Pinjar

WOW. What a Movie. Made me think why didnt I see this one for so long. While I was watching the crap dished out by Bollywood week after week, here was something remarkable. A Brilliant Movie.

Where is this guy Chandraprakash Dwivedi after making such a nice movie. His direction is awesome. The costumes, the location, the feel of 1946-47 is perfect. Hard to find loopholes. The story by Amrita Pritam is wonderful and done full justice by Chandra in his screenplay and dialogues. The story revolves around few characters in the turbulent times before Independence when India was on the verge of getting divided in two separate countries. Urmila, at the center of the storm, plays one of the most brilliant characters in her life. She is really complemented well by an awesome Manoj Bajpayee. He deserved an award and so did she. To this day I believe he has not got his proper dues. One of the reasons was his bad selection of movies. But the guy is one of the most talented actors in the country. The other supporting cast pitches in well. Sanjay Suri is very believable, as always, in this Bhagwan Ram inspired character. Priyanshu and the girl from Tum Bin are also not bad.

It is nice to see some subtelty in the romance in our movies. The undercurrent between bajpayee and urmila is shown really well, before following with the nice climax.

One thing I felt went against it was the number of songs in the movie, although they were not bad. This raises question in my mind, Why isnt movies like Pinjar sent to Oscars from India. Why instead some crap is sent because of some dirty politics. I hope this stops soon.

All in all a brilliant movie and an emotional experiance. Chandra, Urmila, Manoj Where are you. Please make more movies. We need guys like you. Desparately

****(4 stars)

A Joke called Indian Award

People ask "Why Aamir Khan goes to Oscars but does not attend Indian awards". Well, because he is smart and knows how phony these Indian awards are??. I would consider Aamir as the most sensible guy in the Bollywood for not attending these stupid awards. Whereas the oscar is judged by an academy of 6000+ members, most related to movies, our awards has a jury which is hard to believe. None of them remotely eligible to judge an award. Best screenplay award to Life in a Metro?? Gimme a break. It was a god damn copy of an english movie. Why cant you give awards to the original ones like Johnny Gaddar, Manorama Six feet under or even Chak de.

Pankaj Kapur received best actor in a negative role award for Blue Umbrella. In his award speech he said "It is always nice when people recognize your work but getting the negative role award is strange. Iss bechare insaan ka yehi kasoor tha ki usne ek bachchi ki chhatri chura li thi". Thats One tight slap from Kapoor. How can you ignore brilliant Shardul from JG or an awesome Pawan Malhotra from Black Friday. And just because Aamir directed his first movie you dont have to announce his name for the Best Director. Didnt the jury saw Black Friday. Or they changed the movie saying ye to bahot thandi hai yaar. For the first time in many years SRK did an award worthy job in Chak de and he gets best actor award for OSO. WTF.

It is high time now that either these guys change their process or stop giving awards altogether. It is nothing but a joke in the eyes of people, atleast the smart ones.