Sunday, June 06, 2004

Bahut Heavy Movie Hai!!!

The man has finally delivered! After almost a year of pretexts and irrational denials, the ‘peer’ finally conjured up the courage to watch the ‘Heaviest’ movie of ‘em all “3 Deewarein”. And was the man impressed by it or wat! (Balasmosis sentence).
It surely wasn’t a breezy, happy go lucky, Speedo advertising movie made by an effete group of self-professed intellectuals like Karan Johar and Co. And best of all I didn’t have to endure the pain of sitting through irrelevant song and dance sequence or the misery of mindless slapstick idiosyncrasies.

Without delving too much into the movie, I wud just pen the gist of this gripping fare.
---Here you have a story about three criminals - one who hasn’t committed the crime, one who accidentally committed it, and the third who confesses to have done it in his senses. All three have been sentenced to death. A filmmaker wants to document the turmoil that they undergo. Slowly, a bond begins to form between the three men and the filmmaker as they realize that in some inexplicable way, they are linked to each other--- (courtesy some review website).

It’s fascinating to watch the movie unravel its glorious uncertainties; at a pace that the Lee’s and Chuktar’s don’t vie for. The acting is top-notch especially that of Juhi Chawla. She is certainly a revelation in the movie…finally managing to avoid her 2000W toothy grins. The bedroom scene where she threatens her husband to file for divorce or be scalded with gasoline is one of the best I’ve seen in a hindi movie in recent times (“If you don’t…I will do this tomm and the day after…and the day after that”…cult dialogue that one!). Don’t think I have to say much abt the acting skills of the thespian who goes by the name of Naseer. Jackie too has finally emerged from his ‘Thumbs-Up’ shadow!

Ive always been a fan of ‘Kukunoor-ish’ flix and this movie reiterates that it aint worth second thoughts to watch his movies. Using his directorial skills Kukunoor manages to paint a grim yet touching picture of lives gone wrong without making it gory and with the minimum use of dialogues. Next un on the agenda…Bollywood Calling…haven’t seen that yet. Freaks…If you're almost brain dead thanks to all the movies that you have been assaulted by lately, watch this movie for guaranteed revival of your grey cell embryos.
Heavy zaroor hai…but fulltoo vasool hai.

Enlightened…

“Enslaved by three walls,
The fourth, a barrier in my will.
Break it I must, leaving behind a hollowness,
Sighs and screams begging to be free.
But free I am, free is my mind.’’

Abhi picture baaki hai mere dost !

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