There was only one way to deal with the 44 degrees centigrade in Amdavad. Going to movies.

RACE: First half very boring... You feel like sleeping. You desperately want to be the truck driver so that you could really finish Saif off.

Second half is a whole different ballgame altogether. You still feel like sleeping because you can't handle the absurd twists coming at you at breakneck speed. In fact you feel like watching all the twists planned for the next seventy five years of Indian Cinema - squeezed into this second half. At some point, you try not to make any sense out of it and resign yourself.

RACE is not a thriller - it is just too many twists spoiling the broth. My rating would be 2 out of 5.

Next we went to Vellitthirai (Vendi Thera - silver screen) - a movie based on the struggle of two upcoming cinema technicians holed up in Kodambakkam. While the movie's entertainment factor is firmly concentrated in the last twenty minutes of the movie (which incidentally is a rip off of Bowfinger.), the rest of the movie is quite good - It is serious drama. And thankfully there's no Vadivelu to spoil the experience. A very nice movie - I would rate it 4 out of 5.