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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

The other side....

Its just been a week since the exams got over, but it seems like its been ages and I already feel so bored, with nothing really to do, but I don't want complain.....Its ok to do nothing....Its fine, completely fine.......
Hopefully my life takes a complete 360 degree turn,next month...and that too for the good. I'll be interning at god-knows-some architect's firm for the next 4-5 months.I just don't want him to make my life hell, maybe I'll make his one!!!!!


My craziness for Konkona Sensharma keeps going up everyday. Its been said many times, but she is such a natural performer.Make her a dead body in a movie, and you can be sure that she'll infuse some life even into it.I totally loved her in metro.Saw it twice...Speaking of metro, I really think its one of the better films of the year. After the disappointing Salaam-e-ishq{where Nikhil advani completly lost track of all his stories, had some horrible editing problems} which had 6 love stories running parallely, director Anurag Basu gets it almost right in Metro. There are some loopholes, but the narrative is really crisp.It has some good performances as well, especially sharman Joshi, shilpa shetty, Irfan Khan and of course Konkona. The movie is worth a watch.
Oh....I'm in the fourth year now.....so just two more years for me to get out of this zoo of a college!!!!Our department has like the biggest namoonas on earth!! I just hope time flies by.....all this would just be like a bad dream, actually its a nightmare, and I would never remember it!!!!!...But thank god, that I have some really good friends,that college life seems that it is indeed not that bad, as I think it is. So thank you- ahaladini, anoodha,nanditha, poornima and sandhya......
And last semster has been really bad. The exams din't go well at all, I just want to PASS!!!! My design crit was so horrible, that I was almost on the verge of failing, and with a teacher, whose answer for a question as simple as" sir, do you think I've done badly?"would just be an "I don't Know, Maybe you've flunked", life just couldn't get any better.
I got to see some really good movies in the past two months. Cinema paradiso will make you fall in love with it, its a classic and makes you feel good by the end of it. Same with Amores perros and Volver. Mani Rathnam was cleary influenced by Alajandro Gonzalez Innaritu's Amores perros while making 'Yuva', though the stories are completely different, but the basic plot remains the same....an accident...and the lives of the people involved in it...before and after. Volver is this complete folk tale kind of a story, was such fun to watch. Its has an all women cast, with men as just mere sex objects. Two other movies I really loved watching- Alfred Hithcock's rear window and Steven Spielberg's Schindler's list----AMAZING!!!!
There were some disappointing one's as well, Especially Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, which is about, what happens when a fastfood organization finds out that the pattie in the burger they serve, actually has shit in it. It could have been so much better, but too many sub-plots,just kill the movie. Same with Running with scissors. This movie just doesn't know whether it supposed to be funny or serious, its just too weird, with too many disturbed characters in it!!!....I don't know whether I liked this movie or not- brokeback mountain.The way the movie is shot, completely blows you away. Every frame looks like a postcard picture. Its shot beautifully!!

Wednesday, May 30, 2007

life's always been unfair....but who cares..........!!!!

Sunday, March 04, 2007

life is so disappointing.........

Saturday, February 24, 2007

marriages are full of surprises.......

Honeymoon travels pvt.ltd. isn't the usual kind of cinema bollywood keeps churning out. Debutant director, Reema Kagti, tries out something new, not moving away from the bollywood movie format, and is quite impressive. But don't expect any masterpiece,its a movie which will make you feel nice at the end of it.
So, there are six couples going on a packaged honeymoon to goa, which spans 4 days.It gives us an insight of how the lives of these 12 people unfold during their honeymoon,the revelations they face, and how at the end of it, they come out as changed individuals.
Where the movie gets full marks, is in the characterisation. They seem like real people, nothing overly dramatic.The way the movie is narrated is quite novel, with a radioshow unfolding flashbacks of each of these characters.And all these flashbacks are shot in black and white, each of them supported with a number from an old hindi movie.But, some parts the director really had no idea of what to do, especially the Sandhya Mridul-Vikram Chatwal story, she really loses it. The movie has some really good dialogues by Anurag Kashyap.
Kay Kay Menon and Raima sen are superb.I din't expect Raima to be so good-- the part where she goes para gliding in a saree, and another one, where she beats up some goons, are extremely hilarious !!!Ranvir Shorey and Dia Mirza are also good, but sadly their parts are so small,especially Ranvir Shorey,who's really got into the skin of his character, is not in the movie after the first 20 mins.Its sad, that Dia Mirza, always ends up getting teeny-meeny roles in movies. Boman Irani and Shabana Azmi, are just such naturals, they play their parts really well. So is Sandhya Mridul, she too plays her part well.But its not the same,with Vikram Chatwal.Minnisha Lamba and Abhay Deol are also really impressive as the always happy-we-don't -fight couple--Their's is the part where the director takes full cinematic liberty,and its quite enjoyable.Amisha patel(pinky, literally) and Karan khanna are ok.
The movie has three songs, and all of them sound really good, especially Halke Halke and Sajnaji Vari vari. Pyar ki yeh...Is extremely well shot, with Abhay and Minnisha doing the Tango amazingly!! With a running time of 2 hours,the movie is Worth watching....

