My husband and I watched Om Shanti Om last weekend and it was one heck of a movie. I think that Farah Khan has created a genre unto herself. Spoofing movies of the 60s and 70s. Her movies are never intended to be serious and are just my kinda movies. Where you sit and laugh for 2 hours, eat some popcorn and come home with a smile on ur face. Her songs are shot on sets and she doesnt use foreign locations. She uses the best cast money can get (helps if SRK is producing the movie) and the best in costumes and music. I noticed that subtittles dont do justice to her jokes so maybe non hindi understanders mite not laugh as hard as the others. About the movie Deepika Padukone was a stick in costumes. She cant act, she cant dance (her steps look like she is counting 1 2 1 2 in her head). She should go back to doing what she can do well - Ramp Modelling where the focus is on the clothes and not the person in them. SRK rocks as the looser. I think no one else can play a looser as well he can. Karon Johar's costumes looked great on SRK. Manish Malhotra did a good job with the heroine. A special mention is needed about Kiron Kher. She acts well, but I feel she doesnt look good in close up shots. Her age and probably some years of drinking show. Nothing Botox cant fix but I dont think Botox is big in India. Shreyas Talpade could have had a meatier role considering the wonderful actor that he is. This movie seems like his effort to enter mainstream Bollywood.
Coming out of the movie theatre in freezing cold (32 deg) I had a smile on my face. For several reasons.. I was reminded of the joke in Boys where Bharath asks some dude in the bus stop about his preferences. "phil collins number" and the like. The boy answers "naan kadaisiaga patha english padam Sholay!!!". Sometimes, movies are just for fun and forgetting all anxieties and angles and artistic touches. Its just about falling off your seat laughing and tapping your feet to the music.
This was my first Deepavali ( I wont call it Diwali!!!) after marriage. I made some sweets.. (see this is y its fun to be a child or live in ur parents home - u dont need to make sweets to eat them, someone else does) and lit some candles. But what was somewhat weird for me was discussing with N about what to make. She and I have been best of frnds and discussed a whole lot in life, but never once swapped recipes. I felt that our frndship has grown with us and now entering a new phase. It was one of those moments for me!!!!!
Reading Catch 22 and its one of those books which cannot be "data streamed" as my husband calls it. As in, you cant read it in the loo, while cooking, on the T etc. You need to sit with the book and some peace and quiet. also read "the home and the world" by Tagore. That was a really nice book about the freedom struggle showing a new angle of the wife supporting the Swadesi movement and being an idealist and the husband is practical and realizes the downside of the movement and its inherent flaws.
