Kahaani: A Story of Anticlimax

Even the Gods admit: "Superb".

The movie will make money, but it will keep the legacy of being a thriller, where woman-hood wins the theme. I don't believe in writing down the script, as its upto you to pay and cherish the charisma, I just want to pen down the impeccable work by director, Sujay Ghosh and the acting by Vidya Balan and Parambrata. Revolving around the festive season of Durga Puja, the film upheld the tradition and rituals that the Bengali Festivity offer as it worships the strength of the Goddess. Just like Goddess Durga killed the demon (evil) Mahisasura, unvieling all the deceptions possible; the same is refelcted here.

Since, it is released on 9.3.12; hence, I would not kill the interest that the film deserves. You should go and watch it, as its better than Gupt. Dynamic, subtle and juicy! Just tailor made for near three hours of entertainment (including the commercials). You will love it!

I give it 9/10, not only for entertainment, but for the food for the brain to work! Its complete! Kahaani will Rock!

Gandu: "The Censored Film"

Q.

Well thats not the question as to why this film is "banned" from the Indian Market of entertainment. Its the pet name of the creator, who was bold enough to do something different in the arena of entertainment.

Its a film with least "civilized" dialogues. Its a film where action spoke for the theme. Its a film not for the losers, but for the winners who missed to savor the flavor of watching different. Something that's true to each and every teenage's life and better to say, something which 80% of the males think; in India. But again, its all about censorship.

In a country obsessed with mileage, production of the "common man's" thinking in its un-polished nature, is a crime. Kapil Sibal's obsession with monitoring the social media is an example and so is the censor board's decision to throttle the film from the mass. Reason? Well... you know as well as I do. Here, when you slap a politician, you get behind bars, but when a politician slaps you, he gets the other "b"- bail. So we have to go with the society and I followed the route.

Torrent it! You get the film. Appreciated the work expressed within it.

Really, Gandu is an "off-beat", "lack lustre" movie. But I loved how it was expressed. The colloquial slang came smoothly, because we too use them. No one can deny it, like "mathata chude geche" (thoughts have been fucked), "bal" (many meanings, depends on the expression), etc etc...

The story of a youth, who wants to be a rapper. The single mother child was fed up with "Das-babu", who made is mom nothing more than a slut, but the mom was helpless, as Das-babu used to pay their livelihood. Frustration flows out in RAPPING, the ambition of the guy; when suddenly he wins a lottery. He gets famous due to his rapping, whereby he comes to the forefront as DJ GANDU. The story starts here, with drugs, lazy-hours, masturbation and of course sex (defined as the first Bengali Movie to show it in real skin).

People who take it as a pornographic rated picture, are welcome to do so. I pity them, coz out of these people, 90% have had the desire for what was shown, leave aside the profession. The rest, will appreciate the work, the art in it!

Afterall we do have Kamasutra, so why not Gandu.

There lies the Q... by Q... expressed by S...me.

3 IDIOTS: A Review.

Can anyine guess Aamir Khan's age? Looks he has just graduated from some college, how about ICE, ahem, as Boman Irani - The Virus would say, the Imperial College of Engineering.

3 Idiots hits the theaters and the fever of feel good, this winter, spreads across the nation like anything. Some morning news paper did write about the film being all about gyaan [Philosophical knowledge] and less about entertainment, which a film should always have, but in my court of review [my blog], I would say it was a healthy gyaan with lots of laughter and snippets to cry. Enjoyable.

The Vinod Chopra production and the direction of Mr. Hirani, with lively tincture of the Shantanu Moitra as  Music composer, the Chetan Bhagat's adaption of Five Point Some One was brought to life by magical plot arrangement. A story which was told 90% in the background, with a charismatic drive from Shimla to Manali  and then to Ladakh makes the film come close to the warm generous friendly heart of each and every spectators. In the end, there was all about clapping and cheers for the whole team of three idiots.

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I am not here to write the composition of the fragnance, but can give the essence of the brand. Competition makes the world, as we see today, but its not very new. It was present since time eternal. Able was killed by Cannes and there was always two Adams for one Eve... But, to think differently is to think without pressure and utter silently, "AAL IZZ WELL" Ignore the spelling and you can understand the synonym.

