Manorama Six Feet Under (2007)

What a fantastic adaptation of Chinatown ! I am really proud of the new wave Indian filmmakers who are making their presence felt in the world scene. The director really wows me in this one. Fantastic job with the adaptation, screenplay, art direction. Its a must watch.

Men must be fools

I was watching ``The Painted Veil" but I could not bear the fact that men are made such fools off by women. At campus here, the rooms are abuzz with tales of deceit( Thanks GS !) brought upon by women. Many of my female friends have all decieved the men in their lives and I constantly live under the fear of seeing another brother being decieved.

Sometimes I feel DKS is right. The world was never meant to be a place for equal rights of men and women, after all if we are made different then surely the same rules can't be applied to us.

I am also disgusted by men who lose their sense under the influence of lust. The fact is that we all lose our senses in love but lust thats demeaning. I am yet to meet a real man, I mean we never grow up. Whenever I see a man I see a boy in him.

Men must be fools !!!

Speaking of movies that depict women decieving men. I equally hate those movies in which men ``steal" another man's wife. Most of those Robert Redford movies are like this. Not only can I not stand these movies I simply cannot watch them. I get enraged sometimes engaging in verbal abuse and other immature ``frustration venting acts".

I must be a fool !!!

Traffic Signal

am watching Traffic Signal now. its the latest flick from madhur bhandarkar. his last venture was Page 3 and it recived rave reviews. to be very frank i did not like Page 3. the only thing worth noticing was Konkana Sensarma's acting and thats it nothing more.

the trouble with movies of this sort if the ABSOLUTE 3rd grade acting of the junior artists. any body can make out that they are ACTING. yes we all know they are acting but those buggers act pretty badly.

ok on to my critiques for Traffic Signal.
examples of really bad acting::
1) at 15 min 30 sec the bimbo in the car. man she sucked big time. i can not tolerate any one who acts like that even though this girl was well endowed still my sympathy vote is not for her.
2) at 41:14 the gay gigolo. why the hell do the gays in hindi movies have to overdo their part.
3) 53:30 that bimbo and her no use husband and ``apparently" quarreling when suddenly the husband says "ahista bolo sabina, driver sun lega". they were SHOUTING OUT LOUD for crying out loud. the fucking director apparently does not know the difference between a muffled quarrel and a battlecry.
by the way that bimbo was over acting again.

cd2 now...

1) 12:10 why does the man stick his tounge out to lick his lips ??? apparently to show the character's lust for the breastfeeding woman... in almost all hindi movies the bad guys do this ritual to convey to the spectators of their bad intentions. does the director think that we are too dumb to make out the intention.
the kids also do the same thing to show that they are hungry. speak of overdoing and overkilling.
2) 12:44 the pack of foreigners amazed at the filthy conditions. fuck man thats overdoing and that too quite badly. when was the last time since we saw a white skin on screen portrayed properly.
14:30 why was the foreigner holding money in his hand??? apparently so that he could tip Ranvis Shuray.. how the hell did he know he would ask for 100 bucks... come on director wise up a bit will you ?

3) Babban at 16: 42 is the kind of face one sees in the so called "garib log". on the other hand the other characters are quite easily not THAT kind.
same for Paaya, Sushma(16:54)
anyways.... same c


ok movie over now.....

over all the movie is a commendable effort. why ??? its because i think that its high time indian movie makers make movies on subjects other than love and the larger than life image of "the hero". yes there have been movies of this type in the past but we like more of such stuff. efffort of this nature will not go waste in ushering bollywood into the new age of movie making.

there was not enough scope for an actor/actress to prove their potential. but i think Kunal Khemu was not bad. Ranvir Shuray was really good. and for some reason i liked Tsunami ( Chinnaswamy Vedgiri ... check out his confident smirk at 43:01 CD2 ).

my girl friend recommed the movie to me, so i watched it. i would not recommend this movie to anyone for the sake of the story or the performances in this movie. but watch it if you want something "hatke" and you won't be disappointed i think.

cold stricken and jealous of brothers from the south

i was born in east india and have lived mostly in north and east india till now. north india gets very cold during the winters and its a common knowledge that south india does not experience as much cold as north india.

here at iitk there is a sizeable south indian population and the most amazing thing is that these guys are seen in a single t-shirt most of the winters. common sense tells us that these guys must feel more cold compared to north indians but such is not the case.

we north indians or east indians can easily be identified by our double sweaters, woolen caps and gloves quite easily. i m yet to meet a single south indian here who OWNS a full sleeves sweater. my eyes open wide is dismay and disbelief if i catch a south indian sporting a winter jacket.

is it the food they eat or the different chemical constitution that causes this? god knows i have wanted to find out the reason for a pretty long time.

any suggestions ???