The Namesake: Review By LarveeK

Mira Nair... captured me bodily and soul by this mighty and powerful work of brilliant cinema.

This is what I thought when the credits were sliding off the screen. I never ever thought it to be that good to end up on my favorite movie list.

This movie is not only brilliant and mind blowing but also touches the right place in the heart to start the flow of emotions from ones eyes. Tabu does such a great and fantastic job as her character. Her lines are not as many as Kal Penn but even without the lines she shows so much expression in her beautiful eyes and face. Her crying scene in the garden was extremely powerful. She is a great Indian actress...who can not be compared in acting to Ashwariya Rai...who is nowhere near her talents. Irfan Khan also does a great job and so do Zulekha and Kal but next to Tabu's delicious performance they fade into the background. Kal Pen did well in this film, although i didn't like him that much in Harold and Kumar!

The music...oh...how lovely and sensual music and it carries you off to exotic lands. A whole range of cultural music is heard throughout the film. The soundtrack is worth buying (a mental note made).

Mira Nair's stamp is on every inch of the movie. With the bright exotic colours and terrific camera movement she catch all the five senses of the viewer, this time even more so than her previous Vanity Fair and Monsoon Wedding.

This movie has a lot of meanings in it and was one of the very few movies that moved me to tears. I take my hat off for Mira Nair and had fabulous gift, and I do want to recommend it to every single one of you, because you'll be a bunch of buffoons if you don't end up loving this one!