Story of Me

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1. Drona: Whoever said it's a big budget film must be kidding. Very few characters. Three to be precise. Jaya Bachchan is in role of extras, so can't count her in. Okay, if you want to count horsies then the count is 5. Had watched it in inflight entertainment on Indian Airlines while returning from Delhi last wednesday. Had to request pillow from the flight attendant so as to suppress sounds of my giggling and laughing due to the movie. Probably the Krishna baby from the Krishna serial speaks faster than the pace with which Abhishek and Priyanka were delivering dialogues. Truly a hilarious and a mind-blowing mindless masterpiece.


2. Mummy 3: Pretty dull and boring stuff. Actually for that matter, both sequels of Mummy were horrible. Just the first one was pretty good. Avoidable. Pathetic acting, predictable content. Not recommended for inflight entertainment thing if you don't wanna sleep before an important meeting. Yeah, watched it when going to Delhi.


3. Crank: Watched today morning. Watchable. Interesting plot. The best part was Jason calling up his girl and talking the parting lines during his free fall from helicopter before crashing.

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1. Pakeezah
   
   • It shall always stay on top of my chart. Wonderful story with tremendous performances by wonderful starcast. Songs were neat. More than the songs, I remember and hum the background score that this movie carried. Will always remember this response given by Sahibjaan to her attendant when attendant says something admiring her fate - Agar hau sake tau lae jaa aur waapas mat dena (If possible, take it and don't return it back).
     
   
   


2. Mou gaan dou (AKA Infernal Affairs)
   
   • An awesome thriller of a mole chasing mole. I can't compare this movie to any other type. I don't think it would classify as an undercover agent category movie also. It's pretty much down to earth with realistic expectations of a normal human being when placed in difficult shoes. The last 5 minutes of this movie can shake you up thoroughly.
   
   


3. Angoor
   
   • Based on Shakespeare's "comedy of errors", Director has done wonderful transformation of it to Indian context. Wonderful performances by the trio - Sanjeev Kumar, Moushami Chatterjee and Deven Verma. Love the tiny conversation between Deven Verma and the Shopkeeper when deven is trying bargain for the rope to be used for committing suicide.
   
   


4. Crash
   
   • Paul Haggis does very fine job of linking parallel lives. And as he is doing that he is not giving or taking credit from those lives. At the end of this whole plot you don't know who qualifies to be called as 'hero' or 'villain' in real lives. Usually it is possible to lose the view of the core theme when trying something like this but not in this movie.
   
   


5. Ringu (AKA The Ring)
   
   • Simply outstanding as a horror movie. It's amazing to see how a director can run chill down your spine with no zombie, no bloodshed (or those traditional elements associated with horror) etc. This movie is a class apart. Neither its sequel nor the alternate editions (American, Indian and I guess there might be many other) came close to it.
   
   

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L2R: Vrushali, Christopher and Vinay, originally uploaded by peeyush.

Chris and Vrusha arranged for yet another meeting. It started with (hugs, as usual, followed by) Transformer movie and some quality chomping time at Coffee World. About the movie - The movie is worth watching. You will be amazed with the CG stuff. The only thing that Indians won't like would be the 60 seconds of insult to BPO/Call center thingy. No comments on the acting part. Since the transformers overshadowed humans, there is no point talking about them in this movie. Just look at the transformers and the transformations. That's all.

( Don't see if you haven't seen the movie. These clips are only for those who have seen it. )

Now for the people. But they need to be talked about in more details. So will leave it for future. Will conclude by saying - I am proud of these three people. Each one of them is a winner. I feel proud to be associated with them. My friends, my inspirations.