Tashan: The Dud

The latest BO news is that Tashan (brilliant review here) has turned out to be a super-duper flop. Not that I expected otherwise. A friend of mine who actually saw the movie the day his exams got over, was ruing the fact that he wasted 3 hours of his life. “Its a dud movie from start to end, not even good in parts”, he remarked. And yesterday itself the brilliant Tickr on MTV decided to take on Tashan. It begins as always with:

THIS IS IN FOND MEMORY OF TASHAN

• Whenever Saif and Kareena want to be alone, they go out and watch TASHAN.
• Black Ticketwallah’s out of a job, after release of Tashan
• Tashan makes Jhoom Barabar Jhoom seem like a classic
• Bebo gets a zero figure. So does Yash Raj
• Intermission is the best part of Tashan
• Tashan was initially to be titled “Three Men and a Bebo”
• Even RGV (Ram Gopal Verma for the ignorant) does not want to remake Tashan
• 99% of all people reading this Tickr have not watched Tashan
• Tashan flops. Kajol and Ajay celebrate

And so on… For latest tickers keep watching MTV

For the Tickr on U, Me and Hum click here

Megs actually thought it was going to work.

Why I dont want to watch ‘RACE’

Check out this RACE review from Aditya, the film i.e. (There have been atleast four to five confusions whether the talker is referring to the movie or to the F-1 race, so henceforth all F-1 races will be called F-1 races and the general term race will refer to the movie). Anyways, Aditya has reviewed both so it doesn’t matter to you. However, I do want to watch the race, F-1 i.e.

Film Review: Vantage Point

Genre: Drama / Thrill 

Director: Pete Travis

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Mathew Fox (of ‘Lost’ fame), Forest Whitaker, Edgar Ramirez,               Bruce McGill

My rating: 3.5/5

Well, I saw vantage point today and really like it! One and a half hours of pure action and thrill! A good plot, good characters and performances really all come together to make a brilliant film.

The plot is about terrorists killing the US President and bombing the site of a World Summit. The characters involved are personnel from the US side, a bystander with a video camera, a Spanish policeman, a TV network and the story evolves from their perspectives each beginning from a fixed point in time. The plot and suspense builds in each story, finally ending in a climax. The overall story from just one man’s point of view may have seemed too fantastic but when viewed through the eyes of each one of them, it really becomes plausible. The characters also are believable and take actions within limits of reason, no non-sense from any of them. 

The narration of the movie can be compared to that of “Rashomon” , a question on which was asked in Chakravyuh quiz! However, this is not a court trial, nor finding the truth is essential and not the first priority of the characters in the story. We are only seeking the truth!  

A brilliant car-chase showcases the brilliant camerawork which is coupled with excellent screenplay throughout. 

Worth a watch if you have a couple of hours to spare!

V’s Monologue

Actually this needs a different category, but that is for later:

I know it by heart, obviously

“Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. “

From the movie V for Vendetta, in case you dont know!!