As a fitting tribute to the past week of agonisingly long hours at the computer and extremely wide yawns that can grant any willing soul a peep into your entire oesophagus, I decided to dedicate my weekend to a back to back movie watching session. So I carefully sketched out my weekend by giving a chunk of my time to sleeping and eating and minimal time to socialising, cleaning the house and anything that involved getting up from the couch. The two movies that I chose as worthy of my valuable time and attention were the Malayalam film ‘ Hello’ and ‘Chak de india’
I am gonna waste no time in talking about Mohanlal. If you are a Malayali ( you need not even be remotely interested in films) then rest assured, you know him. To say that I felt like shooting up to the ceiling of the theatre and come back dead, would be an understatement. With Mohanlal in a role that has nothing new to offer, a new actress ( Parvathy something ) who can put a piece of wood to shame when it comes to emoting, and Jagathy who is thoroughly wasted in the movie, I sunk into my seat for a more comfortable position and had a very long and nice nap.
Next came Chak de India. Though I am a Shah Rukh fan, I never really considered him as a good actor. I was always in awe of his larger than life existence, where he is a chain smoker and no one really minds and where he has a back injury and suddenly everyone starts to care. From the time Chak de India was in the news, I could not help wondering what made a movie about hockey that centres on 16 girls appealing to SRK. According to me, what made this movie interesting was that the movie was all about the 16 girls and did not portray SRK as Vijay/Raj who serenades Kajol/ Rani/ Priety in the Swiss Alps for a long overdue change! Main characters like Vidya Sharma ( played by Vidya Malvade), Komal Chautala (Chitrashi Rawat) , Bindia Naik (Shilpa Shukla), Balbir Kaur (Tanya Abrol) , Preethi Sabarwal ( Sagarika Ghatge) and Aliya Bose ( Anaitha Nair) did a great job. I especially loved the scene where all the 16 girls report for training. The unique personalities of the girls were introduced almost immediately to the audience and had also succeeded in hinting at issues like people from the Far East (like Mizoram) being treated differently in their own country and people up north failing to realise the difference between Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Though I am not sure whether this movie will help in reviving hockey in our country, I did get a clearer idea about the sport. And btw it looked like a really difficult sport to play than cricket – or does it look like that only on screen?? To sum up, Chak De India came at a time when family entertainers in Bollywood were a priced rarity. Chak De won’t have you cast frequent nervous glances at your already disgusted parents, in the fear that a steamy scene may add to their already erratic heart beat and sky high blood pressure!
So here I am, back to work and dreaming about the upcoming weekend …
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i did hear that Chak de is a good movie...has gr8 reviews...and its based on some true story it seems...i agree to that matter...
now abt the movie HELLO...actaully i did like it..loved one of the songs in it too...i liked it as an entertainer and it is actaully a super hit..ya there were somethings that i dint like..and i felt the emotions on parvathi's face were not enough...but i felt that overall it was a good entertainer coz now most of the films that were comming here were either too serious or no worth at alll..this was a change only coz it did entertain all of us...
hey..
That was a beautiful reveiew on Chakde. One more reason y should watch it. And Hello, m really glad I dint.
hi insane. really thanx for sharing your opinion about hello! i do agree with u that it was a family entertainer and the songs were really good. but i think time and a great number of rotten movies have proven that a superhit can never be termed a good movie. for instance the mohanlal starrer Narasimham. i think v all know that the movie tasted success only coz of his 'kidilam' dialogues and d songs. if u ask me about the story i honestly dont remember coz there r too many movies like Ustad, Ravana Prabhu, Praja and so on where mohanlal has time and again donning the role of a super human!so i think tht hello was just a mixture of all these movies put together. but yes it was a clean family entertainer and v gotta hand it over to rafi mercatin for that! do continue sharing ur opinion!:)
hi pointblank. thanx for the compliment. i am glad u liked it..do continue sharing ur opinion!
pls notice Nethra Reddy n think of me...i have clients claimin dat i was actin in it..me aint boastin, but do check it out!! :D
oie dreamer..hmm..now that u mentioned it ya there is a similarity u and her!how could i have missed it?? haha
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