"Comparing Apples and Oranges"
Last weekend I thought it is time I watched a movie at a multiplex. Wanted to play it safe and so invited opinions from friends and acquaintances on the ‘new’ film Rang De Basanti (RDB). True to the sense of contemporary Indian democracy where we the citizens do not give a clear verdict for any single party, the opinion on RDB gave confusing signals. A third of the opinions branded the film as horrible, the other third as excellent and the remaining had no clear opinion. It appeared to me that this film should not be as hopeless as the hyped Hum-Tum or as good as Amir Khan’s Lagaan. The challenge I concluded was ‘expectation management’.
Four hours hence, I was in the list of thousands who had watched RDB. The makers of the move wanted to try things innovative but somewhere there are gaps. AR Rehman as usual is at his musical best. An ideal weekend time passing film. No loss if you do not watch it and no gain if you do either.
I felt I should see a better move back-to-back at once. Always wanted to watch (understand rather) ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (SOTL). When the film was released I was in my early teens and could not decipher much. I had come of age now to watch the movie! Successfully hunted for a DVD as I need English subtitles to watch this English movie. Pulled out the latest Oxford dictionary and thesaurus and placed it next to me. Made sure that my mobile is in silent mode. Pushed the play button on my player and let the Oscar greats enthrall me for the next 1 hour and 58 minutes. However it took me more than 3 hours to complete the movie. Several scenes had to be paused (to consult dictionary), re-played (to see the finer detail) and analyzed. Indeed a fantastic thriller.
For the next few days I was either re-casting the scenes from SOTL or humming the songs from RDB. That means that both left an impression in my mind regardless of the fact that the ‘intellectual’ in me wanted only Oscar winning SOTL in my brain and nothing of Filmfare award winnable RDB. I wore the manager hat of the new-age economy to mumble a soliloquy “Am I comparing apples and oranges”.
Tags: RDB, SOLTL, bollywood
Four hours hence, I was in the list of thousands who had watched RDB. The makers of the move wanted to try things innovative but somewhere there are gaps. AR Rehman as usual is at his musical best. An ideal weekend time passing film. No loss if you do not watch it and no gain if you do either.
I felt I should see a better move back-to-back at once. Always wanted to watch (understand rather) ‘Silence of the Lambs’ (SOTL). When the film was released I was in my early teens and could not decipher much. I had come of age now to watch the movie! Successfully hunted for a DVD as I need English subtitles to watch this English movie. Pulled out the latest Oxford dictionary and thesaurus and placed it next to me. Made sure that my mobile is in silent mode. Pushed the play button on my player and let the Oscar greats enthrall me for the next 1 hour and 58 minutes. However it took me more than 3 hours to complete the movie. Several scenes had to be paused (to consult dictionary), re-played (to see the finer detail) and analyzed. Indeed a fantastic thriller.
For the next few days I was either re-casting the scenes from SOTL or humming the songs from RDB. That means that both left an impression in my mind regardless of the fact that the ‘intellectual’ in me wanted only Oscar winning SOTL in my brain and nothing of Filmfare award winnable RDB. I wore the manager hat of the new-age economy to mumble a soliloquy “Am I comparing apples and oranges”.
Tags: RDB, SOLTL, bollywood
posted by Vivek at
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
1 Comments:
""Pulled out the latest Oxford dictionary and thesaurus and placed it next to me""
What crap.The great Vivek V, can write his own dictionary if required.Whome u trying to kid??
Cheers
Chin
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