Omkara : Reviewers copying each other?
Reviewers are tripping over each other trying to log in their reviews before anybody else. There’s an Omkara fever in the reviewer community.
After reading some of the reviewers, there a realization bound to dawn on your dear reader. That God has stopped the movement of TIME. Yes, as of now time has stopped moving.
You log on at Rediff to read the review of Omkara. You finish reading the review and log on to IndiaFm. After about 3 sentences you realize that you are sort of re-reading the review you read at Rediff.
Time has stopped. You think you are at some other website trying to read some other person’s opinion about the movie. You are a moron if you think you are doing that. For God has stopped the passage of time. We are stuck in Time. You are simply reading the same review thinking you are not. You are.
Take for example how Lindsay Pereira at Rediff begins the review “To take this familiar work, then, and give it new life, calls for that kind of courage. Vishal Bhardwaj is certifiably a courageous man.” and when you read Taran Adarsh’s review at IndiaFm where he begins his review which inadvertently turns out to be longer than the movie itself - “Attempting a film like OMKARA requires courage. It dares to swim against the tide. It defies the set rules of commercial cinema.”
Umm… see time completely stopped. You think you jumped from one site to another. No you didn’t. Your browser is lying. Time has stopped.
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Take another example where the reviewers describe Ajay Devgan’s character - “Omkara Shukla (Ajay Devgan) is a revered chieftain of a gang of outlaws” - this according to Pereira at Rediff, while Adarsh writes - “Omkara or Omi [Ajay Devgan] is a gifted chieftain who heads a gang of outlaws”
Is there now a patented coffee shop in Bombay where movie reviewers sit and exchange notes after watching a movie? I would love to have coffee at such a shop and silently watch these great reviewers flipping the pages of the latest edition of the Oxford dictionary or the freshest pages of Thesaurus.com to get two words which mean the same and then split the word between them. “You take gifted, I’ll take revered… Deal?”
After this Pareira makes a hasty exit while Adarsh keeps going on and on and on… until you feel like you ended up seeing the movie right on the pages of Indiafm.
On another note, the one thing we feared and have mentioned on DT, is the pace of the movie. It has been confirmed now from the various reviews that the pace is indeed slow. Not surprising since that’s the style Vishal Bhardwaj is comfortable with, as seen in his past movies, most notably the brilliant but so slow, Maqbool.
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July 28th, 2006 at 10:14 am
Oz,
the fist thing i checked today was rediff.com, and the next was Indiafm.com, after i finished reading the reviews i wanted to e-mail you about the similarities.As i was finishing up my mail.. i visit DT and Lola we have a topic here. Someone has definitely copied from someone.. or moresay.. was the review also an adaption from the previous one.. to with the movie’s base? lol
Oz, you gotta make this clear to the readers.. how does Taran Adarsh rate’ the movies.. In the entire review he’s saying.. movie is phhantashtic, etc.. he surely also says that it might not be accpeted by many beacuse of explitives( atleast 5-6.. Man i am gettting a feel of deja vu.. after seeing the same repeatativeness in Fanna yesterday.. koi mujhe bachao). And then he gives a 2.5 stars.. So, are his rating actual rating about the movie being good/bad or are they his version of box office results…
July 28th, 2006 at 10:21 am
- Sumeet, First things first. My sympathies to you for you utterly shattered state during and after your experience with Fanaa. The fact that inspite of all that terrible things that you had to go through last night, you are still in a state to come to DT and post a comment is… shocking to say the least :o
Regarding Taran Adarsh, I’m really not sure. There seems to be a lot of confusion over his rating, but then that is not the first thing I have problems with. His writing style is going stale, his reviews are reviews as such but a miniature version of the entire movie script, he has tendancies to push certain movies that are made by certain people in the industry and lastly the good or bad in a movie is judged by him from a commercial stand point - which is unfair to the makers of the movie - any movie.
Again, my sincere sympathies for the terrible things you had to go through because of Fanaa.
Question : WHY THE HELL DID YOU WATCH IT AFTER READING THE DT REVIEW??? #-o
July 28th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Oz,
I read both the reviews and as soon as I read the ‘pace is slow’ part…smiled…and remembered what you had written…but will still watch it…if not for anything else…vishal bharadwaj’s direction…I remember reading in one of your earlier articles…where you were commenting that most of the movies nowadays are from city bred directors unlike the directors of yore who were from villages and small towns and hence had better and diff . stories to tell…this guy belongs to that category..someone who grew up somewhere in UP..and brings some freshness to story telling..as compared to other present directors…
July 28th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
Oz,
Just coming back from Omkara.. ahah.. I know you will be watching it tonite.. Rip it off maan.. i am waiting for it. Personally i wasnt satisfied with all the aspects of the movie..Waiting for your rip off
July 29th, 2006 at 8:40 am
- VC, The slow pace is Bhardwaj’s style of telling a story. I’m sure we may find the slowness in the scenes where Bhardwaj spends a lot of attention on bringing out the many layers of the character in focus and his/her interpersonal relationships.
True. I still believe the kind of topics handled by Bollywood requires people who grew up in the countryside, were fond of literature and have lived in many small towns to big cities.
- Sumeet, Is it that bad? Wow! Do you think the pace of the movie ticked you off or was it something else? I’ll be reviewing Omkara tomorrow on Desi Talk. Are you gonna be there?
July 29th, 2006 at 9:13 am
Oz,
I have started expecting and accepting the slowness of Vishal’s movies. The slowness definitely was a factor. But the thing that i couldnt fathom was that…… Oops the words in here are missing.. Yeah you will hear those tommorrow on the Radio. Hooray
July 29th, 2006 at 9:51 am
Was thinking of going for Omkara tonight,but was busy with something else.Am not sure about going now if sumeet says that it’s that bad.But i’m interested in watching Saif’s performance:D
July 29th, 2006 at 10:20 am
The _Boss,
Please dont make a decision on my word. I guess i didnt put it the right way. This is definitely worth a watch. I might not have understood some parts which others might. Moreover i hadnt read othello.. Infact i would ask all DT readers to go and have a look at the movie. Vishal has put his soul in it. Please dont miss it.
This movie definitely good for a discussion, now that you can take my word for.