Motionpicture Diaries...

Whole of my Yesterday passed out with the thoughts of Christopher Nolan's masterpiece "Memento" drooling around my mind regarding the plot of the movie. Ufff,it really flew me outta roof.My sincere salutes to Nolan, definitely "What an Idea Sirjee...!!!" kinda movie.

I had unloaded it from the torrents to my hard drive quite a while back but just couldn't find a driving force to run it on my media player until yesterday.I admire(unfortunately)the (re-)makers of "Ghajini" for making such a cheap carbon copy and selling it as an Indian version of "Memento" and subsequently earning 200 crores gross in a week!! Holy shit...Must be a great marketing strategy.I have seen the Tamil version of it and to be frank it was ok but after yesterday,I am no fan of it.Definitely these indigenous avtaars are not even close to the worsts among Hollywood flicks.Those which are good goes unrecognized:( After so much of bad reviews pertaining around the Hindi version of "Memento" I just couldn't pick a ticket to it though believe me I am one of the biggest fan of Aamir Khan. I still wonder why such a versatile actor like him tried his hands in such a cheap commercial flick.Hope he isn't hit by a SRK-mania of doing such 3rd rate commercial movies where even protagonist's wife cannot identify him without mustache,heights of sickness,aint it!? And unfortunately Rab Ne..(from where did Aditya chopra find such a pathetic name is still a mystery;) ) was one of biggest gross collectors in 2008.Why are Indian audience so headless? Until and unless we reprimand them with flops they will keep coming up with such mindless movies.

Speaking of good movies and since Oscars are round the corner, David Fincher's "Curious case of Benjamin Button" is another one of its kind Movie.Brilliant conceptually and extraordinary show put up by Brad Pitt will definitely cast my vote to "Curious case.." ahead of "Slumdog..." for the best Movie,Actor and Director category. Brilliant concepts must always be admired and rewarded.Fincher,Chris Nolan,Coppala,Tarantino,Scorsese are all known for their brilliant out of box flicks which is bound to keep you at the edge.Indigenous cases,I would like to see still more better plays from Anurag Kashyap,Gowarikar or Rakeysh Mehra who have all the abilities and potentials to tackle it.

On an end note, I am eagerly anticipating Rakeysh Mehra's "Delhi-6" which sniffs the flavors of RDB to its viewers and all my best wishes to "Mozart of Madras" ARR for the Academy Award Statuette.

Being a (an amateur?)critic in my !st ever blog!

I have seen a number of guys using their blogs as a platform to act as a critic for a movie. I used to wonder what all bloggers do while watching a movie, do they actually watch it or just will be scratching hair on what to scribble later in their blogs. This has amused me, made me curious. Let me try my hand, I saw Slumdog as a critic, in a CRITICal perspective .Lets just speak about the movie keeping all the controversies aside regarding its troubled Indian face. I will try to come up with that controversy sometime later.

What a good or rather a great cult movie should possess?

1. A powerful story which keeps you at the edge of your seat for the entire duration but still glued to it.

2. Good screenplay, good script, good cinematography, I wont go into the deeper technicalities of the movie since I am unaware of the movie making skills.

Overall Slumdog is a success recipe. It is mere perfect. Danny boyle has finally earned the much eluded international fame for his wonderful work with the movie.

The movie is actually a moving story of a Mumbai slum dweller boy named Jamaal who in the verge of winning a reality quiz show interrogated by the suspicious cops. How Jamaal knows the answers of all questions, how he won 20 million big bucks and also won his Love is the essence of the movie. The movie is totally desi in look & partly in Hindi. Overall, I loved the movie. Scenes like pouring of acid into the eyes of orphan kids are really touching and well shot.

Anil kapoor is mediocre and irritating but the kids are just awesome. Don’t know whether they will get any recognition later. Subtitles are shown in an innovative way. And it is this balance of film which has touched the right chords of the audience and earned it $’s and golden globes. And our own A R Rahman got the world recognition by winning the golden globe representing 1st ever Indian who won it & it’s definitely a moment for an Indian to cherish. But definitely the background score he gave in the film isn’t his best. Just another normal Rahman composition earned him a Golden globe shows how underrated he is and how underrated our Indian movies are, surely a topic of discussion.

Overall in my favorite IMDB’s words, definitely a 8 pointer and a top 250 movie.