Movies by weekend

Sholay:
Did not enjoy the movie all that much. Lots of western flavour inserted into this movie. One character who came up with a reasonably cool performance is Amitabh Bacchan alongwith Jaya Bahduri. Hema Malini's make-up was atrocious.
Some info: The movie was shot in Karnataka. In the song 'eh dosti..' an advertisement hoarding in Kannada language can be seen in the background.

Revisiting Neverland:
Kate Winslet tells to Johnny Depp that 'we should just act like friends rather than become just more than friends i.e life-partners', for which Johnny Depp says 'No we cant act like this forever'. Johnny Depp later contradicts the same in a scene with young Peter, when he says 'he can imagine that his mother is there everywhere when in reality she is not alive'. Some contradiction, but the best part of course is that we are allowed to do all the interpretation, which I think encapsulates the beauty of the movie.

Life is Beautiful:
Magical realism in movies :-)
The first time I saw this movie was in a theatre in Chennai. Saturday nigh-show in Sathyam cinemas is always a tough proposition for anyone to grab tickets. Me and my friend were very confident that for a foreign language movie there wont be much of a crowd. But we were wrong, the theatre was kind of housefull and we were lucky to grab 2 tickets. While watching this movie, we noticed our former school principal sitting some few rows ahead of ours. I had earlier heard that she got divorced and got married to another man and is soon to shift base to somewhere in Europe. I think she quit her job as a principal shortly after this second marriage. The school administration is mostly old-fashioned and so guess the management would have found her unsuitable to be the principal of a school! Maybe I could be wrong and she could have volunteered to quit her job for moving to some prosperous country in Europe, but just in case she had decided to stay - 'I think the wrath of an orthodox school administration would have pushed her to quit the job'. I think people tend to look down when they see a 'dysfunctional family'. Honestly every family is dysfunctional in their own way. It is very difficult to find a working-kind. What matters is accepting the faults(if any) and move-on!

The Medallion:
Bad movie. Hope 'The Myth' with Mallika Sherawat is better than this!

KwK - Hema Malini and Zeenat Amman:
Hema Malini's views were a bit cryptic, while Zeenat's was straight-forward. Zeenat's english had a lot of accent attached to it. I think this American accent might have distracted the viewers from listening to what she said on camera. My friend felt the same, while watching Zeenat speaking, he got irritated with her accent-part. But I felt accent part is pardonable for someone who has stayed close to 20 years in USA. As for the content she spoke was much better than Hema Malini.