Featured Posts

Aashiqui2 Aashiqui2 is a soulfully mushy movie that can melt your heart with sufi treatment and  Bhatt's signature style of movie making.Mohit Suri has a gift of portraying myarid...

Read more

Dangerous Minds An American drama/hood biopic based on the autobiography My Posse dont do homework by ex-marine, LouAane Johnson who took a temporary job at a school in California to teach...

Read more

Talash An average script with an above average treatment.If you have already read a bit,you might presume about the content that combines lamenting,streetwalkers and paranormal dips...

Read more

When a man loves a woman I have always loved love stories which are more psycho-analytic than silly lovey-dovey kinds.This movie gives insights into two different personalities who are struggling...

Read more

English Vinglish Sridevi's stupendous come back with English Vinglish throws light on certain grassroot factors which any non-english speaking people face.This reel is so real,you could relate...

Read more

Aashiqui2

Category : bollywood, Reviews

imagesAashiqui2 is a soulfully mushy movie that can melt your heart with sufi treatment and  Bhatt’s signature style of movie making.Mohit Suri has a gift of portraying myarid of emotions through his movies.Aditya Roy Kapur aka Rahul is a maniac bipolar depressant who exactly displays the traits of a chronic depressant.Who at a subconscious level has something unresolved that he’s not even willing to figure out until he meets Aarohi.Though some of the dialouges are hackneyed,you’ll be ready to ignore them all to be soaked in the beauty of innocene of love limned.Maniac depressants have hyper mood swings.Sometimes even true,sincere love might just not be enough to resolve something that so deeply settled inside that pain pe se becomes a comforting company for a lifetime and beyond life.

Not the regular run of the mill story.Auidence might not be able to understand his sudden urge to giveup on life.These folks are unpredictable.You never know what might just trigger them to take an extreme step.I’m glad there’s a realistic approach to the story instead of happy ending.Cause thats how the relation with a manic depressant ends,it ends!

Music is addictive,yet another signature style of Bhatts.They make evergreen music for their movies.Even a metalhead like me finds it addictive,esp the ‘tum hi ho’ number.

Aditya roy Kapur’s acting is stupendous for a debutant main lead and very very convincing , distinctive and original.On the contrary Shraddha Kapoor though shares a wonderful on-screen chemistry with Aditya Roy Kapoor,her acting still needs a major polishing.

That said..Its a more than one time watch kind of a movie.Esp again sensuality and erotica which is also Bhatt’s signature style is pleasantly missing.Its good to see movies can still have the emotional stamina and will to believe to contour pristine quality of love.

Mahesh Bhat’s-Mohit Suri has always produced wonderful cinematic works.Aashiqui being an evergreen classic masterpiece then and now and so is Aashiqui2 with semi-modern approach.

Tum hi ho

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umqb9KENgmk

Dangerous Minds

Category : 80s-90's Hollywood, hollywood, Reviews

Dangerous_mindsAn American drama/hood biopic based on the autobiography My Posse dont do homework by ex-marine, LouAane Johnson who took a temporary job at a school in California to teach ghetto-hispanic kids.Michelle Peiffer struggles to connect with the poor-destitute hispanic kids who are intrinsically rebellious and appear dangerous and uncouth as a result of harbouring  prolonged disdain from the society.She breaks the conventional rules of teaching in order to get their attention by using karate and bob dylan lyrics to teach them importance of poetry and education.

The movie very clearly throws light on deeper emotions and dashing hopes of these kids who are born in a certain part of the inner city and are conditioned to be trigger-happy  for the sake of survival.Their improvished living conditions and mental-make up of the world as a whole had made them reluctant to think of the possibilities to make their lives better and respectable until LouAnne Johnson(Peiffer) inspires them and fights for their betterment.The teacher-student bond is usually special if you find a real mentor who can understand your ifs and buts and guide you and connect with you in a way that can help you better yourself regardless of the odds.This movie can surprise you and make you think about how emotions can set off different reactions and condition our behaviour for better or for worst.

Memorable Movie Quotes:

Emilio Ramirez: What, are you gonna give me some advice? Just say no? Well, forget it! How the fuck are you gonna save me from my life, huh?

Louanne: What should i tell them? If they dont want to die remember to knock?

Talash

Category : bollywood, Reviews

An average script with an above average treatment.If you have already read a bit,you might presume about the content that combines lamenting,streetwalkers and paranormal dips until you watch the movie.Kadgi has made every moment gripping and episodic.

