Give me some sunshine, give me some rain!!

...give me another chance, I wanna grow up once again!!!

What a wonderful movie. Thoroughly entertaining and enjoyable from start to end. Despite Kareena Kapoor, despite a couple of really slap-stick jokes, despite a few slightly "message"-ful scenes in the first half and despite the fact that it's said to be inspired from a largely crappy book, this one is a real gem of a movie.

Love Aamir Khan, love being able to relate to the movie so much, love my company for organizing everyone to see it. Worth seeing at least a few times for being a movie that manages to have the right mix of emotion, entertainment and substance for the most part.

Go watch 3 Idiots people, it is the Andaz Apna Apna of 2009! (and show it to your parents)

Summer 2007, 2008

I never review movies etc on my blog, but have to say Summer 2007 is a good watch. (So is Jaane tu...., while Thoda Pyar.... is sooo cliched and Love Story 2050 is so not watchable:P) The reason I say so for Summer 2007 despite an almost unknown cast and not the best direction in the world is the story and a not bad at all acting by at least Gul Panag and Ashutosh Rana, and even though the movie could do with some editing in the beginning (too many sub plots) and a tighter control on the script that would help develop each of the five main characters properly. In a lot of technical ways and norms of movie-making then, it is just about there, but not quite. Each of the five characters undergo a catharsis and reach a Rang de Basanti types awakening in the end, which albeit a fresher option than miraculous healing and closure of the entire problem, but the characters are so poorly developed you almost miss that catharsis and awakening at the individual level. Most of the rest of the cast looks promising, but again, more like getting there. The title is weird, it so doesn' resonate with the essence of the movie.
But still, I maintain it's a good watch because it's effective so far as its core issue is concerned. It manages to look real and disturbing and does not adhere to stereotypes (one of the villains is a modern, karate-knowing, slick, sexy, English-speaking female police inspector) And the movie almost made me jump and run and want to do something concrete, something helpful.
Ok, enough of this. I'm sure I'm not good at reviewing etc. Moving from summer of 2007 to summer of 2008, that is the here and the now, life is getting, or at least, feeling more pleasant lately, as I said in the last post. At least as much as it could get in boring vacations. It's the time of the year when my life is entirely dictated by the inertia of rest. I don't do anything hence I can't hence I don't. :P :P

But I like the nothingness sometimes, anyway. The rains, the pakoras, the slow pace of work, the gossip, the movies, the walks, the games. Not thinking is cool, I say. Very cool. :D