*Dad is much better ~touch wood~, discharged from the hospital and back home. Heartfelt thanks and gratitude to every one who helped, prayed and was there for us.
*Have linked my blog to Facebook notes; so many friends who comment there don't really know that they're actually reading stuff that I put up on my blog at http://adventuresofatraveller.blogspot.com
*The blog crossed 20,000 hits !! Yeah !!!
*Recently spoke to a friend who hasn't really commented on the blog or on FB. But felt nice when he said he liked reading what I wrote from time to time.
*With that, onto a film review, 'coz I've really had it with writing / thinking serious stuff
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Yamla Pagla Deewana: My thoughts
*Doing a bullet-point review 'coz really, that *is* the theme of this post (haven't you noticed already?)
*The idea of opening the film with Ajay Devgan's voice-over with the choicest of clips from Yaadon Ki Baarat / Amar Akbar Anthony set the theme of the film pretty well, telling the viewer that the film-makers were here to have fun
*The second half, where the action shifts to Punjab, is definitely more fun than the first half
*What the hell were they thinking when they got the clothes for the item girl in "Tinku Jiya"? Sorry, but she ended up looking cheap.
*What the hell was Bobby's stylist smoking ? (a jacket which was half green-half purple, another which had three different shades of yellow, printed floral shirts with a 'gamcha' around his neck and finally, a red kurta with golden, yes, GOLDEN pyajamas) Not that it didn't bring a lot of laughs.
*Loved the bit where the trio are getting away after looting an ATM and Dharam paaji goes "U-turn kyun li? Gaadi ki doosri side to paint hi nahin ki" and what appears to be a security van on one side turns out to be a stolen ambulance on the other !!
*The "Chadha De Rang" song is actually pretty hummable once you've heard it a couple of times
*Loved the fact that the film took pot-shots at the Deols:
- Dharam paaji did almost *all* his signature dance steps and don't even ask about the number of times the drinking habits were alluded to
- Sunny Deol did *that* hathoda-chaap dance step from 'Yaara o yaara' (Jeet)
- When Sunny isn't able to draw water from a hand-pump, Bobby goes "Abbe chalayega ya ukhadega?"
- Even Abhay Deol wasn't spared: "Aaj kal to Devdas ko bhi Dev-D banna padta hai"
*The new girl, Kulraj Randhawa, looked really pretty but could've definitely done with less make-up
*The whole 'Caneda' (not a typo) angle with the Poli character was ROFL
*Watch out how 'Chori chori jab nazrein mili' from Kareeb is used to hillarious effect when Bobby rescues Anupam Kher from villains by swinging on a rope ala Tarzan
All in all, a good comedy film. Leave your brains behind, but as if you didn't know about the movie already.
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