pk

A school friend of mine, Paul Simon, preempted my review with his two bits, “Saw PK now.  Alright movie. No harm skipping. Too much of satyameva jayate style message”.  To Paul and the rest of you reading this I say, “I could not have summarized it better”. I have the same feeling for most movies from Rajkumar Hirani.  This was no different.

Shuddh Desi Romance

They say experience teaches a man better than anything or anyone else.  Not that you need to commit your own mistakes to learn from – you can as well learn from other people’s mistakes.  I have no clue to where Maneesh Sharma got his sum total of learning.  Whether it was from his solid effort with Band Baaja Baraat or his just about par effort of Ishaqzaade.  Either ways, he seems to have learnt.  And learnt well.

Kai Po Che

This time around, I made it a point to read the book before I said down for the movie.  And I cannot begin to tell you how excruciatingly painful it was to go through 250 odd pages of nearly rotten English.  The writing was anything but grammatically correct.  So it comes as no surprise that the current “Chetan Bhagat generation” thrives in not only reading this crap but using it in their day to day lives. In hindsight, I should not have read the book before the movie.