Om Shanti Om, Lucky - No Time for Love and Jet Lag
I had a fun day yesterday with Old Schoolfriend. We met for lunch and went to this Nepalese restaurant she knew. The food was delicious. Afterwards we went to her place for one of our irregular movie nights.
Yesterday's movies were Om Shanti Om, Lucky: No Time for Love and Jet Lag (or Décalage Horaire). Even though the plot in Farah Khan's OSO was rather sketchy and served more to tie together the collection of film pastiches and star appearances. Still, it was highly entertaining and I was laughing a lot while watching it.
I'll just list some of my favourite moments in no particular order:
- the B-grade action picture which Om was filming, especially the fight with the stuffed tiger XD
- Mohabbat Man
- I really liked Deepika's performance in the film, both as Shanti and as Sandy. The ghost stuff was fun as well.
- Dard e Disco, the 'pain of disco' was hilarious
- I loved playing the "spot the star" game during some of the scenes/songs as well as trying to spot various filmi references, etc. I'm sure I missed quite a few, but I had fun with the ones I did manage to notice
- The Filmfare sequence was fantastic!!! Dhoom 5! Akki's Khiladi spoof! Rakesh Roshan saying that of course his son would win the award. Abhishek's reactions during the awards! Shahrukh's identical scenes, only wit two different actresses - I also liked that both of the actresses were people he hadn't really appeared with on film.
- the flip, smoothen, pat pat, hair routine every time Rajesh Kapoor was mentioned :D
- the 70s fashion...
- the sets were gorgeous
- I really liked the songs where they had grafted scenes and actors from old films into the same picture as the modern performers.
- I want an icon of pirate!Shahrukh - that scene had me seriously giggling :D
- Om's crush on Shanti in the past and how he tried his best to save her
- the OSO set and the 'story of OSO' song that was set on it were straight out of The Phantom of the Opera, as was the stuff with the giant crystal chandelier. Just look for yourself:
I'm sure there were some else, but these are the first that come to my mind.
Salman's Lucky: No Time for Love wasn't quite as much fun. Especially since I though Sneha Ullal's character was such a wet blanket, who spent most of the film being carried around by Salman's character. I did love the St. Petersburgh scenes, since the old palaces etc. were very beautiful, but the film does give an "interesting" view of Russia in general with the sudden insurgence and rebels blowing stuff all over :D.
In the story the Indian ambassador's son and the daughter of another diplomat get caught in the middle of a military rising and have to find their way back to their own paper while evading soldiers, rebels, etc.
Still, I quite liked the song picturisations. "Sun Zara", for example, was gorgeous. The scrolling ads during the songs on the Eros dvd were really annoying, though.
The third movie of the evening, Jet Lag, was entirely based on Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno's performances. In the film two strangers meet in an airport and due to circumstances (strike stoppping all traffic) end up spending the day and the night together in the airport's waiting lounge and the airport hotel.
At first it seems they have nothing in common, but slowly more and more layers of their characters and situation are revealed to the themselves and the viewers. In the end they both turn out to be lonely people who are a bit lost with their life and don't really know what direction to take next. This chance meeting, however, allows them to work out things and to move on. There is even some romance in the air by then time they part and go their own ways.
Yesterday's movies were Om Shanti Om, Lucky: No Time for Love and Jet Lag (or Décalage Horaire). Even though the plot in Farah Khan's OSO was rather sketchy and served more to tie together the collection of film pastiches and star appearances. Still, it was highly entertaining and I was laughing a lot while watching it.
I'll just list some of my favourite moments in no particular order:
- the B-grade action picture which Om was filming, especially the fight with the stuffed tiger XD
- Mohabbat Man
- I really liked Deepika's performance in the film, both as Shanti and as Sandy. The ghost stuff was fun as well.
- Dard e Disco, the 'pain of disco' was hilarious
- I loved playing the "spot the star" game during some of the scenes/songs as well as trying to spot various filmi references, etc. I'm sure I missed quite a few, but I had fun with the ones I did manage to notice
- The Filmfare sequence was fantastic!!! Dhoom 5! Akki's Khiladi spoof! Rakesh Roshan saying that of course his son would win the award. Abhishek's reactions during the awards! Shahrukh's identical scenes, only wit two different actresses - I also liked that both of the actresses were people he hadn't really appeared with on film.
- the flip, smoothen, pat pat, hair routine every time Rajesh Kapoor was mentioned :D
- the 70s fashion...
- the sets were gorgeous
- I really liked the songs where they had grafted scenes and actors from old films into the same picture as the modern performers.
- I want an icon of pirate!Shahrukh - that scene had me seriously giggling :D
- Om's crush on Shanti in the past and how he tried his best to save her
- the OSO set and the 'story of OSO' song that was set on it were straight out of The Phantom of the Opera, as was the stuff with the giant crystal chandelier. Just look for yourself:
Click to viewI'm sure there were some else, but these are the first that come to my mind.
Salman's Lucky: No Time for Love wasn't quite as much fun. Especially since I though Sneha Ullal's character was such a wet blanket, who spent most of the film being carried around by Salman's character. I did love the St. Petersburgh scenes, since the old palaces etc. were very beautiful, but the film does give an "interesting" view of Russia in general with the sudden insurgence and rebels blowing stuff all over :D.
In the story the Indian ambassador's son and the daughter of another diplomat get caught in the middle of a military rising and have to find their way back to their own paper while evading soldiers, rebels, etc.
Still, I quite liked the song picturisations. "Sun Zara", for example, was gorgeous. The scrolling ads during the songs on the Eros dvd were really annoying, though.
The third movie of the evening, Jet Lag, was entirely based on Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno's performances. In the film two strangers meet in an airport and due to circumstances (strike stoppping all traffic) end up spending the day and the night together in the airport's waiting lounge and the airport hotel.
At first it seems they have nothing in common, but slowly more and more layers of their characters and situation are revealed to the themselves and the viewers. In the end they both turn out to be lonely people who are a bit lost with their life and don't really know what direction to take next. This chance meeting, however, allows them to work out things and to move on. There is even some romance in the air by then time they part and go their own ways.