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

times of insignificance......

I really do not know what to write about....just have some random thoughts, which, if put down..would surely not make a good read....and the past few weeks have been really boring..nothing really significant's happened ..life's become so mundane....
which means that I talk about my favourite subject>>>>>movies....
let's see...I finally got to see babel....have been waiting to watch from the time it premiered at the cannes film festival...- really love the way the movie is shot..has a very raw feel to it...And even the way, the 4 stories are connected is really good....The story starring Adriana barraza(who's got a best supporting actress nomination for the oscars), Gael Garcia Bernal is the best of the four stories--brilliant execution and excellent performances.This movie is totally worth a watch.
Little children--Another really good movie, -- because of the way the movie ends....and also because of the way its narrated.When you watch it, you'll think its one of those movies, which'll take the cliched path, but it completely surprises you in the end.Kate winslet(who's been nominated for the best actress for the oscars) turns in a really good performance.So does,Jackie Earle Haley(nom.for best supporting actor).The movie at once seems funny..sometimes serious..sometimes stupid...sometimes quirky....a thought provoking film.
Junebug --I liked this one too,because its movie about people, just the way they really are, no strings attached,Something like how sideways was.Amy Adams, who plays this I'm-always- happy character, gives a really good perfromance, especially her breakdown scene towards the end..she's amazing.
I think all the three movies are worth a watch, so catch them if u can....

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Adieu.....

I updated with 3 posts...so please try reading all three of them......

Looking back at this year, I'm left with bitter-sweet feelings, mostly bitter..I think.But I don't think everything was so bad, there were some good things as well.But its been a year full of revelations about so many thing in life.
People, especially.I Don't know...I might be judging..But so manypeople have changed and that to for the worse.I think I just end up giving too much importance, to some people.I've remained true to myself and haven't/will never change/d come what may!!!!t
Something I'm really happy that I did was to actually go on the 15 day tour, without whining!!(we covered Agra, Delhi, Jaipur,Jaisalmer,Jodhpur,Udaipur and Ahmedabad)..I totally loved Jaisalmer(the camel ride in the desert was the highpoint) and Jodhpur( the Meharangharh fort is the most magnificent piece of architecture).The other places I had already been to(except jaipur), but loved visiting them again, especially Ahmedabad,one of the cities I really love, and have good memories about.The whole tour as such,wasn't that good...I mean.. there was so much tension around..the atmosphere was sour....and situations to a certain extent turned awry!!!But on the whole, it was a really enriching experience.
It was during this tour, that my bond with a few of my classmates really strengthend!!(especially sandhya and anoodha, anoodha..I'm actually having second thoughts...)--During our stay in Delhi, when I was in so much pain and was not feeling well at all, my classmates were so helpful and 'caring'(maybe caring is not the correct word, it looks a bit out of palce....but will manage with it...)I thank them a lot!!!!!Especially---Ahaladini, Sandhya, Shylesh(who still thinks, I was acting!!! Moron!!!!), Faheem,Abhishek,Sudheer(Who took me to the doctor at midnight when it was raining bloody heavily!!!)..charles,..everyone.Every single person...thank you so much!!!!
The Village case study experience, has been the best so far, and there'll be nothing to beat it...eventhough we'll still have our usual case studies to go for!!!..But we had the maximum amount of fun, only 27 of us and 2 teachers...waking up till late in the night and jabbering away, catching up with a stupid tamil movie at a nearby theatre....This is one trip I'm really going to cherish!!!!!
Zonasa at Trivandrum, wasn't that great an experience, though I think the place is beautiful!!!..The saddest part was that..I took part in so many competitions..and didn't win a place in any...So now I've decided never to take part in competitions.Because they never work for me!But the last day at Trivandrum, was fun...We went to this palce, the name of the place I'm not able to recall...it was by the seaside...it was fun!!!!
I don't really think..there was anything else, significant which really happened...let me see....Am I missing out on something.....No..Not really...
The year's ended on a good note(thankgod for that!!!!)...There's a new entrant in our family, I have a baby cousin brother(god!!! Its 20 years younger to me!!!I feel like an uncle to it!!!)......
Hopefully the next year..something significant (i'e. something good) happens......SEE..I'm being optimistic for once..........I'm really looking forward to continue this journey, full of surprises and endless possiblities.....

