Listen Amaya

A must watch. I'm right now short of words to speak about it as this movie made me speechless.
A simple story about a mother-daughter relationship, about a love which happened at old age, about a friendship with a quite older friend, about simplicity of living and about forgiveness. It touched me. The photography of the movie is also amazing. The books, coffee-mugs, guitars, chairs and simple light music can make a movie so soothing, I hadn't realized that earlier.

Turning 30

Initially appeared to be an unrealistic movie. But later, found that it can be the truth for someone; or may be for all of them who tried not to bind their lives to the typical (life)style. It's a story of a woman who is in her downtime and how she tackles it or more importantly how she goes through it. It was a nice watch! Few things I liked/learned -

- Success has a power to wash all of your sins. If you want someone to forget your mistakes, then work. Get what you really like. Not any human of course. Your work. Get into it, succeed at it and then show it to the people who think you have mistaken. But that's not so easy as it's shown in the movie. And when I say it's not easy, I don't mean succeeding but showing it to the people who got you down.

- What can keep you happily alive is your work. So before you get down, and then making your work the highest priority, start giving it priority now itself when you haven't reached your downtime.

- Enjoy the present, don't hang on to the past. Of course this is not the only movie that says that. But still... to count learnings.

- You can be respected only by getting mature. And to become mature is to let go things, to not express your broken heart and to show understanding even if you don't have it. After all you are just what you pretend to be.

Players

Players is Abbas-Mustan's try to create something different than Bollywood's typical style and he has definitely succeeded. The plot, the actions, frequent change in angles, the tricks and the technical touch made this movie riveting. I had liked his Race too, but this was definitely better. Abhishek, Bobby, Bipasha and mainly Neil; all have done justice to their acting. Sonam could have been better. But her stunts were nice. I felt she is suitable for this character more than the romantic ones. For a change, I liked Johny Lever too.

The rating to the movie would have increased if it was faster. In the first half the robbery part and the fighting scene between Abhishek and Neil were extremely slow. Later the movie caught the required pace though. The agility of the Hollywood characters make their movies impressive. If Bollywood actors and directors work more on this point, then their movies will also have the same standard. Also, I didn't find the need of dramatic emotional scenes in this kind of movie.

In spite of these negative points, movie makes you grounded to the seat for all 3 hours. So, a must watch!

Rating = 3.5 stars.

That girl in Yellow Boots

A story of a British girl Ruth and her journey to find her hardly known Indian father in India. Nicely, the film portrays her urge to find her father, the profession she has to choose to earn money, her boyfriend's nuisance and her patience towards it, paternal love she gets from a stranger who turns to assume more than required rights on her, her struggle to find her father and then in the end, her reaction when she meets him. Movie has nice plot, nice direction and awesome roles played by the actors. I'll give 4 stars to it.

Kalki is amazing. It's her only second movie that I've watched and looks like I'm going to watch her other movies too. I couldn’t believe that this patient and smart Ruth is the same possessive and fastidious rich girl in ZNMD. I'll give 5 stars for her acting.

Movie has shown four different important characters. First is, of course, Ruth herself. She has perfect control on her emotions. She never looked helpless even though she succumbed to her boyfriend's nuisance, his forceful and demanding nature and also to his enemies. Second character is her boyfriend who is exactly opposite. Even though Ruth sacrifices a lot to bring him out of his problem, it's he who is helpless and not Ruth. He has no control on his emotions and hence doesn't get hold of her too. The third character was Naseeruddin Shah's. He is the stranger who gives Ruth his fatherly love and is away from the dirty values of the world. In spite of being a good human being, he cannot avoid the Indian mentality of assuming unnecessary rights on people we love. Fourth character is Ruth's father. One feels sick looking at his sickness. Movie has perfectly shown his weirdness from start to end.

Finding Nemo

Dory reminded me of few more dialogues from the movie-

"No, of course I like you. It's because I like you, I don't want to be with you. It's a complicated... emotion."


"That's a funny thing to promise. If nothing ever happens to him, then nothing will ever happen to him."


"I suffer from short-term memory loss. [Marlin: Short-term memory loss? (Dory nods) I don't believe this!] No, it's true! I forget things almost instantly. It runs in my family! Well I mean... at least... I think it does. Hum... Where are they? ...Can I help you?"


"No. No, you can't... STOP. Please don't go away. Please? No one's ever stuck with me for so long before. And if you leave... if you leave... I just, I remember things better with you. I do, look. P. Sherman, forty-two... forty-two... I remember it, I do. It's there, I know it is, because when I look at you, I can feel it. And-and I look at you, and I... I'm home. Please... I don't want that to go away. I don't want to forget."