Monday, October 10, 2011

Movie Review: 'Rascals'

If you want to take a severe revenge against someone in a good way, then gift them the tickets of Rascals. He’ll die watching, I bet. It’s a jerks-being-jokers drama.

It’s a second movie in a row which put me in an annoying confusion as to what words to choose for showing the deepest disgust. This puts Mausam in a much respectful light. The meaning of the movie’s title is much better than the feeling after facing the movie. Ajay and Sanjay are shown as filthy, characterless dogs continuously wagging their tails while sticking their tongues out, salivating in front of the hot babes throughout the movie. To attract these jerks, girls are shown in least possible clothes. The desperate duo keeps on looting innocents and takes pride in that. They even engage in a competition with each other with a view to proving who the better rascal is. Without a weightless story and hummable songs, the crap sucks even more.

The movie makes you go through a tough tolerance test. It’s a total torturous time-waste on god knows what. Save this money. Have two more sweets on coming festival or if you can’t control and dying to spend, then help the first beggar you come across with whatever money you want to. There’s nothing in the movie. The difference between being funny and being a joker is not at all there. Except for a few handful scenes, the actors are not able to carry off the comedy, mostly because the script was completed like a dumb school kid finishes his homework in the last minute. ‘Irritating’ would be the compliment and ‘Pathetic’ is the word for the movie. Beware of the ‘Rascals’.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

My view: Book - 'Revolution 2020' by Chetan Bhagat

Revolution 2020

What’s in it?

At first, the book’s title seemed a bit serious to me unlike most of his earlier books and after reading, I changed my opinion from serious to thought-provoking. Yes, it definitely is. With this book, Chetan seems to have gone forward to shake the things up in the society through his genuine effort of igniting the silent spirit of youth. I’m not going to kill the charm of reading a book by letting out a story but here is what builds the plot. 

The story revolves around three friends; two boys and a girl. As they grow, their situations change and so priorities change. Friendship is confused with love and questioned with jealousy. Love is formed, confused and replaced on the basis of inadequacy-filling future safety. Ambition is directed by forced situation and is driven by the loved ones. Passion is always fearless and finds its own way to get there. It shows how miscommunications in real life invite misperceptions and create mishaps which eventually lead to misery. Corruption is a captivating game which involves most if not all and this is boldly displayed through many categorical remarks. 

Must say that Bhagat once again successfully proves himself the master of pressing right buttons of “Indian” emotions through his brilliantly narrated observations. It’s a real page-turner, unputdownable mature tale which poses burning questions the very fundamentals of the systems; be it human value system or inhuman political one.