Delhi 6

I watched Delhi 6 today. Shocked to see an empty theatre on a saturday...Scenes involving Delhi traffic and old galis reminded me of my home city Madurai. The story is told against the backdrop of walled city of Delhi which is a character by itself. Director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (Rang De Basanti fame) has tried to incorporate all possible social issues he can think in his mind..He's brought the untouchability, communal disturbance, superstitious beliefs bla bla.....He's used the "Monkey Man' issue in his film but looks like it was too boring. Improvised performance from Sonam Kapoor after Saawariya..."Bua' Aditi Rao is very attractive..and resembles actress Shobhana. Divya Dutta, Atul Kulkarni, Vijay Raaz, Rishi Kapoor, Waheeda Rahman all catchy performances..But still the film lacks the narration of RDB. Masakili song rocks...Brilliant performance from AR Rahman...Wish him all the best for Oscars...

Movies I watched...

Trying to write after a long gap of three years...Got married and have a son now..

Being alone here when my wife and son are back in India for vacation led me to watch a lot of movies, all through Video rentals..that too selected movies...

Recently, I watched the movie 'Traitor'. It was an action-packed, suspense-filled thriller. I enjoyed the movie very much. Now a days I'm attracted to these espionage thriller kinda movies. Don Cheadle, who turns in a smartly even-keeled performance as Samir Horn, a Sudanese-born, Chicago-raised former U.S. Army Special Forces operative is actually an American spy infiltrating a Jihadist plot to stop some of their terrorist activities in US. Brilliant performance by Don Cheadle...

I also watched the movie "Seven" released in 1995. When I looked at this movie I came to know that this is the movie which was remade by tamil director Shankar as "Anniyan". Should be appreciated...The same case with "Amores Perros". This is a Mexican film pictured nicely by Alejandro González Iñarritu. Film starts with a horrific car accident in Mexico city which connects three different stories. The narration of these three stories each involving characters dealing with love, loss and reality might have impressed our own Maniratnam and Kamalhassan to use in their films "Ayudha Ezhuthu" ("Yuva" in Hindi) and "Virumandi". In fact it needs some special talent to remake these kinda movies to suit our south indian audience...