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  • मुझ पर एक एहसान करना, bodyguard ज़रूर देखना|

    Salman Khan does it again! No! no! let me correct myself right there!
    His shirt does it again! The connection of his shirt with elements is the USP of Sallu Bhai’s latest, Bodyguard!
    In Dabangg, it was the element Air which connected well with his shirt and took it away!
    This time around, it was water!
    I am sure in the next one, its going to be Fire!
    • Bodyguard is a pain to watch! It was a sheer waste of time and money, and I am glad that I took with myself DIY cotton earplugs, or else I might have come out deaf thanks to the super surround sound at the Big Cinemas, GIP Noida
    • Bodyguard is senseless! it was beyond my level of understanding!
    • Bodyguard is slow! it made time stop!
    • Dobyguard, I mean Bodyguard is edited by idiots! Scene transition from one to the other does not make sense a lot of times!

    However ignore all of that if you are not a big fan of cinema that is not just about passing time! Let’s talk about why Bodyguard is a hit!
    • It lets you disconnect with the outside world for a while, while you are either enjoying the senselessness or trying to figure out how it took the heroine’s father a few minutes to cover a distance worth about 9 hours! (not my mistake, 9 hours was quoted in one of the previous scenes)
    • It also lets you laugh, at yourself and people in the theatre who are wasting their money alongside you, and also eating the super expensive pop-corn and cold drink combos! Ok, there are times when you can laugh because of what happened in the movie
    • It makes you feel proud that Bollywood is going to have competition for Rajnikant! What Sallu bhai does in a few scenes is almost as comical and awe-inspiring as Rajni true-to-life work! e.g. how Sallu bhai, the bodyguard, jumps out of a Mumbai local, sways around on the ropes or wires or something, jumps to the train going in the opposite direction, and then defies gravity to get off the train to a bridge! WOW!
    • It also inspires you! Irrespective of how you look, and to be specific if you are fat without any comic timing, and have the right connections, and can speak hindi and broken Punjabi, you can be a side-kick to a hero! and I forgot to mention that you have to wear t-shirts with funny slogans! that is what would compensate for your horrible comic timing! If you are lucky, your writer would give you a name like Tsunami as well along with an opportunity to share what it means sometime in the movie!
    • It lets you oogle at Kareena! No! honest! She is looking nice in Manish Malhotra designs! and for Salman Khan fans, its a treat too! 
    • It makes you humm a few songs as well! Aaaya re aaya bodyguard is one of my favorites these days! and guess what! Its Himesss Bhai’s music! 🙂 It has that typical beat which you can observe in a lot of South Indian masala songs; something that caught my attention in Dhinka Chika Dhinka Chika (Ready)
    • It lets you enjoy the masala which has been well associated with Bollywood! Like they say, स्टोरी में ड्रामा है, एक्शन है, रोमांस है, म्यूजिक है, थ्रिल है! और क्या चाहिए!!! The story has drama, action, romance, music, thrill! what else do you need?
    • It also gives you a very interesting (and this is the first time this movie caught my attention) twist to the story
    • It will let you bond well with your friends, if you are going in  a large group! For some reason I also feel that such movies are great to enjoy with a group of friends!

    However the fact of the matter is, that you should watch movies if you like to, and not because someone else like it or not! So my suggestion, go watch it!

    And enjoy my favorite song from the movie 🙂

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA_87wgjl8]

  • Das Leben der Anderen

    or “The Lives of Others” is a movie set in the 1980s when Germany was still divided between east and west Germany. The movie shows how Stasi, the secret police of GDR (German Democratic Republic or East Germany) used to bug houses of people they suspected for being unfaithful to the leadership.

    Its about a German surveillance officer while working on a project to find reasons to frame a dramatist and writer because a minister has developed liking towards the writer’s girlfriend, starts to understand their point of view better and questions his own principals and faithfulness to Stasi.

    Beautifully presented, this is a must see in case you are interested in some serious drama. I always am impressed by the use of light and camera in such movies. Its amazing!

    The movie is in German and you would need to read through the subtitles unless you find an English dubbed version of it.

    You could read the entire plot on wiki, however I would recommend against it as it kind of gives away the entire story. Find the movie, watch it, and make an opinion!

    Another movie that I just finished watching is “Primal Fear” starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton. What a brilliant performance by Edward Norton in this movie. The movie is based on a novel by William Diehl and revolves around a trial where Richard Gere is trying to protect the accused. Excellent pace, lovely characterization, and a brilliant twist! loved it!

  • Sasural Genda Phool in Minneapolis

    Here is another one of the many conversations from the Minneapolis trip !! Suman Vaddi , on my right is a flat mate with Pritam, Lakhan and Deepak… He was not too sure of the meaning of Sasural Genda Phool song and I decided to share the details with him… looks like it was more funny than it seemed to be at moment… I enjoyed looking at this video !!!
    oh and I managed to watch the movie as well over this weekend. I was dissapointed to be honest… very weak transition of scenes, not sure if the title has much to do with the movie, strange inclusion of songs, and mostly below average use of the brilliant set of actors…
    – Vijay Raaz (Inspector Chaudhary; very bad dialogues… someone really needs to know how the Delhi Police guys in Delhi talk, specially the ones from Haryana) and
    – Divya Dutta (another useless attempt at trying to have an accent); there was an uncomfortable pause in her sentences…
    – Another big dissapoint was the role given to Atul Kulkarni… he is such a brilliant actor and he given the character of “gober” !!! unbelievable !

    For all I know, this movie could have been named Ghaziabad -8 or Lucknow 12 or Kanpur 21 or Bhopal 44 or Kala Bandar if not anything else !

    But don’t take my word for it… watch the movie… It would still show you a “few” glimpses of the beautiful walled city !

    Oh, and apologies for a bad video quality of the embedded video.. it was the darker corner of the room where we guys were sitting and chatting… If the above video does not work for you, here is the link for YouTube.

  • Husbands and Wives in HINDI

    What is the hindi translation of Husbands and Wives?It is “Dil Kabbaddi”.

    There are movies which are adapted, there are movies which are inspired and for the time first time ever, I saw a movie which is a translation, and with different faces and characters, but the same dialogues, the same time of doors being slammed and opened, the same timing of smiles and laughter, the same reference to places, phew !!!!

    Rahul Bose , Konkona Sen and Irfan Khan are real fine actors without doubt, but I am sad to see them act in this movie because all they are doing is speaking the same dialogues which were spoken in Woody Allen’s “Husbands and Wives” in Hindi and bits of english and trying to act the same movie out in different settings ! What were they thinking when they decided to do this? And Soha is such a misfit ! She has done a terrible delivery of the dialogues and expressions !!!

    So if you were waiting to watch “Dil Kabaddi” I would say don’t, rather watch the original !!! You will like it more for sure !

    and while you are at it, do try to watch “Match Point“… what a smartly made movie… I liked it more coz it reminded me of London.. one of the places I love to love !