Hottest weekend of my life.

Saturday was to be the hottest ever delhi in the past two years. And this was my first summer in delhi.

Give a good reason for not wanting to pack and run.
I was virtually roasted. The AC had to be tripped on Friday night, which was spent fuming over the AC company. Waited for the AC guy for whole saturday, yeah I experienced the heat, and i just waited and waited, and he came at 6 pm. Apparently the heat had caused some short circuiting, How I wouldn't now.


I took out all the DVDs i had and stayed the rest of the weekend home. The movies were the only high part. Oh the Fosters gave good company.

I reran, Akira's RAN, Fellini's La Strada, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and watched Casablanca for the n'th time. Couldn't finish Omar Mukhtar or the bit of work that I brought home.

Am I comfortable with Nishabd!

I love Watching Amitabh Bachchan. He just fills up the screen, and this charisma that is hard to miss. So it was in (KBC)Kaun Banega Crorepati. He was never a friend like Shah Rukh Khan now, but more a father.

Oh he had a blip, during those mid life crises days, when he had not quite aged gracefully. Sagging skin, but trying to act young like the son in Suryavansh. The father was very convincing though.

My love for Amitabhjee Goes a very long way. I got my name from one of his movies. So, I have alsways had this certain connection with this Man, and have loved all his movies.

Except Black. Specially that Kissing scene. You can't imagine your Dad kissing some young girl, would you?

And now Nishabd. I get goosebumps thinking about this movie. Oh Yes, I love oldperson-young person sex scenes, and I have had my fair fantasies when I grew up. And I loved Lolita. But Amitabh is quite a father figure...

Of course, he clarified that Nishabd is not at all at a take at Nabokov. It is the story about an affection of a young girl for an older man. I hope it is not dirty geez.. As Abhinav rightly puts it, Amitabh Bachchan’s demi-god status will prevent him from fully exploring the role of a dirty old man. [via]

Guru, Lucky for Aishwaryra and Abhishek

Hmm....

How was Guru?
I guess I went with a lot of expectations .. So, I would say, the movie was just about OK.
But not worth watching twice, and I watch many movies many times over.

Movie was directed well, I should say, and Vidya Balan Looked good as ever.
Lets not even start about Aishwarya Rai, and Abhishek Bachchan and Aish looked very much like husband and wife.. Though I overheard that Abhishek looked more at home with Rani Mukherjee. Back to Ash, I have always dismissed anyone who said anything remotely bad Ash as mere jealousy. She is just so beautiful. I guess she is not liked because she looks so perfect and breaks the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" myth.. She looked all the more better in Guru. She is looking better and fresher as she ages.

She acted well, but she would have been much better if she acted a little lesser. She should stop thinking that she had to be perfect. All she has to do is just be normal..

Abhishek Bachchan leaves much room for improvement.
He should stop imitating his father as well. I know it is natural "Ai". But he needs to come out of that Shadow. He will grow, he will mature, and he is get better.... He needs much refinement though. He delivered much better in ...what was that godfather remake... Yeah Sarkar (Had to google ).

His lopsided smile was not too convincing..
Every one is going ga ga over Abhishek, but Guru didn't deliver the promise because of Guru himself..

Mithun was great, Vidya Balan's role was small but sweet and apt, Madhavan's was as expected, saala Abhishek main maar khaa gaya. Direction was good by bollywood standard...

He is the most promising star though..
Or is it the case of the country of the blind?

Congratulations again to Aishwarya and Abhishek on the engagement.

Khosla Ka Ghosla mein Boman Irani!

Anupam Kher is a great actor and I have always liked him but Boman Irani seems out to beat him. All else remaining same, ;-) , Boman Irani Beats him hands down in laughter therapy scenes.

Khosla Ka Ghosla is the story of Mr KK Khosla's (Anupam) Struggle to get back his own plot of land from a land mafia(Mr Khurana-Boman) who grabbed it in cahoot with a slimy real estate agent, and the policemen in his pocket. That, the land was guarded by a Huge Jat didn't help Mr Khosla and his typical Middle Class grown-up sons either.

The elder son, who wanted to leave everything behind, mein yeh sab lafra mein parna nahin Chahta , and run away to a software company in Newyork teams up with his Visa Broker-Middleman, who had an old due to settle with Boman Irani. Very conviniently, the visa broker was a real estate broker who used to forge documents for Boman Irani a long before his downslide and Boman's upslide. So he sets up a perfect plan, with a theatre group(...enters Tara Sharma, looking quite wasted and tired, though still cute, but her acting and dialogue delivery had gone for a toss) to feed Boman his own Pill, and provides a lot of laughter on the way.

A movie worth a watch... Reminds me of the simple Hrishikeshda's Movies.... I had a god laugh.

PVR to start no-frills Multiplexes

Ajay Bijli who gave Indians the first taste of Multiplexes with his PVR chains, and set off a mini-multiplex boom is set to set-off another boom. Another first to his name, NO-Frills Multiplexes.

PVR cinemas will start a no-frills chain in small cities, starting from Latur and Aurangabad, names PVR talkies. He will do away Cushy seats, Plasma display, Neon-lighting, and central air-conditioning. Oh, they won't be selling 50 bucks pop corns either...

All the best, Ajay!!!