I was so young when Shah Rukh Khan stole my heart,considering the age I didn't have the opportunity to watch all his works on silver screen since I started going to cinema at a later age,16. So when my heart was stolen for the 2nd time by this charming lad named Ranbir Kapoor I made a promise that will never missed his performance(except when they did not enter Malaysia screening),ever!This movie marked our 7th date together, he never disappoints me.Love his intense,naive,young rockstar with a heart broken that need to be mend and how he fell head over heels for this classic looking new actress named Nargis Fakhri knowing he'll be hurt.What else should I say about AR Rahman's magic touch,his music for me is like the only melody which I find it difficult for anyone not to love regardless the language.Enter my ears and stays in my heart.Completely addictive and bravo yet again to its director,Imtiaz Ali.He knows human's relationship like no one else.In short I'm in love with Ranbir all over again!
Tend to be bias to people I love,so watch it yourself to judge:)
Months of anticipation at last coming down to the final 3 days!Planning for a wonderful Diwali this year since I've missed all the happiness and fun of Raya thanks to final exam.It shall starts with a date with my love ♥
This date 13 years ago when I was just 10 years old, a movie which continues to be my favourite ever movie until today was released.Since then KUCH KUCH HOTA HAI has joined the league of my ultimate love stories and KARAN JOHAR has me as his loyal fan for life.I personally think he is the best debut director Bollywood ever produced with 10 Filmfare awards in that year.Try to beat that!I fell head over heels again for Shah Rukh that time,and no doubt Kajol remains as my one and only favourite actress from the Indian fraternity.There's nothing that I dont like about the movie,absolutely nothing because from my eyes KKHH is perfect to the T.From my bias judgement this is an epic love story considering the fact I still can watch it again and again although I've watched for only God knows how many times.
With this I'm ending this entry with the most endearing quote that I love from the first time I heard Rahul said it in the movie;
"Hum ek baar jeete hai ek baar marte hai shadi bhi ek baar hoti hai aur pyaar...ek hi baar hota hai"
When I need all the reasons to cry or to be emotional Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is the best choice. I can watch it again and again, countless times maybe thousands of time by the time my life ends without getting bored by it(pretty damn sure about it!). It was my first serious Hindi movie, meaning the one that really captured my heart into Bollywood. Sort of a turning point before me becomes a legal Ms.Khan, a loyal and biggest fan of Shahrukh Khan and Kajol as well as Karan Johar’s movies. Today, simply in the mood to watch it again, one of the best ways to celebrate my Diwali is to end the day with this classic love story. For me KKHH is the perfect Hindi movie, great storyline, script, casts and especially the songs. Hummable for decade now. With that memory, I’m going to post a trailer of its remake in an animation movie as well with the old trailer. Coming out soon, by the marvel director’s protégé this time hopefully he has the same magic touch.
Kuch Kuch Hota hai -1998-
p/s: my favourite lines/quotes:
SRK: "Hum ek baar jite hain, ek baar marte hain, shaadi bhi ek baar hoti hai, aur pyar....ek hi baar hota hai" ( We live once, we die once, we get married once and love, love also only occurs once.)
Cute silent sardar boy: "Tu si ja reho?Tu si naa jao"...sobs='(
Koochie Koochie Hota Hai -2010-
Pyaar dosti hain(Love is friendship)-Rahul Khanna in KKHH a.k.a Shahrukh Khan-
I wanted to do the review for quite sometimes now, but there are too many things going on since that canceled supposed to be 1st date but it’s ok now that I remember I want to give all the applauses to the film and all the crews as they deserved it. Totally! But because of the invitation 2 days back to come to FINAS for the public screening (FREE) reminds me to how much I adore this film. As well as for certain Mahesh Jugal Kishore.hahaha:p
Ok, actually there are a pinch of irritated feeling blooming inside of me as this film doesn’t get its due financial wise! Compare to all those rubbish(Selamat Pagi Cinta, I’m not single,to name a few) who get box office title or at least get back the net revenue, its kind a pissed me off that Malaysian seems do not appreciate great Malaysian movie made by true Malaysian at heart. But putting that aside, it did received recognitions from international film festival and although some people say awards doesn’t make a difference (those are people who never get an award, that’s why!) but it does for me and I feel happy for them. Congrats.
It does fit my list of a perfect movie with its spontaneous element, the laid back sense of humor (SO MALAYSIAN!), the awesome line of actors, and mind blowing OST tracks. From 1 track to the other its growing slowly inside you.
O re piya has been 1 of my favourite track lately. Listening to it each time reminds me to the superb art by Yasmin Ahmad which is one of my all time top choice; Talentime. The great lyrics by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan (a well known Sufi singer as well as a poet) strike a chord to a lot of things actually be it about love, multi-cultural life, sacrifices we made in this life and boundaries we overcome as a human. It’s all been wrapped up beautifully in 1 hour and some minutes. And that summed up why I love this director. The thing I love about her works is that by doing so little she did so much actually!
