Sam’s home for the weekend!! That gives me all the more reason to shun all the work I have now and start enjoying all over again. Not that I was up to here with work anyway. She came in at about 9 AM today and woke me up with her usual ‘HI!!!!’. I had a mild headache till about 11 AM given that I didn’t get to sleep much. The real reason behind this entry is the much awaited movie ‘Darling’ that we went to see today at ANU-EGA. The theatre was horrible enough, filled to bursting with an angry almost-complete Gujju mob. Most people “forgot” to switch off their cell phones during the movie, hence leading to snippets of “rang de basanti” right in the middle of a horror scene.
The plot.
A playboy in the making accidentally kills one of his girlfriends in a brawl and is overcome by guilt. His girlfriend’s ghost, determined to get even, decides to haunt him till the end of time, or his sanity, whichever comes first. Badly picturised scenes and an unnaturally loud sound system later, the man decides to confess and give up. There’s a wife and son somewhere in between and demonic possession towards the end.
You never really know where to start. Do I give prime importance to the ‘acting’ skills, the unnecessary and terribly predictable loud sounds (to the point at which you’d know 10 seconds in advance as to when to shut out your ears), the story in the first place, or the fact that everybody else seems to like the story when you’re the only one sitting there wondering if you’re retarded or are they? There was actually a scene in which I laughed out loud at the exact same time at which a woman in front of me screamed for a scary scene. (?). The actors were probably deaf during the shooting for nothing else can explain the redundant dialogues. Everything the guy said was repeated as a question by his wife!!! Towards the end I was glad she died.
When the movie (finally) ended, I remember walking out of the theatre hall thinking ‘what’s happened to Ram Gopal Verma?. After having seen Sarkar and Company, Aag and Darling seem inexplicable. Hopefully it’s a bad phase that he’s going through, I mean, everyone would like to see better movies come from him now, wouldn’t they?
Darling, a killer love story? Oh yes it is.
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5 comments:
Initially, I thought Sam was a cat.
You didn't give in a SINGLE word about the rest of the blog!! Sam, is for Suman, my buddy.
Sam isn't a cat? I thought she really loved her cats.
Stop posting reviews, barely anyone is interested. Post Sam's number instead.
My cat doesn't say HI at any time of the day.
No one asked you guys to read it, people who really love movies and books with enjoy it, I'm sure. (as for Sam's number, HAHAHAHAHA!!)
I liked Company, it was nice. Sort of.
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