My trips to Agra are all about good meals, GREAT sleep, loafing, waiting, yawning and waiting some more whilst the women in the family buy SOME MORE shoes, visiting the ‘monumental attractions’ again and, oh yes, AGAIN !! That is the usual bit – typical recharge vacation.
However, sticking to the typical wouldn’t make a good a post on a rather dry blog. So, for the thrill of living dangerously, I decided to accompany my family to their movie outings.
On one of our previous trips we had watched ‘Dhoom 2′ and I walked out of the cinema hall with the sense of being among the most intelligent Indians - because if that appealed to the masses – I have an appeal for the masses – GET A HEAD !!
Cut to November 2007. With the belief that I could handle anything dished out by *cough* the film makers *cough* of the Indian film industry after ‘Loony Cop and Crazy Biker 2′ I set foot in Shree Talkies for the movie titled ‘Jab We Met’.
And by jove THF was right, again.
Shoot ‘Em Up !!
( I am not talking about the movie Shoot ‘Em Up - though I should be, considering the fact that it had Monica Belluci and not the freaky faced Kareena Kapoor )
That was the overriding emotion I felt halfway through the movie. The movie had more Candy Floss than rotten teeth !! More Mush than Pakistan !! It was softer than a Softy – plain vanilla flavour (ugh) !! With so much love in the air – the IIIrd World War seemed like a good idea !!
There were glimpses of scenic beauty along with faint traces of humour ( a few parts per million ) – But as a w-hole it was FLUFF !! Ideal for the love struck and those with good nausea control.
A less biased opinion of the movie – courtesy ‘ghar waale’ – 1) it had its moments, sufficient for ‘time pass’ 2) it was fine – not amazing but not bad either, 3) decent, not too flashy, music was ok.
It was not in the league of ‘Bikinis and lip locks, insult my intelligence 2′ – definitely not as bad. Nonetheless, it was worthless in its own – ‘you complete me, my love, way’
AND BY THE BY !! The background score was ripped of the ‘Lord of the Rings’ movies – ‘The Fellowship of the Ring’ in particular.
CHEATS !! You got the music – you forgot to copy the story – Kareena Kapoor would do swimmingly as an ORC !!
You’ll say that a whole lot more in future times, Kapurinho Kavrampur (goddam it, get a manager whose name is similar to your’s!!)
And Kareena as an Orc??? Perhaps a goblin…
By: Harish Alagappa a.k.a. THF on November 12, 2007
at 9:55 am
Not likely Dekra – on both counts.
Tsk tsk, I wish people would take their due and be happy, always clawing for more.
I never really liked her facial expressions – most loony.
By: Dinesh Kapur on November 12, 2007
at 11:33 am
Alecgappa… Shut up.
Kapur. Use smaller and simpler words, or I’ll use them FOR you.
>.<
And I notice that you have a very EXTREMELY small issue where your tenses are mismatched inside one sentence.
And stop watching Hindi movies. ‘Specially when you can watch the same damn script, better actors in the original movie, for free, at your house in your warm, snug bed for FREE. STar Movies and HBO for the win.
Not Zee Studios though, they put subtitles on all movies. Wrong ones.
By: Nimish Batra on December 8, 2007
at 4:34 am
“The Orc-Kareena of Time”
That, my friend, is a joke neither you nor Hallappers can understand.
“I might be wrong”
By: Nimish Batra on December 8, 2007
at 4:38 am