Resurgence in good Indian Cinema

I managed to see Luck by Chance, Dev-D and Delhi-6, over the weekend trying to brace myself for 3 more weeks in the Indian hinterland.

Delhi-6 has great music by AR Rahman. Sonam Kapoor is pretty and young. Rakeysh needs a scriptwriter.

Dev -D is fantastic and half the reason to write this post. More on that later.

After Dil Chahta Hai which came out when i entered college, one wondered whether there would be others. For the count (I may be missing something) here are some (can't recall others mostly due to poor memory)...

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (the best of the lot) so far - great script, good acting and incredible music
jhankaar beats
life in a metro
khosla ka ghosla
rock on
honeymoon travels
manorama six feet under
cheeni kum
johnny gaddar
wednesday (one can't imagine this movie was actually allowed to be made, released!)
dev d (what wisecandyman describes as devdas on LSD)

There was a streak earlier as well which died prematurely - bombay boys. snip, etc. as is obvious this streak is longer. So there is hope that we will get quality entertainment which is not necessarily directed towards the lcd. And i have deliberately left Sajjanpur out since Benegal did it. If he can't do a good movie, who can?

For writing on good Indian movies, not necessarily in the category of the above, also read
parallecinema.blogspot.com and passionforcinema

I ended up discovering alternativeperspective.blogspot.com and this particular post on Swades