Thursday, November 02, 2006
Cinta : Love Actually Parody?

I am the first to admit that I don't like to watch local movies.

Over this Hari Raya, one local movie production aired their latest movie entitled Cinta. And it involves 10 local movie stars with 5 love stories all assembled together in one movie. Furthermore, to my surprise, the movie will commence and end at KL Central, the place where people get connected, and the place where we can see joy in the face of about anyone greeting their love ones. Yes, yes, yes, this film is very familiar to my all time favorite love story, Love Actually where the plot started and ended at Heathrow Airport. Love Actually celebrated the presence of love everywhere during Christmas. But in Cinta, you could expect that the plot would be sometime in Raya. Love Actually had achieved a US gross box office of over $59 million and a world box office of just under $245 million. In the UK, it took in a very impressive £36,238,777. For Cinta, emm, ahh..no judgment needed for now. All in all, Cinta = Love Actually. Go figure.

It's all about love...actually and Love actually is all around.

P.S. If my wild guess is true, I’ll change my mind to go for local movies.

 
posted by Izham Ismail at 2:58 am | Permalink |


3 Comments:


  • At 02 November, 2006 15:56, Blogger aliff adha

    haha ive seen that movie Love Actually. what a star studded cast. all kinds of love is involve. keira was so damn cute in that movie. havent watched cinta yet. ill give it a try maybe.

     

  • At 05 November, 2006 13:28, Anonymous Anonymous

    i'm never a local-made movie lover myself, but let me voice my opinion anyhow. yes, i saw the movie ad on tv, n my 1st impression also went to love atually. but let us put this love actually-imitation thingy aside, at least for a while.

    cinta is a local production, yet the movie director is not a malaysian- he's an INDIAN. of course by saying this, u can't expect something like kuch kuh hota hai, or kabhi kushi kabi gam in anyway. yet i believe there's something to look for when a non-malaysian- or shall i say non-malay?- makes a movie here. remember bernard chauly n his gol & gincu? he's a non-malay, n i'm glad to confess that i personally love his movie, for me it brought a new breath of air to our sickening movie field, though it didnt get that much of well-deserved credits when it was aired years ago. n i certainly look forward to his new-released 'goodbye boys'.

    no, i'm not saying malay moviemakers aint good, at least we still hv yasmin ahmad dont we? it's the sight of that so-called professor who makes people laugh out of nothing, that millionarie who become one just by making bigoted romantic stories, do i hv to go on?

    my say, it's still up to us whether to go n spend few bucks to watch this cinta once it's released, it's that who knows, perhaps this will give something new to our local movie scene.

    but i'm still wondering why on earth this indian movie director wants to imitate love actually. ntah ape2

     

  • At 06 November, 2006 22:06, Anonymous Anonymous

    afdlin shauki make really nice, laughing films.thyre original man.

    the ucpcoming indie movie makers really are making waves but i dont like thir approach on languange.
    cakap jelah bm, apehalnye nak berenglish-english nh..
    nak-naknye si bernard chauly yg he himself does not knw how to speak bm properly.


    like, grr..movie dh okay dah.kasi spoil je.

     
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