Road, Movie Review
So we went to see this movie. It was a pretty empty theater, and there were 4 of us. In the same row, there were three girls, whistling every time Abhay Deol took off his shirt. Abhay Deol is one of the finest actors of our times. Not to mention, he is the only one who is not beefy-bodied and flaunts body hair. That makes a lot of us relate to him easily. It's either him, or the pot bellied dudes from South Indian movies. Cheeru once said that it helps in setting the expectations right for a lot of women.
The movie is about Vishnu(Deol), who does not want to get into his father's oil business. I wonder why. Specially because the oil makes one mard, which would make it a highly profitable business. All he needs to do is send mass emails to people about his oil, and ensure that it does not go into the spam folder, like those Viagra emails we all get.
The movie is also about the good old rotund Satish Kaushik, who is called 'Chacha'. Chacha is a cool dude, who likes laughing and dancing after smoking pot from a chillam. Chacha gets the best line in the movie, when he remarks to Vishnu - 'Dil toh hai tere paas, lekin do pairon ke beech mein'. The girls sitting next to us could not stop laughing at this joke, as GJ blushed. GJ later had very funny jokes to make, which he said loud enough for those girls to hear. GJ is sleeping in his room alone. I don't understand why - the jokes were funny indeed.
Anyways, people thought the movie is adapted from Cinema Paradiso, which it certainly isn't. It is a hitchhike through the desert on an old 1940 antique-truck-cum-movie-theater. It is not exactly a celebration of movies, but it does show glimpses of old classics like Deewaar(projected on Police Station's Deewaar). In one of such glimpses, we see Rekha dancing in Umrao Jaan, which makes a very drunk and horny inspector run after village women in the audience, shouting 'Aurat, Aurat...'. His vulgar behavior can only be attributed to the Old Monk rum that he is shown drinking before the movie screening.
If you like driving on a highway aimlessly, like a chai on a dhaabha, this movie is for you. Except that this 'chai' is very different, and certainly no Starbucks, as pointed out by Chhotu in the movie. However, for the fluttering reels shown in the movie, and brilliant cinematography, I would give 3 stars. (These are genuine stars, not like the ones I gave Pyaar Impossible).
The movie is about Vishnu(Deol), who does not want to get into his father's oil business. I wonder why. Specially because the oil makes one mard, which would make it a highly profitable business. All he needs to do is send mass emails to people about his oil, and ensure that it does not go into the spam folder, like those Viagra emails we all get.
The movie is also about the good old rotund Satish Kaushik, who is called 'Chacha'. Chacha is a cool dude, who likes laughing and dancing after smoking pot from a chillam. Chacha gets the best line in the movie, when he remarks to Vishnu - 'Dil toh hai tere paas, lekin do pairon ke beech mein'. The girls sitting next to us could not stop laughing at this joke, as GJ blushed. GJ later had very funny jokes to make, which he said loud enough for those girls to hear. GJ is sleeping in his room alone. I don't understand why - the jokes were funny indeed.
Anyways, people thought the movie is adapted from Cinema Paradiso, which it certainly isn't. It is a hitchhike through the desert on an old 1940 antique-truck-cum-movie-theater. It is not exactly a celebration of movies, but it does show glimpses of old classics like Deewaar(projected on Police Station's Deewaar). In one of such glimpses, we see Rekha dancing in Umrao Jaan, which makes a very drunk and horny inspector run after village women in the audience, shouting 'Aurat, Aurat...'. His vulgar behavior can only be attributed to the Old Monk rum that he is shown drinking before the movie screening.
If you like driving on a highway aimlessly, like a chai on a dhaabha, this movie is for you. Except that this 'chai' is very different, and certainly no Starbucks, as pointed out by Chhotu in the movie. However, for the fluttering reels shown in the movie, and brilliant cinematography, I would give 3 stars. (These are genuine stars, not like the ones I gave Pyaar Impossible).
posted by Piyush Peshwani at 12:36 PM
13 Comments:
Heroine ke baare mein kuch bhi nahi hai? Wo 'Aurat'nahi hai kya?
Try watching it with the notion that all the characters that Vishnu encounters on the road are figment of his own imagination...then the movie goes up couple of notches
May be it was an another No-Smoking, which ppl cud nt get head or tail, while watching but later on were found discussing intensely and uncovering fine details on discussion forums.
thinking on the same lines of sonagara....the Mela sequence...everything/everybody just evaporates over night.
Real/Surreal ?
No clue abt the joke, (which supposedly i made) ..may be old monk on the screen worked on me as well
@Chatur: Heroine ka pata nahin, but Heroin had a major role to play.
Heroin li thi ek baar maine. 15 din tak...
ROLF for you reply to Vineet!! :D
btw do you recommend or not...i m still skeptical about the kind of stars!!
@chatur - first time kuch aur hi padha gaya ..
heroin 'ki' li thi ek baar maine . 15 din tak .. :D
@jaya - i recommend.
@ditch - for me, there was no confusion, as 15 din tak...continues like 15 din tak #@%#% #$@!#$ #$#@$ $#$. old joke.
sir jabardast jajba hai aapka...
thanks for the stars
GJ's blushing, being funny, sleeping alone. i see a pattern there.
lolll...zabardast..
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