Movies by weekend

Payback:

Class-act. Really enjoy watching movies like these which have a really cool way of picturising the stylish-revenge story a la Kill Bill or the wild-westerns or the good old Hong Kong movies.

Pather Panchali:

Saw maybe 3/4ths of the movie but due to some player-malfunction could not see it completely. But liked the way the movie was shot. Guess, Satyajit Ray was class-personified in the way he shot the father-mother-grandmother-girl child-boy child.. kind of takes you through the memory lane, his characters seem to be very real.

Choker Bali:

The story was originally written by Tagore. Surprisingly there were not any of those Victorian-inhibitions expressed. The story also reminded me of Kalki's 'alaiosai' which again was set in pre-independent era (during quit india movement, while Tagore's 'Choker Bali' was set during early 1900's I guess i.e coinciding with the partition of Bengal). Both these stories will give you a glimpse of orthodoxy-class and their culture and their ideas about independent-India.

BluffMaster:

This movie was stylishly taken. Really liked the theme-music which comes in the background everytime Abishek walks into Priyanka Chopra.

Munich:

Steven Spielberg movie. One will get stuck with the thought whether the Israeli ordinary citizens recruited for
assasinating Palestenians were right or wrong in whatever they did. I think this took the charm away from the movie. It might be extremely tough in taking the 'who is right or who is wrong' call in crisis like these, but I think decision has to be taken at some point of time. Guess, the director could have tried to pull-off something bold rather than sticking to 'indecision' part. Another movie which also had slightly boring ending was 'Kingdom of Heaven', in a somewhat similar way.

Transporter 2:

Not as exciting as 'Transporter'. Amber Valletta was a stunner!

Capote:

Was expecting some sudden turn-of-events in ths movie when it reached the climax-phase i.e some twist in the tale and the convict is not exactly the killer but someone else.. or something along those lines... but sadly not much drama in this movie. The movie wasnt the 'biograph' nor was it a 'close-up on the crime' that happened on one night in Kansas. So, the movie seemed to have been lost as to 'what it was all about'.. i.e neither a drama nor a biographic one.

Syriana:

This movie was fantastic all the way. The story telling had a tinge of 'Traffic', which made it appear classy.
The movie talks about how America's brutal capitalistic expansionism is harming not just the rest of the world but even themselves. Capitalism is an extremely risky proposition, unless nice folks are there in the top. Thus, over-dependence on the system is dependent on individuals(leaders).
Clooney-Soderberg partnership again has produced a super-movie.