The Bad

1. Darjeeling Limited

What it’s not:

It’s not a love story. It’s not a comedy. It’s not action. It’s not sci-fi. It’s not a movie that would spark even the slightest of synapses in your head. It’s not arty enough for me to be pompous and talk about the higher meanings of life. It doesn’t even have a female lead in the movie!

What it is:

It is an utter waste of time. It is a very bad description of India (The temple of a thousand bulls? One of the most religious places in India, it seems. Hey, if the foreigners said so, it must be true!) It is a movie made purely to milk curious and stupid foreigners cash with an outside view of the mystic India. It is a movie popularizing the nonsensical use of cough syrups, and other such items to get a high. (What, they never heard of beer?). It does promote the use of slow motion in the hope that we’ve never heard of slow motion and maybe we’ll be fascinated by it and consider it a ‘moment’. Yeah right, Wes Anderson.

Why I enjoyed it:

Hey at least me and my friends got a nice movie to poke fun at in the theater! Frankly, the first movie I was told to be quiet at by people seated next to me!

And it’s a great debating topic for me and one of my friends who loved the movie.

(Btw, it also has a nice folk soundtrack. But one plus point can’t save a whole movie)

Points to be noted:

1. Never assume anymore that a movie is a comedy because it has a comedian in it. Damn Owen Wilson.

2. Wes Anderson – Please watch Garden State. Tons of memorable moments and none of them involve slow motion or cows, carts, rickshaws or Indians with surprisingly American accents.

3. Get real, you arty types!