Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movies. Show all posts

Thursday 6 February 2014

Out of the Furnace 2013 - Limitless goofup

Hey guys, did you notice a weird thing on Google? When you google for "Out of the furnace", notice the topmost result. The 2-line description snippet of the IMDB link to Out of the Furnace, is actually the description for the Limitless movie. Is it just me or you see it as well? Looks like a Google goofup :)



Sunday 5 January 2014

Sholay revisited - Bollywood classic

This weekend, the classic 1975 Bollywood crime thriller Sholay re-released in the 3D format. Sholay stands out as an iconic evergreen cult classic which features the most remembered villain character - the bandit leader Gabbar.

Gabbar was played by the late actor Amjad Khan. Gabbar's seemingly simple dialogues became so popular, they were often used in jokes and light conversations. One of the most remembered scenes of all Indian movies, is the "Kitne aadmi the ?" scene i.e "How many men were there ?"

Let me explain the scene to you in short. Gabbar's 3 loyal dacoits went to loot a village and extort money from innocent people. However, the 2 protaganists Jay (played by Amitabh Bachchan) & Veeru (played by Dharmendra) , fight them off, so the 3 henchmen return empty handed. The dacoit leader Gabbar gets extremely angry and frustrated by hearing this. What follows is a scene in which the 3 dacoits have to pay a heavy price for coming back empty handed.


Another famous intense scene is the "Ye haat humko dede thakur" which translates to "Give me your hands, thakur". Here Gabbar chops off the thakur's hands with swords.



As a tribute to the classic scene, check out this funny Sholay meme featuring some Indian students.




Monday 30 December 2013

Hardcode subtitles using Handbrake - Apple OSX

If you're a movie buff like me and watch a lot of non-english, foreign language movies, you must be coming across the headache to find english subtitles.

Although you can google and download the subtitles file ( .srt files ), it can be quite convenient to permanently hardcode the subtitles to the video. A very good app to do so is known as Handbrake

Although the main purpose of Handbrake is to transcode video into different formats, it is also useful to hardcode a .srt file to a video.

A sample screenshot is shown below :


As you see, you can simply choose a video by clicking Source. Then click the subtitles tab at bottom and click "Add External SRT" to choose the .srt file.

Once selected, just choose the Output format and click Start to encode. After it's done, you see a funny popup like this :)





Friday 27 December 2013

Salman Khan - Indian Superstar

Happy birthday Salman Khan. Just the other day, I was watching the trailer of Salman Khan's new movie "Jai Ho", which already has more than 12.5 lakh views on youtube since 2 weeks of upload date. While watching I remembered an action scene from one of his movies. I didn't immediately recall the movie name so I checked his filmography on IMDB. And Viola! the movie name was Wanted.

Salman Khan is one actor who has been active in Bollywood for about 2 decades starring in many average-to-flop films. However, it was only after his blockbuster Wanted in 2009 that lady luck smiled on him. Since then, he has constantly given great blockbuster hits like Bodyguard, Dabangg, Ready, Ek Tha Tiger and the most recent Dabangg 2. With every movie he's been setting a new benchmark for the box office collections.

In Dabangg, he stars as a corrupt but lovable cop. He believes in swift justice and dispenses it instantly.
He is a bad guy for the bad guys but a good man to all good innocent people. He robs from the villains but helps the needy and poor. His character was very much styled on the lines of Robin Hood, in terms of morality. That's what made him lovable.

It was in this film that certain things became iconic. His unique dance steps. His moustache. The action scenes in defunct warehouses. The "Smile Please" comic photographer. His Sunglasses.

Regarding his sunglasses, he always sports them on his shirt collar behind. I believe this fashion has attained a unique cult status among the audience. Many people have been emulating it since the movie. Check out this random photo clicked on a street of Mumbai.




Thursday 26 December 2013

Dhoom 3 - Bollywood's record breaking Blockbuster

Dhoom 3 - India's latest action thriller has broken all the box office records till date. People are constantly flocking to the theatres to watch the movie in hordes. As of today it is said to have already the ambitions INR 300 crore mark (approx. USD 3.5 million)

As per this Bollywood Hungama article, it has broken all the box office collection records for the Opening Day, Opening weekend, Highest Single day collection and all the collections of key international markets like USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand.

Dhoom 3 happens to be one of the costliest sequel in the Dhoom franchise, set in Chicago & Mumbai. Some critics also call it India's answer to Fast & Furious. The acting, the visuals, the stunts, the songs, the mystery are all top-notch and too impressive.

Plot wise, many movie-goers describe the latest blockbuster as a mashup of Christopher Nolan's The Prestige and some elements of The Dark Knight.

This bike-action thriller also features some uber cool BMW bikes like Aamir Khan's BMW K 1300 R and Uday Chopra / Abhishek Bachchan's BMW S 1000 RR. 

I bet the movie will boost BMW's bike sales due to a tremendous spike in the consumer interest, following the movie's success.





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