Three Idiots stands out on its plot, screen play and acting and who better can be there than Sharman Joshi, Madhavan and Amir Khan who were ably supported by Kareena Kapoor who almost married a donkey and experimented for true whether a smooch is hindered by the nose, Boman Irani who believed in Results [even if it killed his own son]. Add to spice up, we have the Fun with Science...practical application of Salted Water and Electrical Conductor.... come on...its painful than a heart break!!!!

At the end, we all agree that a child should always mould according to his or her talent and not be a Machine which fulfills a parent's desire. [All italicized words have relevance to the film...go to understand the link].

In the end, I would like to put forward a few lines of a song,

Saari umra bhar-

Mar Mar k jee liye,

Ek Pal toh ab humein Jeene do,

Jeene do....

Give me some Sunshine,

Give me some Rain...

Give me another Chance...

I want to Grow Up again.....

The Song: http://www.bollyexclusive.com/download/27069.html

Courtesy: www.fullytimepass.com

The Verdict: 9/10

Small Talks

India had her representation in the motion pictures arena before. She has also embraced awards in certain categories, like in 1982 for Gandhi, Bhanu Athaiya, the costume designer won the maiden Oscar while later on in 1992, Satyajit Ray, a pioneer in movie techniques received his share as a life time achievement award (The Academy Honorary Award*), which was presented to him when he was very ill, his last illness if framed properly.

* The elite recipients of this award are in the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Warner Bros, Walt Disney, etc.

This time round, almost after 18 years since Ray, the Indian Music Maestro, Mr. A. R. Rahman knocked the doors of the World winning the two golden statuettes of The Academy Awards. The music of Slumdog Millionaire have touched the heart and soul of billions of people who has in them, a dream. The movie, primed the Indian Slum-life and how an Indian dreamt big to become the rich after winning a quiz contest. Kaun Banega Crorepati, which is the Indian version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire changed his life. The character sweetly played by Dev Patel supported by Frida Pinto and the Indian greats like Anil Kapoor, Irfan Khan and others comes out directly from the dungeons of Indian basement.
These awards came in along with the BAFTA (British Award) and the Golden Globe. The list for Slumdog Millionaire which bagged 8 out of 10 categories, has three Indians in it.
A.R.Rahman and Gulzar presented jointly for the lyrics and music of Jai Ho...
A.R.Rahman solely for the Original Score of the movie.
Resul Pookuty for the best Sound Mixing.
Apart from Slumdow, we had another Indian documentary called Smile Pinki, a story line based on how a girl having facial abnormalities on the lips regained the beauty of smile after surgery.

(Slumdog Millionaire Poster)

Now the talk:

Since, the movie was directed by a foreigner, Danny Boyle, so can we consider that the movie got such an international hype? May be another Indian missed out the trophy, i.e the Indian Writer Vikas Swarup, whose Booker Prize winning novel Q&A provides the basis of the movie.
They agains showed that India is poor, which is something that we Indians should be ashamed of. No doubt, on technical aspect, Slumdog Millionaire is a must watch movie, but after 60 years of Independence such a thing persists in the nation, there is something more to be sad of than happy.
Mr. Rahman has various other hits, atleast better than JaiHo. For example all the songs from Roja were super-duper hit. This comment is not to take any shine from the armoury, just feel bad that whenever there is a touch of the white skin, then only we have a world class movie. Previously, in Lagaan also, a similar thing happened. The englishman and woman came a played major parts in the movie and then it went ahead in the category of best movie in a foriegn language. Well before Lagaan we had movies like PatherPachali by Satyajit Ray and after that we had Black, starred by the legendary Amitabh Bacchan. The only mistake they made was that they didnt haveany white skinned jerk in the movie!
It feels really sad to have such a thing happen in the field of art and culture!

May be my small talks became quite long and boring, never mind... Jai Ho Slumdog Millionaire.

The Ghajini Fever.

