Between the last update and this one I haven't watched many movies.  In fact, just one new one.  Last time I mentioned that I was going to watch Bad Boys II.  But it wasn't possible that day.  That night, Ramakrishna and myself finished some of the work we had kept for Sunday, and Sunday afternoon we watched Darna Mana Hai.

I love the anthology format in a movie or TV show, and that's why I particularly wanted to see this movie.  The movie's about a group of youngsters who are stranded in the woods and tell each other scary and weird stories to pass the time... but then there's someone who's killing them off one by one.  The framing plot wasn't all that special, but I really enjoyed the six stories they had in there.  It was overall a well made and well acted movie, I enjoyed it's often demented sense of humour.  Recommended!!

For the record, here are the six stories:

• Sohail Khan and Antara Mali are a couple who take a scary drive in the dark.
• Saif Ali Khan is a photographer who stops at the Good Health Hotel one evening and finds the manager a bit too strict about smoking.
• A teacher punishes a child everyday for not doing homework... and when she starts doing it, something seems to be scaring the teacher out of his wits.
• Shilpa Shetty is a housewife who buys apples at a bargain... is there something strange about them?  This was probably the weakest story in the whole lot.
• Vivek Oberoi picks up a hitchhiker while driving.  In the conversation that they have, the man (Nana Patekar) claims to be a ghost.
• Aftab Shivdasani plays a loser who is suddenly granted a strange power.

The movie, by the way is produced by Ram Gopal Varma, directed by first-time director Prawaal Raman and written by Atul Sabharwal, Rajnish Thakur and Abbas Tyrewala.  I couldn't watch any other movies due to Episode 2003 at TAPMI (I'll come to that in another post) and the midterm exams.  That, and of late there haven't been many interesting movies playing.  A couple of days back, three of us planned to watch Gangs of New York and we even walked up to the theatre.  We then realised that we wouldn't make it back to the hostel before midnight, and if they closed the gates, it would be a problem!  So we returned.  I might most possibly watch a movie this Saturday (or even tomorrow if time permits).