The invention of lying

The concept is something entirely different in a good sense. Even though the story is a bit slow, the entire concept makes it a bit interesting to watch. Acting seems to be pretty alright. There are a few flaws here and there in the concept but its a brave attempt.

A world where lies do not exist, no one lies about anything, people speak only the truth. Truth truth and truth, to an extent that it gets ugly at times. People speak up what they really think and never lie for any purpose, let it be for being nice to someone, or for wooing someone. Then comes the 1st lie in the world by a man. He finds that by lying, he can do whatever he want, get whatever he want, and so he does. People believe whatever he tells them. He uses this to his advantage and it is like his superpower. Just 1 person lying in this whole world. Eventually he becomes more and more successful in life. The story ends in him marrying the girl that he likes.

Its a good watch, but one time only.

The Box

An interesting story but it has been shown in a dull way. Of course Diaz looks very good in the movie, her acting has been very good. Some might say that the dull manner in which it has been showcased is profound in its own way. For quiet sometime into the movie, you cannot figure out as to what is going, but slowly everything unveils. There are some questions unanswered by the movie that makes it a bit intriguing.

A box is delivered to Arther Lewis's residence at an odd hour. They open the box to find a strange looking item in it. A man visits their residence, only Norma Lewis happens to be at home. He tells her that there is a button on the item which if pressed will result in the death of somebody in the world that they don't know. If they press it within 24 hrs, then they receive a million dollars, else the item is taken back and the deal is off. They decide to press the button and the same man delivers a million dollars to them as per the deal. Now the events become obscure, a lot of strange things happen to them. But towards the end, all these events explain themselves and all starts to make some sense.

Its a good one time watch. You might get bored because the story is a bit slow and things are shown in an old fashioned way..

Weather Girl

A nice movie, goes a bit slow after a bold beginning. The end is somewhat interesting too. Acting has been pretty descent. Its really something that you should wath if you are looking for something exciting. Mostly unknown stars but they seem to have pulled off something pretty descent.

A weather reporter quits her job in a really bold manner because one of her colleagues whom she had been seeing for the past 2 years dumps her for another girl. She ends up staying at her brother place where she meets one of his friends. Her career is screwed up, she is a single woman in her mid-30s and she does not have a boyfriend. She tries numerous times to get another job but her hunt ends up in zilch. She is forced to be a waitress. Her brother's friend and she become friends and at some point, things start to heat up between them. Eventually, she gets her job back and gives up her newly found mate for it, only to realize that she has been sold out and he matters more to her than anything else. Again, she quits in the same bold manner as before and undoes her mistake. This description may seem a bit too ordinary but there is a lot more in the movie. Its a one time watch only. The only exciting part of the movie is what I call the "Quitting in a bold manner".

Someone like you.

There is no intensity in the movie. It doesn't give you the feel that a movie should. There seems to be nothing special or exciting that happens in the story. A dull story overall and gets a bit boring after the first hour. The acting isn't that good either.

A woman gets a committed man in her cross-hairs. Liking her better, that man dumps his girlfriend whom, he has been seeing for 3 years. This breakup happens to be too hard on him so he dumps her as well. Heartbroken, this girl formulates a theory about men by comparing them to cows. Her article becomes a big hit as it gets published in a popular magazine. She uses a pen name to write the article so as to have total anonymity. Later, her experience in life shows her that her theory is total B.S. At last she finds the love of her life as expected. The story is very predictable.

Watch this movie only if you dont have another option. You might like this movie if you are into romantic movies.

My one and only

Boring Boring Boring !!! A very slow movie, so slow that it made those one and three quarter hours feel like one and three quarter days. For most of the time, it feels like there cannot be an end to this story, but a ray of hope suddenly appears which sort of points to a probable ending, but this ray turns out to be an illusion and fades away the very next instant. On many occasions during the course of the movie, it makes you wonder as to where the story is going. A happy ending seems very obvious and predictable.

Its a plot from the 1950s. A woman leaves her unfaithful husband in search of a man who is loyal to her, who cares for her, who really loves her. She has two sons, both born to different fathers, the younger son being born to her present husband. They travel from city to city where she dates many guys, mostly rich, who offer to marry her. But for some reason or the other, she is forced to leave them. Her hunt goes on and on. Finally her younger son gets frustrated and decides to let her go and take his own way, but eventually, he goes back to her.

All this drama only ends in her realizing that she does not need a husband. The younger son gets an acting career and the older one also figures out wha the wants. The family of 3 remains united (her husband dies).

My suggestion, don't watch this movie. Its a very very very slow story and might kill you a little bit from the inside.

Observe and report

My God what the hell was that. The story goes nowhere, and it is aweful enough to get anyone disgusted. How can somebody even think of such a story? Its worse than a 3rd degree torture, I would rather be a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay for those one and a half hours.

