Film Review - Choker Bali

LokVani-LokVani: "Rituparno Ghosh?s Choker Bali is beautifully filmed and has brilliant performances but was quite disappointing on the whole, at least for this reviewer. The entire movie seemed to build up to nothing, and one felt quite let down by the end of the film. Mind you, despite reading many negative reviews I went out and bought the DVD for the sole purpose of seeing Ash (Aishwarya Rai) shine bright. Hearing that she was in the movie also had inspired me to read the book (Rabindranath Tagore?s ?Choker Bali?) a month before it came out on DVD. Ash, however, falls flat on her perfect, unflawed face along with the movie. "

Nina Muralidhar, 15, is a sophomore at the Lexington High School, MA. She published an interview with Ms. Aishwarya Rai in India Abroad earlier this year. A voracious reader and an avid Bollywood buff, Nina is also a Ash Rai fan!