Nirvana 4 Me!

Directed by :- Dibakar Banerjee *ing : Emraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Kalki Koechelin, Prosenajit Chatterjee At a time when movies like Ferrari Ki Sawari and Rowdy Rathore were pulling in the crowds to the theaters, with mindless fare, Director Dibakar Banerjee tries to evoke the audiences’ grey matter with his slick and classy Shanghai .  The movie at best, can be termed as a reflection of the current state of our country.  The fictional town of ‘ BharatNagar ’ could be anywhere in India , drawing parallels with places in Orissa, Jharkhand, Chattisgargh or even Bengal .  Dibakar Banerjee sees through the state of affairs and indeed dares to speak up about the corporates-politician nexus.  The movie follows Dr Ahmadi, a social activist who is leading a people’s protest against an SEZ (Special Economic Zone) which is about to displace a huge population in a fictional town called Bharatnagar.  The SEZ is, but, projected as a for-development by the r...

Rock On! Dir : Abshiek Kapoor, Prod : Farhan Akhtar *ing : Farhan Akhtar, Arjun Rampal, Prachi Desai, Shahana Goswami, Koel Puri, Luke Kenny When one has grown up listening to Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd or Eric Clapton, a movie based on the lives and times of rock stars, automatically draws you onto the theatre. If one adds one's own middle life retrospect of one's own career, the theme of idealism verus realitic survival or rather.. a battle of 'what i could have become' and 'what i became', begins to resonate. This was what exactly happened last weekend or rather when I had that extended weekend - thanks to Independence Day - I could see three classic movies of recent times. The first one was 'A Wednesday', and then on the next day, that truly amazing trendsetting 'Dil Chahta Hei (DCH)' and on the third day, to round off that weekend, the amazingly made 'Rock-On!'. Seeing Rock-on was my second attempt at that movie, and when i finishe...