What I Thought Of Oscars '09

It sucked! The one year i was able to watch the oscars from start to finish without having to get ready for school and it sucked! I was totally disappointed and i'll tell you why:

1. Best Film: Why wasn't The Dark Knight recognised as worthy contender for this award??? That movie had everything you could POSSIBLY ASK for in a movie! I know people who normally don't watch Action movies who loved this movie! Slumdog winning is OKAY! It's a good movie, it isn't brilliant and i certainly don't think it deserves such an accolade but then again movies like "Shakespeare In Love" and "Titanic" have won it, so that doesn't say much about the voters!

2.Best Actor: I haven't seen The Wrestler, but i still think Mickey Rourke deserved to win. He swept every other award (except for S.A.G) and SEAN PENN's ALREADY GOT AN OSCAR! Give it to someone else! Yes Sean Penn is an awful lot like Harvey Milk in his mannerisms, but that doesn't beat someone overcoming so many obstacles, making a comeback in the industry and winning every other award! That's a slap on the face!

3. Best Actress: Oh my god! It was so cliched!!! Before the show everyone said Kate Winslet would win and give one of her breathless speeches. Guess what? That's exaclty what happened! Okay, yes she deserves an Oscar, sucks to be nominated 6 times and not win even once. But look at Peter O'Toole, 8 nominations (correct me if i'm wrong) and not one award! The Reader isn't great and i wasn't particularly dazzled by her stoic, proud Nazi German character!

4. Best Foreign Film: Ok so i thought Waltz With Bashir would win. It won at the Golden Globes, and most people thought it would win! Wiki it and read about the movie! It sounds really interesting! I honestly don't know how a movie about a retired musician who becomes an undertaker beats Waltz With Bashir!

Lastly, to all my fellow Indians who are so ecstatic by the Slumdog sweep! Dudes! This is not India's night! The screenplay writer is British, the director is british, the producer is british, the main protagonist is british, i believe that makes it a BRITISH movie! Don't be so delusional! It's ridiculous the way everyone is hyping this win out here in India! You should actually be ashamed of the fact that it took a foreigner to make such honest depiction of India!

Delhi 6 Disaster!

It's quite clear from the title i've given this post:

a) I'm talking about the latest Rakyesh Omprakash Mehra movie - Delhi 6

b) I didn't like it!

You don't have to agree with me, but this is what i think of the movie! In a word - r.a.n.d.o.m! The first half of the movie is just several scenes put together haphazardly, it's like a 4 yr doing a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces of ten seperate puzzles! I honestly thought i'd lost all possible comprehension of hindi, because i just didn't know what was going on! But i found solace in the fact that my friend, a 'Delhiite' who also came to watch the movie didn't gather much from it either.

After the intermission things just got worse. Partly because i stopped trying figure out what was going on and partly because you cannot have a two and a half hour film which addresses its issues in the last half an hour! Abhishek Bachchan's new found patriotism, the sudden outbreak hindu-muslim riots in this happy peaceful neighbourhood and a new romance blossoming cannot be dealt with properly in half an hour! In my opinion the film lost massive credulity with the ominous "Kaala Bhandar" who kept sabotaging the neighbourhood's attempts to enact the Ramayan. This just didn't make ANY sense, though it provided for some humour in the beggining! The story was just poorly woven. All in all, it was lika 'Rang De Basanti' was added to 'Swades' and then thrown against a wall to create 'Delhi 6'!

Of course there is a light at the end of this tunnel. A.R Rahman's music is excellent, it's way better than the Slumdog Millionaire score. "Dilli 6" is my personal favourite. The score combined with excellent cinematography is what saves the movie from falling into an abyss! It's clear from the beautiful shots of Delhi that Omprakash Mehra's heart was in the right place when he was making this movie, but it sadly lacked proper execution! Watch the movie for the cinematography, if you're from Delhi or have been to those parts of Delhi, those scenes will take your breath away!

Rating: 2/5 (wait till it comes on TV, it's not worth paying Rs. 100)