It has been over three months that the South Indian remake, Ghajini came onto the big screen. The film is based on short term memory loss, the character being portrayed by the Indian superstar Amir Khan. In the movie, the character was a well off businessman, who fell in love, but in the course of the incidence, she got murdered. Incidentally, the character was hit on his head that initiated the short term memory loss. On a tryst to achieve a revenge, the man used to inscribe his tasks on his body in form of tatooes. Feels quite fabulous, well Mr.Khan went a step ahead in ensuring that he made 8-pack Abs for the movie. His gruelling diet was in air for the new year with many making it a New Year resolution as a diet chart.
But the fever is somewhere else.
Yesterday, I was coming back home after seeing my friend off. I was seated inside the metro when two ladies came and took the place infront of mine. I would pick up some bits of their conversation, and the fever of Ghajini became prominent in a part of their discussion. Both were working ladies and were very tired, on their way home. They needed abrisk laugh, and Ghajini had in store for them.
Lady 1: "janis, kal ekta khabor pelam." (Do you know, I heard a news yesterday)
Lady 2: "ki ki?" (What is the news?)
Lady 1: "amar sathe kaaj kore je didi... ki jeno naam..." (The lady who is my colleague...well what is her name....)
Lady 2: "kone didi?" (Which lady?)
Lady 1: "arre oi j... dhur baba...ki obostha...naam tai bhule gelam...roz kaaj korchi... ekdin gari te chorte onar bari giye kachuri kheye elam...! Chih Chih! Amar ki dosha re!!" (That one..shit! I am in a very bad state..everyday I am working with her...went to her house for a delicacy, that too in a car...Shit! I am disgraceful!)
Lady 2: "Amir Khan holi naki re?" (Are you becoming Amir Khan?)
Lady 1: "Yes Ghajini... He He He!"
Lady 1 took out her mobile and broswed her contact register to get hold of the name... Shalini.

Before Ghajini many people took this simply...now they have a word to describe it...Ghajini...
In the terms of Madhur Bhandarkar's PAGE3, I can describe that, we all are becoming too filmy... just now I mentioned in context of a film... got the point!!! :-P

The Common Man.

A Wednesday, a movie that played a major havoc all over the nation for it's highly efficient usage of technology in "suppressing" terror. Quite ironical, as the phrase should have been, use of technology to cause terror, but I do write that it has been a short sleek movie, where the soul of a common man awoke to suppress terror... at least the dialogue paid emphasis to the concept of cleaning one own backyard! It goes like this... अगर कोई cockroach आपके आँगन में घुस जाए, तोह आप उसको मार देते हैं ना ? वोही में भी कर रहा हूँ...! Quite following the lines of Aamir Khan's hit, Rang De Basanti, where the common man's lad shot dead a corrupt minister in the quest to clean the system. But this film has acclaimed all kinds of applause for the sake of depicting as to how a common man feels after the constant bombardments in the name of religion. They call it Jihad... for what that a common man like me knows not for what?!
A short film, which was direct onto the point; No music, no melodrama, only action pertaining to the problem. No Mumbo Jumbo like running faster than the train...nor surving a 1000V electric shock. A simple, lucid film for the commoner. After all, we all have this in us, asleep may be or limited by the system. Busy with life's own demand.
The film find it's credit of having a very smooth anti-climax.
May be the pre-inclination as to the hero, Nasiruddin may be a terror associate, when turned 180' to be different, savored the delicacy of a good film!

The Magic of Magik.

ROCK ON!!!

The movie that made the senses go back some three years ago, on the fields of Presidency, enjoying the groove of the Rock Music being served out by Fossils or Cactus or Jal or some other band, making the young legs swing to the maximum. Rock On, entitled with a catch line: "Live Your Dreams", really emphasises on the the importance to be what YOU are, and start making the steps to achieve your dream. The trademark of a winner is to manipulate the situation, rather than get manipulated by the situation. The latter case may see the "victim" with his or her boasting attitude about being flexible, but the truth is the person is very much a do-gone loser, as the principles and the dreams, the sole possession of an individual is all worn out and even lost!

Rock On makes it neccessity to Live Your Dreams. The music were fabulous and the settings were sweet. May be this is what Beatles could have done after the Great BreakUp, and created "Magic", oops... "Magik" again. Hats off to the concept.

Life Rocks!!!