I hate luv storys - something I never said before

If I successfully draft and save this post it would be third this week. I am on a roll :) :) :).
Yeah, I am talking about the Karan Johar flick "I hate luv storys". Loving somebody and breaking off to latch on to somebody else is in vogue these days. At least it is in the bollywood. I do not understand the logic of loving somebody and then finding love in somebody else. You might argue it happened with "the" Romeo( I used the definite article because there are so many these days), one who killed himself for the sake of love, then why not with others. However, I beg to differ change becomes a habit and life ends before you stop changing people.
Why all this pep talk about love when I am talking about a movie? Then read the next lines carefully and figure out how meaningful it is. " A girl loves a guy, breaks off from him to love a guy who does not believe in love". The story is as meaningful as the above sentence. However, the lackluster story line does not dissuade one from enjoying the comedy that evolves from the backdrop the movie is set against.
Veer Kapoor( Karan Johar look alike) is famous for his romantic blockbusters with a superstar( Aamir Ali - a SRK look alike).J( played by Imran) works on the sets of Veer's latest venture. He struggles to get along as he does not believe in love which is, of course, the mainstay of Veer's film. Simran(played by Sonam) joins Veer's crew as an art director and the movie takes off.
The whole movie is an enjoyable satire on bland romantic movies and Karan Johar's style of movie making. Karan Johar must be appreciated for allowing his director do a satire on him through Veer's character. Other than this brave satire by the director Punit Malhotra, another entertaining element is Kavin Dave( guy from sprite ad).He plays a good supporting role as J's colleague and companion.In fact Bollywood could have just discovered a good sidekick in him.
The chemistry between Imran and Sonam, though not very romantic - of course the movie did not need it, is quite good. Punit succeeded in making a movie that is light, humorous, and devoid of loud comedy and drama. The good thing about the movie is you do not have a single punch being thrown or a heart wrenching sequence in whole of it. The movie, for sure, will not bore you unless you are expecting car crashes, bleeding noses and/or wet cheeks on the screen. All in all a simple, light movie to watch it after five days of whipping and slogging at office.

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"Kites" - a disaster

In the interval I felt sleepy and at the end of the movie I was cursing myself why did I come to watch this movie without heeding to the reviews which forbade watching the movie.
This is the first time I am watching a movie within the first week of its release and perhaps I have to let it be the only time. "Appalling" is the word that would aptly describe my experience at the theatre; "disgusting" is the right word for the plot; "out of place" is the word for background score and debacle would sum it all up for the movie. What took me in to watching this movie was the fact that Hrithik Roshan spent three long years for this script and Barbara Mori was roped in to play the lead actress in the movie, unlike the previous times when all that a foreign actress got was an item number. I believed, before watching the movie, that there must be a sound reason or two, why a foreign actress is chosen for the role. But as it turned out there was none.
Okay, I know I have to give you my reasons to show that it was an absolute no-ball and a wavered of movie. I will elaborate the elements of this so called Romantic-action-thriller.

Action - There is none at all, except for a few rounds of bullets flying here and there towards the climax, and a couple of cars crashing and burning - very typical of an Indian movie, isn't it?

Romance - If you want to watch this movie for this reason, the movie would fail you miserably. You get nothing out of it.

Songs - You will not know when they come by because you will be sticking out of seats and counting seconds to run away home. At least I did that because movie was expensive. 180 Rs is too much for a movie ticket and I am not a kind of man who runs away from enemy because he is a daunting giant. I sat in the movie theatre, undaunted for all the two and half hours and watched every bit of it. That is brave me for you. And to add I did not leave my seat in the interval fearing dissipation of the gathered courage.

Plot - Plot is lost with in the first 30 minutes of the movie and I did not know how the director managed convince the producer to sponsor for such crap. And,I wonder how in the world, Hrithik who is choosy with the scripts boarded this rattling train heading only one way.

Technical values - Pointless. Forget it. Why talk of values when movie fails to deliver what it is supposed.

COST OF THE MOVIE
The movie costed me, 3 hours of time ( half an hour for buying the tickets )+ 180 Rs (ticket fare) + 20 Rs( Zandu balm - I swear I bought a new one, it was long due and the movie precipitated the need for it) + 4 Rs ( 2 crocin tablets for headache - if one does not work tonight another for tomorrow morning).

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3 Idiots

This in fact is supposed to be a continuation of my post on Jan 3rd as yesterday was occupied by a Mouth and Brain episode. Partly it would not be because I am writing about Amir Khan starer 3 idiots and partly it would be because I saw this movie on 3rd of January.
If I have to say about this movie in a line then it would be Theme of Tare Zameen Par + Munna Bhai style of making + glimpses of Range De Basanti stuffed into Five point someone's frame, of course with decent screen play. Simple isn't it ? Let me explain. All through the movie one would hear the words of 'race' and 'passion'. Amir Khan was a teacher in the other movie teaching children and preaching parents about these words, but in this movie he is a student preaching teachers and fellows about these words. Also I should not fail to note that in this movie Amir goes about saying "All is well" just as Sanjay Dutt went about saying "Jadhoo ki Zappi". The scene when Sharman Joshi gets hospitalized in this movie evokes memories of Munna Bhai MBBS. The cast and freakishness spray a Range De Basanti effect across the frames. The scenes picked up from Five point someone are prominent enough to circle them out.
The movie seems redundant as the old theme of forcing children( adolescents this time) into what they do not like seeps in whenever Amir gets a chance. Overall, the first half of the movie is entertaining and the second half bores people with the idea of making Amir's character win over his foes and friends being clearly perceptible. Entertaining mood of the story slowly fades into a routine, hero-wins-all, theme during the last 20 minutes. Bomman Irani is worth the money as usual and plays a perfect imitable character. Omi Vaidya, who plays a revenge seeking take-by- heart book worm is quite impressive. Madhavan and Sharman play their part and manage to throw audience into peels of laughter across the movie's duration ( no taking away credit from Amir and others).
To sum it up all, the movie comes under the category of one time watchable and having said that what surprises me is the collections it had at the box office. I wonder if it is Chetan's propel to Amir's star image which made this movie go the extra mile to cross Ghajini in terms of first weekends collection. It could after all be the reason for this Actor-Writer row and you never know!

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