Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Bluff master

The movie. Its an ok movie, the plot is interesting, different and rather cool. Acting is decent, Abhishek has done good and so have the others. However the Doctor's character doesn't come out correctly. The pace is leisurely, for once Bollywood has resorted to under-stated style of cinematography. But the style gives a feeling of something missing, I don't think anything is, but its just that I have been conditioned to expect a more dishum-dishum style from bolly.

But the thing that really caught my interest and made me take the bother to write about it was the beautiful picturization of Mumbai. All through the film you can see aesthetic backdrops from Mumbai's local scenery. Green parks, tall skylines, immaculately designed homes/buildings, awesome cars, well dressed ppl. Its a relief to the eye after seeing the horrible images that WTO and other charitable institutes like to portray of India here in Europe. Who can blame them, poverty sells and gets them charity.

But still, for once here is a movie that I can give to my German friends and say: look, not all Indian movies have SrK in them, and India too has its share of urban beauty.