Hello - the Movie

'Hello', the new movie is based on Chetan Bhagat's One night at the call center. While the book was quite entertaining.... until the actual story, the phone call from God (now what was that!) arrives.

Just saw the full-page ad in Mid-day today and was surprised to see only five characters (the book has six.) I remembered the elderly gentleman in the book (who has issues with his son and his family) and yes, he was missing in the promotional photograph. Ouch, did they drop him out?

Then I saw a tiny advertisement and yes, it did have photographs of 'six' characters.

If you are a senior actor, unless you are Amitabh Bachhan or the likes, you don't feature in a full-page ad. Irrespective of how significant your character is.

P. S. : Ditto for Kabhi Alvida Na kehna advertisements that had Amitabh Bachhan but no Kiron Kher. Both of them had an equally significant role in the film.

3 Idiots

3 idiots! I have two reasons for being anxious about this film. One - Rajkumar Hirani whose first two films I loved - which did not really have the fake KaranJoharish opulence and were entertaining at the same time. He introduced a new terminology in both of his films and the way he did it was quite interesting.

The second reason is that the movie is based on 'Five point someone' - a book that I finished reading in one go! 

I found this picture online - searched for '3 idiots' and read a synopsis that spoke about Aamir Khan as Ryan. Throughout the article, Aamir Khan occupied the centre of attraction which was a bit unnerving. Ryan is not the central character at all. Hari (played by Madhavan according to the article) is. I hope the 'starry image' of Aamir Khan doesn't overshadow the story.

Looking forward to finding out whether the spirit of the book is captured in this movie...

(Trivia: Kareena Kapoor plays Neha while Sharman Joshi plays Alok.)

If '3 Mistakes..' were a film

The Review of 'The 3 Mistakes of my life' by Chetan Bhagat, my way!!

With both of his novels being made into films, the chances are high that proceedings of buying the reproduction rights of this third book are in pace.

If this movie would be made into a film, the film would have enough masala - but it would end up being a confused film.

Emraan Hashmi would want to play the title role for like all other Chetan Bhagat novels, this one has depictions of secret physical intimacy and ya, adultery.

Of late, every movie has to be screened to a delegation that needs to approve that the film does not hurt the sentiments of their community. With all these smaller meaner censor boards in place, the film (the film based on this book) would really have to go through a lot of checks - the film does touch a lot of sensitive issues.

The climax of this film, however, will indeed be liked by all. Because it is as unbelievable, exaggerated and weird as many of our Hindi films! I mean, when I finished the book, I had a 'What?' on my face.

So anyways, if '3 mistakes...' is made into a film, that would be the producer's first mistake.

Chetan's third book fails to live up to the expectations. He follows the same path again - and maybe sprinkles some current events (The earthquake, the riots) that have taken place in Gujarat in the last couple of years. The book and its characters fail to strike a chord.