Kaal

They have a nicely designed website to promote the movie, complete with a game no less. So I watched this movie last night. It was oddly quite entertaining. Picture this - a huge python; the camera zooming in on its movements in one shot and the bare back of a man running in the next shot; alternate these two shots for a few seconds with a bgm that goes something like "come to me". Ooooooh.....hehe. The bare back belonged to John Abraham (of course!). The next sequence has JA falling on the snake and capturing it with his ...um...bare hands.
The photography and music were highly entertaining, to me atleast! So the story. Strange incidents involving man-eating tigers are reported in the Orbit national park. So National Geographic(that's right!) sends JA to find out more. Vivek Oberoi and his friends arrive at the park for a vacation. One of his friends wants to go hunting and once you hear that you know that he won't survive till the end of the movie. So JA + wife (played by Isha Deol) and VO + friends meet and try to get out of the forest before they are killed by the man-eating tigers. There are no song sequences in the movie itself, except for one, featuring Shahrukh Khan and Malaika Arora which is played during the intro credits, that has no connection whatsoever to the movie or tigers! Watch the movie, I say!

Dude where's the party?

Another boring ABCD movie. All the characters were too stereotyped, no storyline and just not funny enough. I think there is a good audience for American desi movies (me, for example..hehe) but why are all these movies so lame (Hollyood Bollywood, ABCD). In this genre (yeah, it is one), American Desi was quite alright, elevated by some good music :-). I havent seen Flavors but according to a friend of mine, that was no good too. Oh!, the only exciting part of 'Dude, where's..' was when I recognised almost all of the Punjabi songs played at the parties!!

Greyhound

I went on my first ever greyhound trip recently and hopefully, its my last. The journey itself wasn't too bad but the stations were pretty dismal. People would assemble each time they sensed a line forming and everyone seemed equally clueless. I must have looked like I knew what was going on because atleast 3 people asked me "¿Habla español?". And all the tranfers were late by more than half an hour. The buses themselves were quite comfortable and a short journey without transfers is probably a good deal.