What a beautiful song!! Actually captures the lifestyle and the blind race to su
cceed among people..and at the same time we have individuals who do not get into this blind race and live the life the way they wish..These people dream! They do not care about the society, about others and are often regarded crazy. They fail to understand - Kyon Duniya Ka Naara Jame Raho
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Now this is exciting. This is the first time I have tried my hands on anything creative like this. I think I have been able to come up with a decent ad. I simply love it!!
Watch it for yourself and leave your comments on how you find it.
The world is on the verge of end but there is someone in the world who would not let this happen. He makes his family safe and himself goes against the odds to save the world. He tries..fails. Then suddenly something makes him realise that he was almost correct and he finds the solution, sometimes minutes before he dies or sometimes being alive.
The Story: The above theme has been used in God knows how many movies and the new release “I am Legend” is no different. The protagonist(Dr. Neville), played by Will Smith, who is a scientist and a soldier, decides to save/revive the city of New York from the incurable virus that has spread in the city. The virus has made living beings violent and the skin is prone to melting by Ultraviolet rays, which makes it impossible for infected people to get out in the sunlight. This is the time, when Dr. Neville gets out in the open to gather basic requirements and subjects for experiments from the city. He is carrying out experiments in his laboratory in the basement of his house, where he performs tests on rats (and later humans). He gets disappointed with all the results failing to make any impact and just then he realises that one of his subject rats shows lesser signs of violence. He captures a living human and performs the same test on him just to realise that the test does not works for humans. He is disappointed. The next day he gets trapped and while escaping it starts getting dark. The infected animals attack him and his dog. The dog saves him but itself gets infected. Doctor has to kill it and loses his mind. Next night, he goes out in open at night. All these zombie-type humans attack him. He kills some but they are too many in number. He is trapped. Some lady comes and saves him. But the infected people get to know Dr. Neville’s place and they attacked him the next day. While hiding from them, he finds out that the experiment on humans has been successful. He hands over the solution to the lady and makes him leave. He dies. Humans saved. Movie ends.
The movie succeeds in engaging people till last 10-15 minutes where the director fails miserably to contain the excitement built up so far. The ending sequence seems being fitted forcibly to the movie and it actually ruins the movie in whole. Further movie doesn’t even try to explain how come Dr. Neville gets immune to the virus, while there is no other individual in the city unaffected?? How come all the basic services (electricity/water etc.) still in place although no individual is left to work?? Even if we ignore these questions, the last 15 minutes are not anything to let go easily.
Unlike Aaja Nachle, where despite no excitement you come out happy after the movie, here you come out feeling sorry for your decision to spend 150 bucks on such a movie.
Overall movie gets 2 stars out of 5 Positives:
Will Smith
Well directed..a few fancy sequences
Well carried movie theme till last 15 minutes
Effective use of sound effects
Negatives:
Last 15 minutes ruined all the above positives
The two questions (raised above) left unattempted
Recommendation: There are a lot of movies on the same theme and you must have seen atleast a couple of them and you may like to skip this one.
Ever seen a movie which you feel is not a great movie but when you exit the theatre you certainly feel good about it. Aaja Nachle is one of those.
The movie marks comeback of arguably one of the best actress in Bollywood, Madhuri Dixit. She makes a comeback after 5 years and undoubtedly the movie will benefit from the fact that she is still a crowd puller. Not even Shahrukh Khan or Salman Khan or Aamir Khan have so much of fan falling, forget about actresses.
The movie is about a girl, Diya (obviously Madhuri), who runs away with a US photographer after falling in love with him in just a couple of days only to realize later that the person did not love her truly. By that time she was already pregnant. They divorced and Diya started training people in dance(in US) to make living. Her Guru was dying and she flew back to India to see him but before she reached he had already passed away. Now she comes to know that local people are going to demolish Ajanta Theatre (an Open Air Theatre) to build a shopping mall at that place. [Ajanta Theatre is the place where she learned dance and hence carries emotional importance to her]
She comes to rescue that and took up a challenge with local MP. Either she performs with local people within 60 days (i.e. get people support within 60 days) or the Ajanta becomes history. She stages a show to get people to the place and there asks for their support. Everyone ridiculed and left. Local ex-MP even goes to the extent of trying to destroy it the very next day. Diya shows the politician a political motive in saving the heritage and gets his support. With a few people in her team, she starts getting support of local public as they get enthusiast to participate in the drama- Laila Majnu. She takes screening tests of all the interested people and builds her team. The team works with dedication towards making the event a success till the time the constructor who had the contracts for building the mall played trick by bribing ex-MP (who was playing an important part in the play). The contractor also manages to do some negative publicity of Diya through his wife (who was a good childhood friend of Diya). The wife’s conscience scolds her after she does the act and she decides to join the play as well. D-day comes. They do the play and do it well. In the meantime Laila and Majnu had already got into real life love as well. The event is a success and Ajanta remains. Diya returns to US and movie ends.
