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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Tell me how it is NOT a copy of Patch Adams...
A misfit/underdog joins the med school.
Believes in healing by humour, making personal relation with patients, which is atypical of the docs.
Hated by professors and fellows.
Professors try to remove him from college.
His roomie, who is the topper (also hates him), helps him stay.
Now tell me how Munnabhai M.B.B.S is not a copy of Patch Adams! Merely by changing a bit of preamble and postscript of a story, one cannot call it original.
At least Robin Williams could bring in some amount of tolerance to Patch Adams, but alas in here, there is none.
Annie Hall (1977)
Greatest romantic comedy of all times!
This is definitely the cutest and the most romantic(?) movie by Woody Allen. The movie is a beautiful comedy. Some radically new ideas (for a movie made in 1977): Woody suddenly speaking his mind into the camera, subtitled thoughts... Such a treat! Depiction of Californians - struggling to stay normal amidst mantras, meetings, and best of all, death rays; couples struggling to find an easy/convenient solutions to love, marriage and everything; foolish, phony, absurd conversations that happens between strangers-want-to-be-friends; making of sitcoms; Woody's driving skills, and defiance to authority... an endless list of screamingly hilarious scenes. Somewhere along the movie, amidst the sketches of phonies, you start smelling some amount of Catcher in the Rye. Woody, almost at the end of the movie, makes a reference to it, probably indicating it to be some sort of a source. Fresh as a daisy even today, Annie Hall is definitely one of the best movies ever made in Hollywood.
Fiza (2000)
Substandard in all aspects
The issues of Kashmir have never been easy to solve since Nehru took the issue to UN. It has become much more complex in a world where terrorism has become the easiest way to wage wars. Trying to make a movie around this requires competence. If you are looking a movie around this theme, please stay away from Fiza, even if it is aired for free on telly.
After watching this movie, Khalid Mohammed will remain in my memory as one of the worst movie makers in Indian cinema. Immature and confused storyline along with his absolute misdirection only complicated the story-telling. It takes great ineptness to even mess the things like Johny Lever's comedy in a movie. Trust me, you can only get embarrassed watching it.
The only reason I didn't rate it awful is for a quote on Indian flag.
-Kiran
Alexander (2004)
Utterly preposterous movie on the greatest king
By Zeus, this movie is awful! The movie is not just scripted poorly, it is directed pathetically! Mr.Stone completely loses grip on story telling... and by at the end of the movie, is clueless about what he wanted to say.
What put me off was neither the director's *obsession* to prove Alexander's sexual orientation, nor the plethora of inaccuracies/biased opinions through out the movie. It was the complete lack of representing why Alexander was "Alexander The Great". I would have endured it better if it were a documentary, with its purposes stated upfront.
Great men are so few; and when somebody goes ahead and downplays such a great person with their frivolous 'research' and story writing, it is outright annoying. I strongly believe that our next generation should learn from the great souls of the past. And if a director, when has such an opportunity, makes a bum of himself/herself, it is very, very irritating.
I am from India, where Alexander appears in our history text books at various grades at school. The fervor that the name Alexander brought to me when I was in school, which is nearly forty years ago, is simply indescribable. We Asians love him, adore him. We call him Sikandar, and the word stands for 'the heroic', 'the majestic', 'the king'. Rather than making the movie focus on his greatness - valor, ambition, respect for a fellow human being, and ultimately success in so many aspects of life, the movie was made about the most unimportant aspects of his life.
And for the records, Alexander won against the Indian kings, the last one being Porus. Alexander gave back the kingdom to Porus, for the courage shown by him after Alexander captured and 'interrogated' him. After this last war, Alexander's army was tired, and did not want to take on the army of Magadha, and Alexander returned home. The movie from this point on, does not even deserve comments.
Alexander supposedly asked his hands to placed in display after his death, showing the people "the one who conquered the world, after death, left empty handed". Instead of the ending of the movie being something to that effect, it was the Ptolemy's soliloquy at the end, which was... AARGH! absolutely absurd.