Lagaan

Definitely one of the best movies I’ve seen. I heard one of the songs from the movie on radio this morning, and I can’t wait to see the movie again. All the songs are great and all the scenes are just perfect. I remember in the last scene when they have just one ball to go, and Kachra is on strike, everybody in the movie kept saying ‘Kachra maar!’ – I was at home continuously yelling ‘COME ON KACHRAAAA you can do it!!’ I’ve watched the movie a million times but I still get goosebumps in the last scene when the Indian commentator yells “hum jeet gaye!”. I know all the songs and dialogues by heart, alongwith the weird hindi accents the foreign actors had. Teen Guna Lagaan.

Every time they get the extra ball (“No Bawl!”) I subconsciously start praying for Aamir Khan. Sobia kind of ruined the movie for us the first time we saw it – she kept saying Shahrukh Khan had a guest appearance, and he would save the day at the end of the movie. Since she’s such an expert liar, we believed her. But then I was so engrossed at the end I didn’t even remember what she had said. And seriously sobia, it wasn’t even funny. What was funny was when we told the same story to our cousins. We kept running to the tv and pointing out the different ways and places srk would make his entry from and they would just follow our fingers everytime. Talk about naive.

P.s. I posted the Kachra maar and No Bawl dialogues from memory before I found the video on youtube. Trust me I really do know the whole movie by heart.

Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

I am definitely going for this movie. I know I say this for every movie released, but this is an srk movie, so I’m going to stick to my words. I actually have a whole list movies I need to watch. There’s Hancock, The Namesake, Jaanu tu ya jaane na, Rock On and sooo many others. Can you believe I still havent watched all of these? And Kabul Express! I was so sure I’d see this and I kept making sure everyone I knew wouldn’t tell me the story. So now, I don’t know the story, and I still haven’t seen the movie. Loser.

I remember there was this one time when one of my friends told me about going to watch some new Indian comedy, and I decided I would go for this movie before everyone else. Full of humaira-determination, I went home after college, picked up mummy and headed for the closest Mall. We went to one place, but they said they weren’t playing the movie. I called information, and found out the only cinema that was playing it was Plaza cinema, which is the only cinema left in Dubai from the 1990s. Weird. We made our way to Plaza and I didn’t even know who was starring in the movie until we got to the cinema. So we got to our seats, and I can safely say I have never, or will ever again see another movie that is so vulgar. One word – RakhiSawant! I kept sliding down in my seat until there wasn’t any seat left to slide on, and mummy kept cussing at me for bringing her to such a ‘beghairat, besharam and behaya’ movie. We would have left early, but mummy said she didn’t want to risk anyone recognising us if we walked out of the cinema*. So we stuck around for the whole movie. And not just the whole movie, but also all the credits, because she refused to leave until everyone else had left. So funny.

*I think she wanted to stay because she was enjoying the movie. I haven’t gotten the chance to clarify this with her yet – I like my face the way it is**

** Not really.

Quantum of Solace

Amazing movie. I just wish I had found a seat farther away from the screen. I spent the first half hour ducking out of the way of everything that was being hurled around in the movie.

I can’t think of a single movie I’ve watched that I haven’t liked. I feel I’m too easy.