Watching the movie Highway over the weekend was absolute bliss, which of course got ruined with the other watch, Shaadi Ke Side Effects! I am so glad that despite the abrupt planning, being tired and the mild rain, we made it to watch Highway on Saturday night... It's Wednesday evening and I have heard Sooha Saha (a song from the movie) over 10 times each day (since Saturday) and Guddi Patakha equally much! I LOVED the movie, and I think it's far better than director Imtiaz Ali's last, Rockstar.
Somehow, I hate how critics went ahead and wrote average reviews about Highway though (I didn't bother reading about Shaadi Ke Side Effects, waste of time!). Why has it become a fashion to bash movies for no valid reason? Why do people measure all films by the same yardstick? I mean if you were comparing Highway to Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, or Shaadi Ke Side Effects to Three Idiots, OBVIOUSLY you are erring somewhere, right?! Or am I reading something wrong somewhere?
I remember how I had gone to watch Agent Vinod to just pass time with my boyfriend. The movie was totally trashed by reviewers, my friends had Facebook statuses claiming it was the worst movie they ever watched, and the movie was declared a flop. So bad were the sentiments about the film that the cinema hall was nearly empty! And by the time the movie ended... I was wondering, what's wrong with this??? I mean, for an audience that enjoys any crap that's served to them with absolutely no acting and no story and bad music and picturisation, Agent Vinod was a movie that had the two leading stars actually acting, and the music was FAB (Raabata is one of my all time favourite songs), and to top it all up the locations and cinematography was nothing less of breathtaking!
Wonder wtf is happening!
Somehow, I hate how critics went ahead and wrote average reviews about Highway though (I didn't bother reading about Shaadi Ke Side Effects, waste of time!). Why has it become a fashion to bash movies for no valid reason? Why do people measure all films by the same yardstick? I mean if you were comparing Highway to Hum Aapke Hain Kaun, or Shaadi Ke Side Effects to Three Idiots, OBVIOUSLY you are erring somewhere, right?! Or am I reading something wrong somewhere?
I remember how I had gone to watch Agent Vinod to just pass time with my boyfriend. The movie was totally trashed by reviewers, my friends had Facebook statuses claiming it was the worst movie they ever watched, and the movie was declared a flop. So bad were the sentiments about the film that the cinema hall was nearly empty! And by the time the movie ended... I was wondering, what's wrong with this??? I mean, for an audience that enjoys any crap that's served to them with absolutely no acting and no story and bad music and picturisation, Agent Vinod was a movie that had the two leading stars actually acting, and the music was FAB (Raabata is one of my all time favourite songs), and to top it all up the locations and cinematography was nothing less of breathtaking!
Wonder wtf is happening!
