All You Ladies

There is no movie in recent times that has so casually presented love without really undermining or simplifying the complexity that comes with it. I may go so far as calling it Woody Allen-ish, because one parallel that comes to mind is ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’. Although VCB is far more intellectually stimulating with undertones and subtleties that LPNY cannot match but there is an overall similarity in the approach i.e. a simple breezy presentation without being melodramatic or didactic about anything. The movie is made by a débutante women director 'Anuradha Menon’     (more popularly known as 'Lola Kutty’ of MTV) and and as they say for authors I guess its true for first time directors too-who also happen to be first time scriptwriters-that it has shades of their own self. At many points in the film the characters and conversations become so earthy that you wonder if its autobiographical. The theme is quite simple and the format pretty much NOT overused.The ...

If you watch a movie after a long laborious day you want it to be either dull enough to soothe your frayed nerves or intellectually stimulating enough to lift you out of your mundane life and thrust some questions on you that you escape the mundane for a while..I went to watch lunch box expecting the latter but was left a bit disappointed, perhaps it was too much to expect from an unknown director and too much naive on my part to believe that  all film festival movies are quality cinema. The movie couldn’t really justify the efforts that I had put in to watch it…putting two spoilt kids to bed after spending a whole day with them, plus the rarity of the occasion of going to a theatre to watch a movie unlike the rest which you watch on your TV, recorded and sliced as per your convenience. The movie is about how two lonely people connect over a chance exchange of letters when the lunch box gets delivered to the wrong guy.The idea is not trite, the movie could have been impactf...

Have you ever wondered how incredibly addictive is making up scenarios in head. It is such a sweet waste of time, a totally harmless indulgence and if you were wondering that it can be qualified as ‘planning’ then let me add that it has nothing to do with the probability of the event. I fear if ever mind reading becomes a reality I may be classified as a clinical schizophrenic  The beauty of staying at home and looking after kids is that you can completely shut your brain and go about tending kids and daily chores in an almost brain dead sort of a way. This is when you can totally revel in building scenarios. One such mind exercise that I presented myself, was, 'What if I were to pick three movies from 100 years of Bollywood’s history’ which are truly legendary. Of course there are hundreds of them but if I have to cut them down to three who will they be. I agree that it is presumptuous to call it a 'mind’ exercise; at best it may qualify as faffing, and that ...