A Walk to Remember on the Notting Hill

It has been quite some time since I have caught any good romantic flick on screen. This saturday I had the luxury of watching two, Notting Hill and A Walk to Remember.

Lazying on a Sunday Evening ..

Sunday evenings can't get any lazier. To me this day of the week heralds long hours of unwanted sleeping, ultimately leading to the semi intoxicated state through out the rest of the day. Evenings are the time when you start looking at the week ahead and for me the very thought of attending all those mundane meetings drains out all the enthusiasm. Albeit at a slower and lower note, this year things have started looking better. With my B school decisions on the horizon, there are lot many things that I need to plan accordingly. Well, I guess that's all for now and I would keep this blog updated.

Life to Books to Movies

To be honest, it arouse me from the deep soporific state I was in when it came to watching Bollywood flicks off late. Having read "Five Point Someone long back", and having known the tenacity, passion and youthfullness with which the book was written, I have long become an avid CB fan. To me, visual rendition of any classic book didn't sound much exciting, leave alone the very thought of watching one. But in this case, even though the book was not a classical literary work, it had enough in it for each one of us to connect with. Besides the amazing set of actors and some wonderful, soulful and touching music, I decided to watch the movie with few friends. The basic plot germinated from the book and to around 40-50% the movie did seem very close to the book. Had it not been for the amazing work put down by Aamir, Boman Irani,Chatur, Madhavan and Sharman, the movie wouldn't have been what it is today. Aamir as usual was brilliant with his on screen childish innocence. Madhavan and Sharman complemented him well and were able to take the audience back to their rigorous and fun filled engg-college days. As expected, the movie had typical bollywood styled unpragmatic things put into it. But they were all interwoven nicely with the original plot. The way stories were told and events happened were almost seemless. The added fun was a character who happens to start the movie with a bet placed amongst the friends long back. All in all the movie crew did an equally good job at executing the movie. IMHO (In My Honest Opinion) there is no need to bicker over any attempt of plagiarisation. The author of the book deserves due credit for having given us such a wonderful story and the movie crew need to be applauded for rendering it well on the screen.

My favourite one liner from the movie: "Never chase success, chase excellence and success shall follow." A Very simple statement, even simpler to understand but something that gets lost in this mad rush to get ahead of others.

My favourite song: "Give Me some Sunshine, Give me some Rain..."

All iz Well....

Aal iz Well !!