A good movie and a pleasant watch
runab and me went to watch The Namesake. Before we begin, it is a good movie and a pleasant watch although the show was marred by a group of giggling girls and boys who found a whole lot of scenes funny. Kal Penn comes across as a good actor whose face shows the evolving emotions. Competent performances by Irfan Khan and Jacinda Barrett. Tabu's bengali accent is horrible to say the least and jarring at worst (I assume she did her own voiceover). Good to spend time watching if you are in the mood, don't bother with the stuff that appears to be totally "Bengali" those are bits you can overlook and yet enjoy the movie. By the way, I doubt 1977 in Calcutta (not Kolkata) had blue colored private buses (those came in a shade over a year back) and there was no The Telegraph (especially no side advertisements on road barricades)