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Everyone (i.e. my two regular readers, one of whom is me) knows by now that I read movie reviews religiously. And what a lot of people would not know is that one of my prized possessions is a compilation of all of Roger Ebert’s reviews. I read reviews (I don’t base my movie choices on them, though) because sometimes, I think I need that extra help to understand what is being represented on screen. Yes, I have a simple mind that cannot (sometimes) comprehend a layered viewpoint.

But having said that, I don’t go out of my way to avoid complicated movies with serious multi-threaded, layered story lines that are not intended to cater to the lowest common denominator. On the contrart, a lot of times, I go after such movies with gusto. After all, I don’t want to be simple for long, do I? What’s life without improvement, I say?

So, the point of the post is pretty much this - going by the multitude of reviews, Anurag Kashyap’s latest - No Smoking seems to be a movie that pretty much encapsulates what I have said above. And the movie seems to be an ideal subject that will help me classify movie reviews for all you discerning readers.

Now I know what you are going to ask me. Why am I forcing you to spend a couple of minutes of your valuable time reading something that merely promises and not deliver immediately? The reason is that I wanted to set a goal for myself.

Too many posts are sitting in the drafts and one has seemed to have lost all the thread for most of them. The presence of this post sitting on the top of this page will goad me towards working on the said subject with a lot less subtlety than the half a dozen posts on the Drafts section.

The next question would be - Why are you not spending these 20 odd minutes on the post itself? The answer is, I don’t think the data that I am basing the post on is extensive enough at the moment. But the variety of data points that I have seen is astounding. So just you wait.

This entry was posted on Saturday, October 27th, 2007 at 11:29 am and is filed under India, Movies, bollywood, reviews.