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Lakshya, a review by dfmorgan

Lakshya (2004/India) Excel Entertainment (United Kingdom) Director: Farhan Akhtar Writing: Javed Akhtar (Writer) Length: 185 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: Hindi: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Hindi: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Other

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Stars:
Amitabh Bachchan as Col. Sunil Damle
Hrithik Roshan as Karan Shergill
Preity Zinta as Romila Dutta
Om Puri as Subedar Maj. Pritam Singh
Sharad Kapoor as Maj. Binod Sengupta

Plot:
"You never know where life will take you." These words could not have been more true than in the case of Karan Shergill, the protagonist of Lakshya. Karan Shergill, born to rich, affluent parents, lives life not worrying about tomorrow. In most case, one can only be worried if they know what they want to do. Karan hasn't a clue! He is forever at the crossroads of life. The only thing stable in his life is Romila Dutta, a bright and ambitious, young woman. Romi, as she is known, loves Karan and believes that someday, he will find his calling.

Here begins his journey.

A journey that will test Karan, physically, mentally and emotionally.
A journey that will stretch him far beyond his limitations.
A journey that will force him to make bitter choices.
A journey that he will start as a boy but will end as a man.

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Feature Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Music Videos

Another recommendation from Tom and another excellent film. A young man is told by his girlfriend that he has no objectives in life so he decides to join the army on a half-hearted whim. We then follow him as finds his way and gains some objectives.

Rating:

(From Dave's DVD/Blu-ray Reviews on March 25th, 2012)

A Matter of Life and Death, a review by Antares

A Matter of Life and Death (1946) 3.5/5 - I was going to start out this review by telling verbALs to stop scratching his head, because I finally watched the film, but I think that after he reads the score I rated this film, he may just keep on scratching away. I liked the film, but when Raymond Massey's character comes forward, I thought it threw a money wrench into the flow of the screenplay. Bringing an anti-British rant from an American just seemed to me, a little disengenous. This was only one year removed from the end of the Second World War and it just came across as a rather condescending way to take a swipe at the Americans who were still over in England awaiting their return to the States. I saw it as a brave move by Pressburger to do it, but also it appeared as he was left-handedly saying... These Americans, what petulant little children. I could be reading it wrong, but that's how it came across to me.

It reminded me of something I read in a New York Times archived newspaper one day when I was perusing the microfilm collection at a library. I had been reading war reports from France from the D-Day invasion until the Battle of the Bulge. I was surprised to read a small piece about French citizens complaining about the American soldiers in the aftermath of the liberation of Paris. They were actually complaining about the soldiers who had just liberated them from over 4 years of Nazi occupational tyranny.

(From Antares' Short Summations on March 11th, 2014)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Rick

An Invitation to Romance

Pete was right when he called her irritating. Holy Crap - JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!!!!! I wonder how many takes they had to do to get some of these scenes. 

Not only was Ray taking over for Fraser but he was also having a 2 way conversation with the wolf! 

A solid episode.
My Rating:


(From "Due South" marathon on July 27th, 2009)