Friday, April 07, 2006

From being a bad movie to being 'cyrus'...

Was thinkin da entire week wat wud be da title topic for this week's ender - and tot wat i wasted 120 bucks on 2 weeks back wud be an ok topic...at least it wud save da others from makin a dumb blunder...

I must say Pataudi's son chose a real dumb movie to start his English 'sidetracked' film career...howeeva the reasons I am mentioning this movie in the blog is coz its received real strange reviews acc to me...After da 90 minutes length of the movie, all I had in my mouth were 2 words - 'bull shit'...some dumb story spanned with events, mis-architectured to be a thriller with a sudden twist...da movie in general highlights da Parsee community - here are some noteworthy names - director Homi Adajania, Boman Irani, Naseeruddin Shah and a whole lot of other not-so-important actors.

Some dumb plot about a guy who enters a Parsee family as an apprentice, and finally ends up swindling them, extracting huge amount of notes from them...after havin seen a huge amount of mysteries and suspense thrillers, this one was a pain in da neck...da same old plot...with the meagre amount of characters, before the interval was up I could guess wat wud be goin on and who-dun-it...(mind u - the murder wasnt even done till now)...

Now why am I writin about this - the astonishing reviews (astonishin only to poor me) which this movie has received, as I have been reading from some days in da papers...'The boz office collections of Being Cyrus is comparable to the Chronicles of Narnia, ie about Rs 2 Crore. The movie has received huge accolades, and praising comments from renowned people like Karan Johar, Shah Rukh Khan, Jackie Shroff etc etc...'...this is what Karan Johar had to say...'Being Cyrus is a deviation from the normal Bollywood cinema, and explores an entirely different style of (horseshit) film-making....'and then...'(more bullshit)'...hard to expect from such a mature film director...

You guys must have definitely heard of people appreciating wat is called 'modern' art at an art exhibition or auction, especially the 'know-all' types of people. Well Being Cyrus is just that...a visit to the theatre is a must for the following reasons - If you have free time and no time to spare for good Indian cinema
- If you are a Parsee chauvinist
- If you believe ur 'free' time should be totally wasted by watchin dumb movies which also...believe it...dont make any sense

Disclaimer: Being Cyrus attempts to be a Hollywood kinda cinema, is of short length, and has a good performance by our prince Khan, but sorry performances from da others...da only one worth a watch being da scintillating Simone Singh...but alas, da movie fails to achieve wateva objective da director initially had (no idea wat dat was...)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Ashish,

Liked the way u have given the subject of ur post. I totally agree with ur views on the crap movie...