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85th ACADEMY AWARD PREDICTIONS   Eventhough CelluloidCritic analyzes Indian Cinema, how can anyone forget the biggest celebration of film? Here is my full 85th Academy Award Predictions. Have you made yours? BEST PICTURE Amour Argo DARK HORSE! Beasts of the Southern Wild Django Unchained Les Miserables Life of Pi Lincoln OSCAR PICK! Silver Linings Playbook Zero Dark Thirty   BEST DIRECTOR Michael Haneke ( Amour ) Lee Ang ( Life of Pi ) DARK HORSE! David O. Russell ( Silver Linings Playbook ) Steven Spielberg ( Lincoln ) OSCAR PICK! Benh Zeitlin ( Beasts of the Southern Wild ) BEST LEADING ACTOR Bradley Cooper ( Silver Linings Playbook ) Daniel Day-Lewis ( Lincoln ) OSCAR PICK! Hugh Jackman ( Les Miserables ) Joaquin Phoenix ( The Master ) DARK HORSE! Denzel Washington ( Flight ) BEST LEADING ACTRESS Jessica Chastain ( Zero Dark Thirty ) OSCAR PICK! Jennifer Lawrence (

VISHWAROOPAM (2013) Director: Kamal Hassan Casts: Kamal Hassan, Pooja Kumar, Andrea, Rahul Bose Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy Language: Tamil Genre: Action Novel attempts always face challenges. In that ironic fact, Vishwaroopam became the king of controversies due to the sensitive issues it has covered. With political pressures and certain societal disruptions, Kamal Hassan fought hard for the film to reach the audiences. But after the film has been released now, one could wonder whether this film deserved so much of problems and controversies. Now, to my review.   Synopsis Nirupama (Pooja Kumar) sends a detective behind her husband, Vishwanath (Kamal Hassan) to discover possible affairs, so that she could easily ask for a divorce to start a life with her boss. However, little did she knew about the shocking discoveries, which awaits her. Story – Screenplay Vishwaroopam is made in the core aim to entertain by presenting a

DAVID (2013)  Director: Bejoy Nambiar Casts:  Vikram, Jiiva, Tabu, Isha Sharvani, Lara Dutta, Nassar Music: Modern Mafia, Bramfatura, Prashant Pillai, Remo Fernandes Anirudh Ravichander, Maatibaani Language: Tamil Genre: Drama Kollywod have become a welcoming platform for experimental cinema and of course it is a healthy practise indeed. Many youngsters are coming up with many imaginative ideas, which translate into fresh visuals and experience. David is such touted piece and coming from Mani Ratnam’s school of direction, plenty of hopes were pinned on the director, Bejoy Nambiar. Judging from the trailer, David promised a new treatment of parallel storytelling. So does David deliver what it has promised? Synopsis The story revolves around the lives of two Davids in two different parts of the world in two different eras. At 1999 in Mumbai, there is a 19 year old David (Jiiva) who is a musician born into a family of devout Christians. A happy go lucky t