Since its year end, its mandatory that I do this!
Movies that you have to see:
A Wednessday
Rock On!
Jaane tu ya jaane na
Fashion
Dasvidaniya
Tashan
Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!
Dostana
Spare a thought for :
Jodha Akhbar
Sorry bhai!
Rab ne bana di jodi
Ghajini
Kismat Konnection
Aamir
Ru ba ru
1920
U, me aur Hum
And you'd definately like to miss :
Singh is King
Race
Krazzy 4
Karzzz
Dil Kabbadi
Love story 2050
Ugly aur pagli
Maan gaye Mughal -e -azam
Dronaa
Golmaal returns
Desdrohi
And now for the so-called "awards"
Best picture : A Wednessday
Best director : Dibaker Banerjee (Oye Lucky!Lucky oye!)
Best actor in leading role : Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednessday)
Best actress in leading role : Priyanka Chopra (Fashion)
Best actor in supporting role : Arjun Rampal (Rock On!)
Best actress in supporting role : Kangana Ranaut (Fashion)
Best actor in negative role : Anil Kapoor (Tashan)
Best actor in a comic role : Abhishek Bachchan (Dostana)
Best cinematography : Ayananka Bose (Tashan)
Best art direction : Dipankar Mondal (Aamir)
Best original story : Neeraj Pandey (A Wednessday)
Best adapted story : Arshad Sayyed (Dasvidaniya)
Best screenplay : Abbas Tyrewala (Jaane tu ya jaane na)
Best music : Shankar - Ehsaan - Loy (Rock On!)
Best song : Pappu cant dance saala (Jaane tu ya jaane na)
Best male singer : Atif Aslam (Bakhuda tumhe ho - Kismat Konnection)
Best female singer : Dominique Cerejo (Yeh tumhari meri baatein - Rock On!)
Best lyrics : Kailash Kher (Alvida - Dasvidaniya)
Best male debutant : Farhan Akhtar (Rock On!)
Best female debutant : Shabana Goswami (Ru ba ru)
And now for my favourite categories :
Worst movie of the year : Singh is King
Worst hero of the year : Himesh Reshammiya (Karzz)
Worst heroine of the year : Vidya Balan (Kismat Konnection)
Worst new comer of the year : Harman Baweja
Worst rip off of the year : Ghajini
Worst song of the year : Dil dance maare (Tashan)
Friday, January 2
Thursday, January 1
A Ridley Scott masterpiece!
A Good Year (2006)
Russell Crowe and Ridley Scott. Flavour. The film has a distinct fun, sepia - ish flavour, that is less woody and much more woollen. Just like fine wine.
The story is cliche and predicatble. But the treatment given to it is beautiful. Its like one of those things that you can't describe in words. Like a cold Delhi morning. Or a rainy evening with a warm cup of tea. Neon lights and all that. You have to watch the movie and smile!!!
Rate - 3.5/5
So who are the real Heroes?
Heroes (2008)
Now this hindi movie was abashed as a cheap try at an army saga. So, I never put my money on the theatre tickets. But after I caught this movie on TV by mistake, I would like to swallow my guilt.
Sohail Khan and Vatsal Sheth are two student film makers who set out to deliver three letters of dead army officers to their families. Add to that a documentary, a cruiser bike and locations like Kargil, Punjab and other places in north India. I was interested from this very point. But the story gets even better.
Instead of showing boring ground battles and fake air raids, the director has cleverly shown the aftermath of a war. The heroes who die on the battlefield are undoubtedly great men. They talk to their relatives after months of biting cold so that I could sit here and blog everyday. But, there are heroes, too. A wife who takes care of her dead husbands' ailing parents and yet finds the time to nurse her kid to be an army officer is also a hero. The brother who has lost both his legs in the Air Force and a brother in the Army, runs a school to physically train kids is also a hero. A mother who lives to forget the death of her heroic son, at the same time dealing with a disheartened husband who is an angry father is also a hero. These silent, unsung, real life hereos is what the film potrays. They all live their entire life by two words - Pride and Honour. Is that really enough?
The movie is hilarious at times, like Sunny Deol being on a wheelchair and yet fighting with goons in a bar or the voice recording from the middle of a battlefeild. But I'd forgive Samir Karnik for that. After all, he is all Bollywood!
On a serious note, the film does move you. As cliche as it sounds, but our problems do seem trivial to other people in severe discomfort. They have a smile on their face. And we whine, whine and whine! Do you know why they have a smile on their face? Because they make others smile. They have suffered, they know what its like to suffer and wouldn't want anyone else to go through the same experience. The joy of helping others, or should I say the satisfaction of greater good, as much more, rather uncomparble to small, materialistic or selfish happinesses. (if there exsist a word so!)
The greater good are very strong words, with very simple meaning. As a person from any walk of life, if you can make a small difference, to make someone smile, just one random person everyday - you are a hero! A hero who is unsung, and yet is satisfied with his/her existence. If you don't belive me, try me!
Rate - 3.5/5
The Fountain
The Fountain (2006)
Not that I couldn't think of a title for this blog. I couldn't zero down on what it would be! Because this is a movie of mixed bags. The three intertwined stories are absolutely well collabarated. Same people playing different characters with a similar tinge is an age old eye - catcher. And this movie is no different.
A very weird and original storyline. A man researching on monkeys with brain tumours so that he could save his wife from dying of the same illness. The wife, who is now hallucinating due to her tumour, is writing a book on a Spanish queen who sends a Man to fetch the elixer of life so that she could live forever with this man. She leaves the last chapter for her husband to finish. The last chapter is very vague - this man trying to enter a dying star through its nebula (in outer space) so he can make the tree immortal. (The tree is like the dying wife)
Metaphorically speaking, the film is very rich. Hugh Jackman does an allrite job but Rachel Weiz is stunning as the spanish queen.
Darren Aronofsky has done a masterful job of directing this film. Visually its very appealing, like Van Gogh!
Rate - 3/5
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