So, I hope you will buy the DVD and watch it. Try to watch all of Yasmin’s works and you will understand why I think she is the most Malaysian director we have.
I never really write reviews publicly for movies other than the one which is Bollywood/Hindi based because that will be like hundreds as I watch a lot of movies despite of whatever its language is but this one probably is an exception because finally Kate Winslet won the Oscar for best actresses after several times nominations. I love her work, Ksya loves it, we all do actually but what takes the board so long to hand her the prestigious award. Since the 81st Oscar ceremony I’ve been waiting eagerly for this movie to be premiere in Malaysia essentially not because of the story or whatsoever but to at least watched 1 of Kinslet’s many brilliant work as I never had the opportunity to watch even the legendary Titanic movie maybe for the age factor I guess.
I should try harder in reading between the lines as I realized the significant fact about this movie quite late for an expert amateur movie buff I am, but better late than never right. It was set up in the background of early 1950s at Germany, it were lovely and nice to see scenery and play and moving to the 80s and 90s in the USA. It was a very beautifully crafted movie about the love between the kid, Mchael Berg(David Kross when he was young and Ralph Fieness for the grown up ) and the woman, Hanna Schmitz without being exaggerated or vulgar about it; they displayed the affection and love in a very explicable way and the title of this film was chosen not for nothing as it reveal very vital information in every scenes.
I love the whole thing from the way they flaunt their love for the person to the reading material where they bring in the aged and well-known poem like ‘The Odyssey by Homer’ and the book ‘The Lady with Little Dog’ by Anton Chekov.
The rough road Hanna took was a disheartening choice for me to except it even just as a viewer because I as the hardcore romantic always prefer happy ending but this movie had the most horrible way ending one could imagine. But who ever said that life is fair isn’t it? The happily ever after is just rubbish and didn’t not existed in the real world, so wake up and be realistic. But how Michael live his life made me sympathy for him as no lover should suffer like he does and most importantly no person should hate love because they had been hurt before. One who have experienced it knows how it feels but even so we should endeavor in giving love a second chance(an advice for my self as well).
Nevertheless if you don’t have an open mind, the possibilities of having the feeling of obnoxiousness towards the main characters are very high.
After weeks or months of anticipation waiting to watch the much talked about this Golden Award, BAFTA and Oscar winning movie finally I’ve succeeded in persuading my 3 other very patient friends (thanks to Ksya, Pza & Iza for making my weekend sweeter other than because of the ronda2 KL thingy) who sweet enough to bear with my fixation of watching Hindi/Bollywood based movies and sitting in the cinema hall and enjoy the movie thoroughly! Although at 1st I was very worry with what would be their reactions, whether they will be able to stand the 2 hours, can they survive watching a ‘hindi’ movie’ because for all of them this is their foremost experience and etc but luckily they all loved it so all the worries have been swept away.
In the beginning the irritating sounds of crying comes from a kid for the first 10-15 minutes was driving me crazy, I believe no one like to be disturbed when we are in the middle of something we love or something that we paid! I think no one does.
The story is as simple as about from poor to rich, from slum to sweet life of rich and famous and from NOBODY to SOMEBODY. But what makes the essence reliable are the great job in the cinematography and screenplay as we never experienced those things faced by all the slums kid from living and breathing their life at the worst slum in the Asia, trained to be a ‘professional’ beggar and begin to be expose to the world of drugs, prostitution and crimes at a very tender age. What may not very ‘exact’ mood for me would be the language using by the kids which is English, I mean like who would feel the real pain if they sounded so well educated but in the other hand that actually showed how they adapt with the world around them. The flow of scenes between in the studio of the quiz show and in the jail and back to the flashback were brilliant, awesome without taking so many times of our for the dance scenes they replaces it with nice background music for each incident and the rap by MIA, the Lathika theme as well as the Mausam & Escape theme are like top of my playlist now.:) A.R.Rahman is the brain behind it, again as usual! Other than the great performance by the kids, Dev Patel and his brother in the movie, I don’t think others deserved to share the credit not even Freida Pinto. In a way I glad Shah Rukh didn’t accept the offer of the host character which later played by Anil Kapoor because at this stage I cant picture him in a negative role, I mean not in that cheap way. Danny Boyle has nailed it by brought the book; Slumdog Millionaire known as Q & A by Vikas Swarup to a great movie, I’m in the middle of reading of the book but I can feel it featured more about the genuine slum world.
Hats off as the story was engaging from the word go till the end, even the end credit with the Jai Ho dance was a treat because people tend to skip those thing when it actually were the backbone for this great work of art of story telling. What should I write that haven’t been written, what should I tell that haven’t been told so basically I’d summarise my P.O.V as the audience/movie buff/wannabe director. The true color of India in whole have been showed, or portrayed without have to be a hypocrite and yet doesn’t lessen its values, dignity, and the great or white side of it. Although the film shows that there are always the grey sides of everything but we have the power to make decision between what is right or wrong! Never blames others for the outcome of your future life as that will not make your life easier or simpler.