The film also manifests automatic writing which is a spiritual practice not wellknown in the eastern/asian part of the globe.What is dissapointing is, when a script just skims through the themes of parapsychology and psychography,its eerie impact is lost.Spirituality, paranormal disciplines that are deeper in their aspect cannot be solicited in little quarters of a multi-themed movie as its transmundane insight is cast off.

Kareena Kapoor aka Rosie,as a floozie,does justice to her performance.The anatomy of the film are its crew and with their remarkable performances make a cheesy script,intriguing.A story that revolves around city’s shady places,involving vices and crimes of libidinous nature, would otherwise form the basis of a c-grade bollywood script.But not if you have the likes of Aamir Khan and Reema Khadgi to polish the nuiances  envisaging dogmas amidst the web of forbidden ties.

If you happen to watch the movie after reading reviews and the plot,they still fail to be your spoilers for those chilling moments in the movie.Thats the beauty of Khadgi’s direction.A wonderful,matured formulation of how a broken marriage,lament of a lost child can be transform believes,creeds in a seedy hotel in one night.The plot truly sticks to its tag-’The answer lies within.’Not the same run of the mill treatment you’d expect for a plot that involves a disturbed police officer,a broken marriage,depressed wife and a streetwalker.

When a man loves a woman

Category : 80s-90's Hollywood, classics, Movie Quotes, Reviews

I have always loved love stories which are more psycho-analytic than silly lovey-dovey kinds.This movie gives insights into two different personalities who are struggling in their relation inspite of truly loving each other.Co-dependency is one trait which is easy to identify but also easily ignored which causes issue in a relation where the two are independant and individualistic people.Co-dependancy is a condition which i’m sure most of our mommies suffer from.It’s a psychological condition in which the person maniulates the other esp the one who is suffering from mental or emotional,pathological condition.Keeping his/her priorities low and being excessively preoccupied with the other person’s need in order to be the one in control,giving the feeling of nurturing to the other.It’s like abnormal,unhealthy kind of self-sacrifice the person makes to give himself/herself the feeling of martyr.Such people are generally not termed as good caretakers though they give that impression.They are compulsively self-reliant.Always trying to ‘fix’ things in the other person,to make themselves feel better.

This very psychological aspect is explored in the movie.Micheal(Andy Gracis) is an airline pilot who’s wife  Alice Green (Meg Ryan) is an alcoholic.Their relation goes though ups and downs as they dwell deeper into these aspects when finally Meg decides to seperate ways as Micheal though very caring and tolerant is the one who always tries to fix her and make her feel better.When infact it makes her feel worthless.Micheal comes across as a sensitive,caring person.However when you explore his charisma in the movie,his treating and fixing of his wife’s mood is pretty mechanical and problem-solving instead of being emphatetic.Codependant personalities lack empathy coz they are not intune with their own feelings,they are passive-aggressive,they live in denial of what they actually feel.They believe people are incapable of taking care of themselves,become resentful when others will not take their help,they believe expression of emotions are a signs of weekness.All these traits are expressed through Micheal’s character in the movie.Micheal is so orderly and uptight from inside that Alice is unable to delight the warmth and real intimacy that could come from sharing and expressing his real self.

Movie Quotes:

Alice Green: It’s horrifying how much you can hate yourself for being low and weak and he couldn’t save me from that. So I turned it on him; I tried to empty it onto him. But there was always more, you know. When he tried to help I told him that he made me feel small and worthless. But nobody makes us feel that, we do that for ourselves. I shut him out because I knew if he ever really saw who I was inside, that he wouldn’t love me. And we’re separated now, he’s moved away, and it was so hard not to beg him to stay. And I don’t know if I’m going to get a second chance but I have to believe. That I deserve one. Because we all do.

English Vinglish

Category : bollywood, Reviews

Sridevi’s stupendous come back with English Vinglish throws light on certain grassroot factors which any non-english speaking people face.This reel is so real,you could relate to every bit of it.Not a dull moment.A middle-class housewife with no knowledge of english feels the real pinch of her ignorance when she’s faced with mortifying situation in a cafe in America.Instead of feeling down-right damnable and abjected letting someone know that you donot understand the language is enough to get help.Even the french guy didn’t know english but he did manage to get what he wanted without feeling  woeful and dramatic about the situation.

An important point that is quite evidently shown in the movie is that only Indians feel inferior for not knowing the language properly.The french,spanish and other people in her class you can see are not one bit ashamed of who they are or their lack of knowledge in English.I think it’s high time we learn to accept who we are and where we come from,wholeheartdely inspted of feeling scrimpy and small.Everybody makes fun of everybody’s accent then why do we make a big deal or feel offended when they make fun of Indian English?Why cant we take everything with a pinch of salt.

