daag achche nahi hote!

come the navratri season, theatres get flooded with new releases-by-the-dozen… the latest to hit the silver screen were akki baby’s bhool bhulaiiya and rani’s laga chunari main daag…

like most ppl, i was more kicked abt the former… but lack of tickets and a “half-start” better rating that both the tabloids that come home gave Laga, pushed us into the wide comfy chairs at one of the plush cineplexes in bbay to watch…. hold ur breath — Laga Chunari Mein Daag —! {y? u ask… well.. to be frank.. i’m asking that question to myself too… }

but… coming back to the daag … in my personal opinion the movie in a few short words is “waste of time money effort” to watch on the big screen that is… rani’s superb performance would actually offset the DVD rental charge…

the cinematography though is excellent… and in that aspect, one can actually believe that it is a Pradeep Sarkar film… the same guy who gave us Parineeta..

the story however, and i must say this was a little expected, dragged at a lot of places… the first half of the film especially.. the second half does pick up for a while that kunal kapoor is on the screen.. (errrm.. u mite hv a call an impartial judge for that one..) but.. yeah.. the tempo falls back straight down..

i was actually amazed at the climax… i had expected quite a lot of drama shama… rona dhona was ther…but not tooo much drama… (i mean considering what extent is possible in the realm of the given topic) …

all in all.. an ok watch… maybe one time.. that too on DVD… though frankly, I’d rather have Ameya’s AJAD version of the film please…. any directors listening??

Love-o-logy in the rains…

A random item in a random paper today caught my attention…. “The Romance of the Rains”. It seems some scientists have proposed that the humid climate and plethora of rain drops seems to trigger a wave of hormones through one’s body.. making one more susceptible to falling in love/ reminiscing about ex-lovers / wanting to spend maximum time with current lovers (its not an either-or option mind u.. )

hmmmmm… interesting i say, but it seems like the hindi film industry ( no.. wont refer to it as “Bollywood” lest the BIG baaps of the industry take offense :P) seems to have figured this out long time ago….

Since time immemorial hindi films have used rains as an ideal romance prop. think rains and hindi films.. and I’m sure one of the first images that will swim up is the “Pyaar hua ikraar hua” scene with Raj Kapoor and Nargis on the bridge with the umbrella…  well maybe the not-so-old-movie-lovers may think of 1942.. ’s “Rimjhim-Rimjhim”  but either ways… guess our film-wallahs have finally got some science into their running-around-trees scenes ….  way to go guys!!!