Page 3
So, finally 'Page 3', huh? Here I am inside India's biggest theater, a 11-screen Multiplex: PVR Cinemas, Bangalore for watching this Hindi movie. Ticket Rate, alarming high: 130... There is even a screen where you need to pay 500 for a cinema! Thats the one with Bar attached, i guess! Hmmm... So after sending off Pam to Phoenix, we are here for our first experience at the PVR. Nothing great about the theater as such... Seats as same as what you get at the Innovative Multiplex, this one is overcharged, 'cos this one is in the center of the city and also inside the most famous mall of Bangalore!
The storyline is simple: Satire on the High Class Life of Mumbai.
As the director puts it:
"Jiski Chalthi Hai, Uski Gaand Mein Moombathi Jalthi Hai". I dare not to translate that one!
Page3 is all about the story of Madhavi, reporter in a newspaper of Mumbai and whose job is to collect articles for Page 3 of the newspaper: that is the page all about celebrities,their interviews, their party culture, blah. blah. blah...The page which, we the public are more interested in.(I remember we all looking into Page 2 of TOI during our college days) The director takes us through the film through her experiences with her friends, flat mates, her boss, her colleagues at work and of-course with the wide range of celebrities she meets in her life.
Beautiful portrayal of the empty and meaningless life these people live and upto what extent these people can get cheap to maintain their so called 'status' in the society. This may not be applicable to these high class people as the director portrays, but in general to everyone on this earth. Its not that something which we dont do and only these people do. Its just that we all do it in different magnitude and in our own way... The movie makes us (if not others, atleast made me think) of these blatant facts which lie all around us and giggling at us....
Nice 2 hour entertainment. Feel pity for this Madhavi girl... Her friends leave her, she is not able to tolerate with her boy friend for what he does to her , she gets fired from her job... Professional and Personal Life, everything gets screwed up for her. But yes, shes ready to fight and fight this time with the message: "You have to be in the system to clean the system". Felt that atleast the director shud have shown she getting married to Atul Kulkarni: I was told by Ponp and Sundi, "Hmmm. Thats the typical Indian mentality"... What can I do? have seen so many 3.30 hrs movie, with atleast 8, 9 songs.. .hero and heroine running around trees(that too trees of switzerland, not indian)... Movies with : "Rahul"... "Anjali"... "Rahul mein tumse bahut pyar karti hoon." ... "Anjali, mein tumhare bina jee nahi saktha"...
Page3 is not with any of this crap... Its short,crisp, and very much natural.... And its damn good too. Good to see people making movies like this and equally good to see people appreciating the effort.. I mean, the movie is still going "House Full"... We got the tickets only the third time we tried... Kudos, Madhur Bhandarkar....
The storyline is simple: Satire on the High Class Life of Mumbai.
As the director puts it:
"Jiski Chalthi Hai, Uski Gaand Mein Moombathi Jalthi Hai". I dare not to translate that one!
Page3 is all about the story of Madhavi, reporter in a newspaper of Mumbai and whose job is to collect articles for Page 3 of the newspaper: that is the page all about celebrities,their interviews, their party culture, blah. blah. blah...The page which, we the public are more interested in.(I remember we all looking into Page 2 of TOI during our college days) The director takes us through the film through her experiences with her friends, flat mates, her boss, her colleagues at work and of-course with the wide range of celebrities she meets in her life.
Beautiful portrayal of the empty and meaningless life these people live and upto what extent these people can get cheap to maintain their so called 'status' in the society. This may not be applicable to these high class people as the director portrays, but in general to everyone on this earth. Its not that something which we dont do and only these people do. Its just that we all do it in different magnitude and in our own way... The movie makes us (if not others, atleast made me think) of these blatant facts which lie all around us and giggling at us....
Nice 2 hour entertainment. Feel pity for this Madhavi girl... Her friends leave her, she is not able to tolerate with her boy friend for what he does to her , she gets fired from her job... Professional and Personal Life, everything gets screwed up for her. But yes, shes ready to fight and fight this time with the message: "You have to be in the system to clean the system". Felt that atleast the director shud have shown she getting married to Atul Kulkarni: I was told by Ponp and Sundi, "Hmmm. Thats the typical Indian mentality"... What can I do? have seen so many 3.30 hrs movie, with atleast 8, 9 songs.. .hero and heroine running around trees(that too trees of switzerland, not indian)... Movies with : "Rahul"... "Anjali"... "Rahul mein tumse bahut pyar karti hoon." ... "Anjali, mein tumhare bina jee nahi saktha"...
Page3 is not with any of this crap... Its short,crisp, and very much natural.... And its damn good too. Good to see people making movies like this and equally good to see people appreciating the effort.. I mean, the movie is still going "House Full"... We got the tickets only the third time we tried... Kudos, Madhur Bhandarkar....
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