Hello… Hello!! Hello???
Huh… I am really bored beyond any limits this week. First was that Heroes thing. So called movie which sucked more than a class A vacuum cleaner does. I know, people will repeat the sayings, Do not watch Bollywood crap and stuff, but I watched it the day I wrote the article on Heroes and it was, once again, a classic case of peer pressure. :p My mom’s sister had come to Sangli and she wanted some time out and I was the guinea pig. (don’t mind mavashi bai. I am just making controversies and trying to increase some hits to my blog). So, I went to watch hello with her.
Let me make one thing clear first, I have not read the book, One night at the call center, so I cannot compare the movie with the book. I will just write the review. I am, once again, not going to waste the valuable time of mine (which I spend watching House MD these days) trying to avoid the spoilers. Let me start with the experience at the theater. There were, in all, 13 of us (including the person who checks your tickets) in the theater. I was dreading the worst. Also, having seen Heroes the day before, I was sure I was not going to watch anything worse than that for a LONG LONG time. I was right. Even though there was a heavy draught in the population in the theater (a strange thing in India), the movie was far far better than Heroes.
Please, read the last line again before bashing me. It was far better than Heroes but it is not what you may call a good movie. I am tired (a lot) so I am not going to go into details. I will sum up the movie, the extras Salman and Katrina are in the movie because they do not have a better work to do. Singers (all of them) suck. All songs are very bad. Salman still goes naked (half :p) on screen. Sharman Joshi looks promising (way way better than in Style). All 3 babes are hot (especially Gul Panag)(My previous theory about spellings of names remains the same). Story is weak and it becomes completely outrageous in the ending scenes.
The end is, they, the call center people, call people in US, telling them that they have a virus in their computer and that they should keep calling the call center people to make sure they are safe. I mean, WTF?? If anyone tries that prank (so called method to increase the revenue and call volume, just to save jobs) then they will be sued in court, fined heavily and have their license cancelled. Do they think all the people who watch the movie are stupid? If anything like that gets pulled, then people from all the Internet security people will jump to be first, find out that it is a prank. They will be sued as I said. It is ridiculous.
Second thing, which may not be the opinion of others is Sharman Joshi and Gul Panag. She leaves him for some NRI guy to get married with cause Sharman is not rich and all. After 2 years (or more, it is not so clear in the movie) of companionship, she leaves him just like that. Then, 4 months after that, she comes back to Sharman and says sorry and all. I was delighted to see him say no to her and walk away. Which is the right thing to do. However, like in all stupid hindi movies, he thinks he made a mistake, chases her car on Sohail Khan’s bike and proposes to her and all… I mean, again, WTF. This is the practical approach which people lack. It is not, aao jaao ghar tumhara thing. You cannot behave like that and expect to be forgiven (watch the marathi drama, Olakh Na Palakh, it handles this situation very well) just like that… So, I do not agree with this thing, at all… people might. So, I will leave it to readers to comment on this issue and start some discussion. As for the rating, it is -C.
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I walk this empty street on the boulevard of broken dreams.. blah blah.. and I walk alone :’(
Quiz_Master October 29th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
BTW! Stop watching movies and start studying :p