Tuesday, July 07, 2009

A study in contrasts

Last week, I saw 2 movies - The Hangover and (I am ashamed to admit) Kambakht Ishq.
The Hangover is a really good movie - oddball, corny and really good for guffaws. The perfect weekend fare, intelligently written, well acted and perfectly paced. Kambakht Ishq, on the other hand, made me cringe in disbelief and embarassment.
How could anyone have
  1. written this unadulteratedly regressive, stupid and intelligence-insulting script (if one can call it a script)
  2. acted in such a vehicle and
  3. spent millions producing it

These are true mysteries. There are no songs to speak of, the 'special appearances' are especially dumb, and this movie is a walking talking advertisement for how not to waste time. The movie is full of caveman cliches (the hero shuts up the heroine by smooching her, he can sleep with all and sundry but she has to be pristine, the 'friend' runs her life and marriage on the whims of her friend, the heroine's mother is at fault for her stuck up and tight arsed behaviour, the heroine realizes the folly of her wicked ways in the end - I could just go on and on!) that I just hated.

In fact, by writing about it, I feel I am somehow denigrating this blog. Rather extreme!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

sorry i don't agree with your analysis of character of the heroine of the movie. not only is she incompetent (remember the bracelet in the patient)she is ,foulmouthed, opportunistic and immoral. she has no qualms in using the man as long as it suits her. if she silences him with a kiss its OK when he does it its unacceptable.the female is not only complexed ,stupid and immoral,she is also cunning and hard as nails. in fact a totally repulsive creature but for her fab body and physical beauty which she uses to entrap the hero.

Anonymous said...

sorry i don't agree with your analysis of character of the heroine of the movie. not only is she incompetent (remember the bracelet in the patient)she is ,foulmouthed, opportunistic and immoral. she has no qualms in using the man as long as it suits her. if she silences him with a kiss its OK when he does it its unacceptable.the female is not only complexed ,stupid and immoral,she is also cunning and hard as nails. in fact a totally repulsive creature but for her fab body and physical beauty which she uses to entrap the hero.