Monika’s Pensieve

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Slumdog Millionaire (UK/France, 2008)
Polish Distributor: Monolith Films (27th February 2009)
Director: Danny Boyle
Cast: Dev Patel, Irfan Khan, Anil Kapoor
Production House: Celador Films
Plot: (from imdb)
The story of how impoverished Indian teen Jamal Malik became a contestant on the Hindi version of “Who Wants to be A Millionaire?” — an endeavor made without prize money in mind, [...]

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As usual I’ve got too many things saved with the intention to write about them later and a lot of these seem to be ideas for “film spotting” posts. I figured these shouldn’t be that difficult to clear up, so you can probably expect a lot of “film spotting” in the coming days :) [...]

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The fourth edition of Ticket to Bollywood (a Bollywood mini-festival) will take place in Warsaw in about a month’s time (5th-7th December). Tickets are usually hard to get, so if you’d like to attend some films with me let me know soon :) There’s some general info about what they’re showing here and the [...]

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The Warsaw Film Festival starts on Friday, so it’s high time I looked into what they’re showing and choose something - a task which is not as easy as it sounds (on top of which I’m feeling a little guilty right now - I should be correcting the documentation of my degree project rather [...]

Ever since the release of Snakes on a Plane (2006) loads of jokes about it have been made. I’ve never seen the film, but the title just says it all ;) In fact that is exactly how the film was marketed:

What I hadn’t realized until recently was that it was an ongoing joke in the [...]

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Film: Milarepa (Bhutan/India 2006)
Seen: 13th September 2008 (in the cinema with Kinga *grin*)
Runtime: 90′
Release Date: 5th of September 2008 in Poland and according to imdb Poland seems to be the only country that released this film in normal distribution *shocked*
Polish Distributor: Manana
Director: Neten Chokling
Cast: Jamyang Lodro
Production House: Shining Moon Productions
Plot: The story of Milarepa [...]

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Film: Awarapan (India, 2007)
Seen: 9th September 2008 on DVD (Tina magazine’s Bollywood collection, Polish subtitles)
Runtime: 126′
Release Date: 29th June 2007 in India, no cinema release in Poland - I think the DVD came out this year
Polish Distributor: Mediaway
Director: Mohit Suri
Cast: Emraan Hashmi
Production House: Vishesh Films
Plot: There’s a guy called Shivan who is a criminal [...]

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Film: Dostana (India, 2008)
Release Date: 14th November 2008 in India, no release date for Poland
Director: Tarun Mansukhani
Cast: Abhishek Bachchan, John Abraham, Priyanka Chopra, Shilpa Shetty, Bobby Deol, Kiron Kher
Production House: Dharma Productions
Plot: A comedy about two guys who pretend to be gay.
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Why I’m excited about it
Something I really want to see is a mainstream [...]