Australia and other stories

Luck by Chance is a decent movie. It stands apart amongst those scores of movies that hit the big screen every friday. Not a new topic but a different one. Somehow the treatment is done at a bit superficial level. Some mediawalas had speculated that Zoya was a dummy director and actual boss was Mr Farhan "DCH" Akhtar. I doubt that, coz the movie is nowhere close to what DCH or Lakshya was. However, the movie does give a feeling that this is made with Farhan in mind. He is all over the place and somehow has got the only character that has been given some importance. Sadly, his character is really single-sided. It might be really ameturish but I guess Bollywood Calling by Nagesh Kukonoor had some better insights to the movie industry (somehow they were painted with think coats of humor though).

Saturday was a hopelessly dull day. Somehow the winds are not favorable and there is a little amount of tenseness all around. Classes are geting a bit monotonous. It's been more than nine continous months of morning full of classes. We hardly got a break in this dull routine. Assignments are no more able to raise interest levels. I am desperately waiting for my summer internship in Marico to bring a welcome change.

Only good thing about yesterday - I watched Australia. Nice movie. I wonder why nobody makes such movies in Bollywood. We have a longer history than any other country in this world, still not many good movies were made telling us stories from our own history. For that matter we don't even have movies dealing with future. Aren't we overly indulgant in present?

To end the post, here is my favorite line from Australia -
"But in the end, the only thing that we really own is a story. Just trying to live a good one."