Movie Review: Oye Lucky Lucky Oye..

And I continue writing reviews for movies :) With the sem just started, there is not much of load and I give myself the opportunity of watching a new movie everyday. Hence continuing the series, I had the chance to watch Oye lucky. This movie set up in the backdrop of Delhi truly captures the culture of the region. The director plays special attention to the background details and makes one get the feeling of being in the capital.
The movie has established a new mark in the independent film category with a specific target audience in mind. There would definitely be many people who would not like the movie has been made. However there won't be any complains against the way the actors have carried out their acting in the movie. Abhay Deol has justified the role and Paresh Rawal playing 3 roles in the movie has shown his shades.
The thing I enjoyed most was the background score that goes well with the story. Same can be said about all the stealing sequences. The director has ensured that their is a balance of adventurous stealing sequences with the character development of all the characters. Even though I am not aware of the name of the actress, I must say that she gelled in the role very efficiently.
All in all, a nice movie, but goes with a disclaimer that many people might not like it at all.

Movie Review: Ghajini

Before going to the theater, I read somewhere that the movie is a bit long. But since it was an Aamir Khan starrer, I was ready for it as I expected a high quality acting in a movie which had a nice concept(though a copied one). But I was wrong in my thinking as the plot kept on stretching without any basis. I wonder how the same person who made a wonderful movie like TZP last year could work in a movie which is overhyped, with glaring inconsistencies, full of poor acting and a plot so so so stretched that it could make the hardest Aamir Khan's fan cry out loud.

I don't know if people agree to my view but there is a difference between what people prefer in the Southern half of the country and what people prefer in the upper half. The way the movies are made, their texture, the acting, the dialogue delivery are all different. Hence after watching the movie, I could say that the major reason why people might not like this is because the director didn't keep the same in mind. He could have recreated this movie in Tamil and believe me that could have been a super hit.

A problem with this movie was that the concept of Sort term memory loss wasn't exploited properly. If we take out that from the movie, then it is pretty similar to any other damn hindi movie. The focus was mostly on the Romantic aspect and the flashback. Being a action movie with a concept, having silly comedy scenes in the movie only led to dilution of the concept. The character of Ghajini was never allowed to develop. The movie could have been a lot better had their been a thought behind the role. You can't have a owner of a pharma firm act like a gunda on the streets!

Overall, I was disappointed with the way this movie came out to be. Aamir is a wonderful actor and had not for him I would never have wasted 3 hours of my life. For the rest, I wish I suffer from some sort of memory loss and forget why I went to the movie.

Tamasha by Media

Being on my vacation, I've whole day to spend watching TV and as per my habit I generally start browsing News Channels. I must say that these TV news channels have lived up to my expectations and are as stupid as they were in the last 5-6 years. You can easily browse a channel and see some person vehemently cursing politicians and some channels showing how a flop TV star was arrested for molesting a female friend. But the thing that has hurt me the most is how these News channels have launched campaigns against Terror. Though on the surface it looks to be a great initiative, I have a feeling that all that this would do is raise false hopes and help the channel with some TRP points.
I saw a documentary today on how Russians fought a Hostage situation in their country in 2002, when a group of 41 terrorists took around 800 hostages who had gone to see an Opera. The state spokesperson who was interviewed talked how Media was prevented to show anything while the Army was moving in. It helped them save many lives. Compare that to Mumbai 2008, when we had TV channels loudly talking everything about the procedure that the Armed forces were to take. Clearly, its not just Media but also the Forces who are at fault for having trusted Media with information that could only hurt their chances of a successful and a faster operation.

When Lalu gave me WWII experience

Thank you Mr. Lalu Yadav for making all Indians travelling by a Second Class Sleeper on Indian Railways feel as if they are Jews living in Hitler's era. For the unfortunate who haven't experienced this, trust me, go out and make some journey on the Indian railways, if there is no plan or destination that you could think of, I suggest go out for a weekend getway to the next station and return back, only to try out the three berths which have been fitted on the side in a most amazing way to ensure a third of the people die of suffocation, the next third die of back problems and the final third are the unfortunate ones who would miss out on the fun part as because of the rising obesity in the Indian society, they would not be able to make it to any one of these berths.

Thanks Lalu, you are showing how much you care about the people and how without raising fares, you can increase profits. Kudos. I believe this is something that the Investment bankers should also try to lean from you in order to come out of the current crisis.