Okay, I agree it has been a while now that I haven’t updated my blog – or posted any movie review. To be honest, there haven’t been any good movies recently that would inspire me to write something about it. Some things that came up to my mind were – oh the movie was good, but why would i recommend it to my friends etc.

Last night I went for back to back movies – in a chilly cold London. Yes, fortunately its not snowing but it was cold enough to force me stay inside the cinema for 6 hours.

Gulliver’s Travels 3D was my first – while we were the only people in the cinema hall (well it was a Friday afternoon, so cant expect people to bunk office and watch movies of course). The movie was average – except the last song “War, what is it good for” which was quite sick. Rest of it was good.. umm could be much better. The movie was quite similar to Jajantaram Mamantaram . If you ask me, I found the Hindi flick much more entertaining – even if it wasn’t a 3D.

The second movie was No One Killed Jessica.

I remember during my college days – when i was least interested in media reports and news channels – there was this case which everyone was glued to… The Murder of Jessica Lal. While I followed the case later in 2006-07 i was still wondering whether it was worth for protesters and Jessica’s sister to stick around for so long because its been 6 yrs and I do not believe in Indian Judiciary system. You end up delaying the trial for so long that people lose faith and courage and then eventually end their hopes in nailing the culprits.

Well about the movie.. when I decided to go into the movie, i knew the case – and i knew what the story was – but even if you know the story, it still hits you hard to watch the pain the people went through, and to watch how cold blooded a few set of people were. Rani Mukherjee was perfect. Vidya Balan has always been excellent in such roles. It is not easy to live up to such a character especially when it is a true story. I am not going to explain the whole story  because that is what you would find in all move reviews.

While I do see a few loop holes and few places where I thought, ah this could have been done in a better way – I think it is not fair to be a critic watching the efforts that have been put up by each of the actors be it the lawyers, killers or family members.  There have been a some moments which hits you really hard and makes you think of what are you actually doing, and where you are.

It is one of those movies that covers the real-life events on how media covered the story and how cold hearted most of us are. When I say most of us, it is because I know if we are put in those situations, we would be lame or cowards. We don’t have the strength to fight for others – there are a few people around but not everyone has the courage to think about others.

I strongly recommend this movie for everyone – watch it for Jessica – watch it for something called ‘life’