Minia's Mundane Musings

                                                                Finding Fanny If I was ever confused about whether or not I liked a movie, then this one certainly is it! I have come out of the theatres recollecting some rather witty moments and really loving some performances, but at the same time wondering if this was all. Once in a way this does happen and then later when the movie is running on some channel I find clarity in whether or not I liked it. So for me the jury is out on this one. But I shall share what I did feel. If you are a book lover or even a lover of movies and you have liked P G Wodehouse, then this one is certainly for you. It has a Wodehousey quality to it and that saves it some blushes. There is nothing that you won’t be able to guess here about the plot. I was hoping for a cross between Homi Adajania’s first – Being Cyrus and Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron and let me tell you it had shades of neither. But it certainly is a movie in which the Goan village and the

                                                                                  MARY KOM What a movie! I am cursing myself for not having seen it on Friday itself. The thing is that on Friday morning itself I read such a miserable review about it in one of the leading newspapers that I was completely turned off. How wrong can you get a review? I mean surely you can call a good movie a good movie and it doesn’t need the brain of a rocket scientist to say so! And me? When did I become so devoid of my own opinion that a silly paid review could make me stay away? A lesson people…..Always always form your own opinion! And so in short I loved the movie! What a performance by Priyanka! It is such a super effort by her. The thing is that the story of M.C Mary Kom has no grand flourishes like Milkha Singh’s did, so all that this movie has to offer is the raw talent of its actor. And boy does she deliver! The movie is a plain and starkly simple story of a woman who is “Ziddi” That’s it