Damn damn damn damn !!

The mother of all movies (ok ahem, chick flicks) is releasing next week. I am not sure if I should jump up in joy as I really did miss the series when it ended, or should I lament at this pitiable state of life that I have currently with absolutely no gal pals !!

There is not a single person around whom I want to watch this movie with, the only person that I can think of is like far far away in sin city ! :)
I still remember the DVD marathon that we did with wine an episode after episode on a laptop :) (We had simple needs in life then :P)

Miss you nish!

Post-It s to myself..

On my to-do list


Movies:

Baby Mama
Sex and the city
Indiana Jones 4
Vicky Christina Barcelona


Books:

Hold Tight by Harlan Coben

Backlog from the Stephanie Plum series-
Sharp Twelve
For that matter
Lean Mean 13 & Fearless 14
Yes have become addicted to this chick flick :))

I feel bad about my neck


Places to go:

Maldives

Things to make:

Spicy Hummus

Thank God

for this !!! Mr. Mash you have enriched and simplified my life at the same time :)

Aum.....

There is such a marked difference between life back in the US and here in India that it boggles my mind, more I think about it. Somehow, there is so much of time that you get in the states that it almost taunts you into doing something. Whether its something for yourself, something with others or something akin to a hobby that you never thought you will acquire.

Stark different is life here, where in the middle of all the rush and daily dose of madness, any bit of time that you get here- almost begs you not to do anything !

Tashan- and the search for decent cinema continues...

It should be seen to be believed and also because it is not often that you get to see movies that defy logic, reasoning, common sense or stereotypical cinema for that matter. Now I am not saying whether thats a good thing or bad :)

For about an house into the movie, I was still confused about whether I liked this or not. A part of me was looking at the finer details (which I am not sure are either incidental or extremely shrewd!) and liking it. There was a pinch of this and a dash of that, all good stuff (spin offs from Don, Deewar, Kala Pathar etc etc.) The starting scene itself was brilliant according to me.. The whole tribute to noir cinema was not lost on me as well. But all that again was limited to about 45 mins into the movie and thats it..

I am guessing somewhere after the intial spark of brilliance the director thought to himself, Kareena rocked in the bikini, Saif looks uber cool and Akshay for the last couple of years has only delivered hits no matter what role he plays- So guess I dont need to think or do anything anymore. Let me not even bother about things like script, story, screenplay or simply common sense :p

The last one hour was unbearable to say the least. There was mush when you are really not in a position to digest it, there was Anil Kapoor with a shaven chest which is good enuf to make anyone puke and there was Saif reduced to a miserable side kick. Terrible terrible terrible..

Sigh.. if only someone had the sense to tell the director to chop the movie after an hour into it or just continue the momentum he had created in the first couple of scenes, it could have been a really sharp movie.. I guess this is what happens when you tend to mix your sensibilities of modern sharp cinema with masala movie cliches! What you end up with is 'Tashan' ! All spice, no substance..