Drew Barrymore, another win and Delilah





Was hanging around the house all of Saturday trying to rest a back strain in time for our match on Sunday morning. Sunday turned out to be great as we beat Infosys comprehensively to get to be one win away from a semi-final berth at Bangalore's premier corporate cricket tournament, the Infy Cup.


On Saturday, I was lying down and browsing TV channels, when I stopped at a familiar image. It was a shot from the movie 50 first dates. I'd seen the movie long ago and had liked it for what it was, a simple romantic comedy.

This time, with nothing else to do I watched it again. The story itself is quite a risk for a movie maker simply because the plot is so unique. What really makes the movie work is brilliant screenplay and of course..... Drew Barrymore. What is it about Drew in this movie ... she is unbelievably radiant!

I was thinking to myself especially after my previous Bollywood post that Bollywood could never come up with a story like this, and even if they did, the movie would be so terribly unwatchable that I'm glad they stick to their girl meets boy/rebirth/police chasing goonda/assorted crap.

Before you send your missiles my way, I do think there are some decent movies, which are definitely watchable, ChakDeIndia was good, although I will never know what the hell it means to say "Chak De" and Taare Zameen Par had excellent direction and camera-work.


Lastly, I checked out George's rendition of "Hey There Delilah" and looked up the story behind the song ... not bad at all. Apparently the girl Delilah is now famous.... for being Delilah.