Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Cinescape have no shame..


This edition of Idiots in Kuwait is dedicated to our dear friends over at KNCC (Kuwait National Cinema Company) for their admirable efforts in imitating the English language.. Below are the synopsis for Egyptian and Indian films in the "Now Showing" section of their website...

Fe Shaqah Masr Aljadeda

Music teacher (Najwa) lives in Elmania. She takes the opportunity while she is in Cairo in a field trip with students to search for her teacher (Tahani), who taught her music, and she thinks that she lives in a flat in town called New Egypt. Najwa’s trip becomes a nightmare, and her teacher flat that she found is different from what she expected. Can Najwa find Tahani? or she will find something else?

Life in a .... Metro -Hindi

Rahul works as a call centre executive and he silently loves his colleague Neha, because her boss, Ranjeet, loves her. Ranjeet is married to Shikha. They had decided that she should stay back at home and take care of the house and the kid. Shikha is attracted to Akash, theatre artist, whose wife divorces him. Akash and Shikhas love blossoms. Amol is a 70-year-old man who returns to India after 40 years to spend the last few years of his life with his first love, Vaijanti. The lady lives in an old age home and is Shikhas aunt. What will happen to these crossed lives?

Kya Love Story Hai -Hindi

is the story of a carefree and wayward youth, Arjun (Tusshar Kapoor), who experiences love-at-first-sight with Kaajal (Ayesha Takia). It isnt a typical meet-cute situation - he follows her for some time before breaking the ice.

What the hell is a meet-cute situation?

Ta Ra Rum Pum -Hindi

Rajveer is a pit-crew worker in a racing team with a passion for driving whom a team manager, Harry, discovers. The same day he accidentally meets a Radhika, who he falls for instantly. A few months later, both happily married. He becomes number 1 race driver and he has a boy amd a girl. But as a result of a bad-racing accident, Rajveer is hospitalized for a few months. When he tries to make a comeback, he realizes that he has been mentally scarred by the accident. The family struggles to survive a life that they are not used to, but an incident forces Rajveer to reclaim the life that was taken away from him.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

meet-cute is a legit film term. check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet-cute