Where should i start?Owh let me start with clearing up some issue,sthere are people who questioning my fanaticness,obsession, fascination or whatever they want to name it for someone named Shahrukh. All of that are wrong choices of words actually,exact one would be LOVE,Je Taime(expressing it in french!)haha,cant understand where does I get this gene of adoring the art called Bollywood!Not a single person in my family understand(or atleast try to!),but I love ayah and along for always supporting my passion not directly(no way they will follow me for movies,etc).Except once i did lie literally to along,but technically it was her fault for not asking me what movie we are going to watch that particular day hahaha,funny incident!Should see her reaction once the light goes off and there were the actors who she completely tried hard to avoid.But indirectly they are the spine behind my fixation :) mama & boboy too quite a adherent number of times!
Well well,today I went to pyramid to catch the latest product by the famous combo Adi-Shahrukh-YahsrajFilms(to those who are totally,absolutely&wholly no idea what am i talking about..they are the reason behind supersuccess of DILWALE DULHANIA LE JAYENGE!Please tell me you guys did heard about this movie atleast once in your lifetime?!)Its ok,if never heard about it before..REMEMBER,im the 1 who told you guys ok!Lets make way for me the movie critique :
STORY OF A LAYMAN.To all ordinary people out there.From the perspective of a normal person.Those 3 sentences kind a summed up my view on this movie,Shahrukh once again play himself(if you want someone else,than go watch someone else!)but this time he just playing a middle class guy who works in a 4x4 cubicle in the office,who friends are just ordinary like any Tom,Dick and Harry,his house extra normal and not as gigantic and out of nowhere like those in 1 of Karan's movies.Plainly he is not the super charming RAJ or Rahul again this time!Good news right.The performance,dialogues,songs,scenes,screenplay are just simply at the right place and at the right time.Love the debutant also,Anushka is better than Deepika(personal opinion!).She had no qualms in acting opposite the biggest star in the fraternity,by that she scored big time!Wish all the best for her in the Filmfare next year.OMG2,the moment Kajol appeared I was like "they are so made for each other"and enjoy throughout the songs as well the movie.And seriously all it takes is just Kajol's cameo appearance for less than 5 minutes for the audience to completely forgot about the debutant!
In short Shahrukh has again proved his mettle and yet another jem from the King himself.His not the boy next door anymore but the normal geek who happened to be super cute!After all what do we expect from Adi other than emotional,sensitif,and romance saga although cant reach the same like the predecessor one.All in all i give 2 thumbs up after a long time!Maybe I'll consider to go and watch it for the 2nd time as i have exta 1 free stub,it has been forever since I want to try the new cinema at Capsquare so maybe that is my next destination!
AM I GAY?DOSTANA IT IS :) Well..well people!let us dont jump to a conclusion so easily there,what i meant was am i GAY(HAPPY!) after seeing so much of gayest acting in the past 24 hours.Basically i was trying to express my huge disappointment after watching the most anticipated movie of this year(mine at least!)ok,i did enjoy listening to couple of songs(desi girl,jaane kyu,my fav:khabar nahi) the beautiful shots of places in Miami and ofcourse the hot bod of john and PC but there is nothing beyond that!please,dont even remind me about all the gay scenes,it does not justified the situation in real life for god sake..so many times have we seen these kind of jokes,gay jokes that is!I really thought the film will bring some freshness in this tabooissue as how will they tackle the sensitive parts but it seems that they didn't instead they just portray of how to pretend to be a GAY!After nikhil tried pretty hard to prooved his mettle once again karan johar's assistant tarun failed miserably but although for me the storyline,script,music etc just OK but for sure the box office collection will sky rocket as its a Dharma Production's baby right!all the best for karro and his team though,their films no doubt has always been a classy,picture perfect,addictive music but not this one for sure.For some reason karan just cannot passed his greatness(maybe its in the genes!)in direction or style because both of his asst although has been under k.jo's wongs for years since KKHH still they did not manage to get it right.Wow,i have discovered the new side of me which is the films critic :) its easy to sit and judge others but are you up for challenge?i don't think i ever will be ready but bring in on!That is how life functioning isn't it?we must always expect the unexpectable,all the time!next hindi film in my list is of course shahrukh's Rab Ne Bana De Jodi(RNBDJ),wish all the success & luck for adi and yashraj(they really need it!)believe me..till next movie~
*Devoted & dependent person who love her parents & family to death*A learning muslimah *Frustrated ex-science stream head girl*Lawyer in training*Millionaire in the making*Movie buff,t.v addict &music devotee*Bollywood fanatic*Movie Director wannabe*
