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Clueless (English) Dir : Amy Heckerling Starring : Alicia Silverstone, Brittany Murphy Amy has done her homework all right. her savvy, witty, astute, deft social observations of teenagers are deadly accurate. the movie is an enchanting chunk of sociology which speaks the 90's lingo - what the teenagers think, their dress codes, secret adolscent rituals, beliefs and their sinfully rich lifestyles. Alicia who plays Cher, the totally 'clued-in' 'with-it, super rich school girl is simply terrific!, as the airhead who discovers in the end, that she is actually teh one who is completely clueless. Cher, popular and always in vogue, goes around doing good deads for less fortunate in her school. she only has to spot a girl looking clueless and she rubs her hand with glee and says 'Project'. The movie is not mean, it is the kind of movie that we need to make in india - a movie that acutely shows indian pop culture. Stand-out scenes : 1. Cell phone shot as tho they

Zakhm (Hindi) Dir : Mahesh Bhatt * ing : Ajay Devgan, Pooja Bhatt, Nagarjuna, Kunal Kemu These days, rarely, if at all, does one come across a filmmaker who wants to make a film coz he is dying to tell a particular story. Not coz he believes it'll please the audience and give him vast returns, but coz the story is burning him up, disturbing him and he has to express it to retain some sanity for himself. that is teh state in which Mahesh Bhat was in 1994. When he told the story of his mother...expressed as a child, of her relationship with his father and his own trauma upon discovering her muslim identity. Thus was born the most moving story i had seen in a film in many years to come. in the movie, all teh characters speak from their heart. the situations are of today. they have been treated like complex, conflict ridden people. to top it all, the performances are wonderful. Consistient, under-played and appropriate. Ajay is excellent, Akshay Anand as his militant brother

Dombivli Fast (Marathi) Director : Nishikant Kamat Starring : Sandeep Kulkarni, Shilpa Tulaskar Category : Movie Review I caught this movie, at the Cinefan Film Festival of Asian Cinema in New Delhi this may, (and this was my second good movie of the day) - and very worth the effort of waiting an hour and a half in front of the doors for the movie to start. In five minutes, the hall was jam packed - with no one being able to get in because of the number of people sitting on the floors and standing by the doors to catch the movie. Dombivli Fast is a marathi movie which revolves around the life of a middle class man - Madhav Apte (played by Sandeep Kulkarni) who is a pretty stubborn man and has a very ’’No compromising on my principles’’ attitude. The starting of the movie depicts the redundancy of his everyday life with him doing the same things day after day after day … Madhav Apte has never bribed anyone in his life and has never accepted any bribes himself. He is a very straight f