Week after week I push myself into believing that the next movie I watch will not make me want to impale myself on toothpicks. It takes hours of psychiatric therapy and experimental pharmaceuticals... but somehow I manage to do it.
And then something like "Aisha" happens. WHY God, WHY?
Let's get the facts straight. Sonam Kapoor can't act. She can be subtly (and overtly) bitchy. She can smile the crap out of 35mm cinemascope print. But she can't act. And when you have drunk tweens for a supporting cast who can't decide if they'll do more justice to this country's 220 million poor and hungry wearing Gucci or Versace, well... Abhay Deol (wasted) and Cyrus Sahukar (relief) are there. And they seem to be fighting. But it seems like a lost cause.
I also remember the good old days when you needed a story to make a movie. Clearly the good director has transcended that particular limitation. I guess the idea these days is to base it on a well known half remembered piece of literature and hope for the best. Snob value should take care of the rest.
Pretty clothes and expensive handbags do not a good movie make. Do yourself a favor and buy the toothpicks instead.
2 out of 10. 1 because I'm shallow and don't care for substance.
And then something like "Aisha" happens. WHY God, WHY?
Let's get the facts straight. Sonam Kapoor can't act. She can be subtly (and overtly) bitchy. She can smile the crap out of 35mm cinemascope print. But she can't act. And when you have drunk tweens for a supporting cast who can't decide if they'll do more justice to this country's 220 million poor and hungry wearing Gucci or Versace, well... Abhay Deol (wasted) and Cyrus Sahukar (relief) are there. And they seem to be fighting. But it seems like a lost cause.
I also remember the good old days when you needed a story to make a movie. Clearly the good director has transcended that particular limitation. I guess the idea these days is to base it on a well known half remembered piece of literature and hope for the best. Snob value should take care of the rest.
Pretty clothes and expensive handbags do not a good movie make. Do yourself a favor and buy the toothpicks instead.
2 out of 10. 1 because I'm shallow and don't care for substance.