Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Take foot, insert slowly in mouth

Watched Iqbal yesterday. As I am fond of saying, I live in hope. And this time, it was justified. Eating crow, eating crow. Will refrain from doing full-length analysis of said film, but suffice it to say is eminently watchable in feel-good, pulling-at-heartstrings kind of way. Heck, I always knew Nagesh had it in him ;)

And please refrain from pointing out that that's the most shamelessly barefaced turnaround of the century.

11 Comments:

At August 30, 2005 6:35 PM, Blogger Jabberwock said...

Uh, I'm not sure I get the logic. Why would your face be protein-smeared because of a post that was about the incompetence of Kukunoor's previous work? Even if
he goes on to make a long, unbroken series of masterpieces from here onwards, surely what you said about his earlier stuff still holds good.

This reminds me about that cliche of cricket reportage where, after a long-out-of-form batsman scores a
century, the papers shriek "So-and-so proved his critics wrong..." Never understood that one either.

So pillory thee on, marauder...maraud long and prosper!

 
At August 30, 2005 9:52 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

So, how was the taste? And the smell? MM, at least now u should respect the views of ordinary mortals...

 
At August 30, 2005 9:57 PM, Blogger The Marauder's Map said...

Ordinary man, pls refer to Jabberwock's adroit defence of my earlier position. So there!

 
At August 30, 2005 10:00 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Forget the fact whether the movie was good or bad...the fact that MM went to watch the movie in itself says a lot about! That for me is the volte face of the century!!! And, for a stickler for perfection in the English language, for a prim and propah MM, the use of the word "recentest" is a boo boo!!!!

 
At August 30, 2005 10:43 PM, Blogger thorswheels said...

Eat crow. Eat your foot. But, what about the hate-the-kuknooo club? Stands disbanded? Never seen a marauding turncoat! Quite an oxymoron that.

 
At August 31, 2005 3:19 PM, Blogger nothing said...

errr..that's the most shamelessly barefaced turnaround of the century. :-D.

 
At September 02, 2005 5:49 PM, Blogger Sinfully Pinstripe said...

BTW, AajTak says he might have flicked the storyline..... from a Techie, what's more.

And it's good, huh?

 
At September 11, 2005 2:42 PM, Blogger n.g. said...

yeah, and about time. like i said on your page a few days ago, i'd like to see the film before screaming my congratulations. and i did, twice. and loved it. after 5 duds, its about time the man made anything remotely close to resembling a film.

was watching an interview of nagesh, and he had an interesting take on it. he called it a 'sport' film. 'sports' is a genre not explored in this country and i thought it was a huge opportunity. er, yeah sure. but i dont think iqbal is about sport. its about spirit. just like 'million dollar baby' wasnt about boxing, it was about fighting.

 
At September 14, 2005 1:09 PM, Blogger The Marauder's Map said...

I really liked the film, actually. Went to watch it -- in fact was dragged to the theatre -- with a lot of scepticism and totally prepared to hate it. The first few scenes, especially the one where Iqbal's mother starts having dramatic labour pains just after watching a match on TV were slightly cringe-worthy but after that te film sailed off pretty well. I especially liked the protagonist's sister -- this kid Shweta Prasad merits watching out for -- and her belligerent love/hate relationship with Naseer's character.

 
At September 15, 2005 12:49 AM, Blogger thorswheels said...

Why don't you get over the Kuknoo fixation and post something new?

 
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