When aishwarya looked like hrithik ki amma-movies,movies and more movies...........

I just wanted to do a post on the 10 best hindi movies of 2006(not 10 actually...), so here it is......I missed so many good ones, especially dor, woh lamhe, kabul express....at the moment these are the three movies I can think of....Hopefully I get to watch them sometime soon. So here goes my list......

10. Don----Only beacuse shahrukh's there in it.That's it.Totally overated and boring.

09. Dhoom2---This movie is soley watchable only because of hrithik.He dances so well,and in a certain way uplifted the movie,eventhough he really had nothing to do.Aishwarya looked like hrithik ki amma, and proved again that she cannot act, if given such kind of roles,and shows such plasticity( her best ever performance has been in raincoat).Abhishek(the only reason I guess Aishwarya did the movie!!!) really needs to buck up--what was he doing in the movie???? Its very sad that actors like Bipasha(though she looked sexier than aishwarya) and Uday chopra were totally wasted.

08.Corporate---I thought it was a very novel concept, though not as gripping as madhur bhandarkar's earlier movies(my friends totally hated this movie,telling that it was highly pretentious!).Bipasha Basu performed really really well.

07.Golmaal---A total laugh riot.With some really good performances by paresh rawal, sharman joshi,tusshar kapoor and arshad warsi, the movie was total paisa vassol!!! Ajay devgan, whom I don't really like, also turned in a decent performance.
one more movie at no.7-----Kabhi alvida naa kehna---I really like this movie.Everyone went on about how stupid and idiotic the movie was,maybe they din't understand the movie, that's why.Though shahrukh was a bit too grumpy and whiny, Priety was wasted, so was Amitabh Bachchan.Abhishek was ok, and Rani was good, so was Kirron Kher(I don't think anyone even noticed her!!)I think it was a very commendable effort by karan johar.He told a different story, not moving away from his signature style of film making.

06.fanaa---The story was nothing great, nor did the movie try to say.."oh see, I'm different"..It was just pure bollywood entertainment.Kajol and Amir khan turned in a good performance,and that's the only reason I loved the movie.

05.Gangster----Another really different movie with some really good music. I really liked the end, and the performances too were good.

04.Omkara-Director Vishal Bharadwaj's adaptation of Othello, was almost near perfect, though I felt that Vivek oberoi, was toally lost, the main character din't look like he was playing the title role, and the language, though highly authentic, was difficult to understand,at times.Otheriwse the movie is flawless.The performances by Saif Ali Khan, konkona sensharma, kareena kapoor and Bipasha Basu were really good.
One more movie at no.4-----Mixed Doubles---Another movie which totally went un-noticed, Maybe because people termed it as parallel cinema...and blah blah blah......I think the performances were brilliant, the movie was made realistic,though the subject isn't, it was really quirky and funny.

03.Rang De basanti---Its one of the classics of contemporary Indian cinema. And the fact that everyone connects with it at a certain level,is where the novelty of the movie lies.And the performance by the ensemble cast is really good. I loved Alice Patten....

02. Lage raho munnabhai---Another movie, with which people connected easily.Brought back Gandhian values into the limelight.It seriously did make a difference, and the movie wasn't trying to be preachy at any point.It was this fultoo bollywood movie, with a social message, that left you smiling......

01.Yun hota toh kya hota---The reason why I consider this as the no.1 movie of the year, is that movies like rang de basnati, lage raho.....got all the credit they deserved, but sadly this movie, which was DIFFERENT in every sense of the word, went totally un-noticed, and wasn't even given its due credit!!!People go on saying,how they think Naseeruddin shah is a fine actor and blah..blah..., but I bet they wouldn't have seen this masterpiece of a movie made by this brilliant actor.Though there are a few mistakes, the movie is still very good!!!!The performance by the ensemble cast, is so so good!!!!..Especially konkona Sensharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Paresh Rawal,Ankur khanna.....So for me this has to be the no.1 movie of the year.

There were other movies as well, not in hindi though---especially 15 park avenue( another masterpiece by aparna sen), antar mahal(I'm toally amazed at the kind of subjects rituparno gosh deals with, in his movies.)aaaaannnnd........I think that's it..I'm not able to think of more..