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And then I did...'A Wednesday" first because of Anupam Kher and Naseeruddin Shah ...Familiarity breeds comfortableness (is that a word) and also contempt ( this is)...And I think 'A Wednesday" was a disappointment...I have been watching trailers of a new Pacino Versus De Niro movie on tv...And I had hoped for something like that..Or at least something like Naseeruddin and Om Puri in that Vishal Bhardwaj film whose name I now forget...But 'A Wednesday" was disappointing for me...The beginning was gripping...But somehow I lost connection with the story mid way.....Did not help that I had just watched "Bank Job" a day earlier..And you would expect a kind of raciness (is that a word again) in a thriller.. A Wednesday did not have it in the later stages...And the ending was as lame as it could have been...Cinema should have a message..I get it..But I think it should be delivered subtly and it should be discounted when compared to entertainment....So Naseeruddin Shah must have been great when he delivered that soliloquy about the common man...I dont know..But all throughout I was thinking about R.K.Laxman....And if I was a critic, I would have torn to shreds the lady who was playing the tv reporter for UTV news....
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The next day it was "Rock On"...I knew, from the critics, that it had a DCH hangover....But Farhan Akhtar in front of the camera is perhaps not as grand as behind the camera...The DCH connection did seem apparent to me but maybe more so because I had read the reviews.....The storyline obviously has similarities...But then so does the Illiad and the Mahabharata....I think the more pertinent question is whether the execution provided entertainment?.. My verdict, irrespective of however immaterial it is, would be that it did....Rock On will probably not rock as DCH....It lacks the star power of DCH and because I was watching a pre dvd release (I know piracy nd stuff!!..),I could not tell if it was also lacking the budget...And midway through , I also remebered that other movie featuring a rock band whose songs pay tribute to RD Burman (the movie with that wonderful song in the church)..But still, I thought, Rock On was good..More so may be because at some level I connected with the movie's core theme of drifting away and coming together again....That we all had dreams that we compromised in some way or another...If I was a critic, I would only opine, that the dandiya rendition of the Aashiqi song was shocking....Not knowing anything about music, I thought the original was soothing and they could have probably picked on another song...The best actor was obviously Anu Malik playing himself....And Farhan Akhtar , I think, was better than the Baweja kid..Even though they both bear an uncanny resemblance to Hrithik..
So Rock On I will....Not on a Wednesday...But a Saturday (actuallly Sunday morning)...Till the next movie...
Cheers!!!
:))
