Inglourious Basterds

First Day Last Show...this has sort of become a regular for many of the movies that are eagerly awaited. Two reasons, Friday is working, and second, the mood for a late night show is more into it.

Inglourious Basterds

Now the one thing that I like the most about this city is that the movie lovers here not only just come to theaters to enjoy, but to actually analyze and get involved with their favourite director or actor. The reason can be better explained by the fact that a large fraction of the crowd belong the the IT industry and have spent their Engineering years watching some of the very best flicks over the college LAN. And also, the basic fact remains that general public here is educated, and the rickshaw-wallah crowd demanding a Mithun movie (no offence Mr Chakroborty) is never seen.

Never ever have I heard or seen an applause being offered over the beginning credits, just because the screen says "A Quentin Tarantino Film". And never ever have I actually seen the male counterpart withdrawing the hand from around the female shoulder and sit upright to pay more attention to the screen.

The film is about a group of French outlaws in the Nazi era who take up on themselves to hunt down the Hitler's SS army personals and well, kill them brutally. Brad Pitt has a completely different yet perfect accent for his role, although his being a more known name does not get him more screen time, and rightly so. Well supported by Christoph Waltz and others through out, the over all "Inglourious Basterds " thing comes down to a Nazi war movie where the British, French and in a way every one is plotting to bring down the Third Reich.

The film is mostly in German and you constantly have to shift your eyes from the actors faces to the bottom of the screen to read the subtitles, which are in trademark classic yellow colour. The French, German and occasional Latin make you want to re-graduate from the Oxford or Cambridge to differentiate the language and have a better ear for the accent. But for a Hollywood fan (like me), Mr Tarantino does a more than a better job. Nice background score which attracts your attention but never overpowers, some pretty gruesome violence scenes which makes the entire theater utter the "eeeh" and "ooohh", and perfectly balanced flavour of "humour" which makes you bang your fist and throw back you head in a roar of laughter, this film stands apart. Don't go expecting this to be an Action movie, you will be disappointed. But if you appreciate Tarantino's work, this one will be a 'paisa wasool'. The movie is broken down into parts like the chapters of a book, where each one can be enjoyed separately but must be taken in together and in sequence to get the entire flavour. Although the only weakness in the overall compilation is the story, and somewhat the climax, but you won't mind it at the end, because the entire presentation well overpowers the loose links.

Like I mentioned, the movie got an applause, also at the end. And the female love bird, disappointment, even after 8 attempts to squeeze some cupid juice by cuddling in different postures and pulling the arm around every now and then. Sorry Girl, the things at screen were more interesting than you at the side.

Warning : Do not take your girl with you if she is a ShahRukh Khan fan and does not understands the entire project called cinema.

A must watch for Quentin Tarantino fan - Inglourious Basterds : My rating 8/10.