DIL BOLE HADIPPA REVIEWED

Dil Bole........ is a movie which elicits mixed feelings after watching it.It is neither too good not overtly bad. It has its fair share of celebration and also the drawbacks.

BRIEF PLOT
Anupam Kher is an ardent cricket fan who likes to compete with his Pakistani friend every now and then in cricket matches in which 11 men represent each one of them.
Anupam Kher has been perpetually losing all the battles since many years as his team always find reasons to lose by playing below par cricket than his counterpart's team.
Shahid plays the son of Anupam Kher who plays in the English county as a very senior player who is called by his dad to resurrect the lost fortunes of his dad's team. As he arrives in India from UK,Shahid falls for Rani Mukherjee whom he loathes at the first site. Meanwhile Rani is a different girl who aspires to achieve big in the cricketing arena despite the odds.How she tries her luck in getting into Shahid's team by feigning being a sikh and brother of Veera (Rani) forms the rest of the story.

POSITIVES
1.Shahid and Rani form a great pair and their chemistry oozes out on the screen.

2.Rani is her acting best and so is Shahid.

3.The situations intended to be funny are funny.

4.The colours look simply wonderful to the eyes throughout the movie.

5.Rani playing a male Veer is superb.

6.The music is in synchrony with the story and keeps you entertained.

7.Anupam Kher and his Pakistani friend are brilliant.

8.the story will be loved by romantics and Yashraj followers who shall be treated to eulogies of Yashraj films in various scenes in the movie.


NEGATIVES
1.The story is extremely predictable.

2.No particular sequence is well developed and less time has been given to all and thus scenes change the moment they pick up their show.

3.Skimpy outfits make you wonder how it can be called a family watch?

4.Same old it all happens well in the end in sport movies cliche is at you again.

In toto it is a fine movie which will be loved more by those who believe in romantic flicks and light entertainment. ILL GO WITH 2.5/5 FOR THIS ONE. Save your money by taking this one from me.

WANTED may be unreal,unreasonable and inexplicable but in the same breath it must be said that it is entertaining,with a storyline matching hindi movies of the 70s and 80s and heralds the reinstatement of Salman Khan in the high performers of the industry.

BRIEF PLOT

The induction of a new police officer in the ranks of the Mumbai police commences the muzzling of the Mumbai mafia gangs. The police are out to nab all the goons and most importantly the kingpin Gani bhai who is into illegal activities big time.Salman plays a character named Radhey who is ostensibly a local thug who does everything by his own admission for money.He falls for Janhavi a middle class girl whom he meets by chance at a tv shop.The film is equally about the love story of Radhey as it is about the strong armed man and his obver the top assaults.

POSITIVES

1.Salman Khan is the biggest positive point of this movie. After a long time has a film come in which the main protagonist or the hero drives the story and after a long time Salman has done back breaking action literally at that.

So point 1 is being divided into sub parts to tell you why exactly is Salman so essential to the movie and how exactly does he pinch you to sustain the interest in the movie:

1(a).Salman delivers his dialogues with unprecedented panache. Its the dialogues which embellish this movie at various times and are an essence of the movie.

(b)Salman finally pushes himself out of his easy comfort zone to deliver something special. His performance throughout is praiseworthy.

(c)Salman dances superbly courtesy Prabhu Deva.

(d)Salman has finally showcased his extremely stout built including 8 pack abs contrary to the thought that he had succumbed to the pleasures of alcohol.





(e)Salman ekes out a brilliant chemistry with a fading actress whose age is also almost 20 years less than his.

2.Prabhu Deva as a director has come out with a gem of an entertainer. There are hardly portions in the movie where the tempo and interest sags.

3. Prabhu deva has made Salman Dance , a phenomenon seen after a long long time.

4. Ayesha Takia has done a role worth mention in the "positives of reviews" only after the movie Dor.

5. A new chemistry is born that too a surprising one. Salman sits perfectly as the inamorata of Ayesha Takia who in turn compliments the beast to the hilt.

6. Vinod Khanna and Mahesh Manjrekar as usual continue to excel in the parts they have been given and those parts are really crucial to the story.

7. The cravings of action lovers are surely assuaged as the action and fast sequences adorn the core part opf the movie with Salman at the heart of it all.

8. Barring a few profane words and expletives there is nothing which can be dubbed as adult.Infact it is a family film.

9. It is a totally fun packed film which can be seen and kept at the cinema hall only to come out with some sweet portions of it without much of a re think on any of the scenes.

10. Salman's inadvertent and intelligent comic timing is superb and coaxes even a person like yours truly(a difficult and stubborn person to make laugh) to laugh .

11. The Mughal e azam sequences in the beginning.

NEGATIVES

Far and few between but there are some.

1.The moves done by Salman are hard to believe unlike a Ghajini which satisfies the viewer of the violence that takes place in it seeing the hefty Aamir.

2.Songs are clearly added for the sake of it.

3.The film follows a very predictable and hunky dory storyline with everything falling in place as is surmised by the discerning viewer, thus it makes one reminisce of the action films of 70s and 80s or the current crop of south films where 1 person handles 15 men simultaneously .

On the whole the film is very entertaining and makes your mood to move on to do some other important tasks in life.Go for it woth your family and you wont regret it one bit. If you do then read my blog. ILL GO WITH 3.5/5 FOR THIS ENTERTAINER. A TREAT TO WATCH FOR THE SALLU DIE HARD.

	Wanted

KAMINEY REVIEWED

Kamniney is a paradigm shift from the usual poitboiler bollywood movies,which goads the viewer to never drop his thinking cap throughout the 2 odd hours it thrills, yet it retains the basic premise of an Indian movie.

