Analysing films

This has to be a surprise package of the year. What was an innocent outing with my daughter to show her a children's film turned out to be a fascinating experience indeed. An honest and daring attempt to showcase one of the biggest and India's most shameful crime on female foeticide. Shot extensively in a village in Mahendergarh, Haryana it has the lowest sex ratio in the country. Which is actually a paradox. The film stands out for it's contrasts. A urban family of four members. Granny, father and two kids have their ancestral roots in the village. Contrast that to their current existence in a upscale neighbourhood in New Delhi. The father a successful doctor and has the desire to set up a hospital in his village too. The presence of a bengali (from New Jalpaiguri) in a Haryana Hamlet are all assured and stark contrasts that the Director Neel Madhav Panda wants us to meander through. It starts as a movie through the eyes of the lead protagonist Shreya (Lehar Khan)

Expendables 2 takes off from where Expendables 1 left. Heavily testosterone loaded and high on action and stunts there is little room for anything soft or mushy or probably somber too. At the end of the film where Billy's girlfriend receives the parcel of money and Billy's letter also, looks like an afterthought and almost pushed in. Right from the word go, Sly Stallone and his team (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Bruce Willis et al) are on an unleashed spree of mayhem and disorder. There is an hint of desperation too, perhaps because age is catching on or probably Geriatrics might fail to do the trick at a certain time. The combined age of all the lead actors in the movie put together is: 553 year. Pretty prehistoric stuff, one must say. But, they speak very little and do a lot. Barney Ross and Trench (Sly Stallone and Arnie's character) do have occasional tiff and hate to be in each other's shoes. Infact the opening sequence where Barney and his men rescue Trench fro