The movies of 2006 ..

This year was sure the best one among the past few years.Got to see some of the finest in Hindi and Telugu.
Hindi Movies we had Rang De Basanti , Lage Raho Munnabhai , Omkara , Dor , JaaneMan , Pyar ke side Effects ,Fanaa and the musical Gangster.And there were D2,Krisshh ,Don .
I loved LRM,RDB,omkara and Dor a lot.The entire gang in RDB , combination of cicuit and Munnabhai in LRM, Langda Tyagi in Omkara and Gul / shreyas / Ayesha Takia in Dor were awesome.The finest performances of the year.
After long time , we had problem of plenty.all the above mentioned four movies were good enough to make mark at oscars.
Among actors ,the year belonged to Saif for Langda Tyagi.I reckon he is one of the finest actors around ,right now.And he should get truckloads of awards for the character.

RDB had nice blend of so many actors ,all came up with good performances.Maddy excelled in cameo role he was offered.

and Shreyas Talpade was too good.Hats off to Nagesh Kukunoor ,one of my favorite directors.This guy never ceases to amaze me with beautiful subjects in each of his movie.Dor came right after Iqbal which again was a class movie.
Among actresses , the most notable was Gul Panag in Dor.That was one of the finest characters portrayed in recent times.I cant imagine anybody else doing it to perfection like her.

Kangana Ranawat excelled in both Gangster and Woh Lamhe.she is an actress to watch out .
And well , ” Shehar ki is daud mein daud ke karna kya hai……..
Agar yehi jeena hai dosto…… to phir marna kya hai… ” these lines made me watch movie umpteen number of times.Vidya Balan once again rocked ,after Parineeta.

Mallika sherawat was revealation in pyar ke side effects.for change , she acted very well .
on the flip side,one of my favorite actresses , priyanka chopra was there doing all senseless things in Don and Krisshh…
And songs, well Rubaroo from RDB and LRM title song perk up my mood whenever I listen to them.All the Gangster songs were beautiful.Kya mujhe pyar hai from Woh Lamhe sets my feet in motion.Beedi Jalayile ,according to me took the honour of best item song.
O humdum bin tere kya jeena from Guru had some sort of soothing effect on me.
Its difficult to tell which among LRM,RDB,DOr ,Omkara is the best one.I would leave that job on filmfare juries .

Telugu ,there were three movies which stood out.
Godavari , the third movie by Sekhar Kammula was just as brilliant as the earlier two.I loved his earlier creations Dollar Dreams and Anand a lot.

The songs,the picturisation,the calm Godavari river on which most of the movie was shot had some kind of mystic effect on me.
The next would be Bommarillu ,the feel good movie which was very well made by debutant director Bhaskar.This movie went on to become the finest movie of the year.

And there was pokiri ,which went on to become biggest telugu hit .Grapevine had it that RGV was contemplating to make it in Hindi with Abhishek.
Lets hope we get to see many such wonderful movies in 2007 .

Musings on Horos..

Do you think twice before moving on if a cat crosses your path ?
Do you believe in astrology ? Horos and kinda stuff…
I Was compelled to think bout some of these aspects when I read somewhere that Ash is a Mangalik and will have to get married to a tree to ward off all the evils before she ties the knot with Junior B…
Even though ppl dont belive it,I guess why take chances stance overrides the sensibilities …
I enjoyed it when they lampooned at our so called numerologists ,the Jumanis of the world in Lage Raho Munnabhai .
Anyways , thats not something I wanted to talk about…
I ,for one,dont believe in basic superstitions.I intentionlly move on when a cat crosses my path .I didnt visit temples to make gods happy in order to get my visa thru.
But reading weekly horos has always been kind of fun.I never used to miss Bejan Daruwala in Times of India . Someone special is going to enter your life this week kinda predictions always used to make me happy .one thing I used to like about this guy was his predictions used to be positive most of the times ,and starting the week with notion that its going to be good always used to perk up my mood.
One of my friends,who is supposed to know bit about astrology and graphology (study of handwriting) once told me many things about me.Some were bang on ,and some were horribly wrong.somehow certain things he told me based on graphology made sense to me on the pretext that the way you write words is ,to some extent,influenced by some of your basic traits.you can make out whether a person is an introvert/extrovert based on his handwriting…
BTW he told me I wud never go outside India ,yes,not even to Bhutan , as that line is completely missing on my palm,and I ,to some extent ,was naive enough to believe him,then …
My mom went to an astrologer few months ago.And this guy told her,I wud fly soon. And then ,my mom pushed me to visit chilkur Balaji and take rounds in order to make gods happy. (For the uninitiated,Chilkur Balaji is famous temple on outskirts of hyderabad near golconda fort ,well known among those wannabe US bounds .And ppl do belive that they will cross seven seas if they visit this temple.) ,something i vehemntly denied to follow.
It pains when I see that one of my friends is missing on so many nice matches only coz there kundalis dont sum up ,poor guy .
okie,wondering why am writing all this stuff now ? well,coz most of things I read in annual predictions of Bejaan daruwalaa when year started came true.Except for one,which was mot interesting of all . And there is only one month left in the year for it to come true .I hope it will come true .