Happy New Year... at Diwali

Public service announcement: Do not watch George Clooney's Ocean's Eleven right before you go see Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year. It doesn't help!

Watched Happy New Year, directed by Farah Khan (who, for the record, is someone I think is immensely talented), and starring the obvious.

This film does not really need a review, cause you're gonna go see it anyway :) as are some 500 Crore others! So here instead, is a list of things i learnt from it...

1. Shah Rukh Khan likes taking his shirt off.
2. Sonu Sood also likes taking his shirt off.
3. Abhishek Bachchan also (surprisingly) likes taking his shirt (and other things) off. 
4. Epileptic seizures are an incurable condition. 
5. ...So is projectile vomiting (and of equally little concern)
6. Some Indian actors (male and female) can act in the absence of a script, dialogues and/ or direction.
7. Indians don't do anything unless driven by patriotism, emotional atyaachaar or both, in good measure. 
8. A film does not have to be perfect (or anywhere in the same ball park as perfect) for you to enjoy it :)

Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan (together and otherwise) have made better films, and i sincerely hope that the success of this film does not deter him/her from making them in the future. 

Haider

Watched ‪#‎Haider‬, a hindi adaptation of William Shakespeare's ‪#‎Hamlet‬..., that stays quite true to the original  
So technically you could just go read that, and some will argue that it might be better... but then you would miss out on a wonderful retelling of a story about revenge, uncertainty and conflict of action that ‪#‎VishalBhardwaj‬ brings to the place where it possibly applies the most in India...‪#‎Kashmir‬. 

The movie makes you realise how little you know about Kashmir, and how conflicted that 'little' is.


It is a tragedy, and so is Haider.

Bang Bang

Watched ‪#‎HrithikRoshan‬  (that's the truth serum talking :p) ‪#‎BangBang‬ is a hindi remake of Knight and Day...starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz....that stays quite true to the original. 
So technically you could just go watch that, but then you would be missing out on the Gorgeous Perfection that is Mr Roshan! Those green-brown pools of gloriousness that are his eyes, or his beautiful smile, or the fact that he was born to ‪#‎dance‬! And thankfully there's enough of him to make it worth your while :)) but that's about it.