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Note: I did not hate Taare Zameen Par. Or Rock On. Or A Wednesday. Not even Black. But the excess praise that came to these nice, but far from extraordinary films really got to me. Somehow, too much unwarranted praise can actually make one dislike the film more and more and magnify its flaws even more.

TZP’s now gone to the Oscars, and while I could bet it’s not going to get anywhere remotely close to the nominations, and despite the fact that this comes almost a year after the film released, just thought I’d post this review, which says what I originally and really thought of the film. It happens to be one of my favourite reviews of a film (by me), and wanted to share it with everyone on PFC:

Okay, okay. Even as ecstatic reviews continue to pour in steadily, I confess that I am far from bowled …

Bura na mano holi hai .. holi hai bhai holi hai .. Bura na maano holi hai

The aforementioned used to be our (i.e me and my aawara delhi lodi colony waalas’) slogan during holi, while under this pretext we would apply colour to all the females of the locality who normally wouldn’t even bother to acknowledge us as human beings let alone Dudes/Guys/date-able etc etc ..

So we always used to do ghost-dating (HELLO !!! IF Ghost direction and Kamal Hassan can exist, why not GHOST DATING ??)

Why am i reminded of the same after reading this (and I must confess, after drinking two big glasses of BHAANG)???

“So what really went wrong between Aamir and Robert? “Why Robert is no longer part of the film, I would not know the back-story,” says Abhinay. He has just started casting for the film, which has been written by Los Angeles-based …