4 films.. 3 days.. Phew!

It’s rather tiring to blog on Monday mornings… Too much to blog, too less of patience… ‘Bariwali’, ‘Maqbool’, ‘Fight Club’ and ‘Troy’… Phew! Onto the reviews…:-)

‘Bariwali’ is a fine film. Kiran Kher is a very elegant actress. She plays the part of a lonely, middle-aged spinster who lives in a large house with a caretaker and a maidservant. Her life is completely turned volte-face when a cinema crew decides to use her house for a film shooting. Then on the film proceeds to a somewhat sad, though realistic finish. Kiran Kher infuses her role with a certain vulnerability which arouses your sympathy without making you too maudlin. A far cry from the flamboyant role she played in ‘Devdas’…. This is a good film, definitely. Rupa Ganguli makes a guest appearance, as beautiful as she was in ‘Mahabharat’. Ohhh… Bengali women are unfairly blessed…:-(

‘Maqbool’ was quite a good movie, unlike what I heard from one of Pinch’s friends. I liked the conceptualisation(the announcer said that it was supposed to be a mix of ‘Macbeth’ and ‘Godfather’!), the performances, the background score… What a stellar star cast! Naseer, Om Puri, Pankaj Kapoor, Irrfan, Tabu… I wonder where Pankaj Kapoor was all these years… Since ‘Roja’, I haven’t really seen much of him.. He’s one classy actor… Naseer and Om Puri have done their roles so well; small wonder that they’re respected for their skill. Tabu has carried off the role of Nimmi wonderfully herself. Come to think of it, she was the driver of the entire film. She almost masterminded the film from start to finish… Like some old Hindi film dialogue ‘Aurat hi sab fasaad ki jad hain!’… She is a worthy successor to Shabana Azmi…

‘Fight Club’.. hmmm.. Brad Pitt is sexy, Ed Norton is good… Maybe I expected way too much from the film…:-) Btw, the film had too much of violence.. Broken noses, bloodied lips, black eyes.. Ouch! Maybe I should read the script…

‘Troy’ was a total anti-climax. Firstly, the artistic license that Wolfgang Petersen took was a bit too much to digest.. Anyone who has read ‘The Iliad’ can EASILY understand what I mean… How on earth did Achilles enter the Trojan Horse? Wonder why Brad Pitt picked this role… He normally steers clear of roles which pamper his phenomenal body and face… Or so I thought.

Phew!