It's so sad that it's not playing here.

What a stupid lil film

This is what I can "a bad film pretending to be a good one" - there is no redeeming quality for the movie..., some called it edgy - the only edginess I saw was me sitting on the edge of my seat trying to get out of this movie. Personally I saw this as one long ad-film with its 'cool' camera angles and color rendition, it was trying really hard to sell itself with no "naturalness" and yeah and whatz up with all this english halla-gulla , i def prefer an ordinary Hindi film over this one ( Bunty aur Bubly here I come !) .

I say zulmies stay away from it ..., unless of course you want to experience it yourself

Dam! That’s put the dampers on a promising movie.

Ali

I was really looking forward to it but now I might reconsider

f*** off!! is it that bad?
I was gonna go see this tonight, I actually had the time too. I guess I won't now. Thanks for your input. My instinct was telling me that this might be the only other Indian film I'll see this year that might complete with quality of Rang De Basanti. Shoot.

BTW, dvdisoil, have you seen The New World yet?

Well, I would like to experience the film myself.

DvdCollector, please do see this film. I would really like to get your feedback on this film. Have to know your opinion on this venture before I got out and see it. It's been getting positive buzz from the respected reviewers on the net.

I don't know. That sounds pretty good to me I've always admired indian ads, and always wonder why they can't make films in the same/similar fashion they do ads.

but then again, business doing well is a "no no" in my book, cause most of the films that do well are pretty crappy

I will let you guys judge for yourself - I def didn’t like it .., just to give you some

**** spoilers ****

- the movies portrayal of its various characters is very shallow, I feel eccentric folks are edgy because it’s their way of life not because they choose to be, Neither can you blatantly see nor can you subtly infer the nuances of these characters ...., something I was really looking forward to in this "noir" movie!

- The so called jump-cuts employed in the movie are very distracting (I doubt if it’s on purpose)

- Freudian nightmare : personally this is a sore point of the movie - the dream sequence that clues in on the "objectives" of Saif are well done but again i hated its consistency. The dream seems to simply unveil the ‘plan’ ,which I though was weak.

- English dialogs are very clichéd -funny when a movie tries to break all the rules but ends with a bunch of them !

There could be more or less depending on how you see it - over all I feel the movie is very weak and amateurish


DVDCOLLECTOR - I am yet to see New World , none of the theaters show it here ( ** yet **) , I did see a bootleg copy in the market but I want to wait and get the good version for this beautiful movie (release date May ?) – I am looking forward to it.

I might catch it next week, if it's still playing here. Instead, I saw Socha Na Tha last night.

I still haven't seen it, but from what I've heard, it is what I feared. It is India trying to do something different so they would be recognised internationally, but not doing it well at all (e.g. Private Detective). Let's face it, there is a lack of talent in Indian directors. We can hope, but don't let your hopes get too high.

From the clips it doesn't look like the English dialogue is delivered well. The actors apart from Nasser and saif are not used to English as well as their mother tongue. A clip showing Saif shouting "Why did you clip my wings?" in a fake American accent put me off.

In my opinion the best ever English movie to come out of India would have to be ENGLISH AUGUST, hands down! This movie comes nowhere close, but, but, but.....its still nice to see something like this being attempted. A lot of trouble has been taken into creating the look - the old Panchgani mansion, the rickety Mumbai apartment complex....in the end though the script lacks whats needed for a well-rounded feature film. It would have been a terrific 1-hour telefilm perhaps.

It has some nice lines. The acting by Naseeruddin Shah was fabulous. He is so surely zoned out, playing his character to the hilt. Catch the interrogation scene with the cop as he stares into the lamp seeing his 'consteallations' in his pot stupor (you'll have to see the flick to understand). Also all the Bawa dialogues in Gujarati are superb(and unfortunately no subtitles here to make non-Gujju speaking people understand it). Dimple is very bad, screechy as hell and irritating. Saif is ok. I feel his transformation was not well handled, too damn smooth to my liking. Simone Singh is a pleasant surprise. The cop is superb(forget his name) and his dialogues are the funniest.

Overall you can watch it once. I would suggest waiting for the DVD rather than going to the theatres. Its certainly not a bad attempt for a first time director.

I really don't know what to exactly make out of this film. It's perhaps the first modern Independent Hindi/Gujurati/Parsi/English film with an extensive mainstream cast of it's kind. Which evidently, for the sake of cinema progress, this film should be nourished at any cost. The film itself isn't terribly bad, but it suffers from it's heavy-headed Freudian philosophy. I suppose the opportunity cost of watching any other recent Indian(read: Hindi) film would have been a far less engaging experience.