Reviews

The protagonist of this beautiful tale does not like his parents. Sure, all parents have problems. Our fellow does not want to be part of the problem, he wishes to understand true form of "Living with nature, the way life was", he wishes to escape all this hypocrisy and the race for riches and luxury, he just wants to BE. After graduating from college he donates all his life savings to charity, burns all his ID cards and starts a journey in search of Identity. His destination is the great Alaska and its pristine beauty.

Along the way we meets various people, does odd jobs, finds glimpses of joy, boundless energy, touches lives spent mourning loss, shares lives spent searching for happiness and meets lives spent "Living". Each one of them is a part of that Jigsaw puzzle our boy is trying to solve. The performance of folks on the road are extremely good, they make us share the bumpy ride, we understand their feelings and care for them. We also get to see the boy's parents in a new light. Its hard not to feel their pain caused by knowing they just might've lost him.

Every week, many of us spend a few hours thinking about life. We all long to escape from this "Routine". What we rarely realize (and this movie reminded me) is that beauty and happiness is everywhere. There is so much of it, that we don't have to "Escape". Its tough to understand what makes people do such seemingly drastic actions in life, take an adventure into the wild for months, live the life of a Hippie, be a nudist, be a rebel or just be different? Do we always have to look for a reason and if things go wrong, should we always have to place the blame ?

The movie is very beautiful and smooth. Acting is good all around, and the background score helps a lot to elevate the mood. I am very impressed by some screen shots, I just wish to take a picture and upload to my Flickr. I highly recommend this movie if u feel that longing... of just any kind. My friend Kesava said this recently..." We cannot explain every person's actions. It would be great injustice if we try and rationalize individuality and self expression". So very true.

Iqbal is all about a young village lad in northern India, who eats,sleeps and thinks cricket. His only goal in life is to play for the Indian team. A few obstacles in his path, he is deaf and dumb.. He is poor and cannot afford standard training. His father is not ready to let his son ruin his life in pursuit of a day dream. He does have a few strengths. He can bowl real fast, and has great support from his mother and sister. There is also a village drunkard (ex-bowler for the state team) who will be coaching him. The story here is about how he fights all odds.

While the story sounds very normal and often repeated, it is the taking of the movie that is brilliant. The cinematography is very simple. The rural village setting reminded me of the village where I grew up. The dialogues are witty and realistic without any dose of melodrama/sobs/tears. They seem to be inspired by "The Alchemist". The background score and the song are cool, and flow with the movie. There is no self-pity or "I-am-disabled-sohelp-me" kind of emotion. In fact, his disability ceases to be a factor within 10 minutes of the movie. The movie is very inspiring and entertaining. The acting is first rate. Nagesh Kukunoor (director) makes a good movie about cricket and great movie about "How not to give up what you like?".

This movie is very disturbing and tough. When I read through many user reviews about this movie, I was sad that they liked it for the wrong reason. This movie is not about glorifying bullies, it is not about showing funny in-out scenes. I feel it is all about the brain-wash one goes through while watching the movie.

The important thing in the movie is about choice. You cannot convert a person to good, if you don't teach him what is good. You have to expose them to both Good and Evil, and give them a choice to Pick the Good from Evil. The movie starts of with our 'Brother' Alex raping women, beating up friends and foes with sinister glee. Not everybody likes to be beaten up. Crime begets crime, and he finds himself in Prison, thanks to his equally bad buddies.

He exchanges his prison term for a Brainwash treatment, and loses his ability to enjoy the evil deeds he always liked. They now made him wish for a painless silent death. He has no choice, but to be good. That spoils the whole concept of reform and what we see from there is shocking and disturbing.

Good movie, but not for soft hearted people

Parineeta starts as a good painting of the rich Kolkata in 1960's. It tells us the story of Lolita(Vidya Balan) who is very strong and honorable woman. While the story is about relationship between Lolita and Shekar(Saif) who grew up together, it is also about Girish (Sanjay Dutt) who is deeply in love with Lolita. The story is intense with many shades of relationship. I cant tell you more without spoilers :)

This movie looks very beautiful (great cinematography). The Calcutta of 1960's is shown very beautifully.References to Elvis, Pandit Nehru, the Steam engine trains, and the Dairy milk of 1960's is all very pleasant. The Aakashvani in the background adds to feel. The acting is good all around with the newcomer Vidya Balan being absolutely stunning. She can act as beautiful as she looks, reminded me of Madhuri at her best. She is well supported by Saif Alikhan and Sunjay Dutt. The editing is good , screenplay elegant and the flow of the movie is like the hoogly after rains. The best part of the movie is its Music, both songs and the background, suits the movie very well. Full marks to Shantanu Moitra. Director shows great promise, and I hope to see many more good movies from him. Special mention to song sung by Chitra ... "Raat Hamari toh, chand ki saheli hai". Absolutely brilliant and soothing.

Piyu Bole , Piya bole, kya ye bole jaanu naa.

This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I say this a lot, but may be I should use it less frequently for movies like "Eternal Sunshine". Night 11pm in sunnyvale, feeling totally sleepy, I watched this movie and ended up feeling psenti about life and love. What would you do when an impulsive person you love erases you from her mind. This guy here decides to follow suit, and starts erasing her too. But thats when he realizes, along with the bitter arguments they had, there were many sweet moments they shared. He does not want to lose them, and tries to hide her in his memory. In all those places which she does not belong to, in his loneliness, childhood, even in his humiliation.

{SPOILERS} But when it all ends, they meet again. They fall in love all over again. They realize they are gonna argue, fight and dislike each other all over again. Bcos thats the way they are. But thats OK, bcos Deep inside they know, they are made for each other.

{ END SPOILERS } One has to relate with this movie to like it. One should know the pain, love, rejection and humiliation that we face every day in our life and still live on. We know we are gonna face tough times ... all over again... but thats OK. What do we do then? We enjoy the moment. We move on.

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!

Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd