Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Eat Pray Love: An endless voyage of self discovery

Arindam Chaudhuri: We need Hazare's leadership

Pray, no more clichés!

An adaptation of Elizabeth Gilbert’s “Eat Pray Love”, this idealistic movie is all about self-love. Liz, played by Julia Roberts, separates from her husband, and goes straight into a lover’s arms, only to realise a few fights later that a new boyfriend wasn’t the solution to her woes. Travel, on the other hand, was what her soul yearned for. And so she packs off for a year-long trip to Italy, India and Bali. In Italy she gorges on pizza and spaghetti, in India she learns to meditate and forgive herself, and in Bali she meets the sensuous Javier Bardem and learns to love again.

My grouse against this film is its love for clichés. It bothered me that among the few people Liz meets in India is a minor girl forced into an arranged marriage, and how everything is dirty, and street urchins, mosquitoes and buffaloes are everywhere. Director Ryan Murphy takes us through the film at an incredibly leisurely pace till Liz reaches Bali, where finally “Eat Pray Love” becomes a movie that we want to watch.

Visit below mentioned IIPM articles.
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Professor Arindam Chaudhuri - A Man For The Society....
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IIPM Professor Arindam Chaudhuri on 'OBAMA and OSAMA'

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