Nothing in movie as such but the play towards the end of the movie is good. Songs are good and obviously Madhuri rocks. The Laila Majnu play is a musical play and engages viewer well (atleast engaged me very well). It runs for about 20 minutes and includes 3 of the songs in the movie but never looked like dragging or something and in fact, director manages to make movie run faster during those 20 minutes. The movie drags during the mid part of the movie and viewer almost loses interest (if any) at all but with no choice sits through. The director tried to explain each and everything no matter how trivial it is and that sometimes looked irritating.
Overall as I said, the movie has no content to boast of but still manages to give a happy ending feeling to the viewer and viewer comes out of theatre happy and smiling.
Overall I rate Aaja Nachle 1.5 on scale of 5
Brownie points include:
Madhuri Dixit!!
Good songs and Beautiful dance sequences (Again Madhuri!!)
Laila Majnu play is good but not worth 150 bucks at all
Brownie turned black for:
Slow pace and drags
Unnecessarily complicating the relationship dynamics (Many relationships did not make any impact on movie in general)
Under-cooked story and Under-utilized actors
Recommendation: Watch it only for Madhuri (She rocks!). No point looking for story etc.
If I have to speak it in a line, it is a remake of Chak de India!, released this year. Chak de India was based on a hockey player who created a World Cup winning team out of a losing team after being accused of match-fixing and _________. Goal is about a football player who made a losing team win the league championship, after himself having skipped the final game in 1985 due to threats.
The concept is good but another movie of the same kind in a year!! Definitely not a good idea and the second mover had to lose for sure.
The Story: The movie is about Southall Football ground, which was to lose its existence if the management fails to pay 3million pounds in 11 months. Players from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh origin play for this club and this club is an identity for them. They now have only one chance to get this amount and that is by winning the league championship. But it is not that simple. They do not have a coach, the team is good for nothing- physically and mentally, the manager died of heart attack. And here steps up our hero- The Captain- Shaan Ali (Arshad Warsi). He approached a veteran player of the club,Tony Singh(Boman Irani), and somehow convinced him to coach the team. One of the player mortgaged his garage to raise funds for the player kits, team bus etc. The coach worked hard on the team and brought them in shape. He also brought in a player from other club- Sunny(John Abraham).
Same as in Chak de, they start with losing first game due to no coordination among team members and then coach inspires them to playfor team and forget about personal grievances. The team finally turns into a team, which nobody can beat. But with two matches to go in the championship, Sunny signs up with another club. The team manages to end the second last game in a draw but needs to win the final match to win the league championship. Sunny comes to know the story about his father and his dedication to the Southall club and he joins back Southall in the final match. He played in spite of having line fracture in nose. The opponent team targets his nose but he, being the hero of the movie, doesn’t really bother and inspired by his father’s dedication, he keeps on playing and takes the team to victory.
Southall wins and the stadium and club are saved.
As far as performances are concerned, Arshad Warsi is just fine, John doesn’t look very natural and Boman Irani is unnecessarily loud. Other actors put up an average show in overall. Director did a fine job but Producer needs to be blamed for late timing of movie release. Had this movie released before Chak de India!, it could have been a different story altogether.
Overall the movie scored 2.5 out of 5.
Why to watch?
If you have missed Chak de India!, then the movie is definitely worth watching
Genuinely speaking, I did not expect a Bollywood movie to be of that class. Deeply impressed by the concept and the way abstractness is handled in the movie. HATS OFF!! -
A miracle indeed.
The movie switches on and off dreams so beautifully that sometimes you just can guess it being real or illusion. The movie runs in good pace and the surprise factor is created beautifully as well. The acting department has certain glitches at places but still it manages to score above average in that. The characters had their roles to play and none of the character looked under developed. Although the director failed to show the emotions properly at places (As for example, the scenes with Ram, Shyam, Balram could not depict what the director really wanted to). And more importantly, I failed to understand the purpose of keeping the names as K and J..may be trying to imitate James Bond (I am K..only K) or may be trying to portray the ego (which was clear from the actions and hence did not make any impact).
The Story: Mr. K(John Abraham)is deeply into smoking and feels ashamed even about the idea of leaving it. His wife( also secretary) (Ayesha Takia) decides to leave him and it was then that he decides to quit smoking. He is referred to‘Baba Bangali’ by his friend and then the real drama begins. Beyond this point the movie runs into illusions and imaginations. Mr. K is put to agree to condition that he will do whatever being asked to do. What happens next: watch it for yourself!!