BRIEF PLOT
Shahid Kapur plays a double role. And both his roles have speaking impediments. One of the character he enacts is the simpleton Guddu who stammers and has lines drawn for his career path. On the other hand Charlie also played by Shahid has a lisp. They are brothers but separated 3 years ago in the wake of their father's demise. Guddu gets into trouble when he marries the sister(Priyanka Chopra) of an aspiring Mumbai politician who wanted her to marry a builder's son so that in return he wouldve got the funds for his political arousal. But when the brother discovers that his sister has married Guddu he commences his journey to nab him. Charlie on the other hand is a ragamuffin and a vagabond who bets on horse races. His miseries begin when he loses his money in a bet and tries to get hold of the winner of his lost money. Some police officers are involved in a drug racket whose member is the one with the prize money. Following the series of events the lives of the 2 brothers intersperse and story out of story emanates.

POSITIVES
1.From the outset itself, the foundation for the adrenaline pumping movie is laid.The wellspring is quite different from usual action thrillers.

2.Shahid Kapur is over the top and absolutely breathtaking and does wonderful justice to both his characters whom he through his impeccable acting makes 2 distinct characters look completely different almost as though they were played by different actors. How he has metamorphosed into an actor worth a lead role is a story youll know after seeing this movie. This is truly a filip for his career.

3.Shahid fans will be delighted to see his well chiselled and toned body. He flexes his muscles on more than one occasion so the viewer gets a wholesome sneak into his curves.

4. For Shahid selection of this sort of a movie after a dud and completely different movie like Kismat Konnection is truly commendable. He has got a well written script by a thinking director.

5.Priyanka Chopra sans a great deal of screentime impresses immensely and is truly the reigning queen of bollywood. The scenes where she cries look astonishingly real.

6. The cinematography is done like a hollywood movie with camera angles and sequences hitherto unseen in a bollywood movie. The starting and ending of the movie make you feel that Indian cinema has arrived on the scene.

7.The songs are not anything remotely like dancing and prancing about trees and beautiful flowers. They are so intelligently and astutely executed that you wonder where was the Vishal Bhardwaj all this while?

8.The side charcters are inimtable and seem to add colours to a well contemplated script.

9. After a very very long while has a movie come , the dialogues of which form the essence of it and adorn it so that the viewer takes along certain scenes to home and with uncanny ease remembers the parts of a complicated storyline.

10. There is no time frittered away in a move away from the habit of hindi movies ie vivid explanation of certain unnecessary scenes. Kaminey is to the point and some food for thought is left for the viewer also, an idea of story narration seen only in hollywood films.

NEGATIVES
1. The film complicates matters by piling one story over the other in a speck of time leaving the viewer literally no time to comprehend what the previous sequence meant. Its only at the end that the epiphany dawns upon the viewer and its only then that the "not understood pieces and scenes" in the mind start to fall in their place.

2.The movie is not meant for the undiscerning viewer as he would find it nonsensical and will not be able to comprehend the goings on throughout.

3.Screenplay becomes too fast for the viewer to understand the pace of things.


In toto this movie will delight the viewer who wants to see a tangible change in an Indian movie with distinct features which rankle the cerebra.

A great piece of work and a magnum opus of Vishal BHardwaj and Shahid Kapur. The film does live upto its hoopla and din and leaves a mark on the mind even some while after watching it.

ILL GO WITH 4 OUT OF 5 FOR THIS ONE. Id say go to the cinemas and take out some of your time from your busy schedule to see the transformation this movie brings to BOLLYWOOD.

LOVE AAJ KAL REVIEWED

Love Aajkal disappoints the viewer with the same conviction as its trailers evoke curiosity and eagerness to see a good film. No points for guessing how it shapes up in the end.

BRIEF PLOT
There are 2 stories in the film.The irony is that both of them are parallel to each other in a distinct way. Saif and Deepika are a happy couple till one day they realise that they ought to part ways owing to their respective professional askance.They separate so amicably that it looks more like a patch up.Enters Rishi Kapoor who tells Saif that in him he sees himself of yore.He also tells him he also had a similar story like Saif but he choose to face the hardships rather than resort to escapism like Saif was doing. At first Saifs laughs Rishi's saga away But as time passes he realizes how difficult it becomes for gim to stay away from Deepika who harbours feelings akin to this . How all this happens and how they patch up again forms the rest of the story.

POSITIVIES
1.Though Saif overdoes his scenes many times but still he is the essence of the movie.
2.Rishi Kapoor is his usual pragmatic self. His histrionics too good.
3.The climax is happy for those who like elation ridden denouements.
4.The jokes are funny to an extent.
5.The story is simple.
6.Saif Ali Khan does justice to his role as the young Rishi Kapoor. He is brilliant at times.

NEGATIVES
1.Deepika Padukone has started to try but her acting can still be lucidly dubbed as hamming.
2.Saif Ali Khan over acts a la SRK.
3.There are too many scenes which defy logic.The director needs to justify how people can So easiy break up on someone and how they can comeback in their lives many seasons later? How easily at marriage parties, the bride exchanges messages on her mobiles? How a young Rishi Kapoor can elope with a girl on her marriage day?
How easily Deepika Padukone's husband played by Rahul Khanna allows her to spend time aloof and how easily he lets her go to talk to her "friend" in the name of "sab accha nahi ho raha hai". All these issues are inexplicable and in real life these things dont happen so easily and smoothly as is shown. Too much has been left on our hearts to believe. The film is a food for hear rather than thought.
4.Rishi Kapoor couldve been utilized more.
5.Locations like London and San Fransisco are completely squandered and their beauty not showcased in any manner whatsoever. Even Delhi is frittered away.
6. The songs are wasted.

