tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post6276594050741861994..comments2024-03-29T12:59:00.612+05:30Comments on Jabberwock: Game of thrones: scattered notes on Shuddh Desi RomanceJabberwockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-15587023661633022042013-09-13T23:28:46.816+05:302013-09-13T23:28:46.816+05:30I thought you would mention the breaking of the fo...<i> I thought you would mention the breaking of the fourth wall somewhere</i><br /><br />Nightwatchmen: your comment surprises me. Did you miss this bit? <i>...or even a Woody Allen film where characters directly address the viewer, self-consciously investigating their own motivations and actions</i>Jabberwockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10210195396120573794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-91105317295607495042013-09-13T20:21:18.889+05:302013-09-13T20:21:18.889+05:30I personally loved the movie specifically the way ...I personally loved the movie specifically the way it ended, it was not what I expected. I also loved the way Jaipur was shot in the movie. I did find it pretty unconvincing that in a city like Jaipur one can sustain a live in relationship just by saying that the partner is a brother.<br /><br />Your review also surprised me, I thought you would mention the breaking of the fourth wall somewhere ;)NightWatchmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08514039967852446590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-70568838407402285712013-09-12T21:28:47.301+05:302013-09-12T21:28:47.301+05:30Totally Bakwaas story getting all great reviews. 2...Totally Bakwaas story getting all great reviews. 2.5 stars only for outstanding Parineeti Chopra, pretty Vani Kapoor and enjoyable first half due to good direction and music. But pretty bad that 2 intelligent girls keep falling for a dumb good looking dude who runs away from his marriage and later asks the same girl how she had felt that time. Ok that these guys want to live together but why they keep running away on the wedding day time and again nobody knows. People run away from marriage only if they love someone else or if they are not interested in marriage in the first place. But here the guy agrees for the marriage, leaves his beautiful to be bride for some other girl whom he was not even sure of meeting again; & forget about proposing to her. Guys don't behave like this. They get married and later start an extra-marital affair if it works. Later one of the girls runs away when the boy seemed committal and then comes back again. WTF? She could have talked to him, cancelled their marriage and lived together without marriage. The other girl who was ditched on her wedding day wants the same boy to be her boyfriend again when they met later. ???? Normal girls would have just ignored him or given him a tight slap. In all there is nothing pure, desi or romance. It is a story of fake confused characters with videshi values who think physical bonding is romance. Where is the heart and where are the emotions that bind two people in love?Rahulhttp://hindisms.org/sms/friendship-smsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-48325646136806229892013-09-12T09:51:41.070+05:302013-09-12T09:51:41.070+05:30It is also a film about talking and analysing and ...<i>It is also a film about talking and analysing and counter-analysing, one that opens with a monologue by Raghu (Sushant Singh Rajput) about Indian society’s many hypocrisies when it comes to love and marriage: why can’t two people be left alone to work out their own romantic issues, without everyone else jumping on their back like Betaal did to Vikram?</i><br /><br />Every society works the way it does for a good reason. One thing that baffles me about mainstream Indian cinema today is its constant benchmarking with an "ideal" world which doesn't exist anywhere.<br /><br />Unlike what these films have to say about the West, most people even in US/Western Europe do settle down in their lives. In fact people in stable marriages often do better economically than people in broken families.<br /><br />Having said that nothing is written down in stone! Social mores evolve with social/economic milieu. What works in Scandinavia may not work in India or for that matter even in US! What works here may not work in an Islamic country.shrikanthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898755392584822638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-27521116976718993742013-09-12T09:36:47.452+05:302013-09-12T09:36:47.452+05:30Haven't seen the film. But I see a surfeit of ...Haven't seen the film. But I see a surfeit of such films coming up in India where I sense an element of anxiety. A constant emphasis on one's desi identity and at the same time an almost morbid curiosity about cultures elsewhere (read western culture which is invariably painted in black or white).<br /><br />This is what I meant when I referred to the growing reactionary strain in Indian cinema starting with the 70s. Back in the 1950s, you had a mainstream film like <i>Paying Guest</i> starring Dev Anand and Nutan where the lead couple practically live in together prior to marriage. Yet it is a very relaxed film with no axes to grind and no attempt to either glorify Culture A or denigrate Culture B.<br /><br />Some of the films that come out today seem kiddish when compared to those early films.shrikanthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03898755392584822638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-65921358511660814792013-09-10T15:10:15.661+05:302013-09-10T15:10:15.661+05:30@Gaurav: isn't that the whole point? The film ...@Gaurav: isn't that the whole point? The film doesn't see marriage as the ultimate solution or the end-purpose of every relationship. Beth Watkins has discussed this nicely on her blog Beth Loves Bollywood.<br /><br />@Jai: So glad you watched the film and blogged about it! It belongs to a new breed of romances that are setting a trend of sorts in Bollywood with rooted settings, and stories that build on events and actions rather than randomly discard characters and plot points once their purpose is served. Like Raghu's disappearing act from the first wedding has repercussions that keep echoing through the length of the film. Nobody conveniently 'moves on' without getting a satisfactory closure. It is in fact notable that Tara is the only one of the leads who gets a real closure in this story. Everybody else is left with their own 'betaals' to deal with.Deepti Sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09462873637851411701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-91951754631583674512013-09-10T12:07:25.074+05:302013-09-10T12:07:25.074+05:30"Throughout, there is a deliberate repetition..."Throughout, there is a deliberate repetition of situations, and even specific dialogue..."<br /><br />It's interesting how much repetition there is in this film. Sahni is too good a writer not to have been putting it in there deliberately (or maybe I'm being too much of a critic, attributing motive where there's none), but I'm not sure it served a useful dramatic purpose beyond the second wedding run. Too much deja vu for me, though otherwise the film was great fun. a fan aparthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04243109684980740841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-16943619409356343132013-09-10T11:11:11.752+05:302013-09-10T11:11:11.752+05:30All else fine, i could not understand why they did...All else fine, i could not understand why they did not married in the end at least. I thought by then you had it all worked out!Gaurav Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287081493809886070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-17119003472961107222013-09-10T07:33:10.703+05:302013-09-10T07:33:10.703+05:30full marks for the toilet reference in the title o...full marks for the toilet reference in the title of this post.Nikhil Pahwahttp://www.nikhilpahwa.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-24709916253068334532013-09-10T05:09:06.922+05:302013-09-10T05:09:06.922+05:30Have read other reviews of the film which mention ...Have read other reviews of the film which mention that the second half is rather limp but your review encourages a watch. You didn't say anything about the music - Sahni is a fine lyricist as well ...Manreet Sodhi Someshwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01566345149225306647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8204542.post-447597527886667992013-09-09T20:40:31.945+05:302013-09-09T20:40:31.945+05:30I enjoyed the first half but the second just bored...I enjoyed the first half but the second just bored me to tears. All of it seemed just way too predictable.Dijohttp://www.dijojohn.comnoreply@blogger.com