Again the happenings in the moonlight are interesting here. But that comes in the end. It is a story about a woman in mourning.Rebecca is a college professor & has lost her husband, Ben recently. She is coping with it. She has close friends with whom she can confide & a sister who she hasContinue reading “Moonlight & Valentino”
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SPF-18
A coming of age movie where all of them get a nudge in the right direction. Penny has a good friend in Johnny. She was a rock when he lost his father but they are unsure of their relationship. There is this budding musician Alex who wants to make it big in the music world.Continue reading “SPF-18”
Love is in the air
I had seen it again in bits & pieces. Today went through it again. It stars Ludivine Sagnier & Nicholas Bedos in the lead. The lawyer from New York is going to Paris for his final round of interview when he finds himself seated next to his ex-girlfriend. The long flight makes it possible toContinue reading “Love is in the air”
Basu Chatterjee
The name invokes innumerable memories. Good solid films that only he was capable of. In an era when the main stream cinema was the land of dreams, he thought of the common man. His hero is a middle class youth who has financial constraints & has simple dreams. In “Batton batton mein” Amol Palekar travelsContinue reading “Basu Chatterjee”
Shimla Mirchi
The romantic story from Shimla. Rakul preet singh is from Shimla & Rajkumar Roa’s family comes there for a vacation. But he watches Rakul running on the Mall street towards her cafe & decides that she is the one for him. He has a problem with proposing. He just freezes up. So he asks hisContinue reading “Shimla Mirchi”
The wife
I am 24 hours ahead of the schedule. Just realised that Vat poornima is tomorrow. The fast I had planed got a backseat & I planed a regular vegetable for today. That doesn’t take away the credit that Savitri deserves. Actually it gives me time to think of her for & thank her for herContinue reading “The wife”
Saimdang.. the finale
I am disappointed. The crescendo at 23-24 suddenly tapers to a lame end. If RADE was an enigmatic character why wasn’t it explored? By 27- 28 I had a feel that it can go to 30-32 easily but in the end the scenes kept repeating & the purity, beauty captured earlier was lost. In theContinue reading “Saimdang.. the finale”
Vat Poornima
Vat or Vad is the Banyan tree which is to be worshiped on this auspicious day. The tree is eternal. It keeps on spreading & lives for years together. All the married women gather around the Banyan tree for the health & longevity of their husband. They tie threads around the bark & observe aContinue reading “Vat Poornima”
The lucky one
Another of Nicholas Spark’s novel made into a movie. His “Notebook” is more famous I believe, but this has a good story as well. A marine finds a photograph of a girl & tries to find who she is. As he saw the photo in the rumble he is saved by it. Had he beenContinue reading “The lucky one”
Saimdang
I had abandoned the show for being too slow. But after 18th episode it becomes interesting, it is slow is a given but it has it’s moments. Through the next two episodes now the life now & the life she had then start becoming eerily alike. In the art gallery an original painting gets burntContinue reading “Saimdang”
