Movie Reviews

I've seen three movies in the past couple of weeks (two Hindi and a small independent American one).  Here are my thoughts.

'Bunty aur Babli' (Bunty and Babli) - An Indian version of Bonnie and Clyde.  Two idealists leave their families, realizing that they don't understand their dreams.  The guy, Bunty, believes his ideas are really great and that he could be an excellent businessman if someone gave him an opportunity.  The girl, Babli, wants to be a model and tries to sneak into Miss India pageants all over India.  The two of them meet at a train station, and after lying to each other about how great they are ("Yeah, I'm a really successful businessman", "Yup, I'm about to become Miss India"), they both finally tell the truth about how they both failed, but still don't want to go back to their families.  So, they decide that they'll try to succeed in another city.  But first, they'll need some money.  This is where the movie really begins, because to get the money, they concoct various schemes and plots to con people.  It's great fun.  I won't reveal too much more, because I know you'll be rushing out to see it once you finish this post, but I will say that the "world's most beautiful woman" makes a great cameo!
Grade: A

'Parineeta' (One who is married) -  This movie is based on a classic 1960's Indian novel based in Calcutta.  It's the story of two childhood friends who live next door to each other.  The guy is really rich, and the girl is really poor (yeah, I don't get how live next to each other either).  The movie starts with the wedding of the guy to a rich girl (who can't cook, and at a bizarre moment confides in someone else that she will kill him), and the rest shows how the relationship between the two has grown over the years.  It's a pretty interesting movie, and gives an insight to life in 1960's India.  No Aishwariya though (although the rich girl looks like she could be Ash's sis), so that knocks the grade down a letter.
Grade: B

'Batman Begins' -  Yes,  this is the small independent American movie that started last week.  Since it may slip under your radar, here's a brief synopsis: A boy is afraid of bats, primarily because he gets attacked by thousands of bats when he falls into the cave behind his huge mansion.   His fear forces his parents to leave the opera when grown men dressed as bats appear on stage.  When they're outside, he sees his parents get mugged and murdered, so he decides that crime is bad, and he needs to fight it at every turn possible.  He also realizes that he can't really fight crime as a man, so he decides to take the persona of a "Bat man," hence the title.  Pretty different from the previous Batman movies, but I saw a lot of similarities with the Spiderman movies.  Oh, and Katie Holmes is in it.  I'm waiting for the sequel.
Grade: A

I saw the first two movies with my mom, and the last one with 7 other people.  I'm surprised that many people came, considering an event I previously organized (my birthday dinner) was at a location that was shut down!  Yeah, so I told everyone the movie was at 7:30 pm, but bought tickets for everyone for the 7 pm showing.  Ah well, luckliy the theater wasn't crowded and they let us into the 7:30.

After the movie, some of us went to Cafe Brazil and we had a waitress, Jaime, who looked like the long lost sister of Jessica and Ashlee (who are also from Richardson!) .  She was kinda crazy, but then again, it was Cafe Brazil, and that's probably one of the questions on the application.