DHOOM 2!

DHOOM 2
language:HINDI genre:Action/Sci-fi/comedy/yucky!!!


Sky is the limit for imagination,said a wise man,once.But may be,he cudnt forsee wat the director of Dhoom 2 had in store to disapprove that very fact as they re wrote it as
"Even Sky is not the limit for our imagination,and we ll continue imagining like this as long as there are viewers for this movie".

YASH RAJ PRODUCTIONS DHOOM 2,is the second of the Dhoom(running and catching) movies,as the name states.I was up for this movie like any other fan who loved Dhoom,and who got impressed with it s fast pace ane neat screenplay.But Dhoom 2 does not do justice to it s earlier counterpart,thanks to unbeleivable stunts,scientifically impossible gadgets-wonder if they were made for the sole purpose of mocking science,bizarre sequences and...and... and... WHAT NOT???

DHOOM 2 has Abhishek playing the cop,this tym chasing a mysterious Mr.A(Hrithik Roshan) who s areas of intrests include among many others,stealing invaluable Antiques and stuff.Abhishek s lot includes Bip Basu-god alone knows why her charecter was included -who is also an Asst commisioner and Uday Chopra(a possible replacemnt for Govinda?? and a regular inclusion in Yash raj movies,reaping the benifits of the third gens).The TOM and JERRy race that ensues is wat the movie is all about.

Other than the logic explained to narrow down the date and place of theft,the makers seem to have forgotten that the word 'logic' even excisted in the dictionary.Hrithik seems to have used up most of the yet to be or-never will be -invented gizmos,namely a skate board which has automatic locks,a liquid that can melt steel and is carriable,a magnetic machine that helps him do a spiderman in the mumbai traffic,and more importantly the rookie disguises,which even a blind person cud catch.TOOO MUCH!!!!

Abishek Bachan comes running and goes likewise with the same expressionless face while Ash easily wins the Oscar for overacting over Uday.Bipasha basu did too little in the movie to talk about.The screenplay of the movie is too childish and my god!! there is an unexpected(???!!!) twist in the tail.

Dhoom 2 can be 2 full hours of easy entertainment,if u wud not mind all the above,and if u can stay without losing ur patience wen the laws of physics are defied,defeated and humiliated b4 ur own eyes.

RATING:2 out of 10.

REPUBLIIC DAY!!!

At around 9:00 AM,i was awoken by a loud "Thud! Thud!" on my door,i woke up and i
opened and i had to inhale a barrage of censored words being hurled at me.Reason(??) i didnt
attend the republic day falg hoisting ceremony which indirectly,they say,translates into my
attitude towards my nation.

56 years earlier, i cud see a common man say to another compatriot of his that
"WE ARE A REPUBLIC NOW!!!"....Today,the no natural patriot me,woke up and went for my
breakfast only to find three kids younger than my yongest brother(who wud now be 12),serving me tea,washing the plates and cleaning the tables.So i decide to go so far as stretching English
grammar to ask,"how "republic" are we???" and "How independent is the Indian Republic??"


As i write,my younger brother wud be parading in the grounds of his school with his
white uniform with a sense of pride(abt the nation) about his nation and joy thinking about
the holiday ahead.These kids(my mess ones) ,if any,have only resentment for the nation which
has directly or indirectly made them to work in a place,where no kid of their age belongs and for no fault of theirs.If this is what the "equality" clause in our constitution was able to do
after all these years, i wud only be too happy to say,that my attitude towards the nation would
not change.

The gibber of "Do ur duty,do not expect it s fruit",makes a mockery of human values,as one
s expectations are the ambitions of others.Even the coiner of the above phrase,was expeting to
get something out of the phrase.So it s high time we started thinking about how to put India in
the path of an "ideal" republic,and strive hard in our own way to reach the EXPECTED result.

CHEERS,
MISNOMER.

TAXI DRIVER

This is the second Scorsese movie that i am watching in as many days,the prime difference is the age.. difference between the two movies is 20!!!.20 yrs and still Scorsese s movies have been America centric.

Taxi Driver starring Robert De Niro,Judy Foster,Harvey Keitel and many others paints the picture of a very distressed,insomniac individual Travis Bickle-no points for guessing who-Robert De Niro and his dislikes for the American society-which in his words is scum and his attempts to cleanse it.

Travis is a vietnam war veteran and he takes up the job of Taxi Driver in a local taxi agency,to fight his insomnia.So he mostly drives in the nights wherein he meets the darker side of America,and is very very pissed off with the way things are going.Truly enough,the movie shows that you can learn more about people of a nation being a taxi driver than being the president of a nation.

