Life as I know It

“If you really want to watch a Vampire movie, you should watch the Underworld series,” remarked my boyfriend after I forced him to sit through the latest installment from the Twilight saga. And thus, I got introduced to the dark world of Vampires and Lycans and their unending, bloody war. Several differences between the Twilight series and the Underworld series struck me. Twilight is essentially a love story, enveloped by the overlapping worlds of Vampires and Werewolves, while Underworld is primarily a Vampire-Lycan saga, with several motivations driving the main characters, love being just one of them. Of the 90 or so minutes of Underworld: Awakening, about 45 minutes is pure, unadulterated, adrenalin-pumping action. Selene (Kate Bekinsale) is the undisputed hero of not only the movie, but the entire series. I cannot think of too many successful Hollywood action movies with a female lead. It won’t be exaggeration to say that she owns the movie. Michael Corvin, ostensibly the male lea...

Desi Boyz is the story of two friends living in London who are hit hard by the economic recession of 2009 and face the possibility of losing their near and dear ones. When nothing else seems to work, the two friends are lured into ‘Desi Boyz’, a male escort agency run by the ‘Khalnayak’ with operations all over the world. As the people in their lives discover the truth about their new profession, Desi Boyz find themselves lonely and bereft of those for whom they had taken up the names of Rocco and Hunter in the first place. The rest of the story deals with the Desi Boyz making amends and setting things right in their lives. While some elements that make up the plot of Desi Boyz are new to Bollywood, the story is predictable. The question of whether it is possible for male escorts to live by the principle of ‘only stripping’ and ‘no sex’, and on top of that, become the most successful pair in the agency, is questionable. The lead actors Akshay, John and Deepika, while may have given an ...