Modern Love Mumbai Episode 1

I liked Modern Love Hyderabad, so I thought this should be nice too. And this lovely little story of a Kashmiri couple who live together in Mumbai before the man gets bored and leaves the lovely woman who says the most cute Kashmiri Gaalis- Paye Trath and Shikaslad. It's a bit of a post-modern outlook, but it's quite lovely. I like the analogy of biking up the flyover. And once she crosses that. The juxtaposition with the couple at who's home Kali works at who are also getting separated could have been better. The couple look like a caricature, maybe it was deliberate, but it was a little demeaning to their hurt and pain. I also liked how she finally goes with her bicycle on the Sea-Link Road. It's for everyone!

Overall, it's a sweet little episode. The modern art stuff from where she borrows paint for her bicycle and finally the painting on her roof are a little out of place, but then that is life in Mumbai. 

Apparently the actress' mother is a Kashmiri, it's impossibly hard to get that Kashmiri accent otherwise. 

Wrath of Man

Very simple story- don't kill my son. But beautifully executed. H is a rich bad guy who's son gets killed when H was doing some odd jobs he wouldn't do as the Boss man. What follows is a few months of multiple homicides. It gets more and more violent until H realises he has to step into the shoes of the victim of the crime where his son was murdered to find his killers because they will strike again. So he becomes a security officer who guards cash vehicles. And of course with his taste in violence he easily wows his colleagues. Waits and soon enough the ex-US army sergeants who are just sitting around twiddling their thumbs in odd jobs strike again, harder. Most of them die, and finally when H finds the bad guy, so does he after reading aloud his son's autopsy report. 

Very gory, but very cleanly executed. Brother has definitely developed a thing for Guy Ritchie movies it seems 

The Gentlemen

Seen with Toots at home. Very nice. I would have also not recognised that Fletcher was High Grant unless he would have told me. Matthew McConaughey was gorgeous as Mickey and Colin Farell was just beautiful as the neighborhood Coach for the poor, disadvantaged kids. I think his character was perhaps the most unique. The others- Raymond shines only when he needs to, when he goes to fetch the young girl. The Cantonese Lord George was also an interesting character, very intense as he sat watching his only vice- horse racing in HK. Good movie, not overtly violent but very rough language.

Tolkien

Saw on TV in Geneve. A biopic about Tolkien- I didn't know a lot about him- that he was an orphan, lived in Africa as a child, studied and taught at Oxford. But the movie overall was just a romantic saga of the lives of four young British men. It points out Tolkien's genius in his reading of Chaucer, but the rest of the story just seemed like another maudlin depiction of the lives of young men in war.