After a round of deli­cious siz­zlers at Pop Tates, I watched 3 Dee­warein with sis­ter (it was her bday) and my friend G last week and thought it was quite an inter­est­ing movie. I mean after all the strange tales they roll out these days, it was refresh­ing. And with­out the songs — what a relief. What I like about Nagesh Kukunoor is that at least he tries to explore other themes. I liked Naseerudin’s char­ac­ter and some of his dia­logues were really witty. Espe­cially, about leav­ing a ‘patli galli’ open at all times. Makes sense now, doesn’t it?!

Some­times, after a sub­stan­tial dose of Eng­lish movies, sit­ting through 3 and a half hours of a Hindi movie can be a really tor­tur­ous expe­ri­ence. But in the absence of noth­ing close to decent play­ing in the the­atres (I don’t think Naked Weapon is a film!), we’re doing a round of Hindi movies right now. We’re on a major movie watch­ing spree and we can’t seem to stop!

Last evening we watched Koi…Mil Gaya (finally!). A decent per­for­mance by Hrithik Roshan. No won­der everyone’s rav­ing about him. He’s good as the men­tally chal­lenged guy. You can almost feel a tug at your heart­strings when he gives that inno­cent smile. And then there’s the rather endear­ing alien. While the ET inspi­ra­tion can­not be missed, it was good effort to try and go where no Hindi movie has gone before.

Tomor­row, we’re watch­ing the first day first show of Kuch Na Kaho. After the dis­mal per­for­mance of Mum­bai Se…, I am sure AB baby is pin­ning his hopes on this one, but some­thing tells me that this might not be his much wanted hit either. And Sukanya’s review con­firms my sus­pi­cion. Some­times, I feel for these guys who work so hard to cre­ate magic on the sil­ver screen, wait­ing for that elu­sive hit. The media too is really hard on them, repeat­ing the fact at any given oppor­tu­nity that ‘he’ or ‘she’ has not deliv­ered a ‘hit’ yet. There’s so much pres­sure, so much rests on that one movie, that I won­der how they cope. I mean, look at AB — is it his choice of roles? Or is it that he doesn’t have what it takes? Or that luck just isn’t in his favour? What­ever it is, hope he cracks it soon!

On the movies trail, I’m plan­ning to go around Fort tomor­row and pick up some old Eng­lish flicks to watch at home. Any suggestions?