Keeping up the tradition of "failing sequels", this movie can serve as another example in Bollywood. Maintaining its original main cast, it also included a long list of prevalent comedians more noticeably Johnny Lever and Rajpal Yadav. Trying hard to show the continuity and huge commotion at the end made the weak story line fail miserably. One can see brilliant comic scenes at times from Paresh Rawal, Sunil Shetty and Akshay Kumar. With Bipasa Basu and Rimi Sen acting as mere female presence on the screen. Inclusion of circus was just for the kids to join the highly expecting viewers who came in to watch the sequel of the previous cult comedy. I went to the movie as I had nothing better to do before the World Cup match between Germany and Poland. technorati tags: movies
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel, What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal - Lord George Gordon Byron technorati tags: poetry blog
Song: View from the Afternoon Singer: Arctic Monkeys Album: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not My Rating: 4 out of 5 (Downloaded this song after I watched its video twice in VH1) technorati tag: music
Back a few a days, I watched the Jack Nicholson movie "The Shining." With a great director like Stanley Kubrick and actor like Nicholson, you can never expect anything less from a movie. And this psycho thriller was no different.
Exteremely well handled music and camera builds up an eerie feeling when you watch it. At times scaring you and keeping you bound to the screen. I watched it twice, and even the second time it surprised me with its scary elements.
The story is of Jack Torrance(Nicholson) who comes with his family to the Overlook Hotel as its caretaker during the extreme winters. And slowly he gets deranged with the loneliness at the place and still likes the place insanely. At the same time his family which includes his wife and son starts fearing the unusual happennings and coping with the growing insanity of Jack.
Isolated in a vast hotel, growing torture of the winter and seeing things of the past, it makes you have goosebumps even watching. Top it up with the menancing looks of Nicholson, the horror creeps into you. Shelly Duvall(wife), Danny Lloyd (son) and Scatman Crothers (Chef) are equally brilliant. Watch for the kid pedalling his tri-cycle through different floor textures.
Shining is a telepathic phenomenon as depicted in the movie where people and places communicate with past and future references.
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Early morning at Dhauli
Link for the album. Click here.
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