Sunday/Race/Dil Dosti etc.

This blog is about the last three Hindi Movies i have seen, in decreasing order of my liking them.

Sunday

Sunday is one of the better movies Bollywood has produced in the last few quarters. A lightweight story line, lively comedy (courtsey Arshad Warsi, Irfaan Khan), good action (Ajay Devgan) and a cutie female protagonist (Ayesha Takia).

All these and an intense murder mystery with the suspense unfolding slowly out of an item number (kashmakash) leave very little else to be desired in this movie. Good Timepass, can watch with family.

A weakness in the movie is that the climax is not as strong as its made up to be. And oh the best part, the movie finishes in 2Hrs 10 Minutes.

Race
Race sanson ki...

This song pretty much summarizes the whole movie up, the entire 3 hours are full of intense action, some body showing by Saif and Bipasha and the cute Katrina shaking a leg.

Zara Zara touch me and Khwab dekhe Jhute Muthe are very well choreographed with Katrina sizzling as usual. Pehli Nazar is a soulful melody by atif aslam and grows on you every time you hear it.

The first half is much better with Saif clearly stealing the limelight, what could have an excellent movie losses steam after the intermisison , with cheap comedy by Anil Kapoor and Johhny Lever.

Dil Dosti Etc...
DDE is a soft emotional movie, with too many small little things which make for a great movie.

Excellent display of Bihari Acting by Shreyas Talpade. The movie is basically a contrast between the college lives of Shreyas ( typical Middle class Bihari boy with dreams of winning the college elections) and on the other side Apurva ( a tall, fair, rich and flashy Delhite).

Apurva finds himself lonely and friendless even after enjoying amoral relations with one woman after another.

Shreyas lives a simple spartan life his ancestors would be proud of, but manages to impress a girl after a colege gang fight, only to later discover that she's a fashion model and their tastes do not match very well.

Fight Club!

This blog is about FC the movie starring Brad Pitt And Edward Norton. Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 14 nominations
Rated 8.7/10 (221,497 votes) on imdb.com

Few movies come and shape you as a person, FC is one of the movies which has closely influenced me on a very personal level (Positively i hope).

To me the movie is all about discovering who you really are and what drives you as a person what are your dreams and what would you classify as an achievement and what are your biggest failures.

The Dialogues are mind blowing to qoute a few..

We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place We have no great war, or great depression. The great war is a spiritual war. The great depression is our lives.

My father never went to college, so it was really important that I go. After I graduated, I called him long distance and asked, "Now what?" He said, "Get a job." When I turned twenty-five, I called him and asked, "Now what?" He said, "I don't know. Get married." A generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is the answer we really need.

Some critics have described FC as a vent to male aggression, and i reluctantly agree but it is so in a very aesthetic sort of way, the violence wherever it is lends strength to the plot and the inevitable (oh so hot) scenes between Marla Singer and Brad Pitt border between the sensual and artistic. They are by no means lewd and very watchable (although maybe not with ur grandmom)

To set the context Edward and Brad Pitt live together and find out that they have a lot of interests in common and move on to form a fight club as a recreation event in the weekends.

The movie moves inexorably to a gut wrenching suspense... Is Tyler misusing Edward Norton, and the fight Club...? Does he have ends of his own to serve?

The Climax slowly unfolds as complex relationships emerge.

Its all about the movies.

After claiming fame as an adventurinst with my Dharamshala trip i am quite tired now and let me do what i do best, moviessss.. What follows are my top 3 favourites from HollyWood in no particular order.

TrainSpotting has a special place in my heart being as it is a story about a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. What can i say about a movie which begins with a rising baritone as follows-

"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.

Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends.

Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life.

But who would I want to do a thing like that?
I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin? "

I wish i could post a sound track of this dialogue, the first few minutes into this movie leave you wondering what the hell are you doing here. I feel no shame is saying that Mark is my alter ego.
For someone who has never been wasted the movie digresses a bit in the middle with variegated hallucinations and regular trips to the jail/hospital and deaddiction centres. To all these guys all i have to say is when you die remember you have missed out on a sensation equalling your best orgasm times 1000.

After all this you would expect the movie to be very depressing and negative ending, but lo and behold the movie ends on a positive inspirational note and a must watch for anyone wanting to deaddict (be it smoke/alchohol/hash/money/women !! whatever).

The movie ends as

So why did I do it? I could offer a million answers, all false. The truth is that I'm a bad person, but that's going to change, I'm going to change. This is the last of this sort of thing. I'm cleaning up and I'm moving on, going straight and choosing life. I'm looking forward to it already. I'm going to be just like you: the job, the family, the fucking big television, the washing machine, the car, the compact disc and electrical tin opener, good health, low cholesterol, dental insurance, mor tgage, starter home, leisurewear, luggage, three-piece suite, DIY, game shows, junk food, children, walks in the park, nine to five, good at golf, washing the car, choice of sweaters, family Christmas, indexed pension, tax exemption, clearing the gutters, getting by, looking ahead, to the day you die.

Thats all for one big blog next two favourites are Catch me if you can and Back to the Future...
coming up in the next blog.