** The Sixth Sense **

Happened to see the late 90s movie - "The Sixth Sense". In fact, I enjoyed watching it the second time even more than the first time. "How could have such a great script be conceived at all", is a wonder to me. The story revolves around a kid ( Haley Joel Osment), who sees dead people. I am not a big fan of "Ghost" movies. But this movie is totally different - in its genre, concept and presentation. Dialogues, "I see dead people" followed by "all the time" presented in a hush-hush voice of Haley were truly wonderful and well picturised !! Every character has done justification to their role but Haley, who has acted with great professional perfection, steals the show. I was surprised to learn that Haley had acted in "Forest Gump" too, another favorite movie of mine.

Whenever I had questioned as to why we dont have such good movies produced in India, I have often met with the most repeated excuse, "budget"!! But this movie, "Sixth Sense", which has just 4 main characters, could be completed in a fraction of what is being spent on low budget Tamil movies these days!! Come on, lets think of a different excuse !! ;o)