Two movies
February 23rd, 2009
Watched two (actually, one and half) Hindi movies in the last few weeks.
- Chak de India: A good movie about Indian Women’s Hockey team training and their eventual win in the World Cup, all fueled by a disgraced player working as their coach. Interesting plot; very different from the regular Bollywood trash. It is very watchable as Shah Rukh Khan didn’t get a chance to do his usual overacting and trying to look cute. Another plus point was that it had no songs and dances. The only bad part about this otherwise well-made movie was the background score. It was very annoying.
- Jaane tu ya jaane na: Watched half of this movie at a friend’s house over the weekend and promptly took it out of our Netflix queue. The first half was so pointless that I don’t really care about what happens later on. The lead actress, Genelia, should take some Hindi speaking lessons if she wants to continue acting in Bollywood. This was one of the top 5 Bollywood movies of 2008. Don’t know why people liked it so much. I refuse waste more time and energy than I already have by writing about the pointless plot and very forgettable actors and characters.
A big chunk of movies that we have watched lately, I don’t seem to enjoy. It is not like we watch every movie that comes out. We only try out critically acclaimed and/or very popular movies. Can’t seem to agree with the critics or public on many of these movie choices. Oh well… I think I am turning into a sour old fart.
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Parag, we are too old now to appreciate the beauty of Jaane tu
but in India, teenagers are just in love of this movie.
I am glad to see you agree with my final conclusion. I don’t really appreciate Rahman music so, there wasn’t anything in that movie for me.
btw, I hope you saw Slumdog M !
not for so called oscar winning music though !
Haven’t watched Slumdog yet but, listened to the original book. The story idea is very novel. I am planning to watch the movie when it becomes available on Netflix. I tried listening to the soundtrack but, didn’t find it very appealing. On the other hand, I found “DevD” soundtrack to be very addictive. Can’t stop listening to it.
I like listening to his music, as I like listening to many others, but do find it repetitive/predictable at times such that without knowing who the music director is, you can predict—correctly most of the times that it is Rahman (some tracks in Slumdog were exception though). About Chak De. I didn’t see the whole movie (which is what I end of doing with majority of Hindi movies–IF I ever get around to seeing one), but some scenes in the movie were lifted (what’s new??) from a Hollywood movie which was based on the true story of how the coach inspired the US Ice Hockey team (underdogs) defeat the Russian team during the 1980 Olympics.