Minia's Mundane Musings

The best thing to happen in a movie is when you totally know where the storyline is headed and yet you are glued… What enchanting youngsters Alia Bhat and Varun Dhawan are! Simply amazing. They are good friends and the chemistry shows on screen. There isn’t a wrong step taken or a false note struck. Rest assured that you won’t get a love story that shall go on to become a classic or a love story that shall be sticky and cloying. This one is pure fun. Shashank Khaitan, the director has done a brilliant job and is aided so ably by the two youngsters. The characters are so lovable and so much fun that you just don’t miss a crackling script. The dialogues are hilarious and I found myself laugh out aloud time and time again. The sequences between Humpty and his silly friends made me feel that I am in the lobby of my college when it is time to go home. The repartee is natural, unforced and has somehow managed to stay away from vulgarity even though there are plenty of innuendos. Kudos te...

Ok so Yesterday I killed a cat. Not intentionally mind you. It happened on the road. It came at me suddenly out of nowhere and was under my car wheels in the flash of a second, even before I could slam the brakes…… It was just smashed and I could do nothing to help it. I got out of the car and tried to see if I could help it, but the matter was out of my hands and it was just plastered all over the road. And all the people who had seen it happen were looking at me as if I was a criminal and indeed I felt like one. Shaking and trembling I got back in the car parked on the side of the road and gave way to my tears….. Then I called my Bhabhi and told her about it and she was so concerned for me and immediately offered to come and get me. She consoled me and made sure that I had quietened down and showered me with TLC. In contrast, when I also told my brother about it- his first question was…. Was the car damaged? J Other than these two I also got hilarious reactions from my other we...

The Fault in Our Stars What do you say about a movie that is so perfect? There is nothing that comes to mind except that this isn’t a movie it is a spiritual experience. It carries no message except to say that Love and be loved. It shall not teach you any lessons, it doesn’t preach, does nothing except that it just sucks you in and doesn’t let go of you. It’s a whirlpool of the most perfect kind. I cannot remember when a movie was cast so perfectly! Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort are the star crossed lovers. The actors are so natural and unassuming that after a point very soon in the movie you forget that it’s a movie and you just become a part of their lives. It’s a simple story, told even more simply. The basic premise of the movie remains the same as any other love story. Girl meets boy, they fall in love and dream of a life together…. Only thing is they can’t…. They both have cancer and actually meet at a support group. One would say that it has shades of “A Walk to R...