NOTTING HILL

TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2005

NOTTING HILL

Today while I was talking to a good friend of mine I was also doing channel surfing & suddenly my eyeballs fixated on Star movies.I had the pleasure to watch NOTTING HILL which is my favourite movie.Notting Hill a fairy tail story of a blue eyed travel book shop dealer William Thacker who accidently meets a gorgeous hollywood actress ANA SCOTT & falls in love.William Thacker extremely attractive,suave,single,blue-eyed,middle aged man with a coveted british acccent who runs a Travel Book store with his frined-cum assistant who supposedly has a homosexual disposition..It has motley of intriguing characters;Thacker's moron flat mate who is constantly doing his acts of asininity vis-a-vis posing for britsh tabloids in his briefs;his meterosexual sister who eventualy falls in love with imbecile flate-mate.William's close buddies;Husband & wife with husband bieng a notoriously bad cook & wife being rendered handicapped by an accident made to sit in a wheel chair for restr of her life.The couple is going through a trauma as they cannot have a baby.William's another friend who happens to be a stock borcker who is Ana Scott was on Britian trip to promote her latest movie which is supposedly set in space;one fine day she decides to have a stroll on streets of london.Enjoying her anonymity she enters a travel book store on notting hill where first encounter of protagonist with the actress is portrayed in a light hearted & romantic manner.While on her trip she goes through experience different shades of life yearning for idyll of life & in pursuit of true love which is hitherto not found.She walked the tight rope with aplomb & adjusted well to sitution managing her celebrity status as well as her anonymus identity.Film is replete with anectdotes & light hearted momentsAll in all an excellent movie & a treat for all movie bugs.