It appears to be a part of the biography of the particular person and has many different stories running on the inside.But everything,more or less contrubuting to the hatred,that got accumulated in his mind over his years.All of them force him to become a crusader and he very nearly becomes one,as he tries rescue a 13 yr old prostitute Iris(Judy Foster).

This movie is supposed to be one of those movies which shot him(Robert De Niro) to fame,so no issues on how this fella s acting was.The screenwritong was good but it dragged really long
in some scenes and there is always this possobility that a section might always feel that the movie is boring.

Yes!It is one of those movies which will become one of the best of,or one of the worst of,depending on ur taste.A very good watch!!! i d say.

DEPARTED

"Cops or criminals,when u face a loaded gun,id say "WHAT S THE DIFFERENCE??" "..
Thus starts (yet) another Scorcese movie.To my knowledge,the only other Scorcese movie that i had seen b4 watching this movie was AVIATOR which i really liked.This movie boasts of a fabulous cast with
Jack Nicholson(my fav),Matt Damon,Leo Di Caprio and Mark Wahlberg.

The story is no different from the usual mob kills nd good guy infiltration stories.But i liked this movie for one,the dialogues-The dialogues are like the best for any mob envi movies.Who better than Jack Nicholson to deliver them,the best of dialogues??And not to mention the fact that Scorsese is one among the lot who make Leonardo look bearable in front of the screen.

Frank Castello(Jack Nicholson) is a mob boss,and he has Matt Damon working as a mole in the police department.While the good guys havee Leo Di Caprio working as a mole in Castello s den.So the rat race that ensuses,wen each try to uncover the other is all that the movie has in store for you.As i said earlier,u can find these kind of stories,in a different form,every now and then.It is not everytime,that u get to watch a movie,with Dialogues and screenplay better than this,and a more credible end.Jack again steals the show with his trademark dialogue delivery although he occupies lesser screen time.Next in the list is Mark Wahlberg,and i d put
both of those LEo and Matt in the same place.

I think i ve drained my brain up writing only this much abt the movie.
so,
CHEERS,
MISNOMER

Hannah and her sisters

I ve always wanted to watch Woody Allen's movies.I never really got an oppurtunity to watch them until i saw this movie.He is supposed to be one of the most talented screenwriters that hollywood has ever produced.And he really does prove it in "Hannah and her sisters".

This 1986 oscar winner for best screenplay,is a story of ...um..Hannah and her sisters!!.
This also is a good guide if u d want to peep into the American culture and lifestyle,and relatioonships.Woody Allen has scripted this movie wonderfully well besides givung it life through his witty and meaningful dialogues.

The movie starts on the Thanksgiving day at Hannah's place.The story of the movie is simple.How Hannah indirectly helps her sisters to get a suitable partner.The screnplay is rather too complicated to explain.Elliot,Hannah s husband,falls in love with one of her sisters,Lee.But Lee lives with a reclusive artist,and she could sense that Elliot is falling for her.Meanwhile Mickey,a TV show maker(Woody Allen),the ex-Husband of Hannah,is a hypochindriac,who is really afraid of death,and has since been roaming around searching for love.Holly,another of Hannah s sisters,is fed up of facing rejections and wants to live a meaningful life.So how does Hannah solve the problem is wat the movie is about.

A completely beleivable screenplay,which i am told,is an exclusive trait of any Oscar winning movie.Only few movies will have more beleivable screenplay s than this.And Woody Allen comes to the right place at the right time,and thereby carves a niche for himself with his excellent acting ability and wonderful dialogue deliveries.Especially the one s after his disastrous date with Holly.And surprisingly enough,he was able to restrict himself by describing them as ppl-who-look-like-they re-stab-their-mother,no more.

"A Funny muscle this,the heart"
is how the movie ends.One helluva experience.

Cheers
Misnomer

MONTY PYTHON and THE HOLY GRAIL

Never go by IMDb ratings is something that u ll learn only if u have a more or less similar experience.So it was my turn to learn a lesson.Not that the movie in question was bad but it would be way behind wat u wud expect of a movie.

So with nothing but an IMDb rating of around 8.4 and one of my friends review of the above movie i downloaded it.I always have the habit watching movies that others bring before i finish with my set of movies.So invariably i take home watever i bring from home,untouched.So this tym it wud be the other way around ii thought and i played the movie wid two of my pals-both of whom had absolutely no intention of watching it- around me.

