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.
posted by The Marauder's Map @ 1:51 PM
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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!
So, how was the taste? And the smell? MM, at least now u should respect the views of ordinary mortals...
Ordinary man, pls refer to Jabberwock's adroit defence of my earlier position. So there!
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!!!!
Eat crow. Eat your foot. But, what about the hate-the-kuknooo club? Stands disbanded? Never seen a marauding turncoat! Quite an oxymoron that.
errr..that's the most shamelessly barefaced turnaround of the century. :-D.
BTW, AajTak says he might have flicked the storyline..... from a Techie, what's more.
And it's good, huh?
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.
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.
Why don't you get over the Kuknoo fixation and post something new?
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