Comments on: Bhool Bhulaiyaa – The Death of Murder Mysteries

By: deepak bista

deepak bista — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:55:58 +0000

I love U akshay i have seen your 106 films till now and all the films about 3 times each.
You are a real hero in hindi cinema.

By: preksha

preksha — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:26:39 +0000

Superb movie. Akshay Kumar is to good. I have watch this movie 3 times.

By: mememe

mememe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:50:43 +0000

It had a link to a Wikipedia page, so I thought maybe it went into spam/moderation because of external links.

The post, IIRC, only said:
* Site and design look good :-)
* The Malayalam version was first, but much older than I thought. (Almost 15 years old.)
* Comment live preview would be more useful (more noticeable, more usable) if it were *above* the comment textarea.
* OpenID would be cool :)
That’s it, I think.

By: Anshul

Anshul — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:37:56 +0000

Nopes. There is nothing of that sort in either my moderation queue or the spam queue. I have no idea what could have happened to it. I would very much like to hear what you had said. Can you please post it again?

If this happens again or you have any ideas why it might have happened, do let me know.

By: mememe

mememe — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:50:26 +0000

I had another post here (about the Malayalam version, this blog's look, live preview placement, and OpenID, IIRC); did it go into spam? Test

By: Incorrigible Introvert

Incorrigible Introvert — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:42:19 +0000

@Anshul
Yeah, the wikipedia bit was cool.

You see, when I write about a movie, I write about just that movie. But when I finally rate it, I rate it in comparison to all other Bollywood movies, and hence the leniency. :D

@Neeraja
I don’t know about Priyadarshan, but RGV hasn’t lost his creativity (as a director, that is).

A lot can be criticised about Ramu’s AAG, but it was technically brilliant. If I were planning to be a movie-maker, I would certainly sit down and watch that movie to take notes (though I’ll probably be brain-dead by the end of it).

I did walk out of the theatre shortly after the interval, though (you see, his placement and movement of cameras, though interesting, are too exotic for me to try out in my amateur experiments in movie-making).

By: Neeraja

Neeraja — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:40:22 +0000

3 out of 5!
In my opinion, doesn’t deserve more that 1.5.
Priyadarshan and Ramgopal Varma should seriously consider retirement.

By: Anshul

Anshul — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:58:52 +0000

Oh and I totally dig the fact that this is perhaps the first Bollywood movie to show wikipedia on screen. Could do with a lot more of that. ;)

By: Anshul

Anshul — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:56:32 +0000

This has got to be the most scathing review of a movie I have seen you give 3 stars on 5!

So, I finally saw this movie and then read your post. Hadn’t read it earlier for the spoiler warning but I as well might have ignored the warning. The plot was, as mememe said, transparent. Though, there indeed are people who seem to disagree. As far as mainstream is concerned, this might not hail the death of murder mysteries as much as we all might wish it.

As usual, your critique of the movie is quite accurate.

The movie is ok – a see it once thing.

By: Fighter Jet

Fighter Jet — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:25:32 +0000

A very keen and pert postmortem of the movie….thank God you havent disclosed the whole story!was just planning to go to theater,but after reading your ‘rave review’..umm..little contemplative :(

By: Incorrigible Introvert

Incorrigible Introvert — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 07:40:25 +0000

Agatha Christie wrote some of the best and some of the worst books I have ever read :D

And yes, it would have been more tolerable if the grand “revealation” was a bit less grand.

Anyway, people in south have a better sense of Aesthetics (at least as reflected in their movies), so I don’t wonder about the original movie being a hit.

By: mememe

mememe — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:20:46 +0000

Don’t insult Agatha Christie :P
There’s a scene with two people in it, and it has to be one of them. It’s not the first one, because she’s the love interest of the “hero”, and this is an Indian film. (and everyone suspects her anyway — in the film I mean, not in the audience.) So it’s the other one. And they plod on for hours after that, dropping over-the-top “clues”. That too would be have been tolerable too if the grand “revelation” later was a bit less… grand.
(I haven’t actually seen the Hindi version BTW.)

And this stupid movie with a transparent plot made lots of money, first in Malayalam (or so I’ve heard), then both in Kannada (Apthamitra) and Tamil (Chandramukhi), and probably will in Hindi too. Sigh…
I must admit Soundarya’s exaggerated acting was perfect and beautiful. And Vidya Balan’s probably is too :)