Movie Review: It's Complicated
Review contributed by Sonali Agarwal
Written/directed by Nancy Meyers and starring the ever-versatile Meryl Steep in an apt role, "It's Complicated" is a story about Jane - a mother of three grown-ups, who's been divorced for a decade, is content with her bakery/restaurant business and now looks forward to building a house (especially a kitchen) that she always wanted. In her perfectly simple life, all hell breaks loose when she starts an affair with her ex-husband Jake (Alec Baldwin). With Jake re-married, Jane now becomes "the other woman" in his life. Parallely, Jane's architect - Adam (Steve Martin) who is also recently divorced, starts finding her company enjoyable. What follows is a string of complicated situations while Jane tries to deal with her own guilt and protect her children from knowing this fact.
The movie is hilarious and full of situational comedy. Meryl Steep and Alec Baldwin are brilliant in their performance, with Steve Martin following closely in the short screen-time that he gets. For me, the best part about the movie is the message that comes across - it is our decisions that complicate and simplify our lives. No one can help us, except us, if our lives do get complicated.
The movie is a complicated situation, told simply with no over-dose of drama and emotion. Go and watch it for sure!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Movie Review: Karthik calling Karthik
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor, Shefali Chhaya.,Vivaan Bhathena, Vipin Sharma, Yatin Karyekar
Director: Vijay Lalwani
Karthik Narayan, played by Farhan Akhtar is a meek young man who is bullied by everyone from his landlord to his boss and even the office boy.. Apparently he has had a troubled childhood which has made him diffident and submissive, a problem he is cognizant of and is seeking medical help.
Karthik’s personality takes a dramatic turn when he starts getting phone calls every morning from Karthik. Karthik calls Karthik to coach him to become self confident and to shed his inhibitions to chase the woman he secretly admires. With these calls the movie also turns dramatically towards ‘trying too hard’ scenes. While the dapper Farhan Akhthar is a toast to the eyes and the audience loves it when he gives it back to his boss, the same cannot be said about his antics to woo his lady love, Shonali Mukherjee.
Dating scenes between Karthik and Shonali Mukherjee played by Deepika Padukone are so clichéd and full of cheesy dialogues that you are left wondering, if it is same Farhan Akhthar who gave us Rock On.
Some of the dialogues are classically bad and need a special mention. Sample these…..
“ Kya tum mera fayda uthaogee agar mein piyoongaa”
“You are a safe guy”
Shonali has not had much luck with guys and has burnt her fingers many a time so when dude Karthik comes with his cheesy dialogues and 1980 dating style she completely falls for him. So much so that when she sees 1316 unsent email messages for her from Karthik she runs and hugs him. Lady when you see something like that you run away from the guy and not towards him. The second half of the movie is a bit interesting, but the director is unable to unfold the plot properly. The end is almost abrupt and it almost feels that even the director is bored and wants the movie finished soon….
Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Deepika Padukone, Ram Kapoor, Shefali Chhaya.,Vivaan Bhathena, Vipin Sharma, Yatin Karyekar
Director: Vijay Lalwani
Karthik Narayan, played by Farhan Akhtar is a meek young man who is bullied by everyone from his landlord to his boss and even the office boy.. Apparently he has had a troubled childhood which has made him diffident and submissive, a problem he is cognizant of and is seeking medical help.
Karthik’s personality takes a dramatic turn when he starts getting phone calls every morning from Karthik. Karthik calls Karthik to coach him to become self confident and to shed his inhibitions to chase the woman he secretly admires. With these calls the movie also turns dramatically towards ‘trying too hard’ scenes. While the dapper Farhan Akhthar is a toast to the eyes and the audience loves it when he gives it back to his boss, the same cannot be said about his antics to woo his lady love, Shonali Mukherjee.
Dating scenes between Karthik and Shonali Mukherjee played by Deepika Padukone are so clichéd and full of cheesy dialogues that you are left wondering, if it is same Farhan Akhthar who gave us Rock On.
Some of the dialogues are classically bad and need a special mention. Sample these…..
“ Kya tum mera fayda uthaogee agar mein piyoongaa”
“You are a safe guy”
Shonali has not had much luck with guys and has burnt her fingers many a time so when dude Karthik comes with his cheesy dialogues and 1980 dating style she completely falls for him. So much so that when she sees 1316 unsent email messages for her from Karthik she runs and hugs him. Lady when you see something like that you run away from the guy and not towards him. The second half of the movie is a bit interesting, but the director is unable to unfold the plot properly. The end is almost abrupt and it almost feels that even the director is bored and wants the movie finished soon….
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