The movie is a love story. It does not end well. Thus the Telugu audiences made it a flop. I felt it was a beautifully made movie - great music, beautiful locations including scenes near Jog Falls & western ghats, decent acting, and an unexpectedly tragic ending which really hits your heart.
Only after the movie ends and we think back, do we understand that the pet rabbit, to which Abhi keeps talking to, really signifies something in the story.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Delhi 6
This movie is like an overview of India and its people. The movie opens with all the lovable aspects of India - the caring neighbours, the adorable superstitions, harmony amongst religious diversity and friendly people in general. Only one crack is visible at this point, that of two brothers who dont talk to each other anymore. But as the movie goes on, more and more cracks are made visible - the heroine's father wants to get her married even though she wants to pursue a career first, a neighbour is having an extra-marital affair, and finally the big one - religious quarrels and destruction sparked off in the most silliest of ways.
The hero and his grandmother are slowly disillusioned as the movie progresses. All this is shown in a very lighthearted way until the end where a tragedy almost occurs.
I would have ended the movie differently - if it was up to me, Abhishek Bachan's character would have died at the end, and that too willingly sacrificing himself to avoid the religious clashes in the neighbourhood. I think that would have been the appropriate ending to the movie. But the filmmakers wanted to end on a positive note for some reason - my guess is that a tragic ending would make all the people villains, hence all Indians villains, and I am guessing the filmmakers did not want to make such a statement; instead a happy ending seems to say that the people, even with all their faults, are innocent. A tragic ending would have made the movie a masterpiece, but alas, the filmmakers chose otherwise.
The hero and his grandmother are slowly disillusioned as the movie progresses. All this is shown in a very lighthearted way until the end where a tragedy almost occurs.
I would have ended the movie differently - if it was up to me, Abhishek Bachan's character would have died at the end, and that too willingly sacrificing himself to avoid the religious clashes in the neighbourhood. I think that would have been the appropriate ending to the movie. But the filmmakers wanted to end on a positive note for some reason - my guess is that a tragic ending would make all the people villains, hence all Indians villains, and I am guessing the filmmakers did not want to make such a statement; instead a happy ending seems to say that the people, even with all their faults, are innocent. A tragic ending would have made the movie a masterpiece, but alas, the filmmakers chose otherwise.
Vishal Bharadwaj - director & music director of Kaminey
Music is an integral part of a movie. If a director can compose music also, then the director can really bring out what he really wants to show in the movie. Vishal Bharadwaj is such a director.
Love Aaj Kal
Yeh Dooriyan song sets the stage for the movie. By watching this one song itself, you can almost tell that the movie, at the very least, will not be a junk movie. And the movie turned out to be good - great music, decent story, and great visuals and manages to draw you into the movie a little bit.
The casting was great. The girl who acts as yesteryear's Saif's love, was picked very appropriately - new face, not super glamourous but very pretty. If that same movie was remade in Telugu, I am sure they will go for some conventional heroine who has already done lots of skin-flicks. These are the kinds of things that turn-off/turn-on the viewer's belief in a story.
The following is the kind of thing that Love Aaj Kal avoids - the heroine Shreya does the role of a very conservative Telugu/Tamil girl in Sivaji. The hero falls for her basically for this reason only. However the eminent director Shankar has made her don clothes exactly the opposite of this image in all the songs...and he spent crores doing that. He had not done this in Oke Okkadu with Manisha Koirala luckily. Something as blatant a contradiction as that makes it hard for audiences to really take the movie seriously. Once something like that happens, the audiences resign themselves to go through the motions....
The casting was great. The girl who acts as yesteryear's Saif's love, was picked very appropriately - new face, not super glamourous but very pretty. If that same movie was remade in Telugu, I am sure they will go for some conventional heroine who has already done lots of skin-flicks. These are the kinds of things that turn-off/turn-on the viewer's belief in a story.
The following is the kind of thing that Love Aaj Kal avoids - the heroine Shreya does the role of a very conservative Telugu/Tamil girl in Sivaji. The hero falls for her basically for this reason only. However the eminent director Shankar has made her don clothes exactly the opposite of this image in all the songs...and he spent crores doing that. He had not done this in Oke Okkadu with Manisha Koirala luckily. Something as blatant a contradiction as that makes it hard for audiences to really take the movie seriously. Once something like that happens, the audiences resign themselves to go through the motions....
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