om shanti om

I am just back from watching this movie, and i tell you, i enjoyed it. Enjoyed it for reasons that beg to be brought out.
There's this song wherein Farah Khan has managed to rope in like half the Hindi film industry. Every time a hero or a heroine makes an entry, there are shrill shouts you hear in the song, even i hooted on a couple of occasions. You could see those familiar steps from oldies like Jeetendra, Dharmendra and Mithun; things which make you change the channel if you see them while surfing, things which they themselves, i guess, must be ashamed to have performed and lured the audiences with once upon a time. Then there were the heroines, whom you could count to be well beyond their prime, Juhi Chawla, Urmila Matondkar, Tabu, Karishma Kapoor. No sooner do you try recalling is there someone important from the same age that's missing, one who's been a very 'lucky' part in all of SRK's movies in the last few years, than you see Kajol. They go through the K2H2 things once again, and it all seems pretty. Then there's the big three Khans: Sallu, Saif and Shar Rukh. With OSO, SRK also has joined the bandwagon of the other two who are only too happy to shed their shirts. And if you are talking about muscles, how can you forget Sanju Baba. The four of them get on top of the bar counter, all in a mood to do a striptease. There must be something like 50 of such characters in the song.
Otherwise the movie is crap, i admit; but i also admit that what one sees in a Hindi movie is what one can really count as our own. In spite of all the English movies that i enjoy watching, i aint sure if i would enjoy one with all Hollywood actors coming together for a similar song sequence. The song is like what you feel when you attend a close wedding -- the wedding is just a reason, what you care for is having a great time with your loved ones.
I feel if somebody has to teach the alphabet to a toddler it would be a good thing to start with: A for Amitabh, B for Bollywood ...