Premieres - Ghajini and CC2C

Earlier I had written about why I like to watch movies on the first day . You go in the theatre with absolutely unadulterated thoughts about the movie, and you hope that it will be a paisa vasool.
It was either one of the above for both the recent movies I watched - Ghajini and CC2C.

I had previously seen the Telugu(originally Tamil dubbed into Telugu) version of Ghajini, and I was pretty glad with the experience, except for the fact that I knew only survivable amount of Telugu and the climax was unbearably ridiculous. I went to Aamir's Ghajini a month ago, with the same hope that the movie would be good and prayed he would polish the movie a bit especially the ending, which he did. The rest of the movie stayed true to its predecessor, but no qualms from my side, I just loved Asin, can't imagine a Mallu pulling off Hindi dialogues with such ease. Am sure she will go a long way.
This movie was sure a full paisa vasool.

Last week I went to the Chandini Chowk to China premiere, and I wished big time to have read the reviews before venturing into the hall. But alas, that was not the case. I had fallen for the movie marketing, what with all the hype of Kung-fu filled hindi flick, with tall and slender Deepika kicking some butt, and the legendary Shaolin hero Gordon Liu being the baddie ( I mean I thot if the villan is such a good kungfu fighter then the hero would be better and the fights would be amazing), I sure did fall for this movie.
But not for too long, 30 minutes into the movie, I was hoping the next reel would be better, and that never happened. The movie could not stay focused with one element, either stick to pure slapstick comedy (with Akki doing some weird cosmic thumb attack) or stick to emotional drama( drag of Mithunda, and the separated twins). One cannot emote to both these diametrically opposite scenarios, and I found myself cursing more and more with every passing minute. Shradz sms at the time about her blog Stepney made the matter even worse.

Anyway, the day was not all bad, we did have fun with a bucket of popcorn, ice cream, chips and some passing remarks on the way back. This is what you get when you go out with the family be it to a premiere or not or a paisa-vasool or not.

PS: CC2C has not bogged my spirits, planning to get ticks for Raaz this Fri :)

-RN