Totally Filmi

Aiyyaa!

When Anurag Kashyap's That Girl With Yellow Boots showed at TIFF2010, someone asked him in the Q&A that was held afterwards if he'd ever thought about making a mainstream Bollywood film -- Kashyap's response was something along the lines that if he tried, it would be something totally crazy.

After watching this long anticipated trailer, I think we have the answer to a related question:  if Kashyap produced a Bollywood film, what would it look like? Director Sachin Kunkalkar's  Aiyyaa:

 

 

I want to see this film so badly I could almost cry.  Lucky, lucky London folks who will get to see this at the BFI London Film Festival.  I would pretty much place money on the fact that we're not likely to see this in cinemas here.

Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1: French Trailer

There were a lot of good things about living in France, as we did for a number of years, but probably the best thing of all was all the movies I got to watch.  And I think right now, I really miss that access, because Anurag Kashyap's Gangs of Wasseypur (Part 1) is going to be released in France on July 25th:

 

 

At the very least, I'm grateful to access to a trailer with subtitles.  Sadly, though, that's only whetted my desire to see this film even more, especially now with the release for Part 2 approaching.

Sigh.