3 movies in 3 days

Shrek 3 on Friday, Shootout at Lokhandwala on Saturday and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End on Sunday.

With the gujjar violence blocking all paths to Jaipur last weekend, I decided to utilize the weekend by finishing off all possible movies that I was interested in. I had already watched Cheeni Kum a weekend before.

Cheeni Kum invoked mixed reactions. It seemed to be as if it has been made with the sole purpose of showcasing acting skills of amitabh bachchan. I couldn't figure out another reason why I would go and watch this movie.

Shrek 3 was nowhere close to the original Shrek. Why do all these animated intended for children movies must have this "moral of the story" embedded in it. For that matter, why do they always need to be intended for children. Shrek 1 didn't really try to do all this teaching and I guess that is why it was so lovable.

Shootout looked pretty cool. Despite huge violence, Tushaar Kapoor and a so-so Vivek Oberoi (who seemed to have been promoted to Ajay Devgan's role after Company :-D), it has an impact on the audience. One of the good things about the movie is that it doesn't passes any judgements on anyone, just shows plain facts (or true rumors as they say :-D)

Pirates 3 - good but a pretty complex story. And the fact that I didn't remember most of the story of earlier editions added to my misery. Heck, I didn't even remember that Jack Sparrow was killed in the last movie. I think my kind of people should first consult Wikipedia before going for such a movie ;-)

Bunti aur Babli

Yeh world hai na world, isme do tarah ke log hote hai. Ek jo bunti aur babli ek hi baar dekhte hai aur dusre jo bunti aur babli ek se jyada baar dekhte hai. Hum dusro main se hai.

I enjoyed it more the second time. Why ? Because I knew by that time that movie is pure comedy and even the supposedly thrilling sequences are also comedy.
The movie doesn't get boring even for a minute. If I break the movie into infinite parts of infinitesimal frames and rate each frame, each of them will get atleast a "decent" rating.

The weak part? Lack of details. The movie has too many cases due to which each case doesn't get enough details for viewer to understand how exactly they did it. This also made me wonder why do they become so popular by interval that every newspaper is publishing their news. The cases lacks the certain spark to distinguish them from ordinary thugs.
Secondly, the lack of thrills. bunti and babli do not actually live on the edge. Even though Big B himself is behind them, their life is pretty easy most of the time. Wasn't really expected.

However, its being a long long time since I saw "housefull" in the theatres in jaipur and all three bunti, babli and DCP dasrath deserve the credit for their fine performances.

A birthday and 2 movies

Going by my recent posting frequency, my life should have been either too boring or too busy to blog. On the contrary, life has been eventful in a good sense since some time with lots of events happening in the last few days.

It all started with a fantastic birthday on 1st, followed by back to back movies on 2nd and the 3rd. I got the maximum no of wishes this time around, from both family and friends (also got maximum no of gifts this time ;-) ). Considering the kind of introvert guy I am, its absolutely amazing to see how much networks I have got just because of the iitian tag. This also makes me notice how networking sites like orkut would become more and more important to lives.

Watched "XXX-2" on 2nd and "Mumbai Express" on 3rd. Movies of completely different genre, Both have a common "lacking great performance by lead actor". Ice Cube in XXX-2 had no sense of dialogue delivery while Kamal Hassan, though no doubt a great actor, do not have that kind of quality when it comes to comedy. His not-so-good hindi is also a big hindrance. I would still give both movies an average rating.

Another interesting incident that happened on 2nd was the lost and found of my mobile phone. I forgot my mobile on the restaurant table only to find half an hour later that it was missing. I had no hopes of getting it back but to my surprise, I got a call another half and hour later from a guy who took it to his home. I have been on a lucky streak after a long long time and I am enjoying it to the fullest.

Black

Watched Black over the weekend. This movie certainly is worth the hype that has been created around it. Great storyline, brilliant performances by everyone, the most notable one being from amitabh. Never throughout the movie I felt that amitabh is actually acting out a teacher. Talk about being natural, this is the best one can see.
No bollywood movie in recent times would come even close to it. Infact, I am wondering if this could be the first oscar for bollywood. Apart from the great performances, the movie is based on a christian family and has lots of dialogues in english which the hollywood jury can relate to easily.

Statutory warning: this movie has caused tears in the eyes of many people who I thought were not so sensitive.

Kyun ho gaya naa

Saw Kyun ho gaya naa yesterday. The only reason why this movie finds a mention in this blog is because the last movie I saw before this was more than 1.5 months ago.
Right from the start I knew that this is going to be one bad experience. Maybe that's the reason why I didn't find it as bad as expected. Good and bad are relative terms, relative to expectations. This is why we fights with our loved ones even on a very small issue while choose to ignore strangers.

The good thing about the movie was this photography. However, as this happens with most movies of aishwarya, the movie at times looked more like a photo session of aishwarya.
I have beginning to dislike aishwarya in the past few days when it comes to acting. Everytime I see her, I feel like she is carrying a great burden of showing the world the face of the cultured, all good indian woman, and she has lost her natural expressions because of this. All expressions that come on her face apart from her smile look made up. She makes heavy-weight emotional scenes out of nowhere. Com'on girl, look like a human, not like some great romantic poem/goddess/most emotional person on earth.

I didn't find anything worthwhile mention in this movie having nothing that I can call storyline.