Here's a disclaimer without any fine print before you proceed further.

Names, characters and incidents are partly this blogger's imagination and the other, partly Bollywood's.

Any resemblance to to actual persons, living or dead, events, locales are intentional and with abject frustration.
So help me God!


Dear Goldie Behl, did you really think you could pull it off?
I mean, to shoot a Desi version of Harry-Potter-meets-Narnia-meets-Never Ending story, with all the cliche's ever seen by you in the past five years thrown in and make yourself believe that it is a superlative movie! Come on, the aam junta maybe dumb, but they are not THAT dumb. Here's something to refresh your 'creative mind', if you are thinking about a loooong break after DRONA. Movies like Harry Potter, Narnia all ride on the strength of their Stories. Not on the pretense of one. The Special effects are there to give color to the story. Not the other way around.
And 22 Crore for the Villian's lair and special effects?!!!!!
What were you exactly thinking?


Alright. Here goes.

What do My Name is Anthony Gonsalves, Love Story 2050, God Tussi Great Ho, Chamku and Drona have in common?
As on October 20th, 2008, these happen to be Mme.Priyanka's releases for 2008.

Box Office verdict on the above releases- Disaster. Disaster. Disaster. Disaster. Disaster.
Thank God,atleast somebody is consistent with her performance all through the year.

A gentle reminder.
Even if the whole National media goes overboard panting, raving and more panting about Piggy Chops in Print, Web and on the Billboards, it doesn't exactly translate to success for the Movie.. Well, maybe for Piggy Chop's Bank account, but not for the Producers. So, in the long run, ummmmm..NOT a sensible idea. One day, they will see through it. There is a way out, though.
Learn acting and stick to it.


Ummm, well, it was a honest effort to give India a new Super-Hero which terribly backfired and to add insult to injury, skid sideways to the dustbin. It takes creativity to adopt an idea and make it Desi.
(Krrish is what I'm talking about).

And, Super Heroes with a difference is all what we look forward to, but giving Him a paunch is not exactly what we had in mind. Stupid of me to get all charged up by the eyeball-dropping figures that seemed to have been spent on the special effects of the movie. The Ramsay Brothers ought to be given a Life-time achievement compared to what we witnessed on screen. Face it, MOGAMBO can still teach you a thing or two about over-the-top histrionics that makes the audience love and hate the villian at the same time.
And I am very much sure, Shekhar Kapoor didnt have 22 crores to play around with for his Villian!

And am guessing the reigning Super Hero must have had a hearty laugh over the plight of this one, coming straight out of the screen, sword, paunch, et al.

No points for guessing who.