- Frida Pinto likely to play the nest Bond girl… nothing succeeds like success!
- Preity Zinta, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone, Vidya Balan, Anushka Sharma will play themselves in the Riteish-Jacqueline starrer ‘Jaane Kahan Se Aayi Hai'… interesting!
- Male bonding: Ajay Devgan and cricketer Yuvraj Singh chatted up at a suburban studio… yeh dosti…!
- Shilpa Shetty is the latest actress entrant on Twitter… says she is bitten by the Twitter-bug. Ouch, did not having many followers hurt?
- Gauhar Khan is the new ‘Monica'… shoots for remix of Helen's song, and now it is the costliest cabaret till date… phew!
- Konkana Sen Sharma – "It is a great shame on us that Hussain had to get citizenship in another country."
- Shahid Kapoor – "Whyyyyyyy can women multitask n men jus suck at it its like I am challenged at it so wish i could women jus kill us at it n how."
- Priyanka Chopra tweets - "140 characters seems way to little to express the 200,000 thoughts and emotions running through my head!"
- Karan Johar – "If people watching was a sin...I would be life sentence potential...I absolutely can't stop myself from unabashadely staring at people..."
- Shah Rukh Khan – "if we play the first couple of matches (IPL) well...i will do the new anthem i havent had time so far so could not...but am thinking of new one"
‘2012' is a bore
Director:
Roland Emmirch
Starring: John Cusack , Amanda Peet , Chiwetel Ejiofor , Thandie Newton , Oliver Platt , Thomas McCarthy , Woody Harrelson
OyeG Review
The earth is melting like Vanilla ice-cream dipped in hot chocolate sauce. Run faster than Usman Bolt because the 50 feet tsunami is about to sweep us all. A bunch of creepy scientists have made a wacky prediction… Come 2012 and we all will be washed away; we will be no different than earth’s extinct species - the Dinosaurs. When this is communicated to the US President (Obama’s body-double I assume) he jumps out of his chair as if jolted by an electric shock. We must save our species, he remarks at a G-7 Summit. The Russian counterpart howls with his hideous English accent….. “whaaautt are u sayyyuing?” Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejiofor) the greatest scientist on the planet (pun intended) decides that the only way to save our species is to build a space ship that doesn’t fly...Wow!
Meanwhile Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a flop novelist who has only sold three novels, is disgusted with his life. His wife has left him for greener pastures, his children think he is too intellectual and dreary… his world is already upside down. In true Hollywood style, how Mr Jackson (not to be confused with Michael Jackson) saves the planet, forms the rest of the story.
Roland Emmerich (director) builds the screenplay on a wafer thin plot that has been done a zillion times. Loud monologues and jazzy dialogues like “When they tell you not to panic... that's when you run!” make this film a tiresome enterprise. The characterizations are ghastly, especially the Indian character who mumbles in a Mambo Jambo accent saying “Chaloooo Challlllllte hain”… The CGI (special effects) is cartoonish and over the top… It makes me ask one question: Why does Roland Emmerich want to destroy this planet in every film? He did it in Independence Day, Day after Tomorrow and now 2012. The best part being the destruction of the 7 wonders of the world in his every film…
John Cusack looks more like a swindler than a novelist. Throughout the movie he either looks tensed or irritated running helter-skelter, rotating eye balls more than a Bharatnatyam dancer. The climax of the film is unintentionally funny, wherein John gathers his act and saves the spaceship. The other actors are like junior artists begging for screen time.
OyeG Verdict
On the whole, 2012 ends up destructing your mind rather than the planet. Are you ready to take the risk?
