Going to movie is no longer just the movie, but the whole experience of it. Its sort of outing, having snacks / food outside, and along with it comes the movie.
But it is really nice to see movies like Kurbaan being made by the predictable and repetitive Bollywood.
Though the story line was not innovative -- reflecting the changing times where terrorists are suave educated people. What was interesting to see that this time -- it was no longer the cliched Pakistan vs. India or all the villains of Bollywood playing terrorist. Nor there was the cliched fist fight that we find in the ‘usual’ bollywood. The technicalities of screenplay has also definitively improved.
The film being nearly fully shot in the ‘clean’ environs of USA added to it.
What I liked in the film that it portrayed in a very refined manner the various grey shades of good and evil, the tussle between humanity and terror, innocence of truth vs. deception of crime, and all these made perverse by the vicissitudes of time, place, and cultural orientation. And add to that the really good portrayal of role by the actors.
The film was also able to show how human reason looses to reactionary attitudes and how religion becomes a facade to brutal thought process.
It is indeed good that in the current wave of comedy that such serious films of contemporary themes are being made.
Also, the film timing was 7 PM which is unconventional from the usual 6 PM. But theaters are now running movies five shows a day. All these are adding to the thrill of night life -- whatever it might mean in this part of central India.
