Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Online movie theatre

www.dingora.com

Dingora is a site where yo can purchase ticket and watch movie online - on the same day as release of the movie.It majorly caters to independent,short films.


My favorite narrative part from "The Gods must be Crazy -1"

This is about how beauty and physical appearance is just a matter of perception .

The following excerpt is from narration of -The Gods must be crazy...a Bushman (an African tribe) who lives in the heart of Kalahari desert -how he perceives some white people from civilized society he meets on his way to end of the earth:
(On encountering Miss thompson - a slim beautiful white woman with curly hair)
That morning, Xi saw the ugliest person he'd ever come across.
She was as pale as something that had crawled out of a rotting log.
Her hair was quite gruesome...long and stringy and white, as if she was very old.
She was very big.
You'd have to dig the whole day to find enough food to feed her.
Although it was a hot day, she was wearing skins...
...that looked as if they were made from cobwebs.
She was doing strange and magical things.
It struck him that she must be one of the gods.
He wondered what she was doing on earth.
He was glad he met her. He'd give her the evil thing...
...and go home to his family.
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(Steyn enters with a cigar in his mouth)
There was another god. He had a fire inside him.
The smoke came out through his mouth and nostrils.

(Approached by Mpudi on a motor vehicle) There was a peculiar sound, and Xi saw a most amazing animal approaching.
It's legs went around instead of up and down.
And there was a weird-looking god on its back.
He wore blue skin on his head and red on his body.
And hair grew on his face.

(As they speak among them in English) The funny thing was that they couldn't speak.
They made chattering sounds like monkeys. 

The Gods must be crazy-1

Mpudi - You've gotta smile and tell her she looks good. 
Steyn - How are you an expert on women?
Mpudi - I got seven wives. How many you got?
Steyn -Why aren't you at home with them?
Mpudi - I know how to marry them.Nobody knows how to live with them.

When Harry Met Sally

Harry: “There are two kinds of women: high maintenance and low maintenance.”
Sally: “Which one am I?”
Harry: “You’re the worst kind; you’re high maintenance but you think you’re low maintenance.”

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Aisha

Just a few days after watching a movie as heavy as "The Sum of all fears" based on a fictional incidence related to US-Russia ties and nuclear war- I watched Aisha.A chic movie as its name.

Now,I was really disappointed when the movie couldn't do much business at box office and received avg. to bad reviews.Despite of that,I was really interested in watching this movie for the obvious reasion - its a "Girls'" movie!
Anyways,I got a DVD arranged finally and sat down to watch it.And as a girl,I didn't find anything unlikable about the movie, nor something that it should get bad reviews.I thoroughly enjoyed the movie .The movie portrays perfectly what it wants to portray - Delhi's upper class and Emma.The costumes are just amazing and here everyone would corroborate this fact.The girls put their act together too very nicely.There wasn't much scope for brilliant acting, but in her role,Sonam did full justice to Aisha - and acted well.That reminds me of Deepika who always pastes a smile on her face in most of the dialogues delivery like she is on stage-modelling.That makes her dialogue delivery flat.But Aisha's disposition is cute,lovable,frothy ,and she carries  a laughter full of life.
Another thing I like is - the regular bitchiness of upper class has been sidelined and even if its there - they have been carried and delivered by Sonam in such a way that no matter how bitchy she might get - you would still adore her.Well,isn't that Emma?

Guys and girls in the movie looked great and Amrita puri as Shefali is refreshing.The sets ,locations are identifiable- yet look great.Aisha's life is exactly how a upper class chic's life you ,me and even upper class girls would picture in their mind.

The thing I think was missing in movie which made it a downplay was its lack of humour.Now,girls would love this movie anyways.But why would guys go and watch a movie like Aisha- they would go expecting the humour and 3 hours full of light refreshing moments- since obviously it will fall in romantic comedy basket.There isn't a problem with a female -centred romantic comedy since acts and dialogues have been great.But then you need a dash of humour ,light moments,giggles and laughters to keep you hooked to the movie.That makes up for no story or bad story (since we consider it to be a "story" in bollywood only when its quite gripping and seriously well crafted).In romantic comedy - romance and comedy are what we are looking for.A little more justice required for both of them in Aisha.
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But I love Aisha,its costumes,music,Delhi and the one whom I watched this movie with :)