The whole story is about a mall security officer who wants to be a cop some day. But his application gets rejected as he fails to pass the psycho-analysis. His mom is an alcoholic. His lone achievement in the movie is that he catches a naked guy who has been troubling the people at the mall since quiet a few days by running around naked. The movie ends on the same note and he feels that this is the biggest achievement of his life. And out of nowhere, a girl falls for him. All the fighting scenes are like the ones in Bollywood movies, one guy against several pricks, even this that has been horribly shown (infact Bollywood movies have better fighting scenes).

In short, its a horrible movie. If you watch the movie even after reading this, well I have no words for you. Its better to watch Mugle Azam again rather than this one.

Jersey Girl

Just 10 minutes into the movie and already a lot has happened. A small girl "Gertie", whose mom dies right after giving birth, has only her dad to take care of her. The dad who is in a trauma of his wife's death, finds it very hard to raise her and be a good dad. He loses his job and is forced to move in with his father. His father take care of his daughter for a few days but after realizing that his son is being ignorant about his daughter, he forces his son to take care of his daughter. He is forced to take a job of a handyman picking up trash. He keeps trying more interviews but nothing goes his way. He takes good care of his daughter. Finally something his way, he gets a job in the New York city and plans to move there with his daughter. But the daughter is too attached to the grandpa to leave him. A big fight and finally she agrees to move with wit his dad. But emotional attachments withing the family makes them to stay together. He also finds a new girl for himself.

Also, some wierd incidents with the girl and a friend of hers shows their innocence. The little girl is the best character in the movie, her acting is adorable. The movie is just a one time watch, as it might make you cry in the 1st 10 minutes. But the rest of the story is pretty light. If you like slow movies, then you might like this one.

Bolo Raam

With some of the good old Bollywood faces including Padmini Kolhapure, Naseruddin Shah and Om Puri, the movie tends to maintain a mood of suspense throughout. A son who is no less that totally crazy, though not literally, is found with his mother's dead body (who has been murdered) with the knife that had killed her in his hands. An intense emotional attachment that they shared causes the son to believe that his mother is not dead, but she is just asleep. A thorough and patient police investigation yields a lot of mystifying things about the son. He is in a state of trauma and is not able to remember anything as to what had happened the night his mother was murdered. Persistent efforts eventually seem to be leading nowhere as the investigation almost reaches a dead end. The gut feeling seems to point at a most probable culprit, but an unexpected event triggers the boys emotions. This causes him to except the fact that his mother is dead and he figures out who the killer is.

Even though the story seems dry in the beginning, the end is a bit interesting. Its a good one time watch. Acting would be rated as one of the best in general for all the characters. Also, the suspense could have been enhanced be a better background music.

Invictus (2009)

Too depressed to do anything? Or maybe feel like committing suicide? Need a strong doze of inspiration? Find no reason to be live? Watch this movie and you wont need anymore inspiration for the rest of your life (Oops, seems like a bit too much). based on the book "PLAYING THE ENEMY" by John Carlin, it is the story of Nelson Mandela. The one man who stabilized the whole Nation of RSA from a capital of apartheid into a developing country. The movie clearly outlines his magnetic personality and words of overwhelming influence blooming with simplicity. A man who stayed in prison for 30 years and still came out with such sorcerous ideals.

Morgan Freeman has done an excellent job of playing the role of Mendela, no one else could have done it better. The story starts with Mendela being elected as the president and taking office. The country is still in ruins with the prevailing hatred between the Blacks and the Whites. The country's rugby team has been losing all its matches since quiet sometime now. Just a cup of tea with Nelson, the Rugby team captain is so inspired by this words and majestic personality that he goes on to win the Rugby world cup. The captain plays a crutial role of uniting the country not only by leading his team to a win but in a few other ways as well.

Under Mandela's leadership, a game of Rugby brings the whole country together.
The movie will get nominated everywhere. Its a must watch.

Infestation (2009)

If you are a sensitive type and cannot take creepy stuff, then this is not something that you should watch and you are sure to puke if you do. Ifs all about giant bugs capturing people and putting them in some kind of cocoon. Apparently some of them can fly and some of them can't, but one commonality that all of them share is that they are blind. Whoever get stung by these huge bugs turns into one of them after sometime. They have captured the whole city and put each and every human being alive into cocoons.

Cooper wakes up only to realize that he is stuck in something. He struggles his way out of it only to realize that all the people in his office are stuck up in cocoons. A large bug is moving aroun filling some wierd liquid into everyones mouth. The bug realizes that he is awake and tries to fight him but he manages to fight it off. He wakes up a few more people and tries to figure out what is going on. They realize that the last thing they remember was an incident a few days back. Cooper recalls being fired and hearing a loud noise after that.

The few people awake trap a bug and try to do find out stuff about it so as to figure a way to fight them. The story goes on with many scenes that might force out stuff from your stomach (Upwards). Many incidents where the people just escape from being stung but some of them do end up stung. Wierd long legs pop out of the hips of the latter ones after the sting has taken its effect, they turn blind and are no longer humans, but one of those bugs. The special effects are mind-blowing.

