Comments on: Metro http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/05/12/metro/ "That was the beginning of the century; this is its end. I have been thinking not only of the people who lived there once, but also of the generations of dogs accompanying them in their everyday bustle, and one night— I don't know where it came from— in a predawn sleep, that funny and tender phrase composed itself: a road-side dog." - Czeslaw Milosz, Borderlines. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:43:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Uma http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/05/12/metro/#comment-1023 Thu, 17 May 2007 14:41:48 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/05/12/metro/#comment-1023 Charu: shame on you for suggesting that the married woman in hindi movies should even think of leaving her adulterous husband... ;) Charu: shame on you for suggesting that the married woman in hindi movies should even think of leaving her adulterous husband… ;)

]]> by: Charu http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/05/12/metro/#comment-1003 Sun, 13 May 2007 07:49:05 +0100 http://indianwriting.blogsome.com/2007/05/12/metro/#comment-1003 *and poor Shiney Ahuja gets Shilpa* - that's the point - after all those relationships falling into place one way or the other - poor Shiney does NOT get Shilpa. for all that Bollywood is hinting of sex in the sixties, the married WOMAN takes her husband back - esp with the child crying out 'papa' etc etc. that is the scary part the thought that it is how it really works in life (in a metro or elsewhere). I thought Kay Kay was great - smidges of dignity in a character which did not really deserve any. and when Irfan says - take a chance to Konkana, you want to whistle and clap! and what is with those rockers? I had nightmarares (much the same way as you did after watching that other Kangana movie whassisname) *and poor Shiney Ahuja gets Shilpa* - that’s the point - after all those relationships falling into place one way or the other - poor Shiney does NOT get Shilpa. for all that Bollywood is hinting of sex in the sixties, the married WOMAN takes her husband back - esp with the child crying out ‘papa’ etc etc. that is the scary part the thought that it is how it really works in life (in a metro or elsewhere).

I thought Kay Kay was great - smidges of dignity in a character which did not really deserve any. and when Irfan says - take a chance to Konkana, you want to whistle and clap! and what is with those rockers? I had nightmarares (much the same way as you did after watching that other Kangana movie whassisname)

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