Remember the super hits like Dilwale Dulahania Le Jayaenge, Dil To Pagal Hai, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai? Apart from being the Shahrukh Khan films, what else do these, together with the latest flick Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi, remind you of?

Bull’s eye! Before you go through the first thirty minutes, you feel proficient enough to script the remainder of the story yourself. The story would progress from a happy beginning, then the happy duo goes through a lean patch but in the end the heroine would always run into the wide open arms of her ‘true hero’. The audience weeps during the entire duration and leaves with the happy ending! 

The over dosage of romance and love has been the chief ingredient of all. How perfect a formula was that. Not anymore! As clearly evident from the mixed audience responses to Rab ne…, these movies are no longer being appreciated. While the hardcore SRK and Aditiya Chopra fans have liked it, the responsive audience has shown it the door, bashing it as impracticable and predictable. 

Talking in a larger perspective the unrealistic expectations that have been set by these stories have made it difficult to sit through them. The impact has been particularly greater in terms amongst the youth. The adolescence is such a vulnerable stage of life that the storyline which portrays everything with so much of perfectionalism could easily frustrate anybody of his love life. The hypothetical parameters are set when you watch any of the typical Bollywood style ‘love stories’ and start fantasizing about your ‘to be spouse’. But the reality hits you damn hard when you start realizing the harsh realities of life. It gets too late to realize that the evaluation parameters employed were built on virtual foundations.

Dil Chahta Hai, Rang de Basanti, Life in a Metro, Delhi Heights, Taare Zameen Par and many like these have been critically acclaimed to be unbiased stories, much relevant in the contemporary world. The hard-hitting stories have shown the audience the true mirror of the outside world. The writers have made the audience relate to the story and portray the factual image. This has gained them ample admiration not only from the audience but also from their rivals and English counterparts. It’s high time to change the content of the cinema and make it more appealing to the youth rather than giving them false anticipations.

Music lovers here is a treat for you. Juno Soundtrack has it all. According to them juno-verse just got a lot bigger. this time it comes in a deluxe set with both Juno’s chart-topping soundtrack of classic and alt-rock gems with an extra disc of 15 more songs that were intended for the Academy Award. Sounds good right.
Juno Movie Soundtrack you probably must be already acquainted with. This just gets bigger with the bonus. I like Rhino’s social mission too. They say “Make a difference wherever we can” is a statement which carries a healthy chunk of Rhino’s soul in it. Perhaps the reason or the inspiration behind music from Juno
A bit of history. Founded by Richard Foos and Harold Bronson Rhino in 70’s Rhino label is name most music lovers already know.

Slumdog Millionaire consolidated its Oscar nomination chances last week winning a slew of key awards and by being nominated in four Golden Globes categories including best film, best director (Danny Boyle), best adapted screenplay (Simon Beaufoy) and best original score (A R Rahman). Widely televised worldwide, the Globes are given by Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Last week, the $15 million movie which has grossed nearly $6 million in North America in limited release in four weeks, was honored with two awards from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association including best direction and music, one from the New York Film Critics’ Circle, as well as six nominations for the Critics Choice Awards including best picture. It has been declared the year’s best by the National Board of Review. In London, where Slumdog also won best film at the British Independent Film Awards, also became a sentimental winner. ‘We are thrilled that we can hopefully bring some positive light to what has happened over there (the terrorist attacks in Mumbai) by honoring this film,’ board President Annie Schulhof said at the awards.  

The writer of one of the most beloved children’s books series – Harry Potter, JK Rowling had stated clearly that she will not kowtow to international pressure and write another book about Harry, his friends and Hogwarts ever again. With the recently released Tales of Beedle The Bard, Rowling sticks, though barely by the skin of her teeth, to her determined statement. 

Rowling has provided an interesting blend of unusual story-lines and a folky flavour to these tales and makes it a point to retain the most essential feature of folk tales – a moral - which is overwhelming in some stories (‘The Wizard And The Hopping Pot’). This is presented in unique ways in others. True to the style she had adopted toward the end of her Harry Potter career, she makes at least one of these stories absolutely brutal.

‘Raising Your Kids without Losing Your Self’ by Bria Simpson is a good read for women in general, and particularly for those who find themselves threatened by motherhood in such an enormous way that they almost perceive it as a career. The book offers suggestions for mothers who give up on many things along the way as they raise their children and feel a void when their children are grown up because they have focused too much just on raising their kids.

While the book certainly does not say that children are secondary; what it does is guide mothers in maintaining an interest in the world around her even as she proceeds to build a strong relationship with her family and her children. Written in simple language and with plenty of tips, it is bound to motivate those women who have marooned themselves on an island with only their children. Rediscover yourself is the message that the book wants to give all mothers.

An interesting name for a movie, this one starts on a sour note. There’s that terrible conceit, completely set up and given away in the trailer. While Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon never spend Christmas with their families, instead they both manage to get stuck at the airport while their families see them on the news (something that’s rather commonplace for a movie).

Some of the jokes viewed in the promo are very hilarious and original but the trouble is that because it is so funny that you would rater avoid seeing it in a movie. There are scenes where Reese who used to be fat is the butt of Vince’s jokes. There are also places when she gets trapped in the bounce house with a bunch of rowdy kids. And another one where a baby projectile-vomits on Reese’s cute black dress; so much for comedy!

It difficult to imagine a movie by the name of Australia without casting Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. And of course Baz Luhrmann would know about the making being Australian himself. The movie is narrated by Kidman telling a story to a young Aboriginal boy, and that appears to be the story as the movie depicts; about fighting for land during World War II. Much as you would think that a movie called Australia by Luhrmann would allow Kidman and Jackman to speak in their native accents; but that would be only half right since Nicole plays a British woman.

Tastefully shot, it would drive people want to visit Australia’s beautiful landscapes. But the promos of the film do not divulge much indication about what it actually is about, or who they’re fighting off, or even on how she and Jackman meet. Worth the wait for the movie.

Veteran actor and film maker Clint Eastwood’s latest offer, Changeling, has garnered appreciation from both critics and audiences for his sensitive treatment of a true story about a mother who claims that the boy returned to her after a kidnapping is not her own.

The film is set in the late 1920s and revolves around the Christine Collins, young working mother in Los Angeles who comes back home after work one day to find that her son has been taken away. Soon the police claim that they have found the boy but she at once recognizes that the child brought by the police is not her son. However, she is persuaded to take back the boy home, but Christine keeps telling the police not to give up their search for her son. She is then vilified and branded delusional but she keeps up her fight to confront the city officials and the corruption in the police department

The pivotal role of the embattled woman Christine is played feelingly by Angelina Jolie while other actors like Malkovich, Donovan and Harner deliver commendable performances. Eastwood’s direction is straight-forward and weaves seamlessly among several issues like women’s emancipation, civil corruption and impact of violence on communities.

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