Saturday, April 9, 2016

Manhattan Chase (2000): Godfrey Ho's Final Film

After Godfrey Ho's string of some of the films that went into either uncredited or changing Godfrey Ho into some alternate names, Godfrey went into the final film so far.

In 2000, "Manhattan Chase" was released. He is also known as Godfrey Hall for the third (and final) time after Honor and Glory and Undefeatable (both released in 1993).

According to his interview via nanarland.com, that when the time that it was released, he said that the video market were dropped, lost money and not released in Hong Kong which B-grade American films cannot released in his home country, he decided to stop making film anymore.

After that, in these days, he worked as a teacher in Multimedia Innovation Center for Polytechnic University for five years and joined Hong Kong Film Academy.

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Shyam Ramsey: Final Four Films (2003-2014)

Final shots of Shyam Ramsey's 2003 film "Dhund: The Fog"
After Shyam teamed up with Tulsi for the uncleared final time in 1996,  Shyam Ramsey returned to Bollywood after six and a half years in 2003.

His film was bombed according to Indian box office. It was called "Dhund: The Fog".

Dhund: The Fog (2003)
 Ghutan (2007)

Bachao... Inside Bhoot Hai (2010)
 Neighbours (2014)

Talaashi (1996): Tulsi Ramsey and Shyam Ramsey's Final Teamup?

After the 1993 Bollywood cult film that based on 1984 horror film "Mahakaal", the two of the infamous and unknown Ramsey brothers, Tulsi and Shyam Ramsey (when the Indian horror Zee TV show "Zee Horror Show" that both directorial job of numerous unknown episodes went underway until the next year of 1997)  returned with not only horror but the 1996 action film "Talaashi" (The Search). However, according to IMDB page in Trivia section, it says that this film delayed and it didn't got too much to have a proper release.
                        DVD front cover and back cover (contains some of scenes) of this film
The story is about Jackie who became known for SFX (special effects) that appeared on movies
and he liked his work, but the home minister has evil plans when he wanted to kill the commissioner and trap him. Rawal also named in the character.

It runs 161 minutes and it produced under Selveraj Films. It was produced by Pramod P. Shah and Ashok Sharma and it was composed the music by the duo Anand-Milind (who had also composed "Mahakaal" and other string of music compositions that heard on other Bollywood films from 1984 to 2016) .

 IMDb page of this film says that only Tulsi directed but some DVDs (one of them was pictured the front-and-back cover), says Tulsi and Shyam listed and credited as directors on the front cover (pictured). So, it is possible to unclear whether if two brothers had a final film and ended up with this so far.

After that, it is unknown if they faded into obscurity in the Bollywood movie studio world and maybe if the Ramsey brothers team era might be marked as declined its popularity since the 1970s golden era of Bollywood film.

As for Shyam, he spanned his four films afterwards.