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Old Boy

I was at a friend's house sometime ago when he showed me some of the movies that he had and he showed me a trailer for a hindi movie called "Zinda" which starred Sanjay Dutt. Now the trailer actually brough back memories of another movie trailer that I had seen sometime ago and since Bollywood is notorious for taking more than its share of movie ideas from hollywood and other countries I was reminded of this movie "Oldboy" which I had heard a lot about some years ago.

This morning I finally got to watch "oldboy" and it was by far the best movie I had seen in quite a while. The only disappointment was at the very end of the movie; the last scene should not have been there and they should have just stopped the movie at the point where the "villain" dies after revealing everything. I am not going to go into details here for fear of spoiling things for those who havent watched the movie yet. But suffice to say that this is a movie worth watching.

As for the Indian version, I am hearing news that the producers are facing a lawsuit for "borrowing" the storyline from Oldboy scene to scene. Those who want to can read an indepth comparision of Oldboy and Zinda from wikipedia. I cannot do the comparision as I have not watched the indian version. And I don't have any intention of doing that anytime sooner.

Hail

Last wednesday was a day for freaky weather here in melbourne. This is a video I shot with my digital camera out of the indow in my apartment. It is five clips, each 30 seconds long and all have been joined together to make this video.

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Bollywood in Melbourne

They are filming a bollywood movie in Melbourne at the moment and who else but the "great" Shah Rukh Khan is starring in it. They are looking for crowds for the hockey matches that are going to be staged for the movie. The hockey stadium where they are filming is pretty close to where I am residing and yesterday when my wife and I took the tram upto the city we passed the stadium. I was expecting lots of people there but there was only a handful on the audience stages. There were a lot of film crew and they were filming a India vs Australia match I think. Sort of like a hockey world cup.

Anyways if you are living in or around Melbourne and like to be part of this movie take a look at the flyer and go there. They are filming till the end of November so there is still some time.