tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post8825412309436850838..comments2023-11-10T08:26:51.182-06:00Comments on Beth Loves Bollywood: thither lies someone else's review of Chokher BaliBeth Loves Bollywoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05540154833326987567noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-77077757603150720402007-04-02T10:41:00.000-05:002007-04-02T10:41:00.000-05:00beth -i had high hopes for chokher bali but i agre...beth -<BR/><BR/>i had high hopes for chokher bali but i agree with you, rather sheepishly, that ultimately it left me feeling unfulfilled. i agree that it's not so much because it's an art-house film, but because any regardless of its genre needs to be entertaining. water, for instance, is also considerably artsy, but it holds your interest and the character jump off the screen vividly. in chokher bali, despite ash's performance which i thought was pretty good, i think the filmmaker was too self-indulgently dark.<BR/>-scribeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15977843.post-33279914371846017882007-03-29T12:24:00.000-05:002007-03-29T12:24:00.000-05:00Thanks for the link, Beth. I am finding a very mi...Thanks for the link, Beth. I am finding a very mixed reaction to this movie - some folks agree with our assessment of it while others think it was wonderful. <BR/><BR/>I tend to love contemplative cinema - many of my favorite films are slow-paced psychological studies in which very little "happens" - so it's not for its pace or arty-ness that I disliked *Chokher Bali*. Rather, it's because I thought it was a poorly-made example of that kind of film.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com