Not only cd, but also rips of DVD screener on common pirate download sites.
Good news : Some ratings I seen are 8.7 to 9.4 /10 meaning the film will be spreading wildly on net promoting its popularity as its been released in 1/6 theaters compared to other films as read on yahoo movies Bad news : Big losses in revenues for producers... and Our Boss.. :-( If only there was a way of converting bandwidth consumption to money!!! NIVEN (Mauritius) --- In arrahmanfans@yahoogroups.com, V S Rawat <vsra...@...> wrote: > > Good News and bad news: > > Good News: > Call or visit your video parlor. Presto. > > In all likelihood, English version of SDM is available there in CD/ DVDs > for purchase/ rental. Not the poor cam rip but an excellent quality > print. No cuts. > > bad news: > It is probably not legal as the film has not got released in India. I > don't think it has even got censored so far. But who is complaining??? > It is the bad planning of producer that he didn't release the movie so > far in Home and people are craving to see it so they would grab the > pirated CDs. It would harm the box office collections of the movie when > it eventually gets released. > > -- > My CD walah surprised me by giving me SDM CD and I could see the movie > in Rs 10 rental. > > And, in spite of a few weaknesses in the film, that only got even more > highlighted to me personally because I have been seen all unqualified > praises for the film everywhere. If I have not seen such praises, I > would have ignored the script holes and would have liked the movie even > more. > > So, let me give the bad points probably first time on net. > > But before that, let me assert that it is overall an excellent movie, > will keep you engrossed, you heart will cry and laugh with the boy, Dev > Jamal Kumar. What a find he is. Probably the first real male talent that > has come in 21st century on Indian screen. What an intensity on his > face, his eyes pierce you to the core. What a confidence. What a > balanced, matter-of-factly dialog delivery. A similar great performance > by a kid/ youth was seen last in Zakhm by Kunal. The pent up anger in > him reminded me of Amitabh of 30 years ago. Shahid Kapoor and Ranbir > Kapoor should take acting classes from Dev Kumar. > > > ::SPOILERS ALERT:: > > His brother Salim has also done well, with a lot of pragmatism and > sincerity but the portrayal of his character is sort of confused. The > director could decide whether to show him basically good guy or a bad > guy, so he kept switching sides and didn't leave the full impact that he > could have. his acting is not at all faulty, his characterization is. > > In the train, Salim didn't save the kid girl and opting to save his own > and his brother's life, which is not really a wrong priority, but it is > definitely more telling than just selling Amitabh's autograph that his > brother has got through a very impractical, creepy route. And, then, > when Jamal did find the grown up girl, the elder bro elopes with her and > it is alluded to that they made love also. And, then seeing the same > girl becoming a slave keep of his goon boss. And then, letting her > escape. And killing the bad guy and getting killed himself. If any of > you could get the logic of it all, please explain to me also. > > The characterization of the girl Latika is also lacking. Though she was > an introvert girl whose bad childhood would have killed her self respect > and courage, so far it was logical, still what made her regain her that > confidence didn't get highlighted in the movie. Her acting is also > better than average in the sense that several newcomer girls this year > (JTJYN, RNBDJ, Ghajini leading gals) have performed superbly, much > better than this girl, raising the measuring bar. > > So, the plus of film is Dev Jamal Kumar and the minus of the film is a > patchy script. To link the 20 questions with the biography of the kid/ > boy/ guy, the script writer has patched up several unrelated things to > put them in the shape of a story. Anyway. The writer himself is a fresh > one, yet he shows a lot of promise. > > Anil Kapoor was a copy of KBC's Amitabh, but was tolerable. Still, his > two great ditchings could match the great ditch by Aamir in 1947 Earth, > and that is saying something on his great acting that he doesn't give > any hint to you how he is going to change masks scene by scene. Now, it > is another bad part of script that why he did so was never disclosed to > us the viewers. Somewhere his remark that "this is my show" tried to > open this angle but was left closed right there at that sentence. > > And, the Police Imran Inspector and the contable kallo mama were totally > redundant in the movie, the worst part of script, as if they were > packed in just to let the biography of the guy known to viewers. Jocky > handing over the national sensation participant to police on charge of > forgery just like that, and they beating him up, even giving electric > shock were all cheap, ugly, dirty tricks to psyche the viewers to feel > pain for the boy. > -- > > All the choicest Hindi Maa Bahan Abuses are another lowest low of the > movie. There should be some law that such a teen-aged kid should not be > shown getting abused thusly, that too, by uniform clad government officials. > > -- > If you guys expect a movie with so many script drawbacks to get oscar, > it is obvious that your love for ARR has overruled your sense of > propriety. If this film gets a nomination, it would become a classroom > study case of how poor Indian scripts are written. > > -- > And, the music. > > The music didn't get highlighted at all in the movie. At certain places > BGMs were soothing and captivating, still the non-hindi part of music > went above head and below feet. The post-climax fill-up song Jay Ho is > well done in music as well as in dance and captures exactly how the > viewers were feeling at that juncture, still it was obviously a patch up > which added nothing to the story or script. Listening to the audio songs > leaves you feeling much better, but you wouldn't even remember which of > those songs are in the movie, other than ringa ringa and jay ho. > > The drawback of jay ho is that its lyrics are not really audible. I am a > lyrics man but even i couldn't get exactly what are they speaking after > jay ho, and most part in stanzas. > > The underlying emotion of this song also didn't become apparent to me. > It could have been a "survivors' song, it could have been an assertion > of the go-get-it, I-will, I-can instincts of Indian teenagers, but all > that didn't become apparent and it remainned just a celebration song, > san any message. Seems Gulzar has missed on an opportunity of a > lifetime. Gulzar in any case is a poet of sentiments and not really a > social message man, like Sahir was. I think a P K Mishra/ Mehboob lyrics > would have been better suited for this song. > -- > > If watching a film in English is not your idea of having fun, even then > you can safely watch it. It is having a lot of hindi, and you would > understand the English movie fully well. I would even suggest that you > watch English version itself, because I guess that Hindi dubbing would > kill several of the audio/ music bits. > > -- > So guys and gals. Hope this criticism would put the film in proper > perspective in your mind and after reading above, you would be better > placed to like the movie even more, ready to accept these shortfalls. > > But do see it. It is a lovely movie to see. you can recommend it to anyone. > > Thanks. > -- > Rawat >
