Ohh those cliches....
What do you get when you put 5 women together in a Railway Compartment? You get Anita Nair's Ladies Coupe a book which just reeks of the sort of bohemian pseudo feminism that your mother warned you not to read when you were kids. I obviously was too busy reading my Hardy Boys when my mum was doing her job, or otherwise I would have stayed away from this book. Somehow, it gives me the impression that Eminem would have read books like this one, to turn him into the kind of misogynist that he is. Well, you get the hint about the book right?No?? Ok. The roles that the 5 women portray are your stereotypical Indian women roles, those of the wives with the lost identities, women who have lost their innocence cuz of evil men, women who have silently born the burden of running their households, while their families have all but forgotten their needs. The men in this book have as much gumption or use as Bollywood film heroines and they do quite bit of justice to their ilk. Ohh man, and the misplaced sexuality...the women in the book end up making love with the men that you would least expect them to make love with. What a freaking ordeal!!
I also happened to catch "Mixed Doubles" over the weekend. Will somebody in this country please make a Multiplex movie which will be the anti-thesis of the expected multiplex movie...which means, for one, it wont have Koel Purie playing her standard vulnerable-tormented-hence-turned-into-a-bitch kinda roles. She is getting absolutely unbearable. And will somebody please please puhleeze let Anurag Kashyap write more movie scripts and hopefully direct a movie that wont be banned! His script for this movie is just awesome. The double entendres are superbly subtle and Ranvir Sheorey has the perfect dead pan expression to carry them off. Konkona Sen is nuanced and apt though her penchant for sarongs does get a little irritating. The build up to the climax is a little slow but bearable since there are couple of good laughs on the way, but why the hell does the movie end where it ended? Either the movie should have ended 10 mins before or after it ended cuz it left me scratching my head a little. Sigh, why did i expect so much more Rajat Kapoor? Superb actors do not superb directors make.
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posted by Nitish @ 6:05 AM
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