How to make cinema work. In spite of ALL the songs and all the hamming and all the dipshits
October 2nd, 1:21 AM. Captain's Log.
Just watched Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge. Bloody awesome it is. Grinned for the most part, watched in awe at the utter overaction towards the end, laughed at the background score doing the typppical danger routine and shed two whole tears at the end. Two whole tears, yes. I do not cry too much at the movies, no wait, I do not cry at the movies, no wait, I do not go to "the movies"....no wait, I do not cry. Yes. Anyway, the last movie I actually came close to shedding one whole tear was Remember The Titans, and the one before that was Sommersby. The former is an out-n-out american football movie, the latter...well the latter is kinda mushy-wushy. I like sports movies...I really do. Watch RTT and watch Varsity Blues while you're at it...heck even, Any Given Sunday... Geez! Anyways, DDLJ, awesome movie it is. Why? Cuz its the frigging epitome of indian cinema...the mother of all bollywood flicks if I may dare say. Its got every frigging element that makes the counters tick and yet it never fails to impress moi. You know why? (obviously U don't...this is ME we're talkin bout..geez!) Cuz it ain't got annny irritatin, irksome, fucked-up PESTS screwing with the flow of the movie. Or so I think, coz I watched only the last 1:15Hrs and I have no clue what happened prior to that...my long term memory is pretty short, you see. In that 1:15Hrs, DDLJ made me believe in the power of hindi cinema again, it made me think "ytf don't I watch more of this?!"....well maybe I should. Especially now, now when indian cinema is breaking new frontiers. Or tearing through new frontiers should I say...or ripping apart the curtains to broader horizons....Yes, the movie in question here is "Shaque", with Ms. Janki Shah showing us all a bit of what Indian cinema has been missing all these years. Lets not go over the top here now shall we? :-D This could just be an indicator of things to come...that is, if the censor-board doesn't nip this in the bud now...
O.k. Enough of the double entendres already. I've had it with my share of puns for the night. The whole sidetracking of the issue towards Shaque has neatly cleansed my brain of all remnants of the magical experience of DDLJ. Damn, its easy to be distracted nowadays with the power of the internet I tell you. Tauba Tauba also seems to setting new standards in sleaze...noicce. Back to DDLJ, watch it again...and again ppls, its a course in "How to make cinema work. In spite of ALL the songs and all the hamming and all the dipshits." Long title I know, but I'm never known to be concise anyways.
This is me. Out for now.
Payne.
PS : Do NOT watch Sweet November. You'll only end up dead. Thats good, 'cuz if you survive the movie, there's an outside chance you might end up seeing Mujhse Dosti Karoge, which will lead to your brain slowly, ever so slowly, oozing out of that hole in the back of your neck. Ouch. Male tears. Ouch.! *gross*
Current Mood: Mooney
Current Music: A dog howling out on the street. Me wants to listen to "Tujhe Dekha...", bluddy winamp is stuck in lala land.
3 Oct 2004, 7:06am
Man to tell you the truth I thought DDLJ was the worst movie that I had ever seen, but then I was wronged on more than one occasion cause then came KKHH and a slew of the love triangle stories involving the
3 Oct 2004, 7:36am
Damn! Guess what I'm looking at in the paper right now..... an article called 'Revisiting"DDLJ"'..... is this really a coincidence???? Me thinks Payne
3 Oct 2004, 8:36am
Dude...to enjoy a hindi movie you need two things...
1) TOTAL suspension of belief.
2)TOTAL lack of any expectation from the movie itself.
I do not watch hindi movies very often...nor do I like any of 'em..I did like DCH, loved it infact. Its about seeing movies like DDLJ in parts, split it into 2-3 viewings over 2-3 years, and you'll fall in love with it just as I did. :D My last recent hindi movie was Company so I reallly can't comment on the others, though as I said, I dont expect much from them. Though I did watch Ek Hasina Thi and was surprised at the level of reality in the shoot-out towards the end.
I don't have a time machine, maybe I'm the writer of that article....:D
Note : watch Man on Fire....heckuva movie man.
3 Oct 2004, 10:03am
Do you mean the one with Denzel Washington???
One thing I think that
3 Oct 2004, 8:17pm
Hilarious dude..you made me grin through most of the post...I've to confess that even an anti-sentimental and anti-melodrama guy like me liked DDLJ. Its a sweet and mushy love story and is quite nice as long the chracters were in Europe and as long as u suspend ur belief (as u rightly put it).
You know what you shud post more often!
4 Oct 2004, 6:41pm
Thanks mayte. :) Always nice to hear from the One. :p Finding it difficult to post more often, no idea why...life just seems to be more fun nowadays living than writing about. :D
4 Oct 2004, 7:55pm
i luuuvv that movie :D
5 Oct 2004, 3:05am
true it is. life IS more fun livin than writing abt.
:|
scratch_head.
syko_ceramic.
5 Oct 2004, 5:12pm
@syko n whg : innit?
:D
PS: My deepest apologies for pairing you up with whg. :p
7 Oct 2004, 3:40am
:o
wat the FUN! wat the FIG! wat the FUR! (i'm tryin to make this a PG-13 comment :D )
seriously! deepest apologies aint quite cuttin it! wtf!
:D
syko_ceramic
7 Oct 2004, 11:27am
what the hells wrong with Sweet November..its a beautiful movie...i love it!!!
16 Oct 2004, 5:43pm
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:(
who changed my password?
who moved my cheese?
:(
.....
21 Oct 2004, 6:25am
*munch munch*
What cheese?
*looks about innocently*