It is an innocuous film as far as adult content is concerned. But on the other hand it has nothing in it that you can sit with your family and enjoy the movie.

All in all a one time watch wont make you feel huilty but this is a certain disappointment from the director who came up with a rib tickler like Jab We Met when he donned the director's hat last.

ILL GO WITH 2.5 ON 5. WATCH AT A THEATER OR IF AFTER READING MY REVIEW YOU ARE BOGGED DOWN. DONT HESITATE TO TAKE THE MOVIE IN PEN DRIVE FROM ME.

	Love Aaj Kal

NEW YOrK REVIEWED

If seen seeking comparisons with other movies of the same ilk ie dealing with the same issues---terrorism and unreasonable detention of Indians and Pakistanis in the wake of 9/11 attacks,the film might disappoint you.It is true the film doesnt highlight important aspects and shows all this in a very glamorous manner but this aspect of it can be overlooked.

THE BRIEF PLOT

The movie begins with Omar(Neil Mukesh).being arrested for possession of arms in his taxy. He is then detained by the FBI and is interrogated as to if he is a terrorist and what connections does he have with Sam(John Abraham who is an alleged JIHADI. Neil then starts to delve into the past.He starts to tell the investigation cop Roashan (Irrfan Khan) on repetaed prodding that he was a student of Delhi who came to New York university to complete his masters when in the unknown college environment Maya (Katrina Kaif) comforted him and introduced him to the attention seeker Sam(John Abraham).Slowly the friendship of the trio of John, Neil and Katrina reached new levels after blossoming in the college environment.Then he divulges that he fell in love with Katrina but he backtracked and went away after the college years as it broke his heart that Katrina liked John.On hearing this Irrfan Khan lets Neil go on the pretext that he will spy on John who is on a mission to devastate the country. What happens next is the continuation..............

Positive points
1.The film has entertainment in superficial amounts which is a captivating aspect.

2. For ladies or John Abraham fans rather, there is his torso that is on display again and again as he leaves no scene unturned err sorry no stone unturned to flex and flaunt his chiselled body. He acts also superbly.

3.Neil Nitin Mukesh is wonderful and is such a great talent that he affects and inadvertently coaxes Katrina Kaif to "act".

4. A part of the story is true.

5.The best feature of the movie is Irrfan Khan . One has to admit that amongst the current crop of actors he stands out in the "acting" front. He makes it looks os natural that the viewer is compelled to extol him. Flawless hysteria. He is or rather will be a legend of Bollywood era of today.

6.Director Kabir Khan's research work and in depth explanation of each event.

7.The action sequences in the movie are really appreciable.

8. Certain turn of events make the movie rapturous and adrenaline pumping.

The Negative points

Far and few between but nevertheless there are some:

1.Katrina still isnt upto the mark and her diction has gone from bad to worse only to jolt her millions of fans who think that with every movie her hindi is improving.Id like to state a sequence which is shown on tv also where in she is holding a gun and says in her heavily accented hindi "kaaaaoon ho tum?". instead of looking touching this scene looks laughable.

2.Certain scenes are dragged unnecessarily.

A GOOD MOVIE WHICH MUSNT BE MISSED AND CAN BE VIEWED WITH THE FAMILY ALSO. WATCH IT FOR THE COSTS THE DIRECTOR HAS PUT IN.

ILL GO WITH 3.5 ON 5 FOR THIS ACTION MOVIE. ALL PROTAGONISTS ARE SUPERB SPEARHEADED BY IRRFAN KHAN!!!!!

3. The music is not soothing.

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99 Reviewed

99 comes as a soothing relief after the self imposed sabbatical of cinema houses which had caused a bollywood movie draught. It may not be clubbed with the best of rip roaring hindi cinema but its storyline is captivating and characters fit into their roles like free size garments in this era of XL AND XXL size fitting or misfitting rather.

THE PLOT
Kunal Khemu and Cyrus Broacha are two fake sim card makers,illegally licensed software providers and run a small scale business of similar ilk in countryside Mumbai from a dilapidated room. But this business gets caught when they come across a customer who names them to the police.The two then are caught by a Mumbai don who makes them pay for leaving his car in shambles in trying to steal it. Owing to lack of funds to return to him they plan to side with him and do "hafta wasooli" under his aegis.They are then sent to Delhi forcefully to retrieve money from Boman Iraani who is an insolvent cricket betting enthusiast with loads of money to return to loads of people. What ensues when these three meet forms a glorious rest of the movie...................

THE POSITIVES
1. The film doesnt run short of plus points even though it lacks a strong storyline yet it has a captivating plot which keeps the viewer at the edge of the seat and that too not without a smile and leaves wondering as to what is going to happen next. Not a single moment in this movie is what can be called as vapid.
2.The acting by all the protagonists is pleasing and Boman Irani stands out.
3.Kunal Khemu looks fantastic with his toned up body even though he has to improve on his acting skills.
4.The villains in the movie are so endearing that you fail to hate them. They seem to catch all the attention despite other interesting characters.
5.Reality is filled in this movie like cream in a pastry. The reasearch work done to make it is just exemplary and hats off to the producer director for coming out against odds to release this movie against the strike in the industry.
6.Some sequences like the one in the end when Kunal Khemu runs in Pallika bazaar just stands out in chasing ones.
7.Vinod Khanna is at his acting best.

THE NEGATIVES
Fortunately this movie has very few of it.
1.Soha Ali Khan is good but not good enough and her role seems to have been wasted.
2.Delhi hasnt been accentuated enough.
3.Songs are good but not fit to the occasion.
4.Boman Iraani's ending part is not convincing and explained in detail.

