Rock on!

Watched this movie last week. It has a freshness about itself. A message to go do things what you've always wanted to do. A story of friendship and teamwork. As the name suggests the movie is about a rock band and it's 4 members. I never ever imagined in the first place that Bollywood would ever ever have a movie made on Rock band!! Woo.. a movie with music and that too rock music as the theme!

The actors were superb in their display of acting skills. The story apt in telling each character and it's peculiarity! As normal humans they all have the same common emotions portrayed in the characters. Be it the way the lead character dumps his girlfriend and then marries another girl and gives her no pieces of his past life or be it the lead guitarist of the band who gets pissed off with the double standards of the video makers and breaks up with the band! And his wife nagging him to hold on to a good paying job steadily. Every scene is so perfectly carved out. Though i could predict the story before it came, i just wanted to watch the movie and just leave it at that. I was engrossed. Did i tell you that the music so so so rocking. I love the part of the movie where the band reforms and goes on to sing the Sindbad sailor song . And hats off to Mr.Javed Akthar for writing lyrics for a rock band :) Just awesome. And music could not get better than that when Shanker, ehsaan and Loy combine. Everything was in a right mixture to deliver a potent combination of a hit movie.

The movie has proved that it's not the theme that matters but how well the characters and story gel together with each other and above all the storyteller needs to be very precise in delivering the right emotions in the right place. It's all about human emotions right! :)

Do try and catch this movie in a theater for a satisfying experice. BTW, i'm gonna watch it again soon... :)

Movie: 'Battle for Haditha'

This is one movie that has touched me. IMDB link here.

It's about the war on 'terror'. This is what the American's say for the invasion on Iraq!! This movie gives a different picture altogether. Other side of the picture on terror war! An angle i always ignored to think about. Civilians in Iraq or the general public who have lost a normal life in all this invasion. Common man dies a dog's death everyday there. In the name of war on terror everyday hundred innocent civilian casualties. The movie pictures an incident that happened in a city called Haditha in Iraq. A certain mass killing of the civilians there on behest of orders to kill responsible for a IED explosion that took US mariner's life. Kids, women and the helpless are slaughtered as if it was a unreal tourney game! A sense of helplessness, agony and fightback to no results is what the movie is picturing. Imagine this, if you support extremists there, army kills you. And if you support army, extremists kill you. Anyways, you are dead. And only thing you could chose is how you could die and supporting whom!! After all the casualties, a kid survives in a family that had 11 people! And the innocent gets to see her parents and siblings slaughtered in front of her very own eyes. A loss that could never be overcome.
I equally feel bad for the mariners too who have to lead a life where in they have to kill innocents just because they feel unsafe when Iraqis are around with their assault riffles(it's common there in Iraq to posses assault riffles at homes) and also that they do not know who really are the ones creating trouble. They just have to execute orders. No wonder, some of the post war syndromes in marines are that they find it hard to sleep with the pictures of these innocent killings returning as nightmares. Last week an article in the newspaper said about a mariner taking life of a 16 year old girl by running over her in his car. Reason, he was totally depressed and hence was abusing a lot of alcohol and was drunk when he ran the teenager over in his car. A lot cases like these are reported. Now, who's mistake is this?
A good movie on a very good subject.

PS: This post is dedicated to people who've lost lives in the war unnecessarily. Be it a mariner or a civilian. May peace follow soon. And prayers for the people of the region to get to lead their normal life soon.

An affair of love! How is this for a movie title?

Have you ever thought why a relations works out well or if it doesn't, then why is it that it is failing? The reasons are far too many to even name all of them. Either you need a lot of time to think and explain or abundance of patience to hear the "reasons". A couple of course given the fact that they were total strangers for a major share of their life and even importantly they only discover each other only after meeting each other. This meeting happens and they grow into each other for a certain reason and this can be anything. If this same reason becomes obsession and then, this same obsession turns into a nightmare. Isn't it? So rather than being obsessed with each other and then loosing out why not maintain the right mixture of 'you'. 'me' and the 'us' that works great until the end. A bit of space and respect to the partner would do wonders to both of them and in turn would give the required amount of time for the fondness for each other to grow. For example, a person wouldn't know what is missing like without actually missing his/her dear one. So do give that opportunity of missing to be created. Now what i mean is don't cling on every now and then to each other. Love grows with distance is how to explain it perfectly. This is the most common thought that came into my mind trying to explain this. There can be a lot of other things that could make life interesting. Think... hihiihi.

All this because i watched a superb French movie called 'An affair of love'. Too good a movie i must say. This by thinking from the point of my views about this motion picture. By the way when i say motion picture i mean there are lots of scenes with 'motion' in them. Jus in case, i state this has to do with a lot of so called visual adult content. ;) I know this is not going to stop anyone from watching the movie. :) But only adding to the fact that people will watch it more as they grow curious to see what is it that is moving in the movie!! Hehe. By the way i was also started off like that but then what took me by surprise when watching it was then the acting was top notch from the lead actors (Nathalie Baye, Sergi López) or rather say only characters of the story. :) Full credits to them for creating that awesome chemistry between the characters. True to the movie's name, it's an affair that once started turns into love. Watch it to know why! I found it interesting but i don't know about you. Do ping me if you do find something interesting about this movie....
P.S: I do not know french and hence i found myself a sub script to do the translation for me. :)

Blown away....phew!

Watched 'Cast away'. Do i need to say something else? My God! What a movie. By all means Tom hanks stands out in acting. It was a role made for him. BTW, i'm in love with his movies after i'd watch Forest gump a couple of years back. Hmm, i wouldn't write anything on the movie story. i know it's old. But people who have missed it, please do watch it. Jus Wiki on cast away movie and you'll find info on the movie more than required. So there is no point in writing about it again here.
Some of the scenes are so touchy in the movie. The way he celebrates when he manages to get fire burning on the iceland. It also shows us how far we have come in terms of civilization. :) Ain't it? The boat that he makes is something really superb again. Also once he escapes, he speaks to his friend about how he overcame fear of death. And not to mention the feelings of a person who returns home after spending 4 years of life in an island alone to find that one person whom he had breathed and lives and returned for is not his anymore. hmm, touchy movie. Go ahead and shed some tears guys. hehehehe...
Well, that pretty much brings my 3 days of movie indulgence to a halt. Now that reminds me that I've to move my lazy butt to office tomorrow. :( Sob sob.....