by the way meetu who designed your site, it has a "COOL" look. different from the blogs i hv seen around.

Hi Meetu,

I quite enjoyed the movie and thought the ending to be realistic and
complete without the usual melodrama.
Each actor played their part well but Konkona Sen Sharma and Irrfan Khan were outstanding.

we as in? do u hv a team? hey posted my review yesterday... do bother to check out.

I saw Metro today & completed enjoyed myself...Konkana & Irfan were the BEST.....Kay Kay was like totally into his ruthless character.

Right, Mehak. Metro is full of good performances.

Thanks, Amit!

black friday ,ekalavya and now metro , list of really good movies that you didnt "get" .
dharmendra-nafisa story didnt quite work for me too and the appearance of those three guy band again and again
got a little on my nerves after awhile. but that said , i found metro to be a extremely well scripted and well
acted movie . a rarity , a multiple story line ,character driven movie that actually works and when it does
works it works big time . This is the movie salaam-e-ishq wanted to be . all the stories were tied up very well in the end too.

also i couldnt understand the big gap between your rating for music (2.5) and lyrics (4.0) , only reason
people will notice the songs'words -atleast in a hindi movie , is if music is good , unless they are selling
supplying lyrics printed on a booklet .

nice work on the site btw , could you get a shorter url maybe , the current site name is little difficult
to type .

morph wrote:

only reason
people will notice the songs’words -atleast in a hindi movie , is if music is good , unless they are selling
supplying lyrics printed on a booklet .

This is definitely not true for me. I definitely notice the lyrics and music as separate entities. For example, take the song "hai tujhe bhi ijaazat, kar le tu bhi mohabbat". I like the lyrics, but absolutely hate the music/tune - they make it sound like a background song being sung while the jilted lover is going off to commit suicide.

Hey, morph - Navin and meetu agreeing is a rarity, so I am just going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Morph wrote - i wont write here if i agree with you

meetu writes - bahut na-insafi hai (This is grave injustice!)

Wow, we agree again! :-) Script and character consistency are the most important part for me too - Be it Hindi or anything else. But it is unfair to expect that from everyone, right? Each person has his standard. Just like with children, it's wrong to expect every child to do well in academics. So, I try my best to appreciate how far the movie succeeded in what it set out to do.

Characters who behave and talk real appeal to me too. And that's where the climax literally shocked me. Are you sure people weren't laughing at the Monty/Shruti climax instead of laughing with it. I was laughing too, but at it, with my hand on my forehead instead of my stomach. It was hardly "real". There was a big leap from Neha wanting her lover to leave his family to doing what she did.

The climax is where the rating dropped from "Watch for sure, preferably in theater" to "Wait for video release". It is sad but true, that expectations vary depending on talent. I have a strong feeling that people who created the first 1 hour 50 minutes were creative enough to come up with the last 20 minutes that went with the flow of the movie.

BTW, the Shikha-Ranjeet track worked because that is exactly what I expected. And a lot of credit goes to the director/writer for this because Shikha's character was developed and protrayed very well. Having her do anything else would have been just to be "different".

No, dear Morph, Salaam-e-Ishq got the same rating as Metro, because the middle 2 hours were entertaining and that movie's aim is not to show me reality, it is to entertain me.

Thanks for the feedback on the site name. Will work on it.

Thanks again, for the time and energy spent on writing here.

ok i remebered you giving favourable review to two very lengthy movies SEI and umrao ,i probably might have got the ratings mixed , still SEI reached nowhere near the levels Metro reached . its not like metro aimed not to entertain :), the approach differed Metro went for a quasi realistic approach , salaam-e-ishq went for a Johar-chopra patented bollywood approach . one worked and entertained , another failed miserably and bored big time . 1 hour 50 minutes of solid compelling cinema is good enough to make a trip to the theatre for me , even if climax didnt work for some they still get to carry some really great moments and very well etched characters from this movie .

i went with a group of four friends and yeah them me and rest of the audience in the auditorium were laughing *WITH* the movie in the climatic moments rather than at it ..i could differntiate because i saw the same audience laughing *AT* the movie when three dudes with the guitars appeared for the fifth and sixth time ! ive sat through enough movies to sense whats working for the audience and what isnt .. well thats about it on metro from me , the movie with all its flaws was easily one of the best hindi movies to hit theatres this year.

cant wait to see what Anurag Basu does next .

Hi Meetu,
Well how r u? I'm Fine. But i must say that i liked the theme of your website more then the film. Great to watch this kind of website. Coming to the film i liked the work of Irfan Khan(as he is favourite of mine) also Konkana was fabulous. I'll give more coments on it when i'll watch the film again

i din'd saw da movie..bt da promos were sum wat boring..i was actuly nt so keen of watching so boring filmzz…U KNOW..!!!

vry vry good movie