Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Random notes on Guru

1. I thought the attempt at humour failed a bit. Aishwarya Rai saying in the train "Hai re! Chain se ro bhi nahi sakte hum". Abhishek telling Motabhai "Tu itna badsoorat hai, is liye ro rahe hai", and so on, just don't work.

2. A better actor than Baby AB would have done justice to the role. Baby AB is unconvincing.

3. Aishwarya is zillion times more tolerable than in Dhoom-2.

4. Lot and lot has been written about the cinematography. Apart from the initial flourishes, it was pretty average. I especially dislike it when slow-motion is used and frames transition isn't smooth (less number of frames per second, which are unable to support them slow-motion). I don't know the tech jargon for this, but RDB also used it and it gets on my nerves.

5. The movie just talks in punch-lines. There aren't too many details about what Guru actually does to become that successful (Its literally a montage of 4 shots where his company grows from 10 people to 10000). I would have liked lesser time for side-plots, so that the main story was more elaborate.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your random notes still do not convey your views on movie.

In my opinion movie was so fast that even AB Sr. couldnt have done justice to the role. In one shot Gurubhai imagines stadium full AGM and whoa next scene it is so!! hahaha! Thats a super growth without actually showing what is being done actually. Also I felt that picture was promoting unfair means to achieve anything you dream about.

And btw I disliked the 'gamandi' smile (it was not a smile with pride) AB would give at all AGMs.

AM.

P.S. if AB Jr = Dhirubhai then who was Mithun in real life?

Abhi T said...

Itna jamaa nahi movie. I found it ok. It was not a full review, hence no views.
Agree with smile.
Mithun is Ramnath Goenka from Indian Express.
Again right about promoting unfair means. I don't think, director had to justify Guru's behaviour so much as he does in the end. If there are people like that, then its fine, we can accept and understand. But what they do is illegal and unethical and that is something we cant espouse.

Anonymous said...

Where has/is the India gone/going?!

Munnabhai - A gunda promoting fair practice for someone else's rights!

Gurubhai - A business man using unfair means to fulfill own dreams!

AM.