Saturday, April 02, 2005
This past weekend
I had a big weekend last week. This coincided( not intentionally) with the 3rd test match between India and Pakistan. At the end of the weekend I felt awful, because India played dreadful cricket to lose 9 wickets in the last two innings. It was a weekend well spent. Apart from the many mundane activities I indulge in, I felt good after seeing two critically acclaimed films.
Page 3 was a realistic attempt to bring to light what "Page 3" really is. Great performances, amazing screenplay and a lot of forgotten TV serial actors( who frequented Doordarshan during the "no cable TV" days) made this a paisa vasool film. There were no typical Bollywood senti scenes, no songs that let up the pace of the movie.
The second film which I watched called Goodfellas did not disappoint either. This 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese is gripping, funny at times( thanks mainly to the histrionics of Joe Pesci in an Oscar winning role) and has a great cast to go with it. Ray Liotta is brilliant as the main protagonist and so is Robert De Niro. What I found different about this film is that the violence is subdued, almost as if the intention is to focus on the characters than on what they actually do, which was really not in keeping with films of this genre. Probably that's the reason I found the flick very enjoyable.
Page 3 was a realistic attempt to bring to light what "Page 3" really is. Great performances, amazing screenplay and a lot of forgotten TV serial actors( who frequented Doordarshan during the "no cable TV" days) made this a paisa vasool film. There were no typical Bollywood senti scenes, no songs that let up the pace of the movie.
The second film which I watched called Goodfellas did not disappoint either. This 1990 film directed by Martin Scorsese is gripping, funny at times( thanks mainly to the histrionics of Joe Pesci in an Oscar winning role) and has a great cast to go with it. Ray Liotta is brilliant as the main protagonist and so is Robert De Niro. What I found different about this film is that the violence is subdued, almost as if the intention is to focus on the characters than on what they actually do, which was really not in keeping with films of this genre. Probably that's the reason I found the flick very enjoyable.
# posted by Praveen @ 6:02 PM 
