Orange

I am on a roll tonight. 3 blogs in a day or in the space of a few hours. Looks overwhelmingly that I do not want to study tonight!

Well, I saw Orange a few days back and a slightly abridged version. Somebody played around with some of the scenes. My take still on the movie...

I loved the way Bhaskar (the director) was so brutally honest in an otherwise ostrich like industry. In a time where the standard plot is Love Story+Factionalist Angle, he actually dared to make a pure love story with very little action. These action sequences were anyway included to pander to the Megastar fans.

This also brings me to one of my rants. Such a beautiful story line killed by the commercial elements, fans of the Megastar and of course the Megastar himself.

A guy is underwhelmed by a nagging and suspicious girlfriend. Poisons the guy's outlook towards relationships. He starts believing that love is temporary. The movie does a good job so far. It falters when the director starts looking for the Happy Ever After Closure.

I have a few doubts which I seek to clarify myself in the absence of adequate responses from the director. Why is the movie set in Sydney? For the Opera House backdrop? So that the heroine could wear outfits that no middle class male in India would even fantasize of? Or did the hero/producer never go to Australia and wanted to have a look around?

There was one scene where the hero shows the heroine a lion in a jungle or lets say the CGI version of it. Firstly, if ever, one tried to scream at a lion or come out of the car when the lion is standing on the bonnet of the car, I suspect, I would see the remains of the people saved by the lion for the hyenas. Also, are there lions in Australia? For real? In the jungle? Not in the zoo?

Loved the fact that Mr.Brahmanadam read MBs in the movie. Just could not figure out what Srinivasa Avasarla was doing in the movie? He did not even do an item number.

Final thoughts, do you think it is feasible that your passion for a person remains unchanged with time? I am not sure. I think possibly respect and affection might remain unchanged. Instead of highlighting similar points, the director gets scared and we are treated to a scene where the hero realises the error of his ways. For how long are we going to live in the sarson ka khets of DDLJ?