Chalo Let's Go

Saw Chalo Let's Go by Anjan Dutta. This time the audience was me and my parents. A sort of travelogue with four frnds' and a bus full of characters. Four frnds takes a bus full of individuals to a tour of picturesque Dooars. Very urban characters but nicely weaved together to portray the complexity of adult life. There was a typical central kolkatan bourgeois who just complains about everything on the tour. There was a professor reading sleazy magazines wrapped in brown cover and claiming it to be his research papers. The cast was wonderful as was the panoramic locals of North Bengal. But best thing about the movie was the music. There was the song 'Chupi Chupi' by Rupankar and Ujjyani which I've been looking for a long time. I heard it in some reality talent hunt show and ever since I'm looking for it. Its an wonderful composition and brilliantly rendered by Rupankar. Hat's off to Neel Dutta. Listen to it if you've not yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZxugKl2MI

Adios........

Julie & Julia

Yesterday I watched a movie named Jule and Julia *ing Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. The movie is based on Julie Powel's book with the similar title. I got the name from a list at IMDB and decided to give it a try.

It was based on the life and passion of two women from different era with one common interest cooking. But more than cooking it was how they overcame the boredom of their regular life with the same passion. Cooking gave them the purpose in life and helped their true identity. They both connected with the world through cooking and reinvented their true identity.

It was a fare chronicle of the two lives separated by time and place. But the movie didn't raised any emotions and seemed quite blant probably because of the dull script. It was more of an docufeature to me.

I won't watch this movie if i get another chance.

December 19th 2009