Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Nine Queens.... the movie
'Bluffmaster', the Hindi flick came as a 'relief' Aishwarya, breaking junior Bachchan’s vow to join the Hall of Fame in Bollywood to have given the maximum number of flops humanly possible. I had been very impressed by the style treatment to an excellent story, which had a good dose of humour, and romance. It surely promised a great future for the Mumbai movie industry that was evolving into a new avatar.
Alas!!! I realize now that it has been more than inspired by the Argentinian movie ‘Nine Queens’. Nine Queens forms a quicker, realistic, and a straighter story than ‘Bluffmaster’, and keeps the pace throughout. Despite flaunt of style, the nonchalance of the narration impressed me the most.
The story is simple. A young con joins an experienced con for one day. In this day, they chance upon the opportunity to make the money worth their lives. The excitement is about the various barriers that they come across in their pursuit of the opportunity, in the form of an invaluable set of 9 ancient stamps called the ‘Nine Queens’.
If you like fun movies, and don’t mind the subtitles, this is a great movie for a Sunday afternoon watch.
Have fun.