Jolly LLB

Sunday evening family time was spent watching Jolly LLB on the computer. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant movie - solid script, keeps flowing, not too much silly dialogues, only a couple of songs, no item songs, no steamy sex scenes, and most importantly, and this is the clincher - Arshad Warsi does not overact. In fact, i suspect he may be secretly congratulating himself on his life's best work. The story is a takeoff on the actual episode of Nanda BMW hit and run case which happened in 1999 in Gurgaon and the case dragged on and on for about twenty years before the Supreme court affirmed the Delhi high court decision to reduce the sentence of the main culprit Mr. Sanjeev Nanda to two years from five years which was awarded to a Delhi trail court. Surprisingly, the Delhi High Court rationale for reducing the sentence was ostensibly that the accused could not have knowledge that his rash driving could cause tragedy to others. A news channel article on this matter can be accessed here And I always thought that the moment a person gets a driving license he is supposed to know that he should not drive rashly. Alternating between parody and reality the movie gives a resounding slap to the present judicial system in the country and to the investigation agencies' corruption and shoddy work. Boman Irani has acted well which is his forte and Saurabh Shukla delivers moment of pure brilliance. I guess the movie must have been made on a modest budget and it surely is a sleeper hit for the producers. 

Shootout at Wadala

Finally saw the movie "Shootout at Wadala" and then read the real story of Manya Surve on Wikipedia. too view the link click here The director has taken too much liberty with the real story, only some portions of the movie matches. The saving grace of the movie is Kangna Ranaut who has acted beautifully and also looks beautiful in sepia tinged 80s camera work. I thought some of our older gangsta movies like Parinda, Satya, Shool, Gangajal were much better than this one. There is not much content in the movie and for that reason the director keeps on doing slo-mos too frequently. Rubberband jaise kicha hai story ko!! John Abraham is sorely disappointing - he can't act to save his life. Shootout series without Vivek Oberoi??? – he is the man!!