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I love watching movies, its one of my favorite pastimes and I love talking about movies. I try my level best to write reviews in my blog about the movies I have watched; But off late I hv been getting a bit lazy and not getting around to talking about movies I loved. So as an alternative at the start of every month I will post about five movies i watched in the previous month

These movies listed below did not necessarily release anytime recently(or in this month), I happened to watch them during the last calender month and wanted to share my thoughts about them. These movies are not necessarily the best of the movies I watched but rather movies that I admired in one way or another.
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An action filled romantic thriller starring the brilliant Hrithik Roshan and the sizzling Bárbara Mori was always expected to send the hype racing. The Chemistry between the two actors was talked about in international circles but fell flat for the Bollywood crowd. So what was it that generated so much mixed reviews for this ‘crossover’ movie?

Kites is a perfect example of a crossover movie. Everything about the movie was designed to merge cultures, the lead actors were from India and Mexico, the languages used in the movie was Hindi, English and Spanish… The music had a distinct international touch, hell even the lyrics of the songs were written in Hindi, English and Spanish! But what made this movie a truly crossover film is the writing, as an avid follower of Hollywood and Bollywood cultures, Kites hit me as the almost perfect child of the two. You have the thrill, action and pace of western cinema and you also have the emotional touch, romance and ideology that rule Indian cinema.

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The attraction of movies with smart cons is two fold, one the charisma of the con men(and women) and the other the brilliance of the con itself. Sadly Badmaash Company shows only a spark of the attraction and then falls flat.

The trailer of the movie promised a smart movie involving beautiful people who wear disguises to outsmart others and then go about their evenings blowing away their winnings in fancy casinos… In the movie we realize thats only half quarter a part of the story. The audience is then inflicted with cons involving defective pairs of shoes and gloves! Just as we sit and wait for that smart con, we are greeted with a spectacular bank loan con…
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Julie Powell, a self confessed ‘Government drone by day, renegade foodie by night’ decides to take up a unique challenge and catalog her thoughts and progress in her blog. Thus began one of the most beautiful journeys of self realization and discovery.

Based on The Julie/Julia Project, Julie & Julia is a wonderful heart warming movie about two women separated by a generation, yet intertwined in their lives and aspirations. The movie based also on the memoirs of Julia Child entitled My Life in France, reveals the life and times of Julia Child and the inspirations that led to her becoming a world famous cook.

Julie & Julia is engaging and provides an honest retrospect to the effect of blogging in peoples lives. The challenge that spurred Julie Powell on and the drive that Julia Child had towards her passion of cooking is addictive and inspiring. The screenplay is gripping and touching at times and the fact that it is based on real life events only adds to the enigma of these two wonderful people.

Meryl Streep’s performance is awe inspiring and aptly earned her a nomination for the Academy Awards. Amy Adams puts in a good performance handling a character that does a full emotional circle thruout the movie. Performances by Stanley Tucci and Chris Messina as the husbands to the women were on target.

Julie & Julia belongs to a very different genre of movies. It is sweet and heart warming but there is something more. Something you cant just put a finger to. This movie is truly worth the watch.

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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