Hello to The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time!

Kabhi kabhi mere dil mein khayal aata hai

Ki aisa hota toh kaisa hota, waisa hota toh kaisa hota;

Phir yeh sooch ke samajh tham jati hai

Ki jaisa hai woh bhi ka possiblities se kam hai!

The recent financial crisis is well-documented, discussed, debated, tiraded against - but does that make it go away?

Similarly flop actors, innane songs and mindless direction coming together with a "supposed" hit formula - does that a movie make?

Apparently so..U C, you and me, we dont know anything! The pros (let alone the fact that a shirtless sallu now looks haggard, old and overdone piece of beefcake rather than the 20-30 something dude hez supposed to be looking like) know it all bhai! Viewer gaya bhad mein - ek train-journey-time-pass book le lenge, 1980s inspired animal prints ek "lead" actress ko pehna denge (n the poor thing has actually managed a decent performance but the outfits kill it!!), aur thoda item numbers daal denge (however mindless, misplaced and stupid they sound), jazz up the whole thing - yeh toh hit hai!!

Badhiya hai!!

In this era of a global+vocal Indian, has bollywood lost its thinking cap somewhere on those overdone over-the-top dance numbers that they so many pains to design and implement but forget one key element - mostly these are not required!!!!!!!

Why do we undermine the importance of simplicity?

Or why do we assume that a hit book will make a hit movie?

Arnt we pulling a ass-u-(and)-me by doing so??

Full marks to Chetan Bhagat for creating a popular and immensely enjoyable(to most) book; also to the cute devil (he made me smile:-)) and Isha Koppikar for trying to make the story stick...but unfortunately it doesnt...It cant! Not if the thinking, expressive intelligent Indian has any say in what makes a hit..Look at "A Wednesday" - we need human stories that make some sense at some point in the movie or other....

Sometimes I wish we had a customer feedback after a movie - just like most people are rated on their "does he/she fulfill customer satisfaction" metrics...Unfortunately, in bollywood, customer aka. viewer is not king...No one asks please give suggestions on how to make your expeirence worthwhile and worththe moolah you had to shell out!!

Makes one want to curl up with a book like "the curious incident of the do in the night - time" - a brilliant piece of wrk i must say, and banish all the bollywood monsters to eternal flopdom - oof with their works!!!

Kash aisa bhi hota...

Yours disgruntled....