All in all a great movie ful time pass and a must watch this season. It looks like Oye Lucky Lucky Oye this is a film with non stop entertainment. A great time pass replete with action and worth the money.

I WILL GO WITH 3 OUT OF 5 FOR THIS RELENTLESS ENTHRALL GO WATCH IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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8x10 tasveer reviewed

8x10 tasveer is not the apt title for this vapid "thriller" which lulls the viewer to sleep and compound abhorrence with each scene as it unravels. if i were to be given the job of naming this movie ill go with 12x12. because as they say "is film ke barah baj gaye hain"

i wont go with my format for reviewing movies for this one since it doesnt even fall under a muvee which should be reviewed or rather viewed.i wont be describing positives and negatives but for this sorry movie only the latter holds valid so the former is ruled out. o no no no i m sorry it has a positive. it has a runtime of 2 hours. it gets over after sometime. phew!!!

akshay kumar has this bizarre quality(can it be called a quality?)of navigating into photographs but this virtue of his has a limitation(see the reality) he can only do dis for a minute. everytime he does so he pummels into unconsciousness.he helps people by this good gift of his but one day when he comes to know that his father whom he had bitter relations had died, he decides to look into the murder (out of a tiny place he had for him in his heart) which is being touted as a heart attack. i wont say that what he does to unravel the mystery forms the next part of the story but ill say that is left for the viewer to decipher(pity the viewer so much contemplation he has been coaxed to do). teachers must love this movie because it encourages one to scratch the brain not once but several times suring its course.

the movie has akshay doing what he does best---- action.the location ie canada which isnt even shown properly. just the usual home scene and occasional sea is projected as if screaming to the viewer go see for yourself why do we take the headache. ayesha takia needed a solid performance before her marriage to farahan azmi but fails in her endeavour and that too miserably. she vowed to never shed clothes and compensate that with her acting. with a very sterotyped attire in just about every movie she does, she becomes all the more hard to see making herself an eyesore despite augmenting her assets and going under the knife for umpteen number of reasons. (sorry for veering too much on all this and not the movie but after seeing this movie one is exhorted to imitate it ie go beyond the topic or beat about the bush). back to the review. sharmila tagore was better suited judging reality shows and holding the censor board chairmanship than act in such movies just to appease close friends. a movie so moroose coming from the director of iqbal,dor, et al. he might have though that his muse ms ayesha takia wud save this film but to his chagrin things take place otherwise. anant mahadevan is wasted as chacha ji. the little bit of "comedy" (note the inverted commas please) tried by javed jaffery goes down the drain. his role was also better as boogie woogie judge. he should refrain from muvees altogether than doing such stuff. one wondeers where this movie is heading to after seeing one hour or so.(sorry did i say see. plz read it as tolerate). i dont know how some faction of the common masses liked this film. either they are die hard akki fans who does live upto his action image or are pure blind to whatever he does. whether cc2c or tasveer they will bear it all in the name of akki fanaticism. it comes as no surprise that this movie was the last movie released before the producers strike. the mood in the industry sums up this nonsensical movie. it is one of the worst infact is the worst thriller i have seen. all hamming an no pure enacting makes dis a dull boy;infant rather.

got bored of reading the review? that was exactly how i felt watching this hogwash.ill pay through my pocket to see deshdrohi but not this. at least through former some amount of mirth will be a reason to see but tasveer leaves no reason to be viewed.
warning : avoid this movie(that is an understatement).
ill go with 0.5/5 for this disgusting piece of cinema. akshay has truly succumbed to foolish cinema in the name of earning quick moolah.

for anyone who thinks that i am wrong or harsh in dis review please read the detailed story below dis post.

detailed plot of 8x10 tasveer

akshay kumar who potrays the role of jai is shown to work in an orgainization called EPS or environment protection service. he is quite popular in his workplace as he is quite adept at nabbing the violators and perpetyrators of environment laws. he knows the place at the tips of his fingers. he also helps people find their beloved as he can move into photographs by looking at them for some time. but whenever he does so his condition becomes comatose. he then gets to know about the demise of his father. he is told that the reason of his death was a severe heart attack due to which he drowned in the sea whilst on a boat alongwith his close friends and wife. so the reason seems plausible to him and he consents and agrees to his death. but he is told by javed jaffari who is a sleuth called "happy with an i". he brings about intermittent and sporadic laughter in the muvee. but akshay is told dat jaffery is a former toronto police officer who ran away from his place so as a consequence akshay shoos jaffery away. but when akshay cums across a picture taken at the time of his father's death he comes to know that something is fishy. he then goes through the picture again and again over the next few days and cums to know that he was killed as a part of a bigger conspiracy connived by many of his fathers' friends to channelise the bequeathed money of his father who had noted in his will that he will give all his money to akshay.he then sees some one mixing high blood pressure pilss in his father's champagne then akshay goes to various friends of his father who he thinks might be involved. strange events follow. one of the friends whom he sees as the killer gets killed at his home when he finds his body hanging from a ceiling at his room. the fathers' oder frenz appear to be thjen trying to kill akshay as he is a danger looming large at them and who threatens to unveil them. then he comes to suspect that his mother was also involved as she is shown romancing with a friend of his father and earlier failed to give nod for her husband's death. then some attempts to kill him are made which his wife ayesha takia condemns. she tells akshay to stop getting into pictures and behave eclectically. then he takes help of javed jaffrey's ex who is a qualified nurse. she tyells him that his goin into pictures may threaten his life and that he needed adrenalin injections after each of his journeys into d pics.he is told by a soothsayer that he will be dead if a picture which he is moving in gets abandoned and that if he stays for more than 1 minute in d pic he will certainly die. he continues his tryst with moving in the pictures by staring at them for a few seconds.he comes to know that there is a killer who killed his fathers' friend whom he finalized earilier as a prime suspect and he also comes to realise that his mother who will be signing on the will which is to ratify her approval to transfer all d money she has got as part of her husband's will has a threat to her life. he jets to his home where his mother is and finds someone in the house who kills her mother. he runs after the suspect but to no avail. he again stares at the picture taken minutes before his father's demise and this time he does it for more than 1 minute. he discovers his face in the lower compartment of the ship while his father is drowning after he has drunk the beer mixed with blood pressure pills. then a person is shown who comes to akshay who is in unconscious state and into the photo. he is the serial killer. he puts the photo on fire as he knew that if the photo thru which akshay is going thru is abandoned he will die immediately. then we are shown that there is a second akshay called jeet. he cums out to be the estranged brother of him who 1st akshay ie jai had by mistake pushed atop a rock in deir childhood. the second akshay we are told hatched whole of this story alongwid ayesha takia who was wid akshay 1 all dis while.the second akshay tells dat he is avenging all dis due to the childhood incident. den javed jaffrey rings the bell and he discovers that there are 2 akshays in d room both calling them as akshay 1. but when he discovers who the real akshay is ayesha takia kills him. den akshay 2 and takia celebrate as all d money has been transferred to akshay 1's account whom he will impersonate in order to take the money. he then takes akshay 1 to the same ship where hsi father was killed. he throws a comatose akshay 1 to the sea. but from somewhere akshay 1 gets a second wind and swims back to the ship and secretly cums to kill both takia and the villainious akshay. den happy ending is shown.

