3 Idiots ...

Chehre ki hasi se har gham chupao,
Bahut kuch bolo par kuch na batao...
Khud na rutho kabhi, par sabko manao
Yeh raaz hai zindagi ka, bas jite chale jao !!!

Stars on Earth !!!

Stars on earth goes in Hindi as "Taare Zameen Par"... Wonderful movie.. A must watch... Absolutely amazing and awesome movie! Really touched my heart to the core; I was indulged in every bit of it. This is not just a debut directional movie of Aamir Khan, but it has lots of meaning behind the story-line; lots of messages for the society...

The boy (Darsheel) who plays the central character, Ishaan, is undoubtedly a star. He has played main role in that movie... What an acting ! Beautifully shown the emotional churning of a Dyslexic child who is left alone with this inability that he himself is ignorant about and the extra care Aamir has taken as a teacher to make Ishaan as a normal kid at the end ... The movie is not only entertaining, but it also makes us think and ponder and respond to our own faults as parents, teachers and all the other elderly roles that we play. I still remember one small kid telling his parent "All teachers should watch this movie"... It is a tale of effective parenting, a tale of insensitivity in our Indian educational scenario, and a tale of love of teachers who think and work for their students…

The music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is very apt and touching and touches the very cores of our hearts. Aamir had told in one of his interviews "I could not have asked much from the trio.. They have given splendid music and emotion ..."

A must watch for all cine lovers and also those who watch very few but good movies...

Timepass with "Khosla Ka Ghosla" ...

I was getting bored at home, suddenly Yahoo messenger message window popped up.

sk: Chinu bhaiya, How are you ?

me: Fine sir. Tum kaise ho?

sk: Fine bhaiya. Aur kaha ho aaj kal aap ?

me: Filhaal US mein huin. Aur sunao kya chal raha hai ?...

----- Long gap ----

sk: Sorry bhaiya, movie dekh raha tha.

me: OK, kaunsa ?

sk: Khosla Ka Ghosla. TV mein aa raha tha...

me: Good movie, right?

sk: Yes, too good. It's too late night now. I have to go to bed.

me: Ok, bye. Take care. Good Night.

sk: Bye. Take care....

The chat session ended and I searched for the movie in "Youtube.com" & a series of movie parts were there. So I thought of watching those... Thanks a ton to "youtube.com" for holding the largely acclaimed movie "Khosla Ka Ghosla"... I had heard a lot about that movie, but never had gotten a chance before... So I eagerly watched and the movie ended in no-time....

They say, you are watching a movie, and if you see suddenly the end screen without realizing that you have actually finished the movie, the movie is "Good"... then... lot of categories follow... "Too Good", "Wow..Amazing".. and lot more .... No doubt, "KKG" is one of that category movie...

KKG is a film that has a plausible storyline, identificable situations and characters and it is portrayed in an extremely intelligent way. The story has caught the plight of common man, average common man's life struggle; not showing anything extraordinary. And that made this movie different and a complete joy to watch; a total refreshing movie indeed...

Lively characters played by all, especially Anupam Kher (K.K.Khosla), Vinay Pathak and Boman Irani (Khurana)... This movie is about the dream of Mr. Khosla who wanted to buy a land and own a house by investing his entire life's earning and finally cheated by a corrupt (Khurana), who usurps the land that belongs to Khosla. Then, with a strong support by Vinay pathak, how both of the sons of Khosla, try to get back the land....

The movie is a clean and honest one... The humor injected at regular intervals kept the movie more interesting and alive... A must watch movie...

One night with "Bheja Fry" ...

The date was 30th April, 2007 and I was in Bangalore. As planned, I had to watch a movie with my friends, and fortunately, it was the only hindi movie available that time, that I had not watched, went by the name "Bheja Fry". The theatre was PVR cinemas in The Forum.

Well, we 4, got ready with tickets (Oops!!! I forgot, I have to transfer money to my Credit card now). I was told, it was a pure vegeterian comedy movie and there I was to see how it goes in PVR with all the modern audience!

As rightly said, it was a comedy movie without so called double-meaning sentences (/words) or slapstick strokes often cracked by David Dhawan or Priyadarshan movies. Well, the meaning of the movie title in english is "Racking Brains" (Hmm...Sounds non-veg from the title, right?). Neither did it rack our brains but stung stomachs with the hysterical laughter pangs induced throughout its runtime.

Let me put some light on the movie story and characters ...

The main ingredient in this Bheja Fry is an idiot who is the hero of the film. And the idea to have an idiot as the hero isn't idiotic at all. The idiot here isn't really dumb but is least conscious or bothered about the world around and doesn't realize that people are laughing on his expense. If you just ponder, you will come across so many idiots like these in real life. Vinay Pathak plays one such idiot with utmost conviction.

Bheja Fry is a story of a group of affluent high society men who organize talent dinners every Friday night. Talent dinner is a dinner where all these riches get in one such idiot of their own, who unassumingly displays his stupid talent and the group is entertained on his expense. The one who gets the most entertaining idiot wins. Ranjeet Thadani (Rajat Kapoor), a music company owner is in hunt of one such 'bakra' for his talent dinner. And then he stumbles upon Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak) whom he invites home. Mr. Bharat Bhushan who considers himself as a singer looks forward to this dinner. Ranjeet wife's Sheetal (Sarika) detests her husband's nasty ways of deriving fun and leaves the house out of annoyance on the dinner day. Further things go wrong when Bhushan lands up in the house followed by a lot of unexpected guests including Sheetal's ex-boyfriend (Milind Soman), Ranjeet's girlfriend (Bhairavi Goswami) and an income tax-officer (Ranvir Shorey).

Without any second thoughts, Bheja Fry belongs whole-heartedly to Vinay Pathak. His look, mannerisms, vocabulary, dialogue delivery, laughing style and many other such minute detailing add utmost level of authenticity to his character. Not just his comic timing is flawless, so is his spontaneity. And unlike other comic actors of recent times who make you laugh by poking fun of others, Vinay makes you laugh at his character's expense. I can not forget the dialogues that were coming out of him (How can I when whole audience was repeating the words with him in the theatre ?).

Amazing style of locking his suitcase, which contained only his so-called certificates as a proof of his singing talent; each time uttering the word "It's Ringing" after dialing a number; and uttering the word "Redial" after calling a person 2nd time pressing the RD button in the phone system; and his wonderful shortcut "TGIF" that he explained as "Thank God, It's Friday"...

Well, after watching a good movie (which lasted for 1:40 hrs max), we headed for dinner. The hotel we chose was "A Taste Of Rampur", 24, 1st Floor, 5th Block , Koramangala Industrial Layout. With the hang-ups of the movie discussions and dialogues, the dinner session and then, rest of the night passed ...