Monika’s Pensieve

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Dil To Pagal Hai (India, 1997)
Seen: Monday, 15th December 2008 (DVD)
Runtime: 179′
Polish Distributor: Epelpol (April 2008)
Director: Yash Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Karisma Kapoor, Akshay Kumar (special appearance)
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Nisha loves Rahul, but Rahul doesn’t love Nisha. He loves Pooja instead. Ajay also loves Pooja. And Pooja is confused. In the [...]

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Jodhaa Akbar (India, 2008)
Seen: Sunday, 14th December (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 213′
Polish Distributor: Blink (should be out on DVD sometime next year)
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Cast: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan (narrator)
Production House: UTV Motion Pictures, Ashutosh Gowariker Productions Pvt. Ltd.
Plot: Based on legends and historical accounts, the story of what may have transpired between Akbar, [...]

I’m quite horrible when it comes to famous Hollywood films of the past that everyone else seems to have seen - especially the action films (I still haven’t seen the Terminator would you believe :]). So it is with great delight that I announce I have finally watched Rambo ;)
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Rambo: First Blood (USA, 1982)
Seen: [...]

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Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (Israel/France/USA, 2007)
Seen: Wednesday, 11th December 2008 (cinema)
Runtime: 87′
Polish Distributor: Kino Świat (21st November 2008)
Director: Eran Kolirin
Cast: Sasson Gabai, Ronit Elkabetz, Saleh Bakri, Khalifa Natour
Production House: July August Productions, Sophie Dulac Productions, Bleiberg Entertainment
Plot: An Egyptian police orchestra gets lost in Israel.
Trailer

Impressions In Short
I was a little worried this would be one of [...]

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Mr And Mrs Iyer (India, 2002)
Seen: Sunday, 6th December 2008 (cinema, special screening)
Runtime: 120′
Polish Distributor: Blink (I think the DVD release will be sometime next year)
Director: Aparna Sen
Cast: Rahul Bose, Konkona Sen Sharma
Plot: Hindu-Muslim riots bring an orthodox Hindu Brahmin woman and a (not so orthodox) Muslim man together during a bus trip to [...]

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Kabul Express (India, 2006)
Seen: Tuesday, 2nd December 2008 (DVD)
Runtime: 106′
Polish Distributor: None yet (AFAIK)
Director: Kabir Khan
Cast: John Abraham, Arshad Warsi, Salman Shahid, Hanif Hum Ghum, Linda Arsenio
Production House: Yash Raj Films
Plot: Two Indian journalists and an American one are looking for news stories in Afghanistan. They have an Afghan guide and are sort of [...]

I’m behind with my “film diary” as usual :] My last weekend was very intense due to the Polish National Championships in Figure Skating about which I’ll hopefully write more later *grin*
So anyway - all the films in this post were viewed on the 22nd of November. I hope I remember them well enough to [...]

{BOOK DIARY}
Islam (Teach Yourself Series)
by Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Language: English
What It’s About
It’s an introduction to Islam.
My Impressions
It took me a while to get through this… Or rather it was going very well and then for some reason I lost interest half-way and read the other half a few months later (actually I do that a [...]

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi (India, 2008)
Polish Distributor: None yet I think… But Epelpol seems to be picking up most of the new YRF films and nowadays a new Shahrukh release is unlikely not to eventually get distribution in Poland.
Release Date: 12th December 2008 (India)
Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Anushka Sharma
Production House: Yash Raj [...]

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Chori Chori (India, 2003)
Seen: Tuesday, 18th November (DVD)
Runtime: 135′
Release Date: August 2003 in India and sometime this year in Poland on DVD
Director: Milan Luthria
Cast: Rani Mukherji, Ajay Devgan, Sonali Bendre
Plot: Ranbir gets sort of dumped by Pooja, a girl he proposed to (or rather he didn’t, he just assumed she would want to marry [...]