City of Joy

A movie that will carry you to a new place & a new culture you will carry your tears, anger & hope along till the end watching it. The smell of the Indian dust, The pain of the people, The... Full review

this is an art movie it can enter international film festival competitions specially for Om pare acting in this movie ,to be nominated as best actor, photography Patrick Swazi acting was good though bit exaggerated in some scenes the tale... Full review

The movie is not bad. It is based on the book by the same name by Dominique Lapierre, and if my understanding is right has the author's blessings. The characters even have similar if not same names but it is... Full review

I don't know, if you have to have been in India to really appreciate this movie. It has flaws, but I think it is noticeable to see that the only person from India writing here, actually points out the up-sides... Full review

I had to watch this movie in my liberal English teacher's class. We've watched other stupid movies in that class. This one is totally a liberal diss on the U.S. fest. It doesn't help that this movie was shown in my... Full review

I had to watch this movie in my liberal English teacher's class. We've watched other stupid movies in that class. This one is totally a liberal diss on the U.S. fest. It doesn't help that this movie was shown in my... Full review

Patrick Swayze shows he can act in this good drama. I enjoyed the storyline, pace, and acting in this story about an American doctor in India searching for the meaning of life. Supporting cast was great. Great shots of the Indian... Full review

Set in the slums of Calcutta this epic film portrays human cruelty, virtue and value in a poignant and piercing manner. The storyline explains the plot so I won't regurgitate that. What I will say is that this has to be... Full review

We had to watch this movie in school and it was horrible. The plot had nothing to it, it was just Patrick Swayzee doing random things. The movie was definatley a chick flick with the sole purpose of watching him constantley... Full review

A culture tour to India. The description of poverty was very detailed -- which gives audience a feeling of what the poor side of India is like -- and also problems of repression, wealth gap, health problems ... but what i... Full review

And if Joffé ultimately settles for inspirational platitudes, his characters are drawn well enough for the viewer to come away enriched by their company. Someday, in some possible future where all movies go straight to videotape and the local octoplex has been converted to a flea market, the wide-screen epic will seem a historic aberration - a sumptuous visual parenthesis closed down by commerce. ... Full Review

The movie's release date has jumped around the calendar (sometimes a sign of a studio's indecision about how to market a film). Joffé knows all that; nonetheless, this desperately poor city has won his heart. ... Full Review

it is his world that makes the movie worth seeing.....convincing in the background, is marred by a foreground cast of colorful characters who seem borrowed more from Dickens than from India.....Although Max's story is the window through which Joffe approaches Calcutta (he apparently thinks we need an American to identify with), the story of Hasari is actually much more interesting....with it his hope of economic survival, we're reminded of Enzo Staiola 's great performance in the title role of....Hasari, pl ... Full Review

Puri and Azmi are noted Indian actors, and the authenticity of their portrayals suggests the intimate epic that might have been in less clumsy hands. As Max Loeb, a bitter, disillusioned American doctor who's abandoned medicine and come to India, Patrick Swayze looks remarkably fit and untroubled. ... Full Review

TNN 15 September 2009, 10:06am IST As Patrick Swayze succumbed to the battle against cancer at 57, filmmaker and columnist said in the actor's memory, "Dirty Dancing was a film that changed my life, as well as that of my... ... Full Article

The opening party at the spa lawns of ITC The Sonar, Kolkata turned out to be a gala affair with many from the city's party circuit attending the event. ... Full Article

Drug abuse is a complex phenomenon world over, and it has been on the rise among teens across Indian cities. DNA visits the dark alleys of the City of Joy to capture images of a life gone astray. ... Full Article

'City of Joy' - the entire globe terms it so. Of course, a home for veterans and Capital of British India happens to be a ducky spot for various Kollywood auteurs, who love to film over there. ... Full Article

I remember how excited I was when "City of Joy" came out in 1992. That film starred Patrick Swayze, but more important, it starred my hometown of Calcutta. ... Full Article

With Whom Do You Share Your Birthday?Is November 17th your birthday? Was someone special to you born on November 17th? With whom will you choose to celebrate this excellent occasion?If today is your birthday, then you are in excellent company. ... Full Article