Tuesday, July 08, 2008

From Azahar to Uncle via Bhaiya

The other day a friend of mine from India, asked me if there were a lot of Indian girls at the university where I am doing my Ph.D. from.

I told him yes and every year there are more and more students from India.

So he jokingly replied - I should find some Indian female students to coach.

I replied - yes and they will call me 'bade bhaiya' (elder brother).

He replied - the newer batches would be different.

I replied - yeah that newer batches will call me uncle!

:)

Sunday, July 06, 2008

Race - Full Speed Backwards!

I had expectations when people who have similar tastes in movies recommended this movie.

I had misgivings when I saw the trailer. But I put all those misgivings aside and decided to see the movie.

My GOD what an IDIOTIC movie. If the predictable story (due to bad edit effects in the hospital scene) and downright moronic special effects were not enough, some b-grade humor by Anil Kapoor and blank expressions by the 'trophy actresses' - Sameera Reddy and Katrina Kaif made sure that I had wasted two and a half hours of my life.

The final scene has the worst special effects I have ever seen. I think the special effects in some of the computer games I play are much better.

The twists and turns in the movie feel forced and pasted on. In the end mostly to extend the movie.

The only thing good about the movie was the eye candy in form of Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy (I don't like Bipasha that much ;) and the title song of the movie (it comes during the title roll at the end). The Johnny Lever comedy scene was cute and predictable.

One thing I don't understand is why did Akshaye Khanna and Bipasha get married in a church? Why were they wearing black to mourn Saif's death?

Come on guys I know this is a normal Hindi movie so I don't expect it to be a study in logic. But at least let us not confuse our religion!

The songs just spring up like weeds in between the movie without any reason (thank god I could skip them!).

Other than that the movie is crap. Just keeps twisting and turning till you get fed up and want the movie to end.

I think we need to improve our copying skills. I say that if you want to copy at least copy well!

What they wanted was a fast-paced thriller. What they got was an F1 track with speed-breakers after every 100 meters.

Yawn!

:)