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aloo chaat reviewed

Aloo chaat is a movie meant to be watched on a sunday afternoon on a tv on the condition of being extremely idle but is a blemish on punjabi comedies and is strictly not recommendable to be seen on silver screen.

the plot
aftaab shivdasani had gone to america for some inexplicable reason and when he returns he finds out that his parents are adamant on getting him married. they set up a veritable dekko for the couple and their to be in laws. shivdasani somehow ges rid of them. as the movie unravels we are made aware of the fact that aftab and his father kulbhushan kharbanda dont have a really understanding kinship and so he treats his cha cha ji as his confidant. he tells him that he already loves a girl(aamna) who is in america but is a muslim. so his cha cha ji contemplates a plot to instill make believe in aftab's family that aamna despite being a muslim is a homely girl compatible with aftab. what they do and what ensues comprises the meaty part of the movie

the positives
aftab shivdasani has grown by leaps and bounds as a good actor. certain comic punches are justified.aamna sharif looks pretty.acting of all the characters of aftab's family is truly to their potential.the movie is narrated brilliantly in a blue line bus in delhi by manoj phahwa in a very hillarious way. kulbhushan kharbanda sustains a very powerful punjabi accent. the foreign girls are very productive and forthcoming in their emotions. linda arseino,aftab's acting wife is just superb and deservedly must get credit for her performance. the two alloo tickee waalaas at manoj pahwa's clinic are way to brilliant and give a solid realism to the film.

the negatives
the movie fails to make you laugh continously. the intermittent jokes fail to keep up the momentum which is expected of punjabi comedies. everything unfolds as is expected. no twists and turns make for morbid viewing. aamna shareef has been underutilized and clearly looks just to tick her entry and foray into bollywood with this flick. Delhi has not been utilized at all in this "delhi based film". no reference is given to crude punjabi and even cliche jokes seem monotonous. the length of the movie is questionable too.
in toto it lacks the whiz and spark required to send the viewer into peels of laughter even while returning back home. i am astonished as to how this movie took 8 months to be made when so little of everythinng is depicted.

do not waste your time seeing or even mulling over such movies. id recommend you to see it when it comes on tv and review this review again. im sure you wont feel a tad different as dis.

ill go wid 1.5/5 for dis sagging saga far from being a rip roarer. it may not lull you to sleep but it evokes a resentment as to why one should see it.

stoneman murders reviewed

stoneman murders as a thriller has a brilliant plot but has laggardly action and cliched thrilling sequences

as is my new format. summary of the movie first.

kay kay menon is an inspector in mumbai police and resorts to barbaric beating of criminals whenever they don't regurgitate the authentic facts. one day he gets to investigate a fisherman who he thinks knows about a gory murder in a nearby area as he thinks him to be a vagabond loafing in the wild and committing the murder. he beats him black and blue and to his astonishment the person dies. subsequently kay kay is suspended to his opposition. he claims to solve the murder mystery which he thinks if left uncontrolled cud lead to serial killings.on his persistence in claiming to solve d case he is given d order of running a parallel inquiry but sans his police uniform or as a common man. he is inundated wid hurdles and hindrances in his quest to do so which form the rest of the story.............

the positives.
story is taken from real life and thats apprehensively why it seems believable.
kay kay menon is outstanding in certain sequences like the one in the bar and while enquiring about the case in a dhaba. he emotes despair,helplessness and his characters' restive state with characteristic aplomb. he is undoubtedly the highlight of the film. the reality in dingy by lanes of mumbai add too much reality into d muvee. the head police officer is good and so is virendra saxena as kamle. the small screen actor gives stiff competition to kay kay in acting. the viewer is all the more excited to know that it was a real story at the end of the movie.

the negatives
the movie ends in a very eclectic fashion involving occult which leave the viewer craving for a good completion. the bareback scene of rukhsana , kay kay's wife is consummately uncalled for and has no significance whatsoever. it just seems an ostensible signal from her to other bollywood directors that she can also dare to bare.too less thrilling phases make it a bit tedious.

all in all a good 100 minute watch. go for it if you are dying to see a movie before the producers' strike.
ill go with 3/5 for this thriller cum reality cinema. it rankles me that it didnt do too well at the box office but perhaps the indian audience is as strange as the pot boilers in bollywood.(but that is changing for sure).

