Dil to baccha hai ji

What happens when an accomplished director like Madhur Bhandarkar leaves his forte of hard hitting realistic movie genre and starts making a light hearted romantic comedy? Well the result is surely like able, the story talks about three guys, one divorced in his mid life crises, one playboy who got to decide between money and love, and one who falls for a girl who actually doesn't see her future with him. The movie has its ups and downs, the movie is not a weird laugh ride as 'Golmal' or 'Yamla Pagla Deewana', but a kind of sensible feel about it. But the best part is the post interval portions where the story starts getting more life like.

Performance wise Omi Vaidya is the pick of the lot, Ajay Devgan is although likeable but tries really hard to be a mam who is unsure of himself, well Mr Devgan news for you, you can never look confused so better  deal with it, Imran Hashmi is so type casted that even Madhur Bhandarkar can not think of something else for him. As far as leading ladies are concerned Shazahn Padamsee does well, she has a good role and preformes accordingly, Shruti Hassan dose better as compared to her previous movie 'Luck', but to be honest, she was so bad in 'Luck' that she couldn't have gone much down from there, Shraddha Das is ok, in a few sequences although you may feel she is acting in a Daily soap, but other wise is just about well. Tisca Chopra performes with confidence, and Rituparna Sengupta is there for a few sequences but looks good.

On the whole the movie is 'surely watchable'.  

Think like a child

Well the above shown pictures may make you feel you have seen that before, even though you have never read Calvin and Hobbs comic strip. Don't get confused, just watch the below mentioned video clip from a movie that represented India in Oscars.

Its never easy to think creatively, and to imagine like a child is no child's play. So the best way out is to stop thinking and start copying.

Competitive advertising

Indian viewers may not be very familiar with competitive advertising campaigns, which are very common in some other countries. In these advertisements, one company openly mocks the competitive products. The above shown add however dose not explicitly gives the name of the other brand, but hopefully people will be able to guess clearly.

Lack of imagination, I Guess!

The Pepsi add with Aamir Khan is unique in sence that Aamir is now endorsing Coca Cola, not only that this add is the first time we see Mahima and Aishwarya much before they started their career in Bollywood. But the most important point is, it is a direct rip off from Pepsi's own commercial in USA.

Suspicion (1941) by Alfred Hitchcock

I have always been an admirer of Alfred Hitchcock and that's the reason for beginning my blogging views with his movie. The movie starts with a charming 'Cary Grant' entering a first class compartment of a train which is already been occupied by beautiful 'Joan Fontaine', the chance meeting obviously results in an under current between the 'charming' and the 'beautiful'. Thus starts the story of a woman who falls for a guy whom she barely know. After getting married she realises that her husband is broke and is expecting support from her family, and thus starts a series of events where she is not able to comprehend whether her husband is a careless happy go lucky fellow or a crook with a high possibility of being a murderer.

As always Hitchcock delivers a story which keeps you guessing most of the time, but leaves you with a dissatisfied feeling in the end, surely the climax could have been better, the reason may be because the film is an adaptation from a book called 'Before the Fact', and the end of the book is quite different than shown in the movie. It is said that Alfred Hitchcock went with the changes but was dissatisfied himself. Cary Grant's character keeps you guessing and his performance is actually the life blood of the movie, Nigel Bruce as Cary Grant's friend is extremely like able and Joan Fontaine as a caring but suspicious wife performs her role most effectively.

On the whole a good movie with an alright kind of climax, but good performances and captivating narrative makes it a 'could watch movie'.