Its been bloody long since I wrote something here.
Just few random things for now.
1. ‘Inception’ was a good movie. But it sure doesn’t deserve all those superlative praise people have been showering on it in Facebook or other parts of the web. The issue with the movie is that it is engaging but certainly no way equally entertaining. It keeps you occupied with the dreams within dreams, but at the end, you feel more tired than rewarded. Its no way a masterpiece, trust me. We should all just watch more movies.
2. I watched Magnolia today. One of those late catching up. But am glad I did. The movie was so fucking brilliant.
3. I think the general Tamil music standard has fallen badly these days. I have been searching desperately for old Tamil music on Youtube all the time, to keep it going. Was listening to ‘Kadhal’ soundtrack. How original and beautiful. One wonders where the music director disappeared.
4. ‘Ravanan’ was a bad movie. And such a disappointment. ‘Raavan’ was even worse. Maniratnam is losing it, it looks like. It was surprising that such a cinematic genius didnt realise he was making a very bad movie. And he should really keep Suhasini away from his movies. He already has made a favour by marrying her and should stop things there. Her dialogues for the Tamil version were so pathetic.
Talking of Suhasini, I think the woman should grow up. In that Hasini show in Jaya TV, she drops so many World Cinema titles/filmmaker names, as if to desperately justify and display her knowledge. How will mentioning about ‘Day for Night’ by Truffaut enlighten the Tamil audience of the show in Madurai. Really?
4. I went to Ladakh this month. But I think I will write an independent post about it.
5. ‘Departures’ was such a beautiful movie. Extremely poignant and so emotionally overwhelming. I think its the bestest movie I have watched in recent times. It was so beautiful how the lead character finds destiny, peace and happiness in life. Very very touching.
6. Jet Airways are so lousy. I took this flight from Leh to Delhi sometime last week. I was happy to figure that they had better movies and shows in their entertainment unit, than King Fisher or anyone else. Began watching ‘The Ghost writer’ and was completely glad that the movie seemed promising. But 30 minutes or less into the movie, the airhostess asked for my headphones back saying that the plane is going to land. Such a bitch. Why wouldnt they let the passengers keep the headphones till the end of the journey. And then the plane did not even land right away. It was only after another 50 minutes did it land. Are they going to be so desperate with the headphones? Fuckers.
But then. I came home and downloaded ‘The Ghost Writer’ the same day. Only to realise that it is Polanski’s latest. Explains why it was kick ass.
I should make rice and eat it with bhindi fry now. So, later.