13 B Reviewed

13 B may signal the coming of age of horror genre in bollywood movies but accentuates the failure of a solid storyline in hindi movies.

the story in a nutshell is that Manohar aka Mannu shifts to a new home encountering great hurdles and has a huge loan yet to be paid but is surfeit with the happiness which has ensued owing to that. everything goes hunky dory till a few eerie incidents take place which impel him to believe something amiss in his house. the suspicion turns all the more when he sees the programme ("sab khairyat")which his family regularly watches and of which he is hitherto overtly cynical.the events in the programme happen to match just what starts to happen to him and then he comes to realise that the programme is only telecast in his home and nowhere else. thats when he comes to know of a supernatural intervention in his abode. how he encounters these extra human elements forms the engrossing part of the story.

Firstly the positives.

The movie even without the use of gory murders,portentous roars and inexplicable scowls goes on to make u feel uncanny and scares you in certain sequences irrespective of the fact how strong hearted you may be.Madhavan is again praiseworthy and will stay in many a directors heart in mumbai as he has down south.Poonam Dhillon hasnt jaded a single bit and is as beautiful as she was 20 years ago.She carries off the role of Madhavan's mother with panache.Neetu Chandra again is conspicuous despite a very cornered role.After oye lucky and traffic signal she again fits in the role of the wife perfectly.Sachin Khadekar inadvertently shows whose the most senior actor in the film with his remarkable acting.The Subhash chandra bose actor seems to just move into the shoes of his character in any movie.
The sound effects make for a scary feel. Camera angles are applaudible.the movie enthralls one and exhorts one to stay at the seat throughout and this plus point has come up after quite a while in a bollywood movie which tend to sag half way down the runtime.

Negative points are headed by the repetition of eye close ups throughout the film. it is unfathomable as to how eye close ups will scare even the most captivated watcher.the rain and thunder effects are avoidable since people have grown over them and dey arent terrifying anymore.the ending isnt happy which couldve been so and left the audience go back home with a feel good explanation of the movie. another major shortcoming of the film is that although the intended scary scenes might be to their objective but they appear very sporadically throughout the movie. the viewer needed to be intimidated more. if comapred to a hollywood horror movie like say The Ring it stands nowhere but still its better than major hindi horror films.

considering the mesmerizing and dazzling pace and intuitiveness which the film induces it isnt a bad watch after all.
ill go with 2.5 on 5 for dis new age horror flick. watch it once and you wont rue.

Delhi 6 reviewed (guest column)

My dear reader ,
i am back and sorry for returning late. Actually the academic constraints have compelled me to this situation. anyways this week the review is of a 2 week old movie a very popular movie which failed to gross much at the box office. There is a small change in the scheme of things in this review. the change is that i am not rviewing this but my good friend Ms Priyam Bagga is doing it. i have already introduced you to her. i am thankful and grateful at the same breath to her for taking the pains for doing so. i hope you equally like her review as you did mine. awaiting your response

Over to Priyam:

Delhi 6 ------ All hype, no substance

With all the hype surrounding the movie Delhi 6, everyone went to the cinema hall expecting quite a show. Laughter, awe and maybe a few tears along the way. But the movie is far from that. Too much effort has gone into making the movie into an art film and the plot has been completely ignored which has turned the movie into a predictable chain of events which have been tied loosely together. The movie moves quite slow and the sequences are left incomplete. The movie tries to cash in on the monkey man mania in north delhi with a dash of comedy with all the news coverage that it got and how people reacted to the whole issue. The Background of hindu mythology makes the movie a bit more interesting to watch. With such a strong star cast a lot more could have been done to make the movie a success, eventhough it has been accepted internationally, majority of the Indian audience didn't quite enjoy it. Waheeda rehman is one of the strongest characters in the film along with rishi kapoor. The aesthetic aspect of the film is very nicely done.corruption in the police department, lower caste untouchability, problems of civic amenities- lack of water and electricity, shown in a very comic light.Also the superstitions and occult practises by some of us is shown in a very prudent manner. The drawbacks of the same are accentuated . Other side of delhi, the more urban one has been completely ignored. The use of masakalli, a dove whose wings had been tied up to show the connection between a father (om puri) who's afraid to let go of his cherished daughter. Sonam Kapoor portays the daughter who has big dreams but his father is forcing her to get married. The end of the movie is too abrupt and disappointing- leaves the audience with many unanswered questions. The dream sequence is one of the most artistic sequences of the film merging new york and new delhi but it ends as ubruptly as the movie itself. The hindu muslim unity in chandni chowk makes u feel good but then the minor incidents that cause a riot are worrying, but at the end of the day peace prevails. abhishek's accent is a bit too much. jalebi and the prejudices against the lower caste- only an outsider can understand the triviality of it all.

i go wid a mediocre 2.5 on 5 for dis high expectation breaker.

Thanx giving

The idea of opening a blog was given to me first by my warm hearted school friend ASHMITA DUTTA . She herself is such fluent in english and writes and understands english far better than me. Her handwriting wud surely be an example for my kids. i wont tell them to write cursive handwriting rather ill tell dem to copy her style of penning. She is understanding and caring and people love her for dis too. thanx ashmita for dis. i am really happy doing this.

