It's a wonderful life

Although India is the land of festivals but it is rare in Bollywood to have a movie based upon a festival. Surely there are Holi songs in some movies, a fire cracker here and there, but never a full fledged movie on the backdrop of a festival. Hollywood hands down beats us with all the limited festive occasions they have got, invariably there is a valentine day movie during February, and a Christmas movie during December.

It’s a wonderful life lives the spirit of Christmas, the movie starts with God calling one of his Angels (Second class, because he has not earned his wings yet), and starts telling him, the story of George Bailey, a kind hearted fellow who lives in one of the sleepy town of America, with a dream to explore the world, to live a care free and an adventures life away from his hometown. But as luck has it, whenever he plans to leave the town, one or the other thing happens which restricts him from going anywhere. He takes care of the company his father founded, which help poor people to build their own houses, and is the only institution of the town not controlled by Mr. Potter, most rich person of the town but a sadist at heart.

All is well as George Bailey becomes occupied with his family and work. But one Christmas Eve, George’s company misplaces $8000.00, and apart from the huge financial loss, George is faced with the possibility of criminal charges against him, it is this time that he loses all hopes, and starts contemplating with the idea of committing suicide.

God dose not wants a fine man to loose the most precious gift a man could have i.e. ‘Life’. He tasks the Second Class Angel to take care of the situation with the promise to give him Wings (for which he has been waiting for the last 200 years), if he could persuade George against ending his life.

How the Angel makes a depressed George see the beauty of his life, and earn his wings simultaneously, makes the biggest twist of the story.

Friends it is one of those rare movies that can give you something that is in extremely short supply, and that thing is ‘Hope’ and the strength to live another day and fight the odds.

   

Highly recommended, watch this movie, and love your life.

Rating ***1/2

The Dirty Picture

Behold, that here comes Milan Luthariya, with a titillating, enticing and provocating tale of a fat yet seductive, Silk. A lot of people thought that this film may be vulgar after looking at the promos. Well personally I believe ‘vulgar’ is something when you give obscene gestures or talk double meaning. Here there is no vulgarity, because people are talking directly what they mean and what they want. I can not repeat what was said in the movie here, as my parents may read this blog.

And that is the reality about this movie; people can enjoy this movie, only when not accompanied by their family. So watch it alone or with friends, and if you dare to take your kid to this movie, rest assured, sex education may look outdated.

Coming back to the movie in question, as well known is the fact that it is based on a real life of Silk Smita, we can not say for sure how much told here is genuine, but it is entertaining for sure. The film dose not takes the age old route of hue and cry for the tormented and suppressed girl who got exploited by the system. But takes the bold and more realistic yet elevating route where the Heroin knew what she gave and what she got in return. No confusion over the morality aspect, as already more than million movies have exploited the issue, while the viewers slept and the financers wept. But the director was bang on target with what he wanted to do with this movie. It was as if the Director himself was saying those iconic words which came out of the mouth of Vidya Balan, “Filmen sirf theen vajoh se chalti hai, entertainment, entertainment, entertainment, aur main entertainment hoon’. Its gives you the nostalgia of, “The first rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club, The second rule of fight club is, you don’t talk about fight club”.

Song, Ooh la la, may feel erotic to people, but I think it has a lot of sarcastic value attached to it. The dialogues are acidic and plenty in number, and the reason why I went to this movie. Performance wise Vidya is just splendid. Naseeriuddin Shah is reliable as always, Tushar Kapoor fails to impress, but for me the surprise package was Imraan Hashmi, I never liked this guy before, but loved his character in this movie.

On the whole watch the movie if you can handle adult entertainment,

Rating ***.