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Ever since I read “Five Point Someone” about 3 years back, I really wanted to see a Bollywood movie “based” on it (and by based I mean a blatant copy, scene to scene.). Why? Simply because FPS had everything a super entertaining Bollywood movie can ask for. Comedy, emotions, drama, friendship, romance, supers one liners, witty dialogues etc etc. Being an engineering student myself, I loved and connected well with the characters of the novel, even if the book and the author, Chetan Bhagat was not in the good books of the literature lovers/ critics. Though I am not a fan of masala movies as such but would have loved to see an adaptation of FPS on screen. Then the news of 3 Idiots broke out and I am sure almost everyone who read the book must have got excited.

3 Idiots movie poster

After a about couple of years, more trailers came out and that killed most of my excitement. Reason: Casting. Aamir Khan, Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the role of engineering students? No way. Sharman Joshi is still passable but Aamir Khan and Madhavan, I cant digest them doing role of a person 20-25 younger than them. Sure Aamir is a tremendous actor, my favorite actually, but come on! It is not that he did not act well, but he just doesnt fit for me. Sure he was desirable, (like he was in DCH) but not appropriate.  When can bollywood stars be expected to play roles according to their age? They cant be forever young! (more…)

I just came back after watching “Dev D” and could not help but writing about it.
Anurag Kashyap’s Dev D is a great movie, story adapted only marginally from the classic Devdas. But mind you,the resemblance with the original ends right there. The two have got nothing in common. This is more like Devdas of the Gen-X,the modern Devdas. The one who doesnt just ruin his over loss of a female in his life but rather, “moves on”.
Dev D is not like your typical SRK (and party) starrer bollywood romantic movie set in abroad which whence you come back watching, will make you say “this does not happen in real life”, then you can even go on to question your intelligence that why did you ever go to watch the movie at first place. Dev D is as real as it can get. Its characters are real and not larger than life unlike normal bollywood movies. They live and face real life situations.
Abhay Doel has done it yet again. I (used to) watch his movies without any expectations. I watched his “Manorma Six Feet Under” and loved it. Then a few days back I watched “Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!”  only because I had couple of free tickets but I loved it as well. He does a decent job in this movie too,as Dev D. He may not be working with big names right now but, watch your road man, there are many more coming your way. You will make many fans too.

Mahie Gill also does justice to her character of a modern and strong Punjabi girl who does not get all crying even if her lover leaves her and she can hold her head high even when her morality is questioned and doesnt let stereotypes get a hold of her. So is Kalki Koechlin who plays another great role in the movie. I loved her scenes with Abhay more than the scenes of Abhay and Mahie.
As much as the casting, the camera work is also excellent. I dint realise that there were 18 songs in the movie till I just read it moments ago,that is how apt they were in their placement in the movie. Each song went with the mood in the movie.

There were enough daring dialogues that will entertain you.

You should watch this movie for the gutsy director, Anurag Kashyap who does something which not others can just not do. Portraying love and sexuality in an un-told way,something which bollywood has never seen. There are too many firsts with this movie.
In one word: Dont miss it if you want something fresh from bollywood and can digest some at-your-face reality,daring dialogues.

Dev D rocks: 3.75/5

Underdog Slumdog Millionaire,a Danny Boyle directed film, won 4 awards at the 66^th annual Golden Globes award.

Slumdog Millionaire was nominated in four categories and it won all the four awards in which it was nominated.

It won:

• Best picture-Drama
• Best director (Danny Boyle)
• Best screenplay – Simone Beaufoy
• and Best original score – A.R. Rahman

Heath Ledger won the award for Best actor in a supporting role for his stunning portrayal of “The Joker” in “The Dark Knight” Director of TDK,Christopher Nolan accepted the award on behalf of the late actor
Other notable winners are:

- Best picture, Musical or Comedy: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

- Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, for “The Wrestler.”

- Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet, for “Revolutionary Road.”

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, for “In Bruges.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, for “Happy-Go-Lucky.”

- Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, for “The Dark Knight.”

- Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, for The Reader

- Foreign Language Film: “Waltz With Bashir.”

- Best Animated Film: “WALL-E.”

- Original Song: “The Wrestler” for “The Wrestler.”

With Slumdog sweeping the Golden Globes, chances of it succeeding at the Academy have gone very high. Story about a slumdog who participates in the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” to win over his childhood love,has been winning hearts across the globe. I myself loved the movie, and have watched it three times in the last 20 days. (more…)

You have probably heard a million of blonde jokes and yet they never stop coming. Well the latest addition to the blonde saga is not specifically a joke but something very similar to it.

Keyboardforblondes have come up with a very interesting keyboard that is made just for the blondes.

The keyboard is pink in color and its keys have different “letters” or “words” printed on them as compared to what you find on a regular keyboard.

For instance,

The two “Shift” keys are renamed “Smart Blonde Button” and “Very Smart Blonde Button”

“Backspace”  —->>> Oops!  (lol)

“Caps Lock”  —->>> “Warning! Size XXL letters ”

“Ctrl”    —->>> “Somewhat useless key”

“Esc” —->>> “No!”

“Print Screen  —->>> “Pink Key 1″

There are plenty more keys that will make you giggle while you use the keyboard. You watch the demo here. And the keyboard also “talk to you”.

All this and much more fun can be yours if you are willing to pay $49.95!

I wanted to write this post for so long,ever since i watched the movie, Juno, prompted by its Oscar nomination.

So its clear from the title that i dint like Juno. I liked the “witty” humor, Miss Ellen Page’s acting,but Juno as a movie on the whole gets a thumbs down from me.

Juno taught me why a movie like Taare Zameen Par (TZP) can get get ratings which are low by its standard (respecting opinions of all) Earlier i used to wonder why a movie deserving between 8-10 was getting ratings like 0,1 and 2! Ofcourse we have lobbyists who work tirelessly to bring movie of their fav actor’s competitor down and could not digest TZP in IMDB Top 250 list and brought it down. Apart from it, US voters only gave it 5.8 on an avergae as opposed to 8.5 by non-US (mostly Indians and Bollywood lovers as this is a bollywood movie).
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