film recap - beyond the silence . bridge to terabithia . the missing star . jhoom barabar jhoom

jenseits der stille (beyond the silence)

so much sentiment happens when khamoshi repeats in german. a daughter of deaf and dumb parents wants to become a musician. the emotional strings pulled are the same, the sickening sweetness the same- the music not the same.

bridge to terabithia

in spite of my resistance to its title and the poster, forced to watch it on the flight back home, I loved the film. the life of a shy unassuming closet artist is transformed completely when a feisty girl moves in next door and shows him a way to tap his own imagination. terabithia lies on the other side of a stream and the bridge is a swinging vine of a tree.

stella che non c'è, la – the missing star

a journey through the fantastic landscapes of a transforming china from the glitz of shanghai to the factories in the rural hinterland. an italian engineer discovers a flaw in a blast furnace that has recently been sold to a chinese company. he follows it down to somewhere in the middle of china with more than a little help from a translator who is going through her own journey as the value systems of the country change.

jhoom barabar jhoom

it is no wonder that the film will in all probability not work for most. its campy arch humor took some time for me to get into but once in it, i giggled away at the sly take on a india pakistan love affair in britain. it is completely implausible nonsense very smartly done. stories are told by a couple meeting at a railway station about their love lives involving other people. strangely for a film as plotless as this one it does not seem like it treats the audience as idiots. it expects you to along with the flow and its not very difficult when the music is good, the choreography cool and the actors all very charming. but for me the film was made just that much more watchable by the sizzling feline lara dutta who eats up the screen even when amitabh bachchan is on it. i watched only her.