Change Your Image
pavi-singh
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Interstellar (2014)
Interstellar - A Interspace Endeavor that Stanley Kubrick would have Enjoyed
INTERstellar – is not easy, not easy at all on your senses. It requires helluva effort to keep attention to the details, clutter-free your mind from all the dodgingly & myriad theories we have been fed on while absorbing the movie sequentially, peacefully yet trying to keep mental pace directed. Most joyful things about the movie, before I start: InterSTELLAR marks a yet again a great reunion of the Nolan brothers. Great to see Michael Caine and listen to Hans Zimmer's mesmerizing sounds uncertainising every scene. Anne Hathaway has a new look while Matthew McConaughey is simply perfect essaying the role of main protagonist. AND notice this – bridging the past to the present in the movie (subtly), very prominently it shows a Solar Powered Drone belonging to the Indian AIR FORCE (that has been hovering wildly for 10 years). From the first scene itself, your mind starts playing a intricate musical connecting you to one too many cinematic events chronologically. You get reminded of M Night Shyamalan's SIGNS – those vast agri-landscapes. As you nip a bit –the sensuality of SIXTH SENSE can't be missed. Moving on, its CONTACT for Armageddon's mission onto the a very intricately complex domain that tries to touch a chord deep within – starting with GRAVITY, it glimpses at THE BLACK HOLE; takes a closer clue from 2010: THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT and then steering towards EVENT HORIZON, veers into melancholy of OBLIVION – PROMETHEUS - MOON; yet again to ride back into ELYSIUM. You watch the movie and you would notice your mind driving at a breakneck speed of thought processing – trillions of permutations and combinations to pave a straight simple path::: its not easy, we know:::::::: its not easy that, the NOLAN brothers knew. Last year GRAVITY re-marked the expected standards and interSTELLAR stands by that, it also endeavors hard to touch the masterly 2010: THE YEAR WE MADE CONTACT. While INTERstellar is a labour of Nolan's love for the relativity laden timespace, I felt it tried to come closer, even touch but just couldn't tip CONTACT. But here once again STANLEY KUBRICK remains the king with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, the master of it all. INTERstellar would remain with me for some months as I would enjoy watching/ noticing certain tidbits again and again (like I had to do with Inception) while I would exalt Christopher to attempt another endeavor into cinematic prime. Before we embark on interstellar, it shall be a good idea to re-watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, glance through Stephen Hawkins 'A Brief History of Time' while googling Kip Thorne. I remember reading an article in 1988 about the proposed space bull-dozers that should have been put to work to gather space debris and construct(if that is the right word) by 2020 a interspace travel gateway – the black hole somewhere near Jupiter and Saturn. If you happen to notice, by some calculations, all such theorists have earmarked rendezvous somewhere near Jupiter – Saturn juncture to make this possible. Look at all the movies and you would get the clue. Space probes have been in hot pursuit for that in the last few decades now. NASA's Juno would be at Jupiter in 2016 while ISRO joins as a helping hand to make manned landing possible on Asteroid by 2025 and on Mars by 2030. And that's what gives me the jitters, I am not sure; if Nolan (with his deep insight) is nudging us/ forewarning us of the apocalypse. Leaving Earth may not be far away – and that's leaves me onto the movie MELANCHOLIA.
Chaar Sahibzaade (2014)
Chaar Sahibzaade - Truly Avante Garde Movie Making
This is one of the best movies so far I have seen in the last few years. Definitely a very well presented animated movie. The whole process of film making has gone through a very high grade of conceptualization, planning and execution. Truly, the age of fine animation has arrived in India. This movie is nothing short of a visual treat of intense labor that presents a fine narration of history for one and all. It visually movie like any finely made movie. We were really moved by the collective effort put in by the team. Despite presenting a capsule in the history of Sikhism, the movie is not religious in any sense. It presents a great learning for the kids and adults alike. Serving the purpose for which it has been made, the movie definitely delights you all through with its perfect animation, narration, dialogs and music. A must watch and it inspires others to make similar movies.
Highway (2014)
Highway - all the way
'HIGHWAY - Imtiaz Ali' Its all the way just my way or the Highway
Imtiaz Ali is NOT the 'on your face' kind of Director but he certainly is very well on the saddle/the hand behind the wheel
totally in control. So whether you like it or not, the story simmers and seeps through the crevices deep into your veins, slowly, no hurry; no intention to make any point.
It's Imtiaz all the way and he sure, is a wanderer
subtly like all his earlier movies (jab we met/ rock-star/ 'Love Aaj Kal'/ 'Socha Na Tha'), he shall take you on a ride to India and make you realize how much you have missed all these years, not wandering. He is probably the guy who could have easily fitted well with NatGeo. May be he lives the moments that he wants to live – through his movies, may be he entices you, invites you to live/ relive those moments, may be
.
So this 'Highway'
also moves. It lives up the name, a constant hum of alternate emptiness while the visuals zip past, picture perfect - perfect, anamorphic widescreen shots; just the right exposure wherein the inter-wined scenes give out an Expanse all around. Lot of bonnet- front panned shots which open up visual sectors wide angled as you move ahead, these and those reverse shots from where the camera turns a full 180 degrees to take you back to the front. I mean, achieving all this in a feature film is tremendous especially when the whole movie is shot with natural lighting. And along with it, a subtle (not loud) story chugs along beautifully. Nothing is aggressive ever, even when people get aggressive once a while
it's a highway, remember!
Imtiaz had this passion of sanctifying the childhood. He does that in all the movies; it keeps his present intentions well heeled in what went by. It's always important for his stories. Sure then, the protagonists are always trying to free themselves up, get out there in the open. Its an yearning, well yearned for! It keeps the things in perspective, unbound!!
To sum it up: you can't just be passive, nonchalant, yuck-Yanky in Highway. It sure breathes in some restlessness, differently for every different people; you want to react, getup, breathe out!!! And Highway helps you gulp out the welt, 'welp'! The narrative is smooth, the lessons are bitter; dialogs are simple, sound is perfect, music is just the right amount and blend (AR Rahman).
What would you look for --- Imtiaz Ali, who has a different script (always) and is amazingly observant while being silent (always shows you both sides of the coin in all his movies – while slyly hinting at the upper class society), Strong female lead as always (even Alia Bhatt has been made to act – high notch, very promising now), Randeep Hooda – just fantastic, very original, very mature, needs to be casted more often (if only Gunday was made with him and Ranveer), India – because you still haven't seen it all, felt it –need to be on a highway.
What not to expect – 'Totta Maina Ki Kahani', 'Naach Gaana' PT style, bubbly looks, third-rate jokes.
That's Imtiaz's way or take the Highway!