I was encouraged and coaxed to open this by Mr DHRUV SINGHAL who took Ashmita's advice to me forward. Dhruv is also an amicable guy who loves being practical and doing things the modern practical way. I seek and follow his advice on innumerable topics. Through this i will be able to stay in constant touch with his views even if he goes somewhere abroad to study. Thank you dhruv for constantly reminding me to do this.

And the most important of them my dear baalikey PRIYAM BAGGA. it was she who told me to open my account on this website. Its a great honour for me to be getting inputs from her who herself is such an analytical movie reviewer. She is pursuing eng honours and has reviewing muvees in her syllabus. She is super intelligent and has a great sense of humour. She is creative too and is quite bold. I have told her to teach me nuances of intricate movie reviewing which she has gladly affirmed(though she said shed forgotten but that is her way of saying an inevitable yes which one and all admire).

I would also like to thank Mr JAGPREET SINGH ARORA , my college friend for exhorting me to join a blog and express myself more freely here. He is a sharp boy who grasps studies and talks with equal elan and the girls swoon over his intelligence(wish this would happen to me lolz). amyways thanx Jaggy for promoting me to open this.

GITESH CHOPRA my bro for always telling me to change my lines to all this rather than studying science and also appreciating my leisurely works. lolz thanx bro

MK for her invaluable endorsement and encouragement of my views. seeing her relentless achievements and a deluge of plaudits i draw extreme courage and inspiration . she is an intelligent girl whose words i carefully keep in mind. thank u "bella". lol

ROHIT SATIJA whos healthy criticism spurs me on to do something in which i can excel.

SRISHTI NANDA for her sincere approval of my thoughts. she herself is quite good at english though but she has unfounded fears that her english is deteriorating by the day which obviously isnt the case.

NAVEEN BHATTI my massi for her perpetual endorsement of my interests nad writings.

SACHIN PRAKASH whos like my older bhaiya who also likes and appreciates my writing and encourages me.

ARIJIT BHAUMIK a top level student whose words of praise dont ever seems flattering.

KASHISH SHARMA who understands my english quite well and is always a great motivation to do such creative things. i look forward to ur participation also kashish.


VANITA GODARA needs a special mention. she is such an inspiration with what she does that seeing her one gets immense vivification to do a task to its fullest. so a fraction of credit goes to her also.


These friends also praised me in my endeavours and i am no less thankful to them also. The people are: HARDIK GAURAV (for always appreciating my efforts and endorsing my reviews), ABHAY SODHI (for providing impetus to my efforts and looking at the funny side of my reviews)
AYESHA SINGHAL (who takes literary help on matters which cant be told publicly like dis but also appreciates me).
OM NAULAKHA cant be forgotten either. To get appreciation from such an achiever makes u feel that you have something special in you.
ROHIT SATIJA whos healthy criticism spurs me on to do something in which i can excel.
ADITYA GUPTA the adventurous boy who appreciates everyone and encourages to do better.
RAGHAV SETHI who is himself an avid bollywood movie fan and knows whats being reviewed.
ARPITA BHARDWAJ for her sporadic likeness and hate of my reviews but she is more encouraging than discouraging.
PARAMVIR SETHI also likes and encourages my reviews. thanx PARAM
SANTOSH SRINIOVASAN who unkowingly knows and appreciates my reviews and thoughts. an intelligent guy whose praise isnt selfish and just for d sake type thank u srini.


I thank all u guys and even starngers or other people whom ive forgotten to mention for every little help in opening this blog. i love u all. continue participating in these blogs as without you they will be just a local web address. Regards!!!!!! SHREE GANESHAAAY NAMAH. JAI HO!!!

ghajini reviewed

Parmesh says GHAJINI- an epic film. a film every action and Aamir Khan lover will cherish. a MUST WATCH dis season!!

Aamir isnt called perfectionist for nothing. he has put all his potential into the movie wid a spellbinding eight pack to top the list. well the first 70-80 min of the movie are replete wid comic scenes and set the stage for this magnificent film. Asin steals the show during this duration and is gonna go a long way in her bollywood career. a mind blowing B debut. she emotes to the comparison of Aamir. an extremely talented young lady. the whole movie is explained in such vivid detail it evokes a feeling that this muvee shudnt ever end. d last 20 mins or so are sad but really there are little aspects of d film left for the viewers' food for thought.Jiah Khan too plays her part wid elan and thus becums an essential part of d film. the villain who was also in Lagaan is named Ghajini. he is also amazing. excellent package of entertainment filled wid action , drama, comedy, emotions and the thrill.

Excellent comedy over the top action sequences and marvellous chemistry of the 2 protagonists will lead dis muvee 2 b a blockbuster and i vouch for it. take mt words in writing this muvee is a blockbuster. a MUST WATCH in a theatre not at home. spare some time and n joy dis great film. dont miss it!!! ILL go wid 4 ON 5 for this fantastic muvee. hats off to Aamir. go see it and den tell me how authentic or not is my review. merry x mas

slumdog millionaire

Parmesh says Slumdog Millionaire touches your heart to the core. its a muvee u cant rate. its a muvee to be felt and regarded.

if u like 2 see "good" films here is a gud one to hav as a buy on DVD dis winter.or of course im dere 2 giv u also lol. dis movie has some really putrid scenes but they are cute. the struggle of d boy Jamaal inspires u. the acting of child artistes is sublime. a film of this stature from a foreign person is absolutely splendid work. d camera work .. esp in d slums is superb. the movie has some really choicest of expletives but they bring a certain phenomenon to it.A TRULY AWARD WINNING FILM WHICH IS BEYOND MY RATING . watch it 2 know more about it.

