Original stories seem to be ignored like the plague in movieland. It’s always nice to have a Hollywood inspiration
Normally, I don’t dip into quotations and proverbs. Except while ticking off badly behaved children. But something was bugging me of late. And a chance discovery of a series of articles by a heavy-duty American screenwriter sorted out my bugaboo.

Here are examples of scenes and scripts lacking logic in the movies
While watching the movies, I’ve been zapped by certain baffling, puzzling, brain-busting elements. Here’s sharing some of the brain bogglers:

Listen, I’m sure that actors from what is termed as “the South” in journalese, are distinctly audience-friendly. It’s just that they elect to debut, on the Bollywood front, in projects which give them short shrift. Self-publicity — a necessary evil — is also conspicuous by its absence.

o two or three ways about it. You must have been meditating in the Himalayas, luxuriating in a Mumbai ocean resort, or hiding under the Hyderabad boulders, if you didn’t know that yesteryear’s Chandni has made a comeback.

Since time immemorial — and I can say that since I’ve been reporting on and reviewing films since I was in my diapers — there are severe misconceptions about what Bolly-journo’s life and times. And they haven’t altered right from the era of Amitabh Bachchan (which is when I entered the sin... scene), then on to the Khans (now that’s another story) to the jalebi-barfi ambience of Ranbir Kapoor today. So, here are 10 myths about the movie-journo tribe which keep setting my teeth on edge:

Khalid Mohamed

Statutory warning: This is not a case for or against cigarette smoking. It’s just that I can’t figure out what the fuss is all about, and it’s been going on ever since former minister Anbumani Ramadoss got a bidi in his bonnet about the on-screen display of tobacco consumption.

Khalid Mohamed

So Ahana, the chirpy teenaged girl-next-door, doesn’t know who on earth Dilip Kumar is. “Who’s he?” the B-wood movie addict asked. “Some newcomer or what?”