Cinema Streak!

This has to be a first - three movies in the last 6 hours or so! It all started with The Butterfly Effect. I must say it was a very interesting movie - about how small things in your past have such HUGE effects on your later lives. The hero tries to set things right in his life by travelling to his past and making corrections. But the result is never perfect. It goes on until the hero finally realises that he is not God and he has to compromise somewhere!

Next on the agenda was Hum Tum, a light Bollywood movie focussing on the fundamental differences between the natures of boys and girls. Cute I must say! Saif Ali Khan has matured tremendously as an actor. Compare today's Saif with the one who danced to Ole Ole and you'll immediately see the difference.

The last one was Pinjar. Its a movie set around the time of the Partition of India - about a girl named Puro who was kidnapped to settle scores in a feudal Hindu-Muslim rivalry. She was later forced to marry the person who kidnapped her. Her husband however, played by Manoj Bajpai, is good at heart and was pressurized into committing this dastardly act. Hence, throughout his life he is miserable for having caused so much suffering to her wife. The ending is quite interesting as well.

The Partition of India must surely rank among the most horrific human tragedies of modern times. Who knows, had it not been for the bloodshed and the bitterness created in those times, maybe India and Pakistan would have been cooperative neighbors instead of bitter enemies.