their propaganda. Film is an art and art needs its creative space. Of course there has to be some boundaries for this creative space. But who should determine the boundaries. [...]
Archive for the ‘Pandora’s Box’ Category
2 May
Angels and Demons’ to hit Indian screens with cuts
Mumbai: Representatives of Christian organisations who viewed the Hollywood film “Angels and Demons”, based on a book by “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown, agreed to its screening in the country if the censor board cut some scenes and gave it an ‘A’ certification. Like in the case of “The Da Vinci Code”, they [...]
24 Apr
Why not to ban Angels and Demons
The Angels and demons -silver screen adaptation of Dan Brown novel by the same name, is all set to release on mid may. But it has already stirred the controversy with Christian leaders in India demanding a ban on the films release in India. Magic carpet had carried a post on the controversy and Tina [...]
22 Apr
Angels and Demons
The Catholic Church in India has demanded a ban on the release of a film based on Dan Brown’s bestseller “Angels and Demons”, alleging that it was an attempt to malign the Christian faith. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the apex body of Catholic Church in the country, also warned that the [...]
13 Feb
Slumdog Millionaire- more blunders
Magic carpet had published the letter by Suguna pointing out a factual error regarding the author of ” Darshan de Ghan Shyam. Now Pramod has send us info about the site ” IMDbPro” which has listed several goofups in slumdog millionaire film. Factual errors: In the movie, the correct answer to the question of who wrote [...]
3 Feb
Slumdog – a blunder???
The entire film slumdog millionaire is based on the television quiz program, Kaun Banega Crorepati. In the film protogonist Jamal malik becomes millionaire by giving correct answers to the questions. Once the jamal gives the answer , computerji locks it and declares it right or wrong . But Suguna in a letter to Indian Express says [...]
3 Jul
IIFA Awards – ho hum!!
-Tina Sometimes, people tend to go bonkers inspite of holding an international repute and lots of respect. IIFA awards night was certainly no exception to this rule and the ’sarkar’ family of bollywood looked too raunchy hoisting themselves all along, once again through IIFA. When you say you have this platform to represent Indian Cinema to [...]
11 Apr
Any comment?
Mr vaariyar has a point to make. shall we discuss this opinion on the oscar winning german movie-The Lives of others. your comments are welcome either in english or Kannada *** send your comments to magic.caarpet@gmail.com this is a film that demonizes the former east german communist regime with usual demogagy of west ‘individual freedom’ [...]
