IS ALL WELL?

Thought i'd write a review of 3 idiots(yes i am still on a movie spree!), but kritya did the honours. The following post is a review written by her and for all you lazy buggers who wouldn't want to log into facebook to read it, please do so here! All hail kritya!


This is my first ever movie review to be published and not just verbally.

I chose "3 Idiots" since it is easier to butcher than to garnish. Wow, I just came up with that!

*spoiler alert*

"3 Idiots is highly idiotic...except for a few genuinely LOL moments, a bromance that falls short of just adequate." - Shruti Sardeshpande

I couldn't agree more.

Isn't it ironic when the lead characters of the movie, despite PMSing vehemently and crying as and when they breathe, act like their virtues of sensibility and sensitivity have gone for a toss in the next scene? Well, I couldn't help but notice this phenomenon when they turned paralysis and the inability to afford vegetables into a joke. Actually, I can deal with that. You know? Humour; dark, medium, decaf, whatever. But it did not end there now, did it? Rancho and Farhan had to come out of Raju's house laughing hysterically and furthermore make fun of Raju's misery. I understand friendship, alright. I also understand that each friendship has its own foundation and boundary. But, hell I only understand friendship between humans with emotions and the ability to respond to stimuli...Appropriately!

That was just one of the innumerable things that pissed me off in the movie. I went to watch it with my brains at home in order to have fun et al. But I still think that when you pay to watch it on the big screen, you would expect some method in the madness (FYI, I'm all for Priyadarsan's confusion mania or Akshay Kumar's just plain crazy dialogues kinda movies if you thought I wasn't) and most importantly respect, now wouldn't you? All the SMS and email junk jokes that we received back in the 15th Century were being played out in front of me. That too in the typical Rajkumar Hirani-vidhu Vinod Chopra way. Which by the way, is nothing less than very atrocious. I have always believed that this duo has some really brilliant ideas (Munna Bhai and its sequel). But, they truly, honestly, suck at executing them. They don't have the balls to make it smarter as they fear that that won't pull as much crowd. Try it guys. Try Not bringing in extra ridiculous characters who can't spell a-c-t-i-n-g and pay to "act" in your movies. Try not stalling a witty scene by turning the camera towards a character just so he can make a stupid face and deliver a redundant dialogue. It can still be funny to the crowd you Want to target!

I laughed out loud at many places. I found the power nap thing to be cleverly used as well. I loved Madhavan's extremely natural giggles. I liked the very different and refreshing take on the book too. I cannot, even if I try to, criticize the director's vision of the movie that he wished to make on reading 5 Point Someone. Like I said before, his ideas are always neat. But I couldn't handle the drenched inverter. I couldn't understand the pachydermatous approach towards severe medical conditions and poverty. I got irritated by Aamir Khan trying to prove that he is a good cry-er on screen. (Do you remember that he cried when Raju says that he wants to clear the final exam with honesty?) And of course, I couldn't stand something that was defined in a hilarious way initially but then ruined later by many, many nonsensical references, the magnanimous overkill called "aal iz well".

Off Late

The annual cake show hosted by Nilgiris this year, greatly hyped by me was sorely disappointing! When I first saw the hoarding advertising the show, I was quite excited. The cake show turned out to be one big hall with a massive Taj Mahal (very nicely done) and a destroyer. On the sidelines were 10 nicely designed cakes! But the main drawback to this was the exhibition which was twice the size of the cake show itself. Loads and loads and loads of sales guys selling unwanted stuff at bloated prices which pissed me off! Sad to see the cake show in this state!

I’ve been on a movie spree of sorts! Watched Avatar in 3D which certainly turned out to be a very different and brilliant experience. James Cameron’s Jake Sully and the mildly erotic Na’avi female create magic on screen and entertain a person thoroughly! At a time when Global Warming is gaining importance, the reverence with which the aliens treat their world is refreshing and gives one hope that one day we might realize how important ours is! I remember a dialogue by Agent Smith in The Matrix which denounces humans and the way we suffocate life around us. Pandora’s landscape is truly mesmerizing!

The second experience was not all that great. I went and watched Vettaikaran, a Tamil movie which starred Vijay and Anushka Shetty. A child born out of wedlock between a brain dead Godzilla and a Cocaine addicted Marlin Manson could not have enjoyed this movie! It involved the hero flying and smashing people at varying angles in a world with lesser gravitational pull than the Earth. Newton would have shot the director, rushed him to a hospital, saved him and then shoot him again after watching this movie. The heroine is bloody hot and there is hardly any comedy. The songs are the usual thump thump thump numbers with the side artists dressed in the worst of attires. All I was left with after the movie was a mild headache and a strong sense of satisfaction when I used the loo after the movie!

P.S: it also involves the hero riding a horse once or twice as a cowboy! Brrrrr