The Lost Children

Lion is about two boys who got lost at a railway station and the younger boy  boards a train which is empty and goes to callcuta and then he starts shouting and is not able to find then after some time a orphanage takes him and then a man and woman from Australia take him there and he lives there with another boy for the next twenty years and he uses google earth to find his biological parents and then he comes to India and he finds his real parents and he realised that his older brother has died but he still has the love for his Australian parents

15/20

Edge of Learning

The greatest of mathematical talents – S Ramanujan (Dev Patel) – needs the greatest of mentors – Hardy (Jeremy Irons) to have his supreme mathematical talent showcased to an extraordinarily talented and skeptical Cambridge fraternity. The genius and intuitive nature of Ramanujan’s approach coupled with the insistence of mathematical rigor by Hardy leads to much lasting and formal success. The Man who Knew Infinity is an unmissable movie and left me emotionally involved

17/20

The (Hopefully) Last Airbender

The irrepressible M Night Shyamalan will not be kept from bringing fables to the big screen, that somehow do not seem to click, as far as all recent attempts have gone. Aang (Noah Ringer) of the Air people, is The Last Airbender, preserved for a hundred years in ice even as his people have been decimated by the Fire People. It takes two intrepid Water People – Katara (Nicola Peltz) and Sokka (Jackson Rathbone) to discover Aang from under the ice, and then embark on a journey to unite the peoples, and in particular manage the military onslaught from the martial Fire People. Where the movie seems to have failed is execution. A cast that does not click as far as pretty much any and every role is concerned. Hideous acting with uninspiring central characters that chokes off any upside potential from the above-average special effects. While the Director has made no secret of seeking sequels herein, it remains to be seen whether, with this combination of cast and crew, the audience is likely to bite

10/20

Thanks for All the Fuss

Slumdog Millionaire, for all the great cinematography, does not really capture the essence of Mumbai. Plenty of Indian movies capture the true stigma of poverty, or the true horror of the underworld, far better. Let us for a moment give Danny Boyle the artistic license, and run through the vignettes here. The depiction of poverty is a sham. The rioting is unconvincing. The beggary racket is trite and equally unconvincing. The fact that each answer coincidentially relates to each (painful) vignette in the life of the protagonist is a cruel joke? Is this even a movie worth making a fuss about? There is great cinematography, but in the end I feel sorry for the legions of Indian directors, unwept unhonoured and unsung, whose far better portrayals of Mumbai go unnoticed simply because they lack the "brand" of a Danny Boyle. If this movie is worth four Golden Globes, some of our movies of 2008 are worth at least as many Oscars

PS: The BBC's Soutik Biswas seems to echo my thoughts - saw this link on 25th Jan 2009: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7843960.stm

Rated 10.5/20