It has a happy ending as expected, the bug's nest, which houses the Queen is blown asunder. As blood of these bugs happens to be inflammable, the whole nest blows up. Somehow all the bugs are dead and its all over.

The sound effects are also very good. Its a good one time watch.

"Fired up", 2 guys, 300 gals (oh its just a movie)

I am sure all the pervs will like this movie. A recently released comedy about 2 guys (Nick and Shawn) who give some random reason to their football coach to goto a cheer-leader camp in hunt of chics. The captain of their schools cheer-leading squad (Carly) hesitates to accept them even though they had been coming last in the final cheer-leading contest from the past few years, but she is eventually forced to as the other members of the squad like the idea and so does the cheer-leading squad coach. The best character in the whole movie being Nick's sister, who helps his brother and his friend to enter the squad (even though she herself is in a different squad). A few of the members of the cheer-leading squad have their own peculiar character, especially Bianca, which makes it a bit interesting. Nick and Shawn originally plan to run away before the final contest but they decide to stay as Nick starts to like Carly and Shawn starts to like Diora, the camp organizer (in her 30s whereas Shawn is just 20). Carly has a Boyfriend who finds out that Nick and Shawn had plans to ditch the squad and tell this to the squad. They are forced by the squad for their betrayal to leave but they come back on the day of the contest and their squad manages to pull off one of the most difficult and dangerous cheer-leading moves. Carly dumps her boyfriend as she finds out that he was cheating on her and ends up with Nick. Shawn ends up with Diora as his DIARY manages to impress her.
Even though it is not as good a comedy but it is worth a one time watch.

Trip to Bhedaghat...

With Narmada cutting through the marble rocks, Bhedaghat is a very good picnic spot. It just takes about 7 hours to finish the entire sight seeing. The major attractions being the Duandhar Falls, Marble Rocks, and the Chausath Yogini temple.



The Duandhar falls, even though isn't that high, but the force of water is tremendous. You can feel the intense force of water even as you stand there watching at the water fall form approximately 10m (my approximation after looking at the falls). Just before Narmada takes a leap, its flow is quiet moderate and thus is suitable for taking a bath. We (Kotecha, Huggies,Randy, Balu and me. The losers, ie Popat and Potnis backed out from bathing in that cold) took a bath in the early morning hours when the air was so cold that our asses were frozen. We decided to do so as the locals advised that the water would be comparatively hotter in the mornings and would start to get colder by the day, I don't know how that works. But it was really worth it. The water wasn't as cold as we thought it would be. The moment we came out of the water, the cold air literally froze our asses this time. But soon, after we dressed up, none of us were feeling cold anymore. And to my surprise, none of us caught cold or fever of anything.



Next the marble rocks. Quiet a bit of marble is visible while standing near the falls. But for a better look, rather a much better look, a boat ride in the Narmada. All kinds of marbles namely white, grey, pink, black are clearly distinguishable. Some are shaped like the head of an elephant, the toes of a horse, the body of Nandi (Shiva's bull) and many more. Its amazing to look at.



The Chausath Yogini temple is an ancient temple and is declared a hertiage site by the Archeological Survey of India. It has carvings of 64 yogigi, the female yoga mystics and Lord Shiva and Lordess Parvathi inside the main temple. It was apparently built in the 10th century AD by some king's mom. The Yogini carvings are worth looking at even though most of then have been destroyed due to some unknown reason.

2 StAtEs... Chetan Bhagat.

The best of all the four of his novels till now, the basic reason being that the book describes an important (Indian) social issue in a very practical sense. The best of it is where he makes these statements at the very beginning:

"Love marriages around the world are simple:
Boy loves girl. Girl loves boy.
They get married.
In India, there are a few more steps:
Boy loves Girl. Girl loves Boy.
Girl's family has to love boy. Boy's family has to love girl.
Girl's Family has to love Boy's Family. Boy's family has to love girl's
family.
Girl and Boy still love each other. They get married."

Its a story Krish and Ananya's marriage, well basically a detailed description of what all they (I would rather say "he") go(es) through to make their marriage happen. The only reason that they have (he has) to go through all the trouble is that Krish is a Punjabi and Ananya is a Tamilian. Their family backgrounds are totally different, and so their marriage is not acceptable to either of their parents. Their efforts to get their parents to agree to their marriage starts on the day of their graduation from IIMA, the Act 1, which of course fails miserably. THey then decide to take it up step by step, one at a time. First, Krish goes to Chennai and tries very very very very.... hard to make her parents accept him. This takes 6 months, and at last his perseverance pays off. Step 2, Krish's parents have to accept ananya, so she comes to Delhi for just 1 week, the act 2. Again its his perseverance that pays off in a week with a very little of her effort. Step 3, their parent have to like each other. This calls for a neutral venue which happens to be Goa (act 3). It turns out abortive. Everything is called off, but he still doesn't give up even though she does. Suddenly out of nowhere, Krish's no good dad comes to the rescue and fixes the bungle. Finally, the marriage in Chennai.

It clearly shows that only guys always have "suffering" written on their foreheads...