The Namesake

I couldn't post for a while because

      a)Work is caching up (finally!)
      b)Busy with house search given that the old lady has accepted the offer and joined Qualcomm this Monday.

The Namesake

I went to The Namesake with family couple of weeks ago and it was a washout.

I think the vague hints of "NRIs" and "Indian diaspora" bring vi$ion$ of dollar$ for the NDTV types and they gleefully start hyping it up. So was the case with The Namesake. I would like to think I am impervious to their spin but I guess I am not. Sometimes I buy into it and have remorse later.

I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the story, whatever there was of it. Well, it goes here and there but doesn't end up anywhere. I didn't like the gratitous lip-locks, love-scenes and general display of skin. The thing I disliked the most were the shrill audio tracks. Some random sound track or the other is playing in the background and they are played so loudly that one wouldn't consider them to be in the 'background'.

Not only the movie was only so-so, the old lady and I have come around to the view that Mira Nair is overrated. It is not just this one movie that we couldn't connect with. Bend it like Beckham was OK, again not worth the hype. So is the case with Monsoon Wedding and Fire.

You could say, 'What are you cribbing about? It is not the normal masala movie". I agree it isn't the normal masala movie. But a movie can't be great on that alone right? Have you seen Dor? It is also a jara-hatke movie but it has simple story and that is told really well, the acting is superb, music is soulful, the denouement is a pleasant surprise. Dor is, as they say, a must-watch.