Youtube Channel: Idea Matters Production

I started a youtube channel few days back. Uploaded most of the videos - movies, MMs, etc - I have made so far. One of them already got more than 200 views. One can find channel's link over here.

Movie Reviews

As usual, I watched a lot of movies for last few weeks and thought of writing reviews for them

• Shootout at Lokhandwala(**&1/2) :A bigtime manly film with so many heroes (many playing villains) that few of then did not get enough space in the whole film. Its a Vivek Oberoi film (reminding Company) with Sanjay Dutt and Suniel Shetty playing their usual stuff. God knows whenTusshar kapoor will start acting like actor, but still better than his previous films, it seems until unless her sister is involoved in the film he is not going to get any roles(atleast for which acting is desired). A gud entertainer as whole. Camera work required a better work. Dark yellow colour of the film suited the film best. Apoorva Lakhia did made a film in a way which he had been talking all these days.
• Cheeni Kum(**&1/4): Amitabh Bachhan can make a mediocre film look like a gud entertainer. This can be seen for a different style where, instead of routine bollywood treatment of old-young affairs with heavy and emotional dialogues, director kept the situation under control with crisp and light weighted dialogues which will make you either laugh, smile or enjoy rather than just cursing him for the heaviness. 2nd half is better, but for one sequence. Big B and Tabu complemented each other really well which was missing in Nishabd. I watched both of the above films back to back in the theatre and guess what? I got the same seat as well. So it was like watching a long film with three breaks. And it really also showed AB's ability, from an old guy romancing a girl whose father is younger to him to a Lawyer making a judge realize what Police do when it really means business.
• Metro(***):This film is must watch being one of the best so far in the year. Look out for Irfan and Konkana, the star couple of the film. Irfan again showed why he is a class act. KK is the 3rd person to look out for. Rest of the cast played the roles given to them with sincerity. But its actually the script and the screenplay which makes the film worth watching. It captures everything-the stars, all stories, all ages, positives, negatives, timing, their interleaving-so well that it never gives u a moment to keep urself out from the plots going on in the film. MUST WATCH-thats how it can be summed up.
• Bheja Fry(***&1/4):When I came out after watching this film I said "Its the best film I have seen in this year". If you rarely watch films, lets say once or twice in a year, than this is the one you should go. Vinay Pathak aka Bharat Bhusan is awesome. Its a full situational comedy with no scope for cheap or double meaning dialogues. Some situations (its ringing/redial/opening of briefcase) keeps on peaking during the film, everytime it happens it looks better than the previous time. Go out for this film and you will forget everything, but laughing for one and half hours. Bharat Bhusan will not give you time to deviate from his acts and dialogue delivery. BEST FILM OF THE YEAR.
• Ta Ra Rum Pum(**&1/2): A full family entertainer, "live ur life, live ur dreams" funda film. Lead roles have been played superbly which makes film worth watching. Few squences(car crashes/races) have been shot really gud which makes you feel bollywood is coming of age. Background acore by Vishal-Shekhar is another attraction. I watched it twice in the theatre.
  
• 140 ki last local(**): A proper boyish film. I found people who came up with their family or GFs looked embarrased with the kind of jokes and language used in the film, otherwise would have enjoyed it a lot as we people did. An average incident based film with a good, different script. I would say a good time pass where you can enjoy the kind of dialogues like Uncle maachis milegi kya, aag lagani hai.....aunty bhi chalegi. Average acting by the cast and a gud background score especially "Laaree choote" which has been a big hit.

Movies Movies and Movies

Movies Movies and Movies. This is a thing for which I have been regular since I shifted from the initial accomodation provided by my company in Bangalore and it rightly coincided with Jazz bringing his Yamaha from his hometown and HB buying his new Apache. And since then there have been movies every weekend, may be two in a week also. And most of the credit goes to HB for enthu that he kept showing to make people watch more and more movies. A big thing that changed from IIT time is that I don't watch movies on computer rather in theatres. And another change is it can be any film without any starcast or good previews, i mean if we decide we need to watch a film we go irrespective of anything and thats why list includes films like "Shiva", "Naksha"(3rd film in Bangalore), "Woh Lamhe", etc. The journey started with "Omkara"(costliest movie I ever saw); proceeded with "Lage Raho Munnabhai"(which i saw thrice in theatre) during ofice hours, on the day I was allotted my project and on the encouragement of my boss; and went on getting strengthened with all the movies that I have seen till now. We though prefer a bit cheap theatres as we are the regular guys watching almost every film in theatres, but still that is a preference and not a necessity as many films are shown only in multiplexes.

There has been gud times when we watched films in gud number but "Dhoom 2" was the one in which went in larges nos (11 if i remember correctly). It was also the first one for which we bought tickets in advance(infact we went twice),"Guru" being the the second. There are different kind of experiences associated with different films as well. "Naksha" was the one in which Sasu did not turned up(that also along with Sid'd bike) even after buying tickets which was because of the start of series of "events" that later made us associate with Sasu a lot.

"Jaan-e-man" is the only film which we watched in our group but HB was not there. This film is the one in which our intrinsic qualities of comments/cheering/anticheering etc became extrinsic to everyone as film came out to be a proper skit in first half. Omkara is the only film in which Lalit accompanied us. "Honeymoon travels Pvt Ltd" is the only film which I did not watched with the whole group. "Babul" is the film which is on the top of the films on the recieving end of HB's abuses. Though I dont remember HB abusing any other film to any extent. We have watched most of the films in Rex or Symphony with PVR fortunate enough to be our host for one or two. "Vivah" has been the one for which we travelled maximum distance to watch in GandhiNagar. The endless list also includes "Bhagam Bhag", "Saalam-e-ishq", "Nishabd", "Casino Royale", "Don", etc.

May be its a weekend effect or something else but it surely drives us (atleast HB and me) to watch films. This may be just for time pass or may be bacause of habit of watching films or being movie buff or may be there is no concern now for the money that I spend on these films or just to carry up the image that I have build over the days by watching new films in hall or may be to have break from the very scheduled monotonous life(though this has also started to become monotonous) or may be a mix of all; but this has now been regular with me for past 6 moths.

After the rent that I pay for my sweet home, I believe movie tickets are the thing that comes second on my monthly expenditure (not considering food as it is essential). But what I can say surely about this habit is it definitely gives me a break from everything and this is the time during which there are no concerns, no thoughts, no tension about anything because apart from enjoying film, my film making and dramatics pursuit make me take interest in cinematogaraphy, camera angles, overall directions, predictions of the film without thinking for other considerations. Though I try not discuss these anymore with people out here as I have been on recieving end for few times on starting the discussion.

Ans I believe this is not going to stop in near future with a long queue of films (includes everykind) awaiting for we people to watch them with "not getting bored" spirit.