The movie is a big wud-have been.It is the story r rather spoof of King Arthur and his Knights pursuit for the holy grail.With no historical knowledge about the original,i turned to my christian friend,who in turn gave a blank shrug and wide smile.So u can imagine the impact a movie spoof would create if u have not seen the original one.Terrible boredom and involuntary hurling of censored words from mouths.In fact we all went on to curse IMDb for this unforgivable favour,more so.

English humour as the call it,is never really funny,say many.NO way!!.If u d ask me,i d say,they are not at all funny,in the first place.On the contrary they are irritating.Since English humour formed the bed-rock of this movie i need not say why i have this why-was-this-movie-included-under-the-comedy-genre look on my face.

On the lighter note.This movie s actors have done a great job,having undergone the painstaking job of riding horses that did not exist and making sounds with coconuts.Their dialogue delivery is wonderful and the dialogues are um um makes u think if u- shud- laugh kinds.

I am tempted to call it two hours or so of non-stop non-sense,but i opt out of it as i have plans to watch the movie again and try and justify the 8.4.

BORAT from Kazhakstan!

It was a sunny afternoon on a supposed to be cold winter afternoon,i had nothing to do,and surprisingly there was power.So why waste it!!.I decided to watch a movie.But i was spoilt for choice as there were so may to choose from.So at random i decided it wud be Borat.No specific reasons except thet it was a comedy movie and moreover i heard that it is a movie where mixed revies are not at all possible because it was unscripted and there was little or nothing to ponder by way of story and scrrenplay.It was a 84 mins of joy ride,except that the humour had "A" content than any other proper main stream sex comedies.

Borat(Sacha Baron Cohen) works for the Kazak TV and he is sent all the way to USA for cultural exchange."USA for cultural exchange????" sounds rediculous.woof!!!Exchanging culture wid a nation which does not have one on its own,is an important thing to kept in mind,because this is a thing which the movie capitalised to steal the show.His experiences with the Americans in USA,unscripted,is wat the movie is all about.I donot kno if this movie was an attempt to mock the kazhak lifestyle or its American equivalent.Man but it looked more like a mockery of the American life style.

The movie scores points in almost every department that u expected it to score points and leaves some uncured stomach pain marks,incurred due to its humouros nature.Although some parts of the movie were really repulsive,like the naked tussle in the hotel room,it was a different experience which does not disappoint.Cohens poratrayal of Borat makes me wonder if he s really a Kazak.And since many scenes were shot live i donot have anything to comment on the originality of the scenes.

MY FAVOURITE PART:
I personally felt that his experience wid the niggers and the ensuing Hotel reception talk as the best part of the movie.Although there were a lot of scenes similar to this one.They didnt get registered in my mind like the earlier one did.

For the section of the society which felt cheated due to the very low running tym of the movie,i d say that they(the makers) wud have saved some ideas for the future.For them,I d say,do not worry,since it s a hollywood production,u can certainly get many of this BORAT in UK.BORAT in FRANCE kind sequels where in always the immediate sequel will be good,and the remaining one s harldly create and impact.
BRAVO!! BORAT
Cheers,
MISNOMER

Fighting Cobwebs!!

This day i returned back to my college after a period of almost 1 month.Earlier experiences told me that my room will have cobwebs more than any haunted old warehouse.Expecting this i opened my room,to my surprise,Jamshedpur,my coll in particular didnt disappoint me...The cobwebs were formed in both the vertical and horizantal direction and wherever there was a gap of a little more than an inch there was a cobwen.I got my face all dusted before i could even reach my cot.Fantastic!,i thought.Thus started the two and half hour cleaning process which followed a disappointing day out for registration which had me roam around my college campus for around two hours...for no good.
The worst part abt cleaning a room or a shelf or whatever is that,that process will never seem to end and more importantly there is always something to clean.After all this u gotta clean urself which becomes an utter impossibilty if power does not stay in my college,where the temp is a shade higher than the negatives.Although i ran the risk of having a stinky sleep had to clean my room.But sometimes circumstance make you contemplate the phrase "God is Great".
This was one occasion and it was because power didnt go and i had a very comfartable bath in hot water.
IF cleaning has this hitch of always having something to clean,living a life involves always having something to solve(.the problems ...) i mean.After an enjoyable shower i came down to my room to realise that tube is not working.And thus went my day of return.Pretty eventful these first days.
I rem every first day in every semester.They always had something in them and this was no exception.Wonder wat the semester will be like..
CHEERS.
MISNOMER