other quizzes
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identify these sizzling pairs!
How well do you know these sizzling kissers?
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Rogues Gallery 2
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Rogues Gallery
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Disco Deewane!
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Prem! Prem! Prem!
on the web
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Tom Stoppard chats with …
One of the best sessions at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Tom Stoppard chats with the audience.
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2012 Review: Best Poster…
There are cases where the poster is better than the film it promotes – and others where it at least equals the result. So we thought we’d salute those posters that appeared this year as part of our round-up of, and farewell to, 2011. You can read abou
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The future according to …
Right now, no one knows what will happen in the future. Not even that friend of a friend of a friend who claims to be "a little bit psychic".
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Outbreak
Outbreak: A sarcastic take on the movie. Very nicely done using comic strips.
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The 6 Most Unintentional…
Ask any 10-year-old boy, and he'll tell you: Romance is gross. One look at the average Hollywood movie is going to tell you he might just be right.
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5 Kick-Ass Action Movies…
These days, we don't go for propaganda via posters or showy military parades. No, if you want the populace subdued, you'd better dress up your message with some high-wire kung fu and guys running in slow motion from fireballs.
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The 10 Most Shameless Pr…
We understand why movies have product placement. How are studios supposed to make money? You know, other than from ticket sales and DVDs. And merchandising.
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The 5 Most Half Assed Mo…
You wouldn't think it would be that hard to come up with a movie monster. You just take what people are already afraid of, and make it either bigger, stronger or uglier. People are scared of crime, so you make a movie about a super-strong killer with a me
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Rogues Gallery
Ever wondered if the big bad beefy villains had a back story? Did their mothers drop them when they were babies and their brains get damaged? Or were they teased mercilessly as kids for looking weird and hence they became villains? Or were they simply bor
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Disco Deewane
Everything your parents did not want you to do, you did. At the disco! From the saccharin sweet holding-hands-while-roller-skating to dirty dancing cheek-to-cheek (they still do it, call it ‘bumping’) the disco became the center of all envy in the 70
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Prem! Prem! Prem!
Happy birthday to the Bollywood heartthrob who is known as Prem! Yes,It is Salman Khan's birthday! And what a way to end the year on FilmOrbit than to deconstruct his film career and see him in his many avatars.
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Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost!
The villain has the hero by his neck and his vicious, determined expression tells you that he means to end the hero’s life. He’s so focussed on gritting his teeth and increasing the pressure on the hero’s neck, that he hasn’t noticed that the hero
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Superstar!
We call him Thalaivar! We take prints of his movies to the temple and burn camphor on palms before the first showing of his movies. We attempt to copy his style of wearing his coolers. We even attempted to smoke because we saw him light up on the screen.
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Strip Tease
There’s a song playing on the radio, ‘Ooh la la, ooh la la, tu hai meri fantasy!’ (You are my fantasy, from The Dirty Picture) and your mind transports you to the world of ‘Sadi hawa ho gayee’ (Jeetendra and Jaya Pradha in Mawali)
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Breaking News!
The intrepid reporter has caught the world’s fancy and he's exploring the secret of the Unicorn on the screens near you. So we wondered if there have been other heroes who work at the newspapers, and voila! We found a long list.
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Halloween
SCARED AT THE MOVIES Saamri, Dracula, Damien, the zombies, demons, ghouls, witches, the undead, unholy grounds, cemetaries, haunted houses... If it is October 31, it is time for a scarefest again. It’s time for blood and gore and screams.