Movie is undoubtedly hilarious and very realistic.If we are to obeserve keenly we do make a big deal about language,not just english even regional languages.We are fanatics of sorts.People have told me that if you want to survive in places like Chennai and Kerala,you would do so comfortably if you know little bit of ‘their’ language.So you see,English is not the only language barrier we are facing.Also we need to do something about feeling shameful for not knowing something.Why cant we just learn something without getting worked-up and feeling all sorts of guilt and shame and what not.

I’m an anglomaniac of sorts.English is one of the wonderful languages accepted all over the world.Why not take the initiative to learn to speak and write better,makes you life easy,eh?Why do you have to throw one-sided perspective of how one is made to feel inferior for not knowing the language.There are many who confidently speak horridious english and its both  entertaining and amusing.Bottom-line,no need of being all hammy and melodramatic if you donot know something.Go along and learn it and be happy.Even after more than fifty years of Independence we are still struggling with language-problems instead of mastering them by now.We dont go to France and realize we have to learn french.We learn these languages out of interest.

It’s just funny how Sridevi feels compelled to secretly learn English only after entering America.Why does she has to do it so secretly and feeling all brused and lamenting it.Like i told you we are made to feel shameful for not knowing something.We’d rather focus on that instead of making a big deal about not knowing English-Vinglish.A few reviews speak about how its an eye-opener;i’d say my a**.What eye-opener.This ‘sweet’,'innocent’,'naive’ lady is facing self-esteem issues in the movie and knowing English did help her gain some respect.So what they have actually depicted is that knowing English makes you more acceptable in your own family and gain their respect.Wow,these are our values?really?

What about Bob?

Category : 80s-90's Hollywood, hollywood, Movie Quotes, Reviews

Bill Murry’s movies have a very unusual humour.Love most of them and love him in his movies.What about bob? is a movie about a lonely man,Bob Wiley(Bill Murry) who’s wife has left him and he suffers from  multiple phobias.He’s under the supervison of a puffed-up psyciatrist,Dr.Leo Marvin(Richard Dreyfuss) who is at his wit’s end when Bob befriends his family and follows him to his vacation.Bob is a neurotic,obsessive-compulsive patient who is too scared to leave his apartment.However he has the habit of clinging to his therapists.When pawned off to Leo by his previous psychiatrist,Bob figures out the where-abouts of Leo and stalks him and changes the dymanics of his family relations.Ironically Dr.Marvin’s wife and kids find Bob more compassionate and loving as compared to Leo smouldering him from inside.He also steals the thunder of a Dr.Marvin’s interview at a local tv-show.Disgruntled by Bob’s icky behaviour he devices various methods to kill him and finally tries to send him to the looney-bin.But to Leo’s dismay he befriends people at the hospital and they release him.

The movie is tragicomic, ironic in nature .Bill Murry’s performance of a ludicurous,buffonish,naive gooey bum is fun to watch.The situation created in this movies make you laugh to splits and symphatise with the poor situation of the narsiccistic shrink.You wouldnt want to miss out on this 90′s comedy.

Memorable  movie quotes:

Dr. Leo Marvin: Are you married?
Bob Wiley: I’m divorced.
Dr. Leo Marvin: Would you like to talk about that?
Bob Wiley: There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond, and those who don’t. My ex-wife loves him.
Dr. Leo Marvin: [pause] I see. So, what you’re saying is that even though you are an almost-paralyzed, multiphobic personality who is in a constant state of panic, your wife did not leave you, you left her because she… liked Neil Diamond?

Dr. Leo Marvin: You understand, don’t you? There’s no other solution. You won’t go away.
Bob Wiley: I will.
Dr. Leo Marvin: No, you won’t. You’re just *saying* you will! But then, after I don’t kill you, you’ll show up again. And you’ll do something else to make everyone in my life think you are wonderful and I’m a schmuck. But I’m not a schmuck, Bob, and I’m not going to let you breeze into town and take my family away from me, just because you’re crazy enough to be *fun*.

[Leo has a rifle pointed at Bob]
Bob Wiley: What are we doing?
Dr. Leo Marvin: Death Therapy, Bob. It’s a guaranteed cure.

Bob Wiley: [speaking to workers in a mental hospital] It reminds me of my favorite poem, which is, “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m a schizophrenic… and so am I!”

