This month seems to be one hellava month for movies this year. Here goes the list ( in order of my preference of watching them, high to low) -
- Aakrosh
- Rakta Charitra
- Khaleja
- Jhoota hi Sahi
- Alla Ke Bandein (for Naseerudhin Shah)
- Anjaana Anjaani
- Robot
Unfortunately I get to see Robot tomorrow, the least preferred one. That's quite a sizable list of movies to cover. Then there is matter of backlog that I need to cover - Aisha, Udaan, Peepli Live, Phiraaq. That's not all. I have this constant nagging in back of my mind to cover all the unseen movies of my movie database. I am pretty much sure every movie collector must be going through this. You see , it quite happens we download movies based on all the good talk, reviews, critical acclaim etc etc. and then we rest it. It's as if the task of downloading is seen as watching the movie itself. It wasn't always like this.
I remember the initial times, when speeds were of the range 30Kbps, I used to wait anxiously for the movie to complete and immediately watch it. With greater speeds the onus is more on making effective utilisation of the money spent and doing justice. Anyways, now with Mote gone and Sindu out of circulation, the movie watching interest isn't the same anymore.
At such times I really miss him and the gang quite a bit. Sundays and Saturday's have definitely dried up. I now see movies mostly by myself and each has been a disastrous one - Gaayam 2, Dabaang, Subhapradam. Almost all my time is taken up by selecting some random movie from HD and watching it thereby severely affecting my book reading habit, blogging, pursuing other interests like watching plays etc. Putting my heart out in post like this does help me time to time to realize that change should be within and that no one is responsible for how we go ahead from now on.
I need to pull my socks up and plan my weekends from now on before I go completely crazy. First and foremost change is to get out of my wrecking home. Anyways I have 5 more days to find out how it goes.
Coming back to movies, hopefully the ones I await, especially Rakta Charitra and Aakrosh would live upto my expectations. Its been quite a while since I have seen real hardcore action movies in Hindi/Telugu.
