A Bundle Of Contradictions

Finding Fanny, starring Naseeruddin Shah, Deepika Padukone, Dimple Kapadia, Arjun Kapoor and Pankaj Kapur, is a delightful, warm and sunny movie which (thankfully) doesn't have your typical Bollywood masala.

While most Bollywood movies are overdosed with drama and garishness, Finding Fanny is a rare gem which has been created with a tremendous amount of tenderness. It's a rare gem amongst the senseless potboilers that Bollywood has been producing since ages.

You might find most Bollywood flicks infested with the cheesiest jokes, physics-defying stunts and a bunch of highly unnecessary innuendos.

However, Finding Fanny is completely different.

Before we delve into the merits of this superbly well-crafted film, let's just get a few technicalities straightened out, shall I?

WHAT IS FINDING FANNY REALLY ABOUT? 

Once upon a time, there was a postmaster in a small Goan town (which you can't find in the map. So don't waste your time trying to search for it!). One fine night, wh…

I am going to give you my honest opinion.
I might be a bit brutal, but please bear with me.
So, I went to watch Gunday with my parents.
It was my mother’s idea. My mother is big on watching Bollywood flicks, especially of the ‘masala’ kind. She’s always loved watching these kinds of movies and she’s passed down this trait to me as well.
I was kind of eager to go too, because my best friend (who shall be called Scooby in this blog) said that it was good.
“It is so good!” Scooby said earnestly. “They have acted so well!”
Since I blindly trust Scooby’s judgment, I decided to give Gunday a shot.
The story’s about two refugees/immigrants from Bangladesh who make it big in Calcutta. It’s (supposedly) set during the early ‘70s and mid ‘80s. These two friends, Bikram and Bala (Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor respectively) first start smuggling coal and then they “branch out” their smuggling business to LPG, fishes (which are quite popular in West Bengal!) and timber from Burma.
These …

Yeah, so I saw Freaky Friday starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis yesterday.
Don't give me such weird stares (Which I know you're giving once you read the first sentence). The movie was released when I was, what, a six-year-old kid.
So now, I begin with the review.  ~~~~

A year after its release, I saw the movie Snow White and the Huntsman. I was planning to watch it with one of my friends, however we couldn't move further with our plans. Yeah, you could say we had busy lives and of course, this movie wasn't the latest adaption of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson or the Hunger Games which we simply couldn't miss. So yeah, we let it go. Like they say, you can't have everything, can you? However, when it was on TV last night, I didn't skip it like last time. Because A] I was super bored and B] I figured that writing a review for this movie would be interesting enough.
PLOT: 

As expected, story's based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale, only spiced up with amazing visual effects, far more violent dwarfs and a (?) clearer background on the Evil queen and the Huntsman.  It starts off with the queen (Snow White's mother) gazing at a solitary rose blooming in the snow. While trying to pluck the flower, she pricks her finger and thr…

I went out with one of my oldest friends to watch The Croods today.  And to be very frank. Do not miss the chance of watching that movie.  So anyhow, I'll get on with the review.
The Croods is basically about a family in the prehistoric period surviving the odds. There's an overprotective father, Grug, who is scared of trying out new things, whose basic motto is like, 'always fear because fear keeps you alive'. There is his wife, Ugga, and her mother, the granny (the best character in the whole movie. Reminded me a lot of my granny). There are his three children, the spirited Eep, the bumbling Thunk and the violent little Sandy.  One fine night, Eep sneaks out of the family's cave when she sees 'sunlight'. As she follows the 'sunlight', she meets up with Guy, a nomad who survives not through physical strength, but through ideas that pop into his head. Guy tells her that the 'sunlight' is called fire and also tells her about his theory of th…

Okay, so this is my second post in a few hours. I couldn't resist posting this.
Today was a holiday in our school, so I was at home. I flicked through the newspaper, trying to find scoop on what movie will be on today so that I could do my homework alongside as I watched the movie. I saw that 'A Cinderella Story' was there in HBO, so I switched it on at 12. I'd seen the movie once before and I loved it - I didn't care whatever insane things the critics had written about it. I just loved it because it teaches a lot of fundamental things and at the same time, is very funny.
So, I started watching the movie from the very beginning. It starts with a nine-year-old girl called Samantha Montgomery (Played by Hilary Duff - one of my favourite actresses) who says that her life has everything - what did she need a wish for? When things changed drastically. Her widowed father remarried this annoying woman, Fiona (Portrayed by Jennifer Coolidge)  who had two twin daughters fro…