Genre: Comedy/Crime/Thriller

Cast: Kamal Hassan, Amala, Tinu Anand, Farida Jalal

Direction: Srinivasa Rao Singeetham

Music: The background score is enchanting and adds to the charm of the movie.

Reasons to watch: Amazing movie, simple and very humorous, brilliant acting and direction

Reasons not to: No song and dance show, no skin show, no car chases, in short – a purely entertaining movie.

Storyline: An educated unemployed young graduate male (Kamal Hassan) comes across a drunken male (Sameer Khakkar) with a lot of cash in a briefcase. Hassan, being a poor , educated-but-unemployed fellow, falls for the money. He keeps Khakkar in captivity, and steals his identity to enjoy life lavishly. He moves to the hotel where Khakkar was staying and enjoys the luxuries of his newly borrowed life, albeit he’s grossly misfit. Love eventually enters his life as he falls for the Hotel’s visiting magician’s daughter, head over heels. But with money, comes perils, and he discovers that someone is after his life, well, after his borrowed life that is.

As the burden of his deeds lands on his shoulders, he must now choose between love and truth, happiness or reality. Does he survive this test? Well that is the crux of the movie.

Climax Handling: The end of the movie is brilliantly filmed, touching yet didactic.

Points: No dialogues yet extremely captivating, symbolism and humor in its purest and best form, this movie has few of the most comic sequences ever shot.

Rating: 9.5/10

Comment: A worthy portrait of India in the eighties, this movie is a milestone in Indian Cinema. Don’t miss this movie for anything!

Cast: Random People from all over the world

Reasons to Watch: Amazing photography, Great choice of places, Tremendous analogies

Reasons not to: Heavy stuff, folks; see if you want to handle it! If you’re looking something to watch for thrill or chill or smile or frown, this is not it.

Director: Ron Fricke

Music: Michael Stearns, Dead Can Dance

Storyline: Through 154 locations across 24 countries of the world. It is so beautiful, you crave for wanting to know where those places are. There are parallels drawn between scenes and the analogies are breathtakingly beautiful! It will take you through various amazing rituals from many different cultures. Through different types of temples, mechanical operations of many groups of people that we call everyday life, there are days, and seasons, and those little things we do through all of these processes. There is no story to it. This is the beginning of an entire whirlpool of ideas. Thoroughly enjoyable!

Climax Handling: There is no climax

Points: One place where a scene at a crowded subway station is compared to a mechanised poultry farm – It makes you feel so homogeneous with the world.

Overall Rating: 9/10

Comment: Must watch for anybody who needs inspiration/perspective. You’ll never understand it properly.