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Roaring ‘20s, superheroes, desi zombies and a double role
By Zahra Salahuddin
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 Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby is polarizing opinion as does any film based on a much-loved classic novel. The F. Scott Fitzgerald book that remains one of the greatest accounts of the spirit of the roaring twenties and what lay beneath them is brought to the screen in full technicolour glory. Anyone who caught the promos these past few months on the big screen was gobsmacked — this is a big screen movie alright,
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| Superhero muscle from hell (read Hollywood): Ironman 3
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 Iron Man 2 took the title of the biggest film in 2013 from Les Miserables, when it received £11.4 million at the box office in the UK. Starring Robert Downey Jr, Gweneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley and Guy Pierce, this is the third film based on Marvel Comics’ superhero Iron Man. directed by Shane Black, and shot in 3D; this film includes the famous Marvel Comics’ villain,
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| India’s first zombie movie — Go Goa Gone
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 Saif Ali Khan’s Illuminati Films is crazy concern, so bipolar that it can serve up a delightful Cocktail or sink its reputation with a convoluted, neither here nor there attempt at creating an Indian James Bond — Agent Vinod. The latter flopped despite Saif’s attempt at a crowdpleasing ‘Pungi’;
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| Modern day battle of good versus evil: Aurangzeb
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 It didn’t open as well as Ishaqzaade, that other Yashraj offering a modern day Romeo and Juliet set in the violent heart of Not Shining India. Another attempt at creating an action thriller with real life relevance is make by writer and director Atul Sabharwal whose Aurangzeb revolves around the dark political and societal issues that we, being from the subcontinent, are aware of. Ajay and Vishal, two twins are separated at birth,
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