Like I mentioned in the previous post, I watched Happy Days today at Prasad's Multiplex. But that place also has several shops, so apart from watching the movie, I also blew up some money today. To be exact, Rs 1923. I bought a number of DVDs and one game package, as illustrated by the photo below —
The list is as follows (clockwise) —
- Yuva: I remember Kamal and myself hunting for a good quality VCD of this movie some years ago in Manipal. Strangely enough, I never got around to watching this movie (neither this Hindi version, nor the Tamil version Ayutha Ezhuthu)! This DVD is a pretty OK quality copy, except that it doesn't have an anamorphic transfer! It is letterboxed to a wide aspect ratio. Anyway, I'm looking forward to watching this sometime.
- A Film by Aravind: Varun told me about this movie and that it was good, so I bought the DVD.
- Athadu: Starring Mahesh Babu! Seems like a very stylish movie, and I've heard that it is very good.
- Go: No, not the John August-written/Doug Liman-directed Go, this is a Hindi movie starring Nisha Kothari and produced by Ram Gopal Varma. I don't think the movie is that good, because it sat unreleased for more than a year. I say this, because I saw the trailer of the movie in May 2006 (Rajith and me went to see Tathastu on my birthday that year), and was looking forward to watching it, but it never came out! Finally a couple of months back, it had a very brief run in theatres and is on DVD now, so I got it.
- Johnny Gaddaar: I didn't get to see this movie on the big screen, so got the DVD. The disc seems to have a very nice transfer, and it has a nice bunch of special features too (commentary featuring writer/director Sriram Raghavan, director of photography Muraleedharan C K and editor Pooja Surti; alternate ending; "making of" and a couple of music videos). Besides, with that stylish cover artwork, how could I resist buying the disc? Going to watch this very soon.
- Munnabhai MBBS: Moser Baer released this at an absurdly low price (Rs 34 — compare to Johnny Gaddaar which costs Rs 299), so really, there was no reason not to get it!
- Ek Chalis Ki Last Local: I already bought this on VCD sometime back, but then again this is a low-price Moser Baer disc, so bought it for the better video and subtitles.
- The Orange Box: I wrote about the game Portal in a previous post, and was looking forward to play it. So when I saw The Orange Box, which, incredibly, contains five full games (Half-Life 2, Half-Life 2: Episode One, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) at a very low price of Rs 999 (in comparison: HL2 costs Rs 1299 if you buy it individually) available here, I immediately got this package. Of course, I don't have much hope that it'll run properly on my laptop, so I guess I bought it more for Varun than for me. Varun has exams now though, so we'll be opening this package on Monday, when he'll be done with this set of exams.
So, I guess the drawing I do this weekend (tomorrow) will be based on one (or more, if time permits) of these movies!