Can you believe that I spent almost an entire weekend on bed? I had to take leave from office on Friday and spend a lousy time in bed cos I couldn't lift my head that was burning at 103 degrees the whole of Thursday night till Saturday morning!

The only solace I had is that I got to watch some nice movies huddled in bed, and succeeded in losing some of my miseries in them... You know,... movies are a wonderful world if you've got no friend or foe to turn to :)

I watched

1) What a Girl Wants: A very mushy mushy movie, totally built on the "live happily ever after" theory. There's this girl brought up by her young and very pretty mother in USA. She yearns for a father she's never seen, but of whom she has a photo and knows his identity... She wistfully looks at father-daughter dances in weddings and finally at the all important age of 17, goes on a trip to London to find her dad. He happens to be a very big politician on the road to being the British Prime Minister. The rest of the story deals with how she brings about changes in her dads life, and finally gets her mum and dad together, while finding a boyfriend for herself too... How perfect can things get 8). The movie ends with her mum and dad dancing under the stars together while next to them, she dances with her English boyfriend. The story isn't morose as I've made it out to be; it really had some nice points - would do for romantic and mushy hearted people like me :) just waiting for a Cinderella story to come her way...

2) Erin Brockovich: The exact opposite of the first one. Hard hitting and ironic at times, Julia Roberts is a darling in this one. Need I say more... I just love the last part where her employer gives her a check of 2 million dollars and she doesn't know that she's getting that much, instead she yells at him like crazy thinking that he's paying her less. Once she sees the amount, he smirks and asks her "Do models know how to apologize? I think not". What a cute man!

3) Minnale: Tamil movie - Madhavan, Reema Sen. The story, I can't digest. I think it is really disgusting to cheat a woman into love... its clear that Reema has no instant chemistry with Maddy when she meets him, and he talks her into love saying he's her fiancee. The poor woman believes it and when the real fiancee turns up, she realizes that she's spent way too much time with Maddy (5 days) and can't get him out of her system. Because of which she chooses him. Now I think the man's a sneaky creep to do that to a woman he loves... Nope. I don't agree with the story. But I can forgive Maddy because he has such a cute smile, and Reema because she makes the song Vaseegara one of the most sensual songs I've seen... just with her moves around the pole. Diya Mirza who was in the Hindi remake couldn't come a mile near.

4) Nuvvostanante Nenoddantaana - I have been waiting to see this one for so long, and I stumbled onto it in a cable channel. I won't say anything about the story since it looks like its taken from 2-3 ones with some resemblances to Maine Pyar Kiya's premise. But the movie belongs to Siddharth. and to some extent Trisha (just so that you don't say I'm partial). The man is this fireball... he has absolute quintals of energy and his face is a treat to watch :) He just has to smile to light the screen up... and I'm sure I haven't  had such a huge crush on a film actor in my entire life! This guy is dynamite and all I want to do is see him in more and more good movies... he's a wonder in himself. I'm not saying more, lest I drool all over this blog :D

NVNO had the lasting impression on me. Couldn't get the guy's face or actions out of my mind till Monday... and that's saying something :) If you don't like Siddharth as much as I do, then watch the movie for Prabhu Deva's directorial capers... the movie has a lot of Charlie Chaplinesque comedy ... there's this scene where Sid has cows wearing lipstick and dangling bells, and payal on their feet :D... and then the dances are wonderful. You can always bet on Prabhu to come out with unique dance steps with each movie of his... he is one guy whose choreography I never get tired of watching. And Trisha is the sweet simple girl with a heart of gold, and the occasional madness.

One scene that I love is the way the lovers blow at each from the balconies to their partners who are somewhere far away, and the partners react as if a huge gale is blowing against them. Cute really... in this age of speed dating, and changing partners faster than changing clothes, its refreshing to see love like this...