Cute, adorable, romantic, comedy, emotional, dramatic…. Wonder what am I talking about??? The movie – 8 Below. If you haven’t seen this movie - you are such a loser. I was one too, until this Saturday when I saw this movie and since then (after realizing what I had missed in life) I have seen this movie over a million times (some exaggeration is allowed). It was the most wonderful thing that happened to me that day. Don’t wanna say much about the movie coz I am afraid I might do injustice to it. Please go watch it.
Some movies can just make your day and some can put you into depression. I saw a movie the other day which wanted me to kill the director and beat him with his own spine. DELHI-6. @ Rakesh Omprakash Mehra: what were you thinking? Instead of promoting the movie as “From the makers of Rang De Basanti” it should be promoted as “From the makers of Aks”. Actually, to think about it, the movie shouldn’t be promoted at all. It was a torture, not only mental but also financial. The story (if putting small unrelated clips can be termed as “story”) revolved around a visible pigeon and an invisible monkey man. The movie started with a good theme but after about 1 hour, Rakesh got bored and asked his assistant to complete the rest of the movie. When the assistant saw, that it wasn’t going anywhere, he got bored too and handed the project to his spot boy. The spot boy realized that the cast of the movie is big and all of them being experienced people, so he asked the actors to act whatever they feel like while he shot them. The movie absolutely made no sense. If you are one of Abhisheks’ fan, please don’t watch the movie. His fake accent can get on your nerves.
While we are at the topic, how can we possibly miss out, the Oscar winning, Slumdog? Well done guys!!! We, Indians are very smart people. If this movie wouldn’t have won an Oscar, Bachchans would have floated their blogs with “Brand India being disrupted”, politicians would have banned the movie in every state and opposition would be on streets protesting to air the movie and let the world know what the current party has led our country to. Wonder what happened to “Brand India” after the Satyam fiasco? Big B, I wonder why movies like Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, which are so REALISTIC and based on TRUE stories, are not critically acclaimed by global audience?
Now since the movie is such a huge success, we (Indians) are calling it “Our” movie. Smart people. Even though some might say that they have earned bucks at the cost of Indias’ poor image. But dad, the movie isn’t about that, its about how a slumdog (out of his real life experience) knows the answers to all the questions of “who wants to be a millionaire”. Never mind, as long as, Rahman won 2 awards, I am happy (even though I think he has done much better job in Rand De Basanti).
Jai ho! Rahman. This is the new lingo these days. “Hello!” has been replaced by “Jai Ho!”… So now conversations start like this:
“Jai ho! How was the weekened?”
“Jai Ho! Papaji”
“Jai Ho! Sir”
Trrringgg Trrringgg “Jai Ho!”
Signing off: JAI HO
6 comments:
Nice post.. simple!!
Wonder why everybody is branding Slumdog as an India movie..
1. It was produced by and directed by two people who were definitely not Indians
2. The movie released all over the world before it released in India.
If you ask me only the actors and the theme was Indian.. nothing else..
The movie wasn't so great either... It probabaly won only because the other movies were much worse..
And hey!! AR Rehman was not the only Oscar winning Indian..
There was Rasool Pookutty(not sure if I got the spelling right) too!!
Technically, he won the Oscar before Rehman did!!
To answer your question on my next post!! Feeling a little lazy to post.. Have a couple things I want to post on my blog, will do soon..
Slum dog! Was it not taking kudos at the cost of India. Poor Indians, already branded as the snake charmers in the world, have been reflected in even poorer light. I also tend to agree with Srikanth. Was it an Indian movie at all??????? Are we not taking credit for something that we as Indians did not create??? Is it all media hype? Points to ponder! Love u
@Buddi: Thanks... wonder when will you update your blog!!! write something about Bhavans'
@Kanth: Not all the actors were Indians. Dev Patel is an NRI. So no reason whatsoever to call it an Indian movie... BTW these kids (from slums) when offered a flat in a good locality in Mumbai, demanded for flats in Bandra. dont know wat to say about that.
@dad: Thats exactly what I have said.. that we Indians are very smart people for taking credit in others success. But Rahman, as usual rocked
:) ... I am very irregular at writing.. Hope this months proves to be better... Will put up something soon..
Feels good to know that someone is waiting for updates in my blog.. :P
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