…Omkara yet?

Quite a watch, I must say. Firstly, I have to admit that I did not under­stand a lot of the dialect spo­ken in the movie. Not being a native Hindi speaker, most of my abil­i­ties were picked up dur­ing my 5 years in Mum­bai. And Mum­baiya hindi does not really help! But apart from that lit­tle obsta­cle, I would say that it’s quite a inter­est­ing adap­ta­tion of Shakespeare’s Oth­ello in an Indian setting.

Among the actors, Saif was impres­sive and so was Ajay Dev­gan and Konkona Sen Sharma (who is always such a delight to watch). The sur­prise for me was Kareena, who once, with­out make-up and her usual trade­mark pouts actu­ally puts in a decent per­for­mance as fair Des­de­mona (and fair she is :).

A must-watch from my side. And prefer­ably take one good Hindi speaker to get the translations!

The other movie that I enjoyed was Yun Hota To Kya Hota. The only thing I didn’t like about it was the over­dra­matic end­ing. I thought Naseerud­din Shah could have hinted at the events that took place instead of show­ing us all the details all over again.

Konkana is her usual good self : expres­sive and beau­ti­ful. The other cameo worth watch­ing out for is Boman Irani. Then there’s a cute curly haired nerdy kid who keeps spout­ing shudh Hindi and is appar­ently Naseer’s son. The only role that seemed a lit­tle over­played was Konkona’s mother-in-law. There was no expla­na­tion as to why she’s an Amer­i­can and her act really jarred. Mostly because she came across as a rav­ing lunatic with­out any par­tic­u­lar reason.

The movie deals with the ‘what if’ pos­si­bil­ity and don’t we all won­der about it sometimes :)

And another movie I really enjoyed was Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. Johnny Depp makes one hell of a sexy pirate and has some funny, witty lines that will keep you laugh­ing. He’s an amaz­ing actor and I can’t really imag­ine any­one else in that role. He gives Jack Spar­row an iden­tity that we are unlikely to for­get for a while. The end as usual is open-ended, thus paving the way for another sequel.