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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Ever palpitating hearts, truant elevators, in drag, in glycerinehttp://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=530
The plot plods at a pace that suggests love is just about the only force that keeps the universe moving. Both the protagonists play professionals. But we hardly see them work except on their ever-palpitating hearts.
The plot invents various devices from missed flights to truant elevators to hero in drag and heroine in glycerine to keep the love birds apart for two hours. There are some heartwarming moments depicting random hearts pumping into a collective despair as time ticks by.
There's no attempt to pull punches, no over-clever dialogues and no effort to paint and gloss the feeling of love with sassy 'cool' lines. Director Satish Kaushik plays the romance on the straight and narrow path. And that's just about the most comforting aspect of this basic simple and predictable boy-meets-girl tale.
The principal performances range from precocious to authentic. Surprisingly Shahid tends to go overboard in the early comic sequences. But he makes up for the excesses in the second-half with expressions of a lover's anguish over Cupid's awry arrow.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Though I know "palpitate" means "throb"
Source : http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=530
The plot invents various devices from missed flights to truant elevators to hero in drag and heroine in glycerine to keep the love birds apart for two hours. There are some heartwarming moments depicting random hearts pumping into a collective despair as time ticks by.
There's no attempt to pull punches, no over-clever dialogues and no effort to paint and gloss the feeling of love with sassy 'cool' lines. Director Satish Kaushik plays the romance on the straight and narrow path. And that's just about the most comforting aspect of this basic simple and predictable boy-meets-girl tale.
The principal performances range from precocious to authentic. Surprisingly Shahid tends to go overboard in the early comic sequences. But he makes up for the excesses in the second-half with expressions of a lover's anguish over Cupid's awry arrow.
Please explain to me the emboldened parts.
Though I know "palpitate" means "throb"
Source : http://movies.ndtv.com/movie_Review.aspx?id=530
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"ever-palpitating hearts" = hearts that are always beating rapidly (figurative; refers to their romantic attraction to one another) "truant elevators" = presumably, elevators that aren't available when required "in drag" = describes a man dressed in women's clothes "in glycerine" = presumably means "in tears", referring to the fact that glycerine is used to simulate tears
- "ever-palpitating hearts" = hearts that are always beating rapidly (figurative; refers to their romantic attraction to one another) "truant elevators" = presumably, elevators that aren't available when required "in drag" = describes a man dressed in women's clothes "in glycerine" = presumably means "in tears", referring to the fact that glycerine is used to simulate tears
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"ever-palpitating hearts" = hearts that are always beating rapidly (figurative; refers to their romantic attraction to one another)
"truant elevators" = presumably, elevators that aren't available when required
"in drag" = describes a man dressed in women's clothes
"in glycerine" = presumably means "in tears", referring to the fact that glycerine is used to simulate tea
"truant elevators" = presumably, elevators that aren't available when required
"in drag" = describes a man dressed in women's clothes
"in glycerine" = presumably means "in tears", referring to the fact that glycerine is used to simulate tea
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