Siggy: I mean, my Dad just dropped me in the water, without warning me first. I mean, I nearly drowned! My whole life flashed before my eyes!
Bob Wiley: Wow, you’re lucky you’re only twelve.
Siggy: It was still grim.

Dr. Leo Marvin: Why are you always wearing black? What is it with you and this death fixation?
Siggy: Maybe I’m in mourning for my lost childhood.

Dr. Catherine Tomsky: If you want to be rid of him, just tell him you won’t treat him anymore.
Dr. Leo Marvin: Catherine, that’s easy for you to say. The man is, is like, like human Krazy Glue!
Dr. Catherine Tomsky: You should never have let him sleep in your pajamas, Leo.
Dr. Leo Marvin: I can’t believe that I’m hearing this!
Dr. Catherine Tomsky: Relax, Leo.
Dr. Leo Marvin: I’m relaxed!
Dr. Catherine Tomsky: Take a vacation.
Dr. Leo Marvin: I’M ON VACATION!
Dr. Catherine Tomsky: Maybe you should check in here for a few days. Get a handle on things!

Bob Wiley: Excuse me, Phil, but with these particular symptoms, is Prozac the right choice?
Lily Marvin: You think Prozac is a mistake?
Bob Wiley: Well, with this kind of manic episode, I would think Librium might be a more effective management tool.
Phil: You could be right. I’ll rewrite the prescription.

Dr. Leo Marvin: I want some peace and quiet!
Bob Wiley: Well, I’ll be quiet.
Siggy: I’ll be peace!
[Bob and Siggy burst into giggles]

Frankie and Johnny

Category : 80s-90's Hollywood, classics, hollywood, Movie Quotes, Reviews

Frankie and Johnny,were lovers alright!inspired from the popular american song which has been adapted numerous times in plays and songwriting.However this film treats the theme differently.Al Pacino’s magic adds to the charm of this beautiful love-story.Ain’t the typical love-flick where a boy meets girl.Its deals with mature emotions and realistic motifs of bruised relations.Michelle Pfeiffer(Frankie) is a thirty-six year old waitress,very reticent and serious by nature.Having bouts of unrequited and failed love with a bunch of weirdos has stopped believing in love.Pacino(Johnny) on the other hand has been released from his term in hoosegow and is returning to find the job of a cook in a local diner.He meets Frankie and finds that winning her heart is quite challenging.

The movie paints bone fide picture of such deep emotions podding mental and emotional scars that have trounced the faith in love.Johnny is in his forties and doesnt give up on his challenges and rather sticks to this complicated relation only to know her and understand her and to be there for her.It expresses fear of being in love after a fateful abusive relation.It articulates every aspect of anxieties,fear and phobias Frankie has to go through without any magnifying dramatic effect.Movies such as these are so beautifully written and showcased,even a stone-cold maimed heart would start relating to what is portrayed and turn a new leaf.Simplicity with which it is articulated  shows the mind of a genuis at work.Regardless of what you are feeling and experiencing;when you watch this movie,its bring unadultrated faith and hope in our lives and we breathe the brill of Pacino’s stupendous performance.

Memorable movie quotes:

Johnny: I know I can’t the make the bad go away. You’re right, I can’t. But when the bad comes again, I am gonna be next to you.

Johnny: I think we should get married and have kids.
Frankie: [hysterical] I don’t like kids!
Johnny: I don’t believe that.
Frankie: [pause] I can’t have any! Are you happy now?

Frankie: [shows Johnny a scar on her neck] The man I was with… he did this with a belt buckle. He’s the reason I can’t have kids. He, uh… he knocked me around while I was… pregnant.
[begins crying]
Frankie: I lost the baby.
Johnny: [gently kisses the scar] It’s gone.
Frankie: It’ll never be gone.

Johnny: You don’t have to be afraid anymore.
Frankie: I am. I’m afraid. I’m afraid to be alone, I’m afraid not to be alone. I’m afraid of what I am, what I’m not, what I might become, what I might never become. I don’t want to stay at my job for the rest of my life but I’m afraid to leave. And I’m just tired, you know, I’m just so tired of being afraid.

Tim: [after repeated phone calls from Johnny] Excuse me, Johnny, I’ve got to hang up. We’re expecting a call from you any minute

[doorbell rings]
Tim: Are you expecting someone?
Frankie: No.
[doorbell rings again]
Frankie: Hello, who is it?
Johnny: Frankie?
Frankie: Johnny?
Tim: Ooh, I just got goosebumps.