I saw Loins of Punjab Presents today, and I’m please to report that ( cut for teensy spoiler...teensy in terms of number words not in terms of plot )

There’s one movie maker who doesn’t think the audience is full of fools. Nice movie. Prolly cliched humour but me liked anyway.

In other stuff, it is apparently Daughter’s Day today. My father sent Daughter’s Day SMSes to my sister and I. Since my father rarely believes in celebrating any “Days” barring perhaps Granddaughter's Day:o) (To make things worse, he learnt of this from a poster in a greeting card shop, however noble their intentions may be!), and since his willingness to use the phone is an even rarer occasion, this was an extremely sweet gesture. :)

I saw a movie yesterday.
Among other things:
1. The hero spends a large-ish amount of time dancing around, oblivious to his surroundings
2. The heroine does, as someone else pointed out, little other than scream and fall
3. A clearly high end scientific facility is unsecured and very easy to enter
4. People get amnesia and recover from it just like that.
5. One of the bad guys is a bad guy because he needs money to pay for his daughter’s medical treatment
6. Said daughter gives him a locket with a photograph of her inside it and said locket constantly provides inspiration through adversity
7. There is more than one bad guy
8. Two of the bad guys get together to destroy the hero, through the girl
9. The other bad guy seeks to do the same through the same girl, by forcing her to sacrifice her love for the hero in order to save the hero from him (third bad guy)
10. There’s a climatic action sequence at the end -
a. In the course of which, the hero gets beaten so badly people are ready to start mourning him
b. A couple of frames later however he’s back to normal
c. All because his friend, once bad guy no. 3 has opted for the redemption path and decided to help him
d. Bad guy no. 3, who is also a potential cog in the wheel for hero’s romance, and also as mentioned above in need of redemption for past misdemeanor, conveniently does get injured fatally in the course of the fight.
11. At the end of the fight, bad guy with locket and hero have profound conversations way up top of a building on crime, reasons for crime and forgiveness while hero’s best friend is dying way down below
12. Said best friend considerately hangs on till hero can finally make it down to him, allows for conversation and then dies after declaring hero best buddy again.
13. The climatic action sequence towards the end is interspersed with moments of comic interlude that involve a precocious child.
14. Immense amount of property damage takes place in the form of broken windows, walls and vehicles.

Standard Bollywood fic?

Nah.

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It had its educational moments though, so that's fine.

There is a very important lesson to be learnt from Casino Royale - answering your mobile phone can distract you and make you vulnerable to unsavoury incidents.

As movies go, this one was better than expected, primarily because Daniel Craig was much better than expected. He grows on you. He also does a good cynical smile. From the stills in the newspapers, it appeared he would do the Bond female walk out of the sea in a swimsuit. That didn’t really happen though.

There was other good stuff too – all the regular Bond movie stuff, minus the gadgetry as promised, lots of popping sounds and lots of leaping around gracefully, and running around, good locales, the car (I think I ooh-ed when it took off), and lots of phones.

But a couple of patchy places too - the lovin’ moments of togetherness bits in Venice though seemed overextended. You think the movie has come to an end, but then it goes on, and you wonder if it has, and nearly start yawning.

Ooh! And speaking of phones - New phone!