This weekend saw a few films, a film every day, actually!
Friday was a repeat telecast of ‘Ek Haseena…’ for Sandeep and Pinch. They liked it very much. Saturday saw ‘LOC….’ which was not a bad effort though it did seem that every soldier who starred had to have a sweetheart, almost a default qualification to star in the film! A million heroes of both the big screen as well as the telly, many more heroines, a boring OST… A long film, nearly.. 4 hours, I think. Guess we expected it to be so over-the-top and ridden with histrionics( a la Border) that it was a relief to find it a bit better.
Sunday was ‘Mr. and Mrs. Iyer’… I liked it!
Konkona is a good actress and she has carried off the Sreeram colony babe thing very well..:) Even the accent, very nicely done! RB was good, as usual.. elegant, understated, quiet. Nice film.
Returned some of the books and got many more from the library. John Updike, something called ‘The Twelve Stories of Christmas’, a couple of books by Kurt Vonnegut, then some others I don’t recall.
I am completely out of confidence when it comes to selecting books of contemporary authors. I mean, it gets rather difficult to judge what to pick. Is that a natural thing? Many of the books I’ve read are recommended.. makes my job easier. But going out on a limb and selecting from a new pick altogether… I haven’t been very lucky in picking up good non-recommended stuff.
Watched ‘Holy Smoke’ this noon. Quite a boring film and not-worth-a-watch kind. Kate Winslet is lovely and that’s about it.
Maybe I should write a bit more about the film. I’d heard of this film a few years back, unable to watch it, though. Said to be one of the ‘hotter’ films of Kate W, it was supposed to feature a frontal shot of her peeing…. Well, I didn’t see that though there wasn’t anything else particularly worth watching either. Kate W and a friend of hers travel to India, Kate gets mesmerised by the ‘aura’ of a particular Indian Baba she meets. She decides to stay back. Her friend returns to Sydney and alerts her parents. Her mother travels to India, meets Kate who now wears a white sari which keeps slipping off her shoulder, stays at a dhaba joint and drinks lassi. She promptly falls sick, loses her asthma spray and her consciousness. Finally, mother and daughter travel back home where the family decides to ‘straighten’ her out using a deprogrammer(????) played by Harvey Keitel. This is one unctuous guy with some kinda strange persona and confidence. Well, he has this plan which is to be conducted over 3 days in a remote homestead. Couldn’t follow much of the strange plan but at the end of it, the unlikely couple have slept together and share a love-hate relationship.
Anyways, the film ends with Kate and mother travel back to India, Keitel marries his business associate and stays in USA.
Didn’t think much of the film.
Made something chlorophylly(!!!!) looking.. spinach and moong dal and Inshaallah! It won’t drag unto tomorrow!
