New Sense

“To my amazing husband, Sidney, thank you for showing me that sometimes you have to forgo doing what’s popular in order to do what’s right – and baby, you were so right.”

That quote for me was the moment of the Oscars.

My Name is Karan Johar and I dont make bad movies.

Maybe its high time Karan Johar went out on National Television and said that.

There is a moment in the movie where Rizwan Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) is narrating about the moment when he was first told that he suffered from Asperger Syndrome. He casually says:

I didnt know that my entire life could have been summed up in two words “Asperger Syndrome”

That moment is so quick and the narration is so subtly simple that the pain of Rizwan echoed thru the mind. There is another moment in the movie where young Rizwan(immaculately portrayed by Tanay Chheda) looks at his brother crying in the arms of his mother and says “At-least he can cry”.

Its moments like those that are the heart and soul of My Name is Khan.
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2009 was another good year of film watching for me. I watched exactly the same number of movies as I did in 2008. A number like 119 is hard but a total pleasure to repeat.
Instead of throwing up stats I will list out a bunch of movies that I thought were really good. I will skip the obvious suspects(Avatar gets enough publicity as it is ) and point out movies(that I watched in 2009) that werent that popular but were great in their own regard.
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Robert Downey, Jr. won the Golden Globe for the best actor in a Comedy/Musical for his brilliant portrayal of Sherlock Holmes. I never watched the event but the net was abuzz about his acceptance speech. Well there was good reason for it, here have a look:

Thanks to last.fm I could easily get the list of the top 25 songs I listened to in 2009 (using Historical Last.fm Charts)
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