This movie is a class-act.
I was under the impression that :
i. this movie is about filthy-rich folks
ii. this movie is hyped-up by an entire generation, who liked the songs in this movie
iii. this movie tells you about the good-things in life without any regard to the not-so-good-things.
iv. this movie is about rich people who get worried with rather trivial things like 'new dress getting dirty' and stuff.
v. this movie is about rich folks who dont know what poverty is.
vi. this movie is about highly-irritating cute little children and their wierd innocence
vii. i dont like these musicals, didnt like 'chicago' for one
and I always thought why would someone watch such a movie.....(all this before I watched this movie)
After I watched this, I found this movie to be a rather-clean movie. I found it very hard to dissect this movie, because this movie is more of packaged-movie feel-good movie than anything else.
Wondered why I am against this feel-good-movies. Somethings like this(feel-good-movies), immediately hits us - 'oh forget it, it cant be true. The are fooling you'
But still inspite of all the negative-feelings that are in the air, one still looks up to these feel-good-movies to get one out-of-the-blues. There really is some magic about these feel-good-movies.
When a recent Govind Nihlani movie starring Amitabh, Fardeen, Kareena got released, it showed the whole society in bad-taste. I didnt see the movie, but read a few reviews about the same. Some journalist questioned Om Puri (another key cast in this movie) as to 'why would someone take a film like this?'(i.e to show the rotten part of our society). Om Puri responded saying that, ' films like these are a necessity'. And according to him it is more important for films like these to be released when feel-good-factor is in the air. According to Om Puri, it is only when there is a 'feel-good-factor is in the air' can people appreciate the 'feel-bad-movies'. I feel Om Puri got it spot on.
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I think the movie is remarkably uninteresting. I didn't think the music was great. You either think the innocence affected or are out-of-contact with that sort of thing in your life to appreciate it. Actually I don't remember the story too well, because I saw it long back.
The movie serves one purpose. It adds to the rubbish-heap of stuff that “people of refinement” make the subjects of their discussion. The defining characteristic of this heap is that there are never two similar elements, so that any one thing may be criticized or praised according to the convenience of the moment. No-one can meaningfully prove them insincere in their opinions; one needs so much material on a subject if one is to try to show a contradiction in it; the splendid variety of the rubbish-heap stymies efforts aimed at finding it.
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