New Sense

There is something truly enigmatic about black and white movies. I had the pleasure of watching a couple of movies a few days back and the experience has made me a fanboy of the black and white movie era.

Sherlock Jr. was the first movie I stumbled upon, the silent movie from 1924 is a fun story about a movie projectionist who wishes to become a detective one day. His ambitions are put to a test when he finds himself wrongly accused of a crime he didnt commit.
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Sounds like a cool name for a show right? Apparently there is a show with that name. The Big Bang Theory creator Chuck Lorre uses vanity cards at the end of every show, they are like really fun blog posts where he scribbles off some of his thoughts. At the end of the latest episode of The Big Bang Theory he writes about a Belorussian version of The Big Bang Theory. (Yeah Belarus is the name a country).

He writes in the card:

Belarus does have a bustling TV production industry. One of their most recent hits is a sitcom about four nerdy scientists who live next door to a beautiful blonde waitress. The characters are named Sheldon, Leo, Hovard, Raj and Natasha, and the show is entitled, The Theorists. Each episode begins with a rapid-fire montage of images which takes us from the dawn of time to the present moment.

Here is a video clipping from the show:

Ps: I have been a big fan of the vanity cards for a while now. You can read them here: http://www.chucklorre.com/

  

Raghu Romeo is a 2003 Hindi movie that received a lot of critical acclaim but did not make it big in the box office. The movie went on to win the Silver Lotus for the Best Feature Film (in Hindi) at the National Film Awards. An award whose recipients over the years were Black , Raincoat, Dil Chahta Hai and Bandit Queen.

This offbeat movie about Raghu Romeo who is a lower middle class 30 years old man waiter henpecked by mom at home and by the boss who seldom pays him at a girly club. In his naivety, Raghu thinks he must protect the virtue of that joint’s girls from grabby clients, especially Sweety, a hitman’s honey who has a soft spot for the clueless hero. But he only has eyes for Neeta, a typical TV-soap suffering heroine played by Maria Goretti. Not able to distinguish between reel and real life, Raghu kidnaps the actress when it turns out she is on the hit-list of the hitman, bringing her to the countryside house of Sweety.

What is brilliant about the movie is the ingenuity of the writer who pulls no stops to make the flow of script unpredictable. Let it be a conversation with the actress via a TV or the parallelism of the tv scenes to Raghu’s life or the songs of the movie or the confusion yet clarity in the mind of Raghu. There is so much packed in this seemingly mediocre comedy.

This is one of those movies that you cant help but admire and something you wont forget easily.

  

Monty Python has created an official YouTube channel to post free, high-quality clips from their collection! The video announcing it(right) is as hilarious as a typical Python skit

  

Maan Gaye Mughall-E-Azam is one of the nicest surprises I have had all year(in watching movies ie). Firstly I wasnt expecting much from the movie but the promising star cast was looking good. It had Paresh Rawal, Rahul Bose and Kay Kay Menon, three actors whose movies I have truly admired.

The movie is supposedly the remake of a classic Mel Brooks movie “To Be or Not to Be“. This Indian version uses the backdrop of the 93 bomb blasts and produces a hilarious comedy of a bunch of theater artists trying to stop the bad guys.

What I loved about the movie was the brilliantly sketched out characters, who even when saying clinched lines are really funny. The comic twist to Urdu Shayari and on stage improvisation had me running out of breath laughing. I think I was laughing for atleast 80% of the movie!
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