09-06-2006, 02:43 AM
Saw two movies on DVD- Corporate and Omkara and one- Aap ke Khatir in theater.
Corporate and Omkara were slick. Coincedentally both had Bipasah Basu in them. In Corporate I noticed that the film makers could get away with quite a lot for item number dances by having a Sufi type of song. The new villans are the new business class suing their connections to the poltical class.
Omkara is an adaptaion of Shakespeare's Othello set in Eastern UP. The rendtion was quite good but had a few jarring notes- excessive use of profanity, unnessary violence, and use of upper caste gangs. Has the lot of the upper castes fallen so low in UP that they resort to gang violence? One departure from Othello was that Iago's villany is purely for villany's sake while Langda is thwarted gang member who destroys the leader.
Aap ki Khatir was good time pass comedy. It does deal with betrayal between siblings. Lilyette Dubey is growing as an actress. She was in Corporate too.
Corporate and Omkara were slick. Coincedentally both had Bipasah Basu in them. In Corporate I noticed that the film makers could get away with quite a lot for item number dances by having a Sufi type of song. The new villans are the new business class suing their connections to the poltical class.
Omkara is an adaptaion of Shakespeare's Othello set in Eastern UP. The rendtion was quite good but had a few jarring notes- excessive use of profanity, unnessary violence, and use of upper caste gangs. Has the lot of the upper castes fallen so low in UP that they resort to gang violence? One departure from Othello was that Iago's villany is purely for villany's sake while Langda is thwarted gang member who destroys the leader.
Aap ki Khatir was good time pass comedy. It does deal with betrayal between siblings. Lilyette Dubey is growing as an actress. She was in Corporate too.