Travel is when I get to watch more movies. Last week I was on a business trip to Singapore. Got to watch Badmaash Company in the onward journey in Air India, 3 Idiots on the return and Race to Witch Mountain in Star Movies in the Hotel Room.
Badmaash Company: Badmaash Company is a Hindi film starring Shahid Kapoor & Anushka Sharma. The movie was about 4 friends making it big time by exploiting the holes in the tax & banking system and by outsmarting businesses. Second half of the movie happens in USA and the screen-play is kept quite interesting throughout. The plots employed to win are pretty naive to pull off in real-life. Anushka comes out beautiful throughout the movie and most of the costumes by all the characters were looking good. Overall, usual Bollywood Masala but worth watching – nice entertainment.
3 Idiots: A box office hit Hindi comedy film directed by Munnabhai fame Rajkumar Hirani, staring Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan & Kareena Kapoor. I have been wanting to see this movie as it was adapted from the novel Five Point Someone by Chetan Bhagat, which I had read few years back and enjoyed thoroughly. Obviously the movie is not exact rendering of the novel, but has been adapted for Aamir Khan and added Bollywood touches – I felt the changes are necessary and done nicely to keep the movie more entertaining. Kareen Kapoor is appearing much older for the role, while Aamir Khan amasses viewers by his young college student look. The subtitles I watched in Air India console were quite nice too. Overall, a definite watch Hindi movie.
Race to Witch Mountain: A typical Hollywood Aliens visiting Earth story with US government officials conspiring to keep the truth away from public. A Las Vegas Taxi driver in his cab saves the two alien kids from US defence forces and from Alien military forces – you can’t get any bigger than this for absolute entertainment 
. The two kids have done their characters quite nicely. For me the movie was better than watching Nth time BBC & CNN in my Hotel Room!
