cinema cinema

i am not a movie lover, and i just don't like watching movies in cinema halls - i feel like a captive in a big black freezing hall, where everyone except me are somewhat happy. i prefer watching movies at home. my preference to watch a movie at home is mostly because of the profession I am into - actually just realized this. look, what are the advantages of enrolling for an elearning course? one can go through the course at his/her own pace, without any compulsion of going through the entire content at one go! same goes with watching a movie at home, i can play pause whenever i feel like - no compulsion to stop everything and watch the drama unfold!

last weekend i watched four movies: Killukam [jingle], Kal Ho Na Ho, Dasvidania, and My Fair Lady.

killukam: story about a girl [revathy] who is brought up in an orphanage. comes to ooty to meet her father who is a retired judge. meets mohanlal who is a tourist guide. she pretends to be insane and the movie is packed with comedy scenes involving her, mohanlal, his photographer friend - Jagathy, and the judge - Thilakan. Mohanlal helps her to be near her father who actually turns out to be only a person who took care of her eductaion and financial needs. she refuses to accept anyother person as her father except for the judge. those of you who have seen the movie can relate to the following scenes i enjoyed watching:

• when mohanlal describes revathy to his photographer friend, "her eyes are like diamond and there's no similie for her nose." friend says, "why, she doesn't has a nose!"
• the first time revathy calls jagathy koranga/n - monkey.
• when mohanlal boasts of going to singapore and sending money order from there to jagathy.
• when Thilakan's servant gets to hear that he won a lottery - he falls down, shakes twice, and laughs.
• when he leaves Tilakan's house abusing him and boasting that he will tell him how to behave with a servant. he also calls the judge a pumpkin headed person.
• when the servant comes back and judge asks, "where's your car, didn't your servants cook for you?"
• when jagathy is in hospital after the goondas thrash him.
• when he is out of hospital with a bandadged arm and the main goonda twists the same arm.
• when he falls in a pit and is brought back to the hospital.
• and finally when the judge shoots him for tresspassing his area.

excellent watch. do watch.

Kal Ho Na Ho: no no, i don't like karan johar's movies as a friend asked me, i just saw some scenes and the two songs i like to hear from the movie.

Dasvidania: a different movie; a good one - best i would say. best that i have seen in years. story about a guy who comes to know that he will die in three months. his zameer or soul helps him to make a list of things he wants to do before he dies. he writes down:

• new car
• foreign trip
• neha [he loved her all through their childhood]
• love
• meet his brother
• tell his mother
• meet his friend rajiv julka
• his picture in front page of a news paper
• boss ka boss
• i don't remember!

My Fair Lady: just super! It was initially a play first staged in 1950's before if was made into a movie in 1964. Written by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, it is a story about a phonetics professor and his friend who change the life of a ordinary girl who sells flowers in a market. they train her in six months to be a lady and participate in the ball of queen of transalvania. excellent performance by rex harrison and audrey hepburn. in fact, everyone. the sets are nice, the costumes shown are weired but okay, and the songs are super hit. I particularly liked the following-

When Colonel Pickering, Professor Henry Higgins' friend, asks Higgins if he will not take advantage of the girl in his house, Higgins answers:

Well after all, Pickering, I'm an ordinary man,
Who desires nothing more than an ordinary chance,
to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants...
An average man am I, of no eccentric whim,
Who likes to live his life, free of strife, doing whatever he thinks is best, for him,
Well... just an ordinary man...
BUT, Let a woman in your life and your serenity is through,
she'll redecorate your home, from the cellar to the dome,
and then go on to the enthralling fun of overhauling you...
Let a woman in your life, and you're up against a wall,
make a plan and you will find,that she has something else in mind,
and so rather than do either you do something elsethat neither likes at all
You want to talk of Keats and Milton, she only wants to talk of love,
You go to see a play or ballet, and spend it searching for her glove,
Let a woman in your life and you invite eternal strife,
Let them buy their wedding bands for those anxious little hands...
I'd be equally as willing for a dentist to be drilling than to ever let a woman in my life,
I'm a very gentle man, even tempered and good natured who you never hear complain,
Who has the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein,
A patient man am I, down to my fingertips, the sort who never could,
ever would, let an insulting remark escape his lips Very gentle man...
But, Let a woman in your life, and patience hasn't got a chance,
she will beg you for advice, your reply will be concise,
and she will listen very nicely, and then go out and do exactly what she wants!!!
You are a man of grace and polish, who never spoke above a hush,
all at once you're using language that would make a sailor blush,
Let a woman in your life, and you're plunging in a knife,
Let the others of my sex, tie the knot around their necks,
I prefer a new edition of the Spanish Inquisition than to ever let a woman in my life I
'm a quiet living man, who prefers to spend the evening in the silence of his room,
who likes an atmosphere as restful as an undiscovered tomb,
A pensive man am I, of philosophical joys, who likes to meditate, contemplate,
far for humanities mad inhuman noise,
Quiet living man....
But, let a woman in your life,
and your sabbatical is through, in a line that never ends comes an army of her friends,
come to jabber and to chatter and to tell her what the matter is with YOU!,
she'll have a booming boisterous family, who will descend on you en mass,
she'll have a large wagnarian mother, with a voice that shatters glass,
Let a woman in your life, Let a woman in your life,
Let a woman in your life I shall never let a woman in my life.

and this one is when Eliza Dolittle starts speaking fluent flawless english with the correct diction:
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
Henry By George, she's got it! By George, she's got it!
Now, once again where does it rain?
On the plain! On the plain!
And where's that soggy plain?
In Spain! In Spain!
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
In Hartford, Hereford, and Hampshire...?
Hurricanes hardly happen.
How kind of you to let me come!
Now once again, where does it rain?
On the plain! On the plain!
And where's that blasted plain?
In Spain! In Spain!
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain!

A MUST WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE - HA! HA! HA!