My run-in with bad movies continues. Having walked out after half an hour or so of Black (who the &^%* put the idea of speaking English with a British accent into Amitabh Bachchan's head?) three weeks ago, it was the turn of Sins yesterday.

Let's start with the language first. Though listening to the characters speak in Indian English is quaint, it quickly becomes irritating. The incredibly stilted dialogue doesn't help either. It would have been much better if the movie had been shot in Malayalam (or even Hindi) and English subtitles had been provided.

The director probably had good intentions when he decided to leave certain things unsaid and let the audience figure things out by themselves (a refreshing change when compared to movies where the other side of a phone conversation is repeated verbatim so that the audience doesn't miss anything), but he could have gone easy on the "One/Two years later..." stuff.

I wouldn't blame the actors for the bad acting, considering the constraints placed on them because of the script and language choice (but that's no excuse for some of the hamming that's on display).

Having said all this, Sins is still a watchable movie if you just go with the flow (and enjoy the steamy bits, of course). Watching the movie in a nearly-empty theater with a bunch of like-minded folks poking fun of the corny dialogue and laughing irreverently in all the wrong places helps, too ;-)