The movie does preach of downsides of smoking but does that in a style. It talks about the cost one incurs on cigarettes etc.. It talks about the impact it has on friends and families. It talks about the diseases it spreads. It talks about the impact on health and expenses due to that. It talks about it all but in such a style that it never looks like some preaching. Well Done!
Phoonk de!
Ratings:
Overall No Smoking gets 4.5 out of 5
Why to watch? (I hope you dont need a reason after reading the plot above)
Nothing new with this but I fail to understand why are these producers/ directors considered top shots. Sanjay Leela Bhansali, who brought a new dimension to Indian Cinema with Amitabh Bachchan-Rani Mukherjee starer Black and revived memories of old Devdas with his version of Devdas, failed miserbaly to deliver this time. Farah Khan, made a dream debut with entertainment movie “Main Hoon Na” but seems like she used up all the masala in her first movie. Om Shanti Om, is terribly tasteless.
Saawariya:(Rating at the end) Following the tested funda of narrator, movie starts with Gulabji(Rani Mukherjee) telling the story of true love although she sells false love every night(being a call-girl by profession). The movie is about Raj,a singer (who God or may be SLB knows does what to survive-had a job of singer at bar which he left for Sakina) and Sakina, who still lives in ancient era and waited for over a year for a person she had met for a few hours. Don’t get surprised, there are a lot more elements like this in the movie. The movie marks a debut for two new Kapoors in the industry, Ranbir Kapoor, grandson on Raj Kapoor and son of Rishi Kapoor, played Raj while Sonam Kapoor, daughter of Anil Kapoor, played Sakina. Sonam is beautiful but failed miserably to make an impact with her acting. Ranbir looks cute (Handsome or not..subjective!) and I would advise him to take some inspiration from Shahid, who started of in a similar fashion with Ishq vishq and then made a image makeover with his subsequent movies and definitely avoid becoming another Sonu Nigam(wrt acting). In such a role, it is difficult to comment on acting skills, although he looked pretty natural in most of the frames. OK. So the story goes as: Sakina goes daily to a small bridge in the area to see if her love, Imaam (played by Salman Khan), is back to take her. On one such night, Raj met her and fell in love with her (I thought this was a thing of past!) She also felt good in his company and and made friends with him. The next night, she tells him about Imaam. (I dont understand this as well. She tells a stranger about her love life in second meeting itself!!). Our hero is hurt but after listening to the complete story makes a ridicule of the girl for she fell in love with Mr. Imaam in just a meeting or two, who then left her without even telling about his whereabouts and when, if at all, he will come back?!. She asks Raj to help her find Imaam and the ship(movie) sinks further. Finally when she is all set to get along with Raj forgetting Imaam, Imaam reappears. She goes to Imaam. He proposes, she accepts and movie ends.! Add further to this ‘jhelao’ story line the fact that no 10 mins of movie go without a song. Too much of trying audience patience!!
Om Shanti Om:(Rating at the end) Rishi Kapoor did wonders with Karz 30 years back but the concept of something from this and something from that killed this movie. Farah Khan gave an impression from her debut that probably she knew the recipe of making a good masala entertainer but this time she disappointed as this time, it was all disproportionate. OSO features a story line which probably is a mixture made from a dozen movies or so. SRK is a junior artist, so is his mother(Kiron Kher) and so was his late father. He had ambitions to become a star and his friend suggested him change his name from Om Prakash Makhija to Om Kapoor, making ridicule of ‘Makhija’ (as Makhi-ja). [ I do not understand why is not there any protests against this and in fact, even not being Makhija, felt it as like a ridicule on an ethnic group.] He is also in love with a star ShantiPriya(Deepika Padukone), who is secretly married to the producer “Mukesh Mehra”, played by Arjun Rampal. Mukesh Mehra was planning his next movie as the biggest movie ever and had the sets ready for the movie but since ShantiPriya tells her that she is pregnant with her child, he planned to get rid of her. She took her to show the sets of this new movie titled Om Shanti Om and set the sets on fire and locked her in. Om saw it all. He tries to save her life but lost his life as well. He takes a re-birth as child of one of the most successful heroes in the industry and goes on to become a hero himself. During shooting of a movie, he starts getting memories of his past life back. He also happened to visit the sets of Om Shanti Om and that brought back all the memories from his past life. He decided to take revenge from Mukesh Mehra and found Sandy who looked exactly like ShantiPriya. He planned some mind games for Mukesh and succeeded significantly till Mukesh finds out that this girl was alive and not a ghost or something. Om threatened Mukesh but Mukesh had realisation that nobody will believe the incarnation story of Om Kapoor and the ghost of ShantiPriya appears and killