Few Hindi Movies

In Paris, as I am stuck up only with Star Gold, Z Cinema, B4U and Zing, I got no options except to watch Hindi movies and Hindi songs. I must admit that I was not in touch with much of Hindi cinema except for a few smash hits like Rang De Basanti, Black, Devdas etc.

I think it is time to catch up. J

Over the past 2 week ends I was watching loads of Hindi movies and to my surprise each one of them were of different genre. The actors are matured. There is no over acting – except in very few cases. There are no punch lines. There are no car-wind-shield-smashing fights. No ordinary-hero-fight-like-superhero stuff. No stupid romance songs backed up by angels-of-love chorus raga. No unwanted item number songs. At least I didn’t see all of these in the 10 some movies I got to watch.

Mein Meri Pati Aur woh – is a nice feel good movie. This is the first movie that made me switch over to Star Gold from National Geographic and very much boring BBC news. This movie is about a short guy who gets to marry a beautiful woman. This guy has huge inferiority complex and he doubts that his wife may leave him or to put it differently he fears that some hand some guy might take his wife away from him. But people around him are quite nice and are just minding their business. He creates lots of tricks to solve the problems those actually don’t exist. He doubts his wife but he loves her a lot and just don’t know that she too loves him very much. I began to like Rajpal Yadav.

Shoot out at Lokhandwala – is a great movie about a real life shoot out. It is based up on the 1991 Lokahndwala complex shoot out. What a star cast it was! Amitab bachan, Sunil Shetty, Vivek, Sanjay Dutt and Abhisek. This kind of mulit-starer movie is really very hard to find in Tamil movies.And if at all anything is ventured then it would be dropped later or the actors would get in to a cold war after the end of the movie and they vow to press that they would never act together again! I must say that I was shocked to see Abhishek in a very small role and he had done a perfect job. Sanjay Dutt and Sunil Shetty were excellent too.

Baghban – is again a good movie. This movie is about relationship between parents and their grown up children. Amitabh and Hemamalini acted as parents.The love between the parents – even in their old age is shown in a great way. It is emotional to see Amitabh got separated from his wife and got to stay in one of his son’s house longing for his wife’s love. There are loads of movies of this kind in Tamil –mostly done by Siavji, but this kind of movie is very hard to see these days. Anyway Salman really was over acting. It is almost laughable to see Salman sing prayers to Amitabh’s photo.I think the director had run out of ideas.


- originally appeared in my other blog readnshare.wordpress.com