Oye Lucky, Lucky Oye !

From the get-up it seemed at first a comedy, with none other than Paresh Rawal in a triple role. But it turned out quite opposite. There was humor, but it’s dark humor. Guess it’s not ‘award material’, but its heart is certainly at the right place.  To me it looked like symbolism. Lucky is the protagonist who sees the world his own way. From childhood he faces petty commonplace people like whom we come across everyday, … some hostile, some as friend, some patronizing … but the common and repelling thing about everyone of them is all are driven by their own selfish motives and try to exploit Lucky’s curcumstances. They do not have heart, and Lucky faces them with quiet desperation. And this very desperation keeps him afloat throughout.

Acting’s okay. There couldn’t have been a better Lucky than Abhay Deol. As an actor he is far better than his histrionic father or  his two brash elder brothers. Needless to say, Paresh Rawal excels as usual. Other actors have been well cast, and none disappointed.

Rotten Egg #1

Ahoy, the journey begins !

My first rotten egg goes to bollywood choreographer (sorry, i can’t call her a film-director) Farah Khan, for her comment about the nomination of Taare Zameen Par in the Oscars as the Indian entry. According to her, her (or rather Shahrukh Khan’s) Om Shanti Om was a better entry and she also guarantees it’d have been placed in the top 5 nominations at least. Yet, (for reasons best known to her and the memetic superstar SRK) they didn’t even send it for the initial selection!

Kick-off! and …… Om Shanti Om

The sem exams, at last, underway. Comp sc. exam, OK, above average at least. At last have to bid good bye ( at least for marks-getting purposes ) to one of my favorite pastimes ( and headaches ) ……. C programming.

Saw that hyped film,- OSO. The ardent SRK-hater that I am, sat to watch it with a lot of frown and most EXPECTEDLY, found it to be a typical SRK-centered mumbo-jumbo. ……. Larger-than-life characters, damn predictable storyline. The first half is boring and childish. Farah Khan has almost made a spoof while trying to ‘pay tribute’ to the 70’s age of Bollywood ! Even Govinda is parodied. The second half gets a bit interesting, and the ending is good, but that’s it. As usual, Shahrukh oozes with that sickly ’see-i-am-a-superstar’ image. Deepika is bland, to say the least. Shreyas and Rampal impress.  ……. And that ‘khiladi’ scene of Akshay Kumar, er……. nothing to say.

What I am surprised about is so cliche’d the hindi film scenarios are.  Whenever a lead character has to return as such, and that would be consequential in the course of the film, surely they are always the heros,…… be it Rajesh Khanna in ‘Aradhana’, Rishi Kapoor in ‘Karz’, Hrithik in ‘Kaho naa pyar hai’ or ‘Krrish’ or here, srk in OSO. The heroines just, ….. either live along, or die in grief, or (as here) only with the shape, later her ‘aatma’ gives tit-for-tat! Fact is, we still want glorious heroes, not a principle female character. Heroines are just polished supporting actors. A long-drawn stubborn stereotype of focusing on the males-are-dominant idea.