Analysing films

On a sudden visit to the ticket booking site, Book my show to catch up on the latest movies, theater, events doing the round of the NCR circuit, was pleasantly surprised to see a Bengali movie, Apur Panchali, playing in a limited edition version. Trying to claim of myself as a movie aficionado, I should really be ashamed of myself. Reason; this was the first time, I had heard of the movie and boy, it had already won the national awards and very active on the festival circuit. And here I was, and my ignorance. The movie is a take on the numerous child stars who make it big with their one big movie as a child star and then they get lost. They somehow are unable to wipe off the adage they get associated with, through their first film. So, it could be the child from Home Alone or ET or The Kid or Bicycle Thieves or in our case Apu from Pather Paachali. Hence, the movie is a take on the child star Apu (read Subir Banerjee, his real name) and his reel to real life. The movie works on t

I have been very very late in coming up with the review of 2 States, infact I had kind of planned to not even review the movie after probably watching the day after the movie was released. But in the last two weeks I have been reading about the film doing brisk business and talks of the 100 crores mark and all that makes one evenly surprised. To put the movie in a nutshell, it is long, tad boring and many a times one starts to feel how can a sub plot or a sub sub plot in a cinema become the mainstream topic. This makes for the plot drab and rubbery, to the point of even becoming tasteless. The original Chetan Bhagat book (frankly haven't read this one though) from where the plot is inspired, may have been more crisp (as Chetan is known for his sharp and crisp writing style) as it is a 268 page book only. Replete with the Karan Johar signature stuff like punjabi weddings, mindless and needless songs and what else a mindless Arjun Kapoor. Alia as usual is charming in her sel