The Da Vinci Code
Yesterday I watched the movie 'The Da Vinci Code'. I had read the book already and wanted to see if the movie conveys the same image as the book and yes it does. Nothing superb about the movie though. It's just a good depiction of the novel. The script sticks slavishly to the book, which is good but, the only pathetic part was that the cinema hall in which it was playing, the only one in Gibraltar called the Queen's cinema, had loads of technical difficulties due to which we had to watch the movies in pieces and some of the bits were chronologically jumbled up. Having paid for a 5 pound dress circle (top class) ticket audience were pissed off but, not to the mighty extent that I expected them to be. I guess, they are used to such frequent technical failures or they were just taking the 'Hey! Shit happens!' attitude. But, everyone was impressed by the good gesture made by the management of offering the audience a free ticket to the show next day in compensation to the bad one that day.

I recently read the news that the movie has been banned by the Andhra Pradesh government and that the rest of the country gets to see it only with an 'A' certificate pasted on it's face, even otherwise, there has been lots of opposition for the movie and hence, the book all over the world. Funny you know, how immature people can be sometimes. Christianity is too profound a religion to be shaken by a single movie or a book. So, why do they really have to bother about it? Opposing it is one thing, trying to demean it and ban it is another. Inspite of all the opposition in the countries with a christian majority, the movie has been rated 'PG 12' in most of them while the Indian censor board gives it an 'A' certificate. I am sure the average Indian audience is not so immature that the movie has to be restricted only for Adults. It only shows the fright of the religious leaders who recommended the censor status and the immaturity of the local governments in going a step further and banning the movie altogether.

/PhaKuDi