Sunday Marathon

Well, in last 24 hrs i have seen 5 memorable flicks, what a grand way of wasting one's time.

1. Valkyrie (2008)
This is a film based on the July 1944 assassination attempt of Herr Hitler. Unfortunately he survived and Germany had to see its bifurcation as a booty of the war. No word of Great Rommel is heard in this movie. The greatest Field Marshall of Germany Irwin Rommel was executed because of this plot. Tom Cruise has greatly justified the role of true patriot of Germany Stauffenberg. 8/10.

2. Mongol (2007)
A Central Asian movie based on the early life the barbaric beast Ghengis Khan aka Temudjin. This movie in a way justifies Ghengis khan massacres. if you are interested in barbaric Mongols of 12th Century, better watch this movie. 6/10

3. Once upon a time in West (1968)
Another cowboy movie after The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Its climax is really thrilling and the league of Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson and Jason Robards is totally worth admiring. 8/10.

4. 12 Angry man (1957)
This movie is so novel in concept that you can not stop recalling it again and again. Its a story of 12 member jury that has to give verdict either guilty or non-guilty in a murder case involving a teenager. Henry Fonda nails it perfectly. 8.5/10

5. Razia Sultan (1983)
Not many movies are made on the lives of great Turks who decimated the Indian empire before Islamicizing it. Our film history starts and ends with the romance of Akbar-Jodha, Shahjahan-Mumtaz or Salim-Anarkali. There is a lot in our history to be filmed. Not many people know that Alauddin Khilji successfully repelled the ferocious invasions of Mongols on India and he did it not once but half a dozen time without being ever defeated. One time we failed in the time of Nasiruddin Tughalag and a Turkish-Mongol Tamerlane destroyed Delhi killing 1,00,000 Hindus in a span of a day or so. Razia sultan is a love story of a high class princess with the low class Abyssinian slave. We have to learn a lot in making films on history. 4/10.

Adios amigos till i write again.