movies on my wish list ...

Jab a movie buff like me, experiences a dry spell, when there is nothing exciting to watch, I handle the withdrawal symptoms, by going into fast forward mode & check out upcoming films, in the season ahead, which tickle my imagination....

Come November 2012 & Aamir Khan winds his way back into our lives & hearts, with Reema Kagti’s, ‘Talaash’. Now that I have mentioned AK, of Time cover fame, need I state any more reasons, for looking forward to this film?! But yes, Reema has ‘Honeymoon Travels’ under her belt & proved herself as a director. The leading ladies of this psychological thriller are Kareena Kapoor & after a long gap, Rani Mukherjee, who apart from being very competent actors, are sheer eye candy as well! Hopefully, the talaash for a good bollywood phillum will end with ‘Talaash’!!!

Mohsin Hamid’s stirring book, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” is the story of a successful Pakistani immigrant in America, with an Ivy League education, beautiful white girlfriend & the perfect job, who discovers, post the 9/11 attack, that his sympathies lie, not with the country of his dreams, but with the attackers.
With Mira Nair bringing the novel to life, on film, this is a movie to watch out for, with an impressive star cast, including Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Keifer Sutherlan, Om Puri, Shabana Azmi, with Riz Ahmed playing the lead role of Changez. Definitely on my movie wish list!

Winner of the 1981 ‘Booker prize’ & the ‘Booker of Bookers prize’, Salman Rushdie’s much acclaimed ‘Midnight’s Children’, makes its movie debut, under the deft direction of Deepa Mehta. What an ensemble cast; Rahul Bose, Shabana Azmi, Shriya Saran, Anupam Kher, Soha Ali .... If the film is even half as good as the book, it will make movie magic, when released towards the end of 2012!

Les Misérables, because it was my daughter who read the Victor Hugo novel & in a case of role reversal, narrated the story to my husband & me, while we listened, spell bound. One of the most successful musicals on Broadway, the movie version is something to look forward to, in the cold months of 2012. While we know Ann Hathaway, Russell Crowe, Hugh Jackman & Amanda Seyfried can act, the million dollar question is, ‘can they sing?’! Well, we’ll have to wait and watch out for this one!

AND I’ve saved the best for last – the prequel to the epic trilogy, Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’, based on J R R Tolkien’s novel, hits cinema theatres, end 2012, as “The Hobbit”! ‘The Lord of the Rings” brought us the best of an epic, fantasy, adventure film & expectations are high from “The Hobbit”!

Watch this space for reviews of the above, as the year unfolds - you may love some, hate the others, but its difficult to ignore 'em ... that's the magic of movies!