Let there be no doubt about it, Alyy Khan is extremely underexposed as an actor. When the movie started with him, I hoped there'll be more of him in the movie - but well, the movie overall had several good character actors and much to be appreciated.

I specially liked the Arjun Mathur's character in the movie and the thread where he sends in his photographs to the production house as well. The thread was only briefly attended to (And that's what I like about it), but is rather key in justifying the movie title.

The gray shades of characters is very well done as well - except that I think when you're over 30 and have seen your share of cinema, most of the things are predictable to you since you've seen it someplace before, and hence despite it being a good movie, I personally did not find any novelty in it.

What I did not like (And hence this post) are three things:

1 - Dimple Kapadia's tirade with her daughter about how easy the daughter has had it all : Well, she says "You had this, and I had to go through that"; now not to be an *expletive* about is, but it would serve the movie better if the dialogue went "You had this, and you did not have to go through that".

2 - SRK did not have to detail out on the friends thing. He could just say something simple like "These are your last friends".

3 - The climax did not do anything for me. I would rather the main characters have an amicable conversation in the end and move on. No one asking to be taken back, no one saying no. These guys are mature enough to face, accept, and move on with what happened without losing their dignity anymore.

Since everyone I knew (and did not know) was insistent that the movie is the best cat's pajamas out there, I started to watch the movie with great interest was impressed with the way the movie started. I must note that the child actors were specially good and very comfortable with their characters.

But there are some things in the movie that make it ... a few inches left of a 21 gun salute.

1 ) The movie never elaborated on how Jamal would know to read and write English. Even if it's narrative device for western audience and in reality it should be Hindi - it won't work. Typing on a computer in Hindi is no easy task - and no call center I can imagine will have signs posted in Hindi.

The fix for this problem is actually rather simple. Jamal works as a chaiwala in the call center and 100s of young boys and girls come to work in these from smaller cities in India and have to go through a sort of a diction course. I understand that several hundreds of people take basic English classes to get into these jobs and Jamal could have chanced upon a similar class.

It's one of those things that I would buy if only they would sell it to me.

2 ) The 100 $ bill - Even if I buy that Jamal knew who was pictured on a 100$ bill, I just don't see him giving it to the blind beggar friend. Firstly - it's a shitload of money for him at that point of his life, secondly he knows that money is going to the guys who run the racket, and in his line of work - where the heck would he get the bill from?

Solution was actually extremely simple and already in the movie. When the American couple give him some sort of a dollar bill (Pardon my memory), it could be for 100$ and they could say, "Here's a Franklin for you"!

3) This is - well, I like movies to have a linkback (I have no idea if that's even a word) and so ... - not that important but the movie is about destiny, and one of the tag lines is "It is Written!" - so for the last question, when Jamal had to take a blind guess, I wish they would cut to the "B" Anil Kapoor had written on the mirror before, and Jamal decided to choose 'B' (And, of course, 'B' should have been the right answer)

Anyhoo. Nice movie and all, but I won't be handing out any awards to it.

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