Monday, January 19, 2009

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

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Eeeee... I had a feeling CC2C would be a flop. I loved Akshay Kumar in Hera Pheri but thats about all I like about him.

Liked Ghajini, me too. And you're going to see Razz!! :P Thats one movie I'm going to avoid... but you go ahead and tell me if I was right :D

FlyingHigh said...

Ditcher...but thanks for saving me from the agony of watching CC2C. Watch Luck by chance with me ok?

raven said...

@rinchen as i said earlier, aamir's muscle are a drool for ;). sure u r right abt Raaz, many scenes are a direct lift off from Stigmata, but still i wudnt mind watchin it just to bitch abt it..:)

@FlyingHigh now, can u cut that down, i just saved u from a bad movie, wont tat count for anything ... :B

Anonymous said...

Hey, even I want to watch Luck By Chance! I love Farhan Akhtar :)

raven said...

@rinchen, me too, farhan is yet another aamir.. mr.perfectionist in the making :)

Aditya said...

I watched CC2C first day first show! All the movies that I have watched first day have been super-flops! And whats more, I can't believe I missed out watching Luck By Chance in the theater. The casting of the movie is one of the best I have seen in a long long time.

Nice blog :-)