Movie Update Page

Movies are an Indian's all time time pass. As we call it : jhakas. So here is a page dedicated to the spirit of (er.. um..) being Indian. hey cool it i am not going the Sunny Deol way. But still if you are interested read on. I will have my updates (read expert comments) on the movies i see. Critics may contact for details. Just kidding.

Now Note: I haven't got much of time to keep updating these pages. Whenever i find time i will try to write something. But right now i am adding a list of movies i have seen very recently.

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Company:

Indian movies have improved a lot these days. We do get those useless Mithun Da variety and ofcourse the senti Sharukh Variety. But different movies are on the rise. Company sure is different. Well we just don't get to see such movies very often.

When we were children movies were like goood guy and bad guy and bad guy creates trouble and the good guys fixes things up (the engineer way). And he gets bonus for that. Heroine. Heroine have no role. Mere masala. And finally the hero fixes thing once and for always. Happy Ending.

Not anymore. That level of abstraction that movies have added onto with depicting more of a real life. Life which we don't see. Company depicts life (and death) of dons. Brilliantly presented and excellent performance by Ajay Devgan and Chandu (What his name?). One very special thing i observe in this movie is the fast pace of things that happen. Previously when we had a fight sequence it was like the director tried to emphasize on each every little detail being made clearly visible to the viewer. Thats where the Desi Movies differ from the Non desi ones. The need for pace in movies is critical. Events happening and passing by rapid kepps the viewer gasping for breathe. I love that feeling And of course style is important and Company has a great lot of it. Personally i like Manisha's Eye Flick, Malik's Coolness and Sreenivasan's Brilliance. Must check out.

DEVDAS:

I doono what i should say. Better dont watch it. Waste of time, money and everything. Only thing i appreciate about this movies is its marketing team. They were absolutely successful at promoting such a useless pile of junk. I guess the Economic Times should frame a new award for "Best Marketeer of an Absolutely Useless Product". Wot say junta ???

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Octopussy: (Bond: Roger Moore)

The Mexican: (Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts)

Born on the 4th of July: (Tom Cruise)

Minority Report:

One good movie after a loooong time. I mean maybe they were good movies in between but i was kinda stuck with other stuff so could not see movies a long time. But anyway now i am back. So i went to this movies with Gogi at the start of 7th Semester. Placements season at high and i know how i pursuaded gogi to come with me. I mean nothing much. Now back to movie review. As i wrote this is brilliant stuff. I mean given a time frame of 50 years from today whatall can you think of. I am sure this beats everyone at that. And once you it you realize that technologically everything they show is feasible. I mean forget the Psycho and ignore the mutated plants, everything else is actually technologically possible. Its just a matter of time and effort before we see it in our hands. I should appreciate this capability to see with such close precision the technology and its implications in the near future. Other than the tech. stuff, the story line and performances everything just met the mark. Well i should say we can expect this much from Speilberg. For all those science fiction enthusiasts who havent seen it as yet, i d say you shouldnt be missing this.

Bend it like Beckham:

Well whoever was comparing it to Monsoon Wedding was bloody good damn wrong. Its not at all a bad movie but can never be to the mark that Monsoon Wedding was. Its got a good story line but it does not have all that much of a appeal. It just is able to drive me with the story line while engrossing me into an emotional shock wave. Its just not brilliant. Its fine. There is nothing special in the movie just that you can watch it for timepass. Thats it.

Fellowship of the Rings:

This movies is more of as My senior Rahul calls it (CALTO). You watch it for 3 and a half hour and then when expect to get the max. fight thing starting they tell you that the movies is over. Bloody .... I sure am not gonna watch any more the sequels of this thing. What the heck man. Once you starting grasping all those tongue twisting names and your mind maps some phoneme set to some character they suddenly introduce another 10 weirdos and i am call i tongue knoting names. I must say this is pure shit.

Spiderman:

Well i must say that the actual Spiderman cartoon thing (one of my favourites) we had was much better (You can consider it to be because of my mindset) but in any case this one is not something you can miss. Though some of the Spiderman Fundas have been totally changed the things fit in perfectly and keep you stuck to the seat. The fast pace of things i mentioned is not their but still the things are like they could perfectly be. Spiderman - transformation of a geek into a hero. Go for it.