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Some random movie reviews

1 holiday, 6 movies!

8 movies in a span of last 32 hours!

Huh …

That was too much … A mixture of good cinema and utter crap … of hardcore realism to escapism … of typical and offbeat … of some popular to some watched by a handful … a mixture of many differents actually!

Just writing a purposeless random review of all of these –

1. 1. City of god – Excellent!

Brazilian movie, at best understood with help of subtitles and visuals. An excellent depiction of a Brazilian slum, where kids having guns is not an uncommon site; where crime is a way of life.

2. 2. Love actually – Beautiful!

A mushy love story … rather many mushy love stories …Karan Johar types, if some parallel has to be drawn to our desi phillum industry … with everyone from a school kid to Britain’s prime minister is falling in love.

A good watch nevertheless!

3. 3. Jhom Barabar Jhoom – Crap

Only good things are nice songs … but not that interesting with random jhoom baraabar jhoom title tracks thrown in … Also lead female actors look hot!

4. 4. TaRaRumPum – Utter Crap!

… No actual reason for watching it … just aise hi dekh liya forward kar ke … An awful wanna be ‘Life is Beautiful ‘kind of movie!

5. 5. Dhamaal – Time pass

Time pass Escapist cinema with all kinds of crazy stuff thrown in. Absence of songs helps!

6. 6. Ace Ventura Pet Detective – Time Pass Slapstick

Escapist time pass cinema, with typical Jim Carrey humor.

7. 7. Dharm – Excellent Cinema

A typical ‘art’ movie, slow and sensitive kind of … only to be seen it in a ‘frame of mind’ to watch such cinema.

Well researched and well presented, with some excellent performance thrown in. It seems truly ‘Oscar’ nomination kind of movie.

Although, though provoking … it is likely to be seen a quite boring or too slow movie.

8. 8. Loins of Punjab presents –Damn Interesting satire

A recent release and the only one in the lot to be viewed on big screen.

A sneak peek into lives of NRIs. An excellent satire on their lifestyles and talent hunt shows (Indian Idol types!). Beneath this all there are other aspects portrayed quite effectively. Be it high class ‘socialites’ with all their phonyness (portrayed by Shabana Azmi, playing the ‘bitchy’ Rrita), or portraying typical mindset where we wish everyone to be a doctor or engineer, or 10-15 relatives coming up to ‘encourage’ a participant in the talent hunt or a typical Punjabi ‘wanna be dudes’ duo or behind the screen jugaad, or Indians wishing to squeeze the maximum out of US hotels!

Bole to buree tarah le li gayee hai sub type ke ’characters’ ki!!

A good watch for those who love satire (this 90 minute movie is largely in angrezi)

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So much for a day and a half ... huh !!!!!



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  1. Anonymous12:45 PM, October 03, 2007

    I am Jealous :(
    Last weekend, I just watched 5 movies....
    Now the 5 here is 4 movies from beginning to end and one movie's II half and another movie's I half...So, a total of 5 movies, that too in 48 hrs...
    My God, how cud you see so many different kind of movies !

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  2. Nikesh Rathi3:48 PM, October 03, 2007

    ... 'just' 5 movies !
    Relativity in play it seems !

    It just happened that I watched so many movies. Had nothing to do on the holiday ... and was in no mood to study !

    BTW .. Latest addition to the list is Sivaji - The Boss. (Without subtitles :-(, although Wikiedia helped ... as usual!!!)

    Rajni Rocks !

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  3. Anonymous4:13 PM, October 03, 2007

    Shivaji-The Boss...

    Good Nikesh... ;)

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  4. Nikesh Rathi2:47 AM, October 05, 2007

    Saw another 'sort of' different movie "Chain kuli ki main kuli ki" (Rahul Bose!).

    It is about a 13 year orphan who gets Kapil's bat used in 1983 world cup ... and does wonder for few international matches with that 'magic' bat ...

    Goodish kind of movie !

    Specially liked the line -

    "Magic to hamaare andar hota hai,.. hamaare vishwaas mein hota hai"

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  5. Nikesh Rathi2:49 AM, October 05, 2007

    BTW ... Sivaji - The boss is a great fun to watch ...

    It is almost impossible to escape Rajni's magic!

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  6. Anonymous11:22 AM, October 05, 2007

    Well, "Chain kuli ki main kuli ki"...this is one movies, that was released and next week was off from Inox..I was so disappointed :(

    I don't want to experience such magic which will inflict permanent scar on my brain ;)
    U see, I am not a patient person :)

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