Jairam's Jives

Now anybody who has an interest in Western Classical music or Western Instrumental music in general would surely have heard the 'Chariots of Fire' theme from the soundtrack of the movie with the same name. And therefore, on a lazy Saturday morning in Bangalore when I was waiting for the postman to deliver something important, I popped in the 'Chariots of Fire' DVD into the player expecting to watch a nice movie, but it turned out to beat my own low expectations quite handsomely.

While I have always been a big fan of sports in general, and sports movies in particular, the ones that appeal to me the most are the ones that deal with the human aspect and the human emotions of sport.

Now, the first time I heard about the movie Fracture was when HBO or Star Movies played a 5 min segment of the movie with an interview of Anthony Hopkins stating that this was only the second time in his career that he had played the role of a murderer after the famous Hannibal Lecter character. And if this isn't enough to pique anybody's interest in this movie, nothing else can, given Hopkins' masterful portrayal of Hannibal in that series of movies.