Disturbia & Chuk De India

I am writing this post after taking a loooong break from blogging. The reason for my absence was work and exams which I am glad to say are over. Well this weekend I happened to watch 2 movies one was Chuk De India and the other Disturbia. Both the movies were great and if you like watching Hindi and English movies then you should not miss either. I guess most people out there have seen Chuk De India, atleast most people from my office have seen it twice. I was one of the few people who missed to watch it earlier, the good thing was that i didn't have to wait in a long queue to get the tickets and I got good comfortable seats.

Chuk De India is a story of a Hockey player turned Coach of the Indian womens world championship hockey team aka Shaharukh Khan, and his team of girls that has been selected from all corners of India. The movie basically shows how the coach tries to teach the girls to play together as a team and motivates them to win the world championship. The movie also touches upon the fact that cricket is given way too much publicity in India and sports such as Hockey is neglected to a great extent. I particularly liked the fights between the girls and the Haryanvi dialogs of the actor that played Komal Chautala. Its a must watch movie for any cricket fan who is disappointed by the Indian cricket teams performance in England and wants to turn a womens hockey fan.

The main reason I went to see Disturbia was that it had got a 7.5 rating on IMDB and I didn't have much to do on Sunday. The movie is a thriller which revolves around a boy who has been sentenced to a house arrest for 3 months for punching his teacher in the face. The story takes a turn when our hero finds out that one of his neighbor is a serial killer who kills women and preserves their bodies in the basement. I was told by a friend that Disturbia is similar to the movie The Rear Window. I found the movie as thrilling as Vacancy, although Vacancy was a better movie and had much less actors. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone who likes to watch thrillers and who liked Vacancy or The Rear Window (Which I haven't seen).

P.S. I have around 6 posts that I had started but never managed to complete. Hope to publish them soon :P

Hunt for the Black Spider..

The hunt began on Friday night at Gold Adlabs Pune. Sudesh, Neeraj and Myself had plans of going for a movie. The movie that we wanted to go for was Spider-Man 3, but to our disappointment we couldn't get tickets because the show was house full. I wanted to book tickets for the Saturday show but Sudesh vetoed against it [:-(].

Saturday afternoon we decided to try our luck at E-Square but again the show was running house full. Hoping to get tickets we traveled to Inox, but even there we were disappointed. But even after so many setbacks we did not give up hope. I tried calling a few friends (Yves, Gayle, Fritz, Abhimanyu) to get the number of Gold Adlabs. I got one number which Fritz found on the Adlabs site but it was a wrong number. Finally we managed to get the number from a newspaper but after calling we found out that every show on Saturday was house full and not just Saturday even the shows on Sunday were house full. Now this was the height of bad luck.

We were heading back home after booking a bus ticket from the station area when we saw a Spider-Man 3 poster at the Alankar theater which is close to the Pune station। Since Alankar is mostly never crowded we decided to check if any tickets were available। And to our amazement we got tickets. Finally after hunting for so long we had finally managed to get tickets. Even the tickets were very cheap compared to the Multiplex rates. We paid just 40 bucks for balcony seats. Things had just started going our way when Neeraj observed the poster properly. 'Spider-Man 3 Kashmakash' was written in big bold Hindi letters. We were so excited when we had seen the poster earlier that we had forgotten to check whether the movie was English or the Hindi dubbed version. But we had already booked the tickets and had no other work to do so decided to watch the Hindi version.

As far as the movie is considered it was great. The special effects are great. Besides you get to see Spidey in his black suit which looks too cool. Plus there are 3 villians (Green goblin, Sandman and Venom) in the movie. As Abhimanyu pointed out to me things do get a bit Bollywoodish in the second half with all the crying but its bearable. Overall its a good to watch movie.

So what if the seats were not as comfortable as compared to Inox or Adlabs. What happened if there was paan spit on the seat that Sudesh was going to sit on. Even though the fans (Pankha) in the theater were adding some extra sound to the movie soundtrack it was a different experience compared to the usual Multiplex experience. It was something different that we tried in Pune and it was fun.

By the way I am planning to go for the English version of the movie next weekend wit Abhimanyu.

PS: Abhimanyu you should try going for the Hindi dubbed version of the movie [:-)].

Over and out..

"Bheja Fry" A must watch flick

"Bheja Fry"... Well for those of you who don't know what it is its a hindi movie directed by a first timer Sagar Ballary (Yep even i haven't heard his name before) and has stars like Ranvir Shorey, Vinay Phatak, Rajat Kapoor and Milind Soman. Tom Alter also has a guest appearance in the movie (Saw him act after a looong time).

If you'll didn't know this Ranvir and Vinay are Channel [v] VJ's. I should say that I haven't seen them much on TV but that may be because I don't get channel [v] on my TV :-(. But thats a different story. If you'll dont know Milind Soman he is the Captain Vyom guy. Captain Vyom the first Indian intergalactic super hero, Kicking ass across the milky way. Actually i don't remember if he was the first or Shaktiman. Ummm, i think i am drifting away from the main topic of this post. My apologies for that.

Well getting back to "Bheja Fry". The movie is based around the life of Rajat (who is a music company executive) and his relationship wit his wife (Sarika), his hot girlfriend (Bhairavi Goswami) and his friend (Milind Soman) and how it all changes when he invites Vinay for his weekly Bring-your-idiot dinner party.

The most interesting part about the movie is that it just has 5 or 6 actors and most of it takes place in one house and still it has turned out be such a great film. The other great thing about the movie is that there are no songs in the movie. And if you don't like the movie do not worry its just 1 and 1/2 hour long so you wont suffer for long.

Normally I hate watching hindi movies but there are some hindi movies which you absolutely have to watch and I should say that "Bheja Fry" is one of those. The movie has inspired me to write the first post on my blog and i thank the director and Vinay Phatak for that. Overall its a great movie if you want to enjoy yourself and relax over the weekend. So do make it a point to watch it.


Over and out.......