Movies by weekend

Monty Python - The Life of Brian and The Holy Grail:

Saw both these movies back-to-back. Guess, both the movies had a fairly decent share of humour(political).
But, these two movies still fall-short of most other parodies or spoofs.
Guess, Adam Sandler or Leslie Nielson or Rowan Atkinson will always be the god of all spoofs or parodies.

Hazaron Khwaishon Aisi:

Good movie.
Concepts like 'naxalism' or 'emergency or police-raj' or 'absolute corruption' are handled in this movie. It takes you down the memory lane.. i.e into days where Indian democracy really fought against evils-within.

I feel naxalism wasnt deftly handled, one reason could be due the large-number of key-characters in this movie. Quite difficult to manage a movie which has many protagonists, since the story always shifts from one key character to another. No director could ever do justice to plots which has many characters. Sudhir Mishra though has tried his best to pull off a coup.

Had Siddharth been the protagonist or Vikram been the protagonist then things would have made spectacular viewing, but here both of them happen to be key characters and thus no justice is done to the ideology(or lack of) to both these characters.

The female-lead Chitrangada Singh was beautiful in this movie.

Taxi Driver:

Good movie.
The work-fatigue that was showcased in this movie by Robert De Niro as an over-worked taxi-driver was kind of similar to another Scorecese movie 'Bringing out the dead' in which Nicholas Cage also goes through similar motions, in which Cage suffers with overworked syndrome as an ambulance driver.

Brokeback Mountain:

Seems to have been a very difficult movie to pull-off on gay relationships.

La Mala Education:

Another movie which involves gay-relationships, the origins of this can be traced to catholic school.
This is a Pedro Almodovar movie.

Yes Minister - Benji episode:

Classic Brit-comedy.
Enjoyed seeing this small episode which makes fun of bureaucrats and how they manipulate politicians