Inspired by the movies this week blog, I decided to watch Amir last night. As a disclaimer may be I should say that my mindset was perhaps not the same as the previous night when I was watching A Wednesday, but still Amir disappointed me to a large extent. I could not connect with the protagonist, who looked like a model right out of a suiting ad and sleep walked through the movie. The villain made him walk, run, taxi through entire Mumbai and there was not one iota of tiredness visible in his face.
It was a different movie, I do agree to that. And the story line was also good. There was good camera work capturing the life of Mumbaiites, especially the climax bus scene was very good. But the message of the movie got lost in all this noise. So he takes the title of Terrorist willingly at the end? Is that the message? While A Wednesday stressed the importance of not sharing a name in order to identify a religion, Amir relied on his name to convey the same message. It also seemed like there were a lot of people involved in the bombing plot. That would be unusual for an operation like this, I would assume. That is too many loose ends leaving trails.
All in all, I did not have the same satisfaction I had when I finished Wednesday. I might return to watch a malayalam movie tonight, lets wait and see.
Venkatesh
