#MickeyVirus Attacks....and my system goes down down down!

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Alike many who couldn’t have waited to watch Manish Paul on the big screen, personally I am just disappointed.  Agreed movies are not always intended to portray reality but this plot is unbelievable and faulty to a point where I couldn’t even forge a connection to anything running on the screen, be it  a moment of thrill, comedy, love, remorse or suspense, all basically falling flat. I think Indian directors cannot sometimes do justice to highly technical subject matters, such as hacking crimes. On one end the director is trying really hard to make hacking look like it was a video game, hoping that every single person in the audience can relate to it – the uneducated, the grandfathers, the kids, the housewives as well as the young, techy, educated folks, etc.. However, this is an impossible task to achieve and maybe sometimes it is best to keep a movie targeted and honest to its subject.  By the way what shocked me most was that I saw kids(under 5) in the theatre. How did this movie not have an “A” rating? I thought a lot of the raunchy humor and the “so called romantic scenes” were sleazy. A movie totally overdone, there were several moments in the movie where I went like am I supposed to laugh at this? For instance, all hackers in the movie wear Tshirts  that have some smart-ass/ supposedly funny statement on it. The only thrill about the movie is that if you have managed to watch it till the interval, congratulations! You can tell others that you survived it.

There was once a movie called “Jaane Bhi Do Yaroon” which was also a comic thriller, years have passed since then but nothing compares yet and I would highly recommend you go watch that than waste your time on a movie that only wants to mess with your head in the name of being a thriller or a desperate attempt to be comical.  


Also Read my other recent blog posts
http://rachnagreviews.blogspot.in/2013/10/the-lunch-box-made-me-more-than-just.html
http://rachnagreviews.blogspot.in/2013/09/safety-not-guaranteedgenrecomedy.html



The #Lunch box made me more than just hungry!

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A story that touches your heart gently and re-kindles your soul.

Built on the background of a hustle- bustle of the city of Mumbai and the ever- efficient Dabawalas, the movie connects the life of  a middle class house wife (Nimrat Kaur) and a widowed, stern insurance claims clerk  who is up for retirement (Irfan Khan).  I always believed that Irfan Khan can easily outweigh performances of other actors, but I must say in this movie Nimrat Kaur has been equally good. The strong supporting cast with Nawazuddin Siddiqui,  Lillete Dubey,  and the not so forgettable supporting acting voice of Bharati Achrekar have made this movie an absolute pleasure to watch.

The movie is an exchange of beautiful letters between two strangers through the medium of a lunch box, I must admit that I was way too eager an audience to hear the voiceover of every letter and the story it told and may be even more excited to see the home cooked gourmet inside the lunch box itself :P

The clear message of the movie is that If you are ever caught in life situations and accept what comes your way, assuming that it is your destiny.. be it unrequited love, loneliness, old age, poverty, infidelity ,etc. you are in for a surprise, as the soul always knows it’s way out and the universe will work magically to get you there…perhaps to a place like Bhutan where the National Happiness Quotient is the highest in the world ;)..