Review of a Foreign Film - Black

Last night, after much ado about selecting a movie everyone was willing to see and after I suggested we see something "funny and lighthearted" (which everyone was in the mood for), we couldn't make a choice and so settled on an ambiguously titled film that's not rated, has no description in the moviefone listings, and was just a, well, plain mystery. The movie is called Black.

Luckily for me, Dave, and Tal - the foreign film fans of the group - the film turned out to be a Hindi film with English subtitles. I'm a Bollywood fan, despite the fact that musicals aren't particularly my genre. The movie Black is definitely not a musical. Within the first 15 seconds of the movie, I took out my mini-Kleenex pack and got ready for what I was sure was going to be a tear-jerker. Good call - the tissues came in handy... even for the "macho man" of our group (tears dried up yet Johnny?)

Anyway, the movie stars Amitabh Bachchan, who's absolutely brilliant as always, and Rani Mukherjee, who in this film did an outstanding job for such a difficult role. The movie was a little over 2 hours, which for a sad movie, can be hard to get through. But the movie was so well made - from the cast to the cinematography to every last detail, that the time flew. This movie really commands the audience's attention and committs them from the beginning to the end.

So that was the movie.

Between the time we bought our tickets and went into the theatre, we had about an hour to kill, so we walked to the Sports Chalet and spent some time there. The guys argued over who could lift more weights while us girls browsed the colorful pilates and yoga equipment. Afterwards, we went next door to this huge no-name discount bookstore. To my disappointment, they had absolutely no art books, but I was happy to find that they had a great poetry section. I couldn't resist, I picked up a copy of June-tree. Tal (the girl for whom dating is like an extreme sport) bought a copy of a how to find the perfect man book. Tal... LOL