I happened to experience an historic revival this weekend. And, this was after watching the most awaited movie of the year 2008, 'Jodhaa Akbar', an untold love story of a Mughal Emperor and a Rajput Princess. Admist all the speculations cropping up in the country with reference to the name of the Rajput princess, the film has started off fairly well, with a rating of 4 on 5 by the viewers.
Keeping aside the controversy for a while, let me give you a brief review of this retold historic epic. Ashutosh's niche for the recital of historic events seems to have reflected again, which has paid off. The perfectionism which he looks for, right from the minutest thing is quite impressive. The locations and the backdrop brings a real sight to the viewers, hats off to the camera-man and the location director.
The dialogue writer seems to have done his home-work quite well and the extensive usage of 'Urdu' verbose eg. 'Alampanah' meaning 'King' and 'Muhaf' meaning 'Forgive' might sound a little strange in the beginning, but brings a huge impact as the 3 hour 25 mins saga moves on.
The cast choice could have been better, since Aishwarya fails to portray the courageous and the rebellious Princess as told in the story and Hrithik trying his best to woo his lady-love by showing of his biceps and torso instead of portraying the 'Romantic' side of the Emperor. The plots by 'Maha Manga' played by 'Ila Arun' (not sure if this character existed in the real epic) was more like a 'K' serial Saas plotting against her Bahu, bringing in a very commercial aspect, which I felt was a waste of time.
The jewellery designed by Tanishq brings in the essence of the jewellery previously designed for Rani in the movie 'Paheli', nothing very new.
The musical score by A.R. Rehman is not that impressive when compared to the real 'Rehman' scores in the past. Except for 'Jashn-E-Bahaara', rest of them lacks the soul that one expects from 'Rehman' music.
On the whole, the attempt of bringing to light the never told love tale was partly successful and my final verdict would be 2.5 on 5.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
30 mins !!!!
Hi all......I know its been quite sometime now that I have blogged. So, thought of penning down my experience in a stand-still 'Traffic Jam' for an unbelievable 30 mins. Ohhhh my godddd .... I can't even think of things that could have and can be done in these 30 mins :) .... neways.
It was quite a sunny day and ofcourse the most loathed day of the week 'MONDAY'. I started off on my two-wheeler with the wonderful moments of the weekend spent and the dreaded feeling of getting back to work and having to slog at the work-place for the next 5 days, with the wonderful lyrics of 'Angel' by Shaggy playing in the background and by then I never realized that I was already in HPS, Begumpet, the place where you find vehicles literally creeping. And, on that paricular day, I was astounded to find the jam packed traffic coming to a stand-still position which was atleast 2-3 kms long. Being a strict follower of the rules nd regulations, I thought of relaxing the same for sometime coz my headgear was getting a lil too heavy for my small head, and thats when I decided to notice the different attitudes of people around me. Everything seemed to be well and silent for the first 5 mins, the 6th minute things happened to turn flip-flop, there was noise from every possible direction. Before you all begin to wonder what the noise was, lemme tell you that it was the different ringtones right from 'Right here Right Now' to 'Om Jai Jagdish Hare' ringing from the mobiles and the different tones of 'Hello, I would be late!!!!'. For a moment, I felt a lil out of place coz I was the only person in the traffic who wasn't receiving or making a call and that was when I realized the extent of progress in technology which has made us handicapped without them. The beauty of the entire scenario lies in the fact that this noise continued for the next 24 mins with the thankful interruption of the clearing traffic-jam, else, I still wonder as to what would have happened to me !!!!!!!
Here, I would like to extend my heart-felt thanks to the traffic police for coming to the rescue of my poor ear drums at the right time :) !!!!!!!!!!!
It was quite a sunny day and ofcourse the most loathed day of the week 'MONDAY'. I started off on my two-wheeler with the wonderful moments of the weekend spent and the dreaded feeling of getting back to work and having to slog at the work-place for the next 5 days, with the wonderful lyrics of 'Angel' by Shaggy playing in the background and by then I never realized that I was already in HPS, Begumpet, the place where you find vehicles literally creeping. And, on that paricular day, I was astounded to find the jam packed traffic coming to a stand-still position which was atleast 2-3 kms long. Being a strict follower of the rules nd regulations, I thought of relaxing the same for sometime coz my headgear was getting a lil too heavy for my small head, and thats when I decided to notice the different attitudes of people around me. Everything seemed to be well and silent for the first 5 mins, the 6th minute things happened to turn flip-flop, there was noise from every possible direction. Before you all begin to wonder what the noise was, lemme tell you that it was the different ringtones right from 'Right here Right Now' to 'Om Jai Jagdish Hare' ringing from the mobiles and the different tones of 'Hello, I would be late!!!!'. For a moment, I felt a lil out of place coz I was the only person in the traffic who wasn't receiving or making a call and that was when I realized the extent of progress in technology which has made us handicapped without them. The beauty of the entire scenario lies in the fact that this noise continued for the next 24 mins with the thankful interruption of the clearing traffic-jam, else, I still wonder as to what would have happened to me !!!!!!!
Here, I would like to extend my heart-felt thanks to the traffic police for coming to the rescue of my poor ear drums at the right time :) !!!!!!!!!!!
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