cc2c reviewed

Parmesh says chandni chowk to china may lack script and a strong plot but entertains u quite a bit so it isnt too bad after all.


ummm. if u r looking for meaningful cinema replete wid "food for thoughts" this certainly isnt for u. it is a no brainer wid certain sequences which are hard to believe but overall it leaves u consummated on d entertainment front. akshay is at his aggressive action best. though the muvee lacks strong comedy, there are certain scenmes which make u laugh. deepika padukone is resplendent & looks gr8 throughout d muvee. her stylist needs to b apllauded for transforming her face so much & yet sustaining her natural beauty. in certain frames she steals d show from akshay completely like d one on airport. as d chinese duplicate she mathes akshay stunt on stunt and does unprecedented action for a bollywood diva. the chinese actors are great. d great wall of china has been wasted.

nikhil advani has innovated adding many other old filmy songs an various sequences like touch me touch me wen deepika tries 2 seduce akshay and a different version of pappu cant dance.wat is d drwaback of d muvee is its tempo which d muvee fails 2 sustain as soon as it tries 2 gain and dis happens throughout. it is a truth that it doesnt entertain likea rab ne or ghajini but it does 2 an extent. deepika has certainly improved as a heroine. so to end i just say that it is a one time watch and isnt that u feel i shud watch it again like a jaane tu or rock on!!!. so I GO WID 2.5 ON DIS 5. if u r akshay fan go for it. ull not rue it and as kashay says dont forget to keep ur brain at home lol.

luck by chance reviewed

Luck By Chance may win brownie points in manifestation of reality but fails on the entertainment front.

Farhan akhtar s sister Zoya akhtar factu directorial venture has successfully extracted performances from farhan akhtar , konkana sen sharma , dimple kapadia, and the foremost Rishi Kapoor. Its sad to say that the film looks more like a Rishi kapoor movie encompassing contemporary actors . He steals the show in every frame hes seen in & is the top positive of the movie . He gives you a reason to laugh in the monotony you seem to be mired in. Hrithik is average on his part and looks a wasted actor in the movie . Isha Sharvani needs to brush up her accent & faster at that . She mightve looked pretty and sexy but still certainly lacks d enigma of a bollywood heroine . Konkana Sen is outstanding as the struggling actress . She emotes particularly the grim parts of the character s life with aplomb. Farhan impresses yet again as an actor. He needs to improve on his 'crying' though .Juhi chawla carries off the role of rishi kapoor s wife with elan.

She induces the viewer to laugh and smile with her.The cameos by aamir , kareena, manish malhotra, anurag kashyap, abhishek, john abraham ,rani mukherjee, and akshay khanna et al add reality to the plot . SRK though for 5 minutes impacts the story heavily

Talking about the negatives(which this film never seems to fall short of ). The film really never takes off . The fact that you feel that "the story now takes off" just when the film is about to end corroborates what a damp squib this movie is . At times in the movie you feel that the story is a blatant copy of 'fashion' with things going ditto the bhandarkar way . The film is incomplete and clearly looks to be the work of a 'not so experienced director' . It unsurprisingly induces you to yawn also . It baffles me that other critics have gone for a lenient 4 on 5. But i beg to differ and have no hesitation in stating that THE MOVIE DESERVES 2.5 ON 5. Go see the movie and if you dont feel my way tell me and i will cease reviewing movies altogether .( but it is highly recommended that you dont waste your time and money on this overhyped and annoying saga ).

billu barber reviewed

Parmesh billu barber is a hackneyed bollywood potboiler meant for raking in the moolah in d crunch. no wonder SRK epitomises bollywood wid his gimmicks galore


well the initial few sequences seem to be a dias for SRK to vent his ire on his detractors who bring controversies wid each release of his. some of his potshots are entirely sarcastic.d 1st half an hour or so gives a good feel to the muvee but fails to set d tone up for d muvee. irrfan khan is brilliant all thru. lara dutta has improved her acting skills manifold. the 2 children are simply adorable & hard to ignore, lighting up d screen wenever dey talk to deir dad irrfan. asrani is good and natural. rajpal yadav continues his overacting but u like him in a few sequences until he indulges in excess. om puri needs no praise, he is marvellous as ever.the mainstay of d muvee is irrfan and not SRK. irrfan;s theatre experience reflects on screen. the role of owner of d guest house is played superbly and also the principal and d scool staff of irrfan's children add realism to the muvee. SRK also does well to remind d world dat alls well in d industry and dey are a family. he also diffusessome tension between him and salman. to add reality to d film Sahir khan or SRK is shown to hav been a part of films llike dil se and chak de india.the muvee ends and starts happily

and now d negative points which outnumber and muzzle d positives hands down. 1st i wud like to ask priyadarshan or d costume designer as to how come lara dutta a villager's wife wears bare back blouses in such a nondecript environment. 2nd an advice to SRK to plz make believable sequences. he is a superstar alright but 20 body huards or even more besieging him is unbelievable. his landing in a helicopter is not believable. 3rd how where and wen did d 3 actresses kareena priyanka nd deepika cum in d muvee? dey disappear jus after d song completes which is hard to digest. 4th the songs have been completely wasted. 5th u dont take d music and d muvee home as a memory(though i saw it at home aim sayin dis for d multiplex people).
a typical shah rukh muvee wid a deluge of all d bollywood cliches or masal flick as dey say. 2.5 on 5. SRK is recommended to be more realistic as he is shelling out films which have aspects completely defying reality. after rab ne and oso dis his 3rd "unreal"
SRK is himself found wanting in a serious scene which he fails to emote well. dats wat happens wen self vaunt is hailed.