Ready

A Telugu movie. Extremely hilarious. Very good story line. But pathetic fight scenes. And of course, 'keep-your-brains-out' kind of movie. Light hearted and wholesome entertainer.

Bhagyada Lakshmi Baramma

I guess this was the second time I was seeing this movie but I had forgotten the story line except that Rajkumar over-acted. Watched it this time with friends and commented on each scene and laughed it out. Ridiculous direction and threadbare storyline but 'keep your brains out and watch' movie. Kinda funny if you can laugh it out...

Bhoothayyana Maga Ayyu

A nice Kannada movie about life in a village with one rich miser loan shark against all other villagers, with number of twists and turns.

12 Angry Men

Simply beautiful! The whole movie takes place within a room and it is just discussion amongst 12 men who get angry due to one reason or the other such as weather, ball game, offspring, etc. Excellent direction, story and very simple yet beautiful!

Children of Men

Well, I aint the type to like futuristic movies - movies based in the year 2050, 2027, etc. Usually because it involves some sci-fi. This one didnt have much sci-fi but was based on a theme which was too difficult to believe (18 yr old person being youngest person on Earth) nevertheless a very good imagination considering so many miscarriages happening these days. As always, I will not reveal the story here. But the thing I liked about this movie very much was the technicalities of movie-making. Story is one thing but technicality is another thing altogether. Its very rare to get a good story with brilliant technicality. In this movie, there is 1 scene which lasts for 4 minutes and 1 more for 5.5 minutes. And its not just a scene where 2 people are talking. Both are high-charged scenes where there more than 100 people acting at any point of time, people are falling, crying, laughing, bemoaning, shouting, fighting, shooting their guns, throwing stones, blood is pouring out, dying, a car is rolling down in fire blocking the road, blood spurts onto the camera, the hero and heroine show a magical act of throwing ball from one mouth to the other without the use of hands, cops are involved, etc. Its just mind blowing how a scene like that can be shot in one long stretch, like real-time, without the director saying 'Cut'!! Also, there was this scene of a baby being born. This scene is out of the world. They actually showed the baby coming out of the mother's body!! Along with the umbilical cord and everything! I mean, there is a limit to showing reality!! All in all, its worth watching for the technicalities more than the story, which at times seem dubious.

Children of Heaven

Wow! An excellent, must-see Persian movie by Majid Majidi which is wholly based on a brother and sister's desire for a pair of a new shoes after the sister's shoes get lost accidentally.

Raise The Red Lantern [Da hong deng long gao gao gua]

A poignant Chinese movie about 1920 Chinese custom. Very touching and heart-rending. Simple, subtle but powerful.

Princess Mononoke

Well, I guess not my kind of movie. Sci-fi is something which I try to stay away from always. But this was animated sci-fi! Still, did not like it so much.

The Stepford Wives

A humorous, scary, sci-fi kinda movie with a unique concept. Watchable once.

Snow cake and Truly, Madly, Deeply

Snow cake is a nice movie. Excellent acting by all parties involved, catchy story line, and just like life, just another happening in this river of life...

Truly, Madly, Deeply is avoidable. It gets real boring and consists of ghosts having fun and kinda makes the whole thing repugnant.

Whats your Rashee?

Didn't seem much of a movie which tells about the characteristics of rashee (planetary position). A time pass movie with not much stuff in it. Avoidable.

Norma Rae

An average movie although true story of a lady who won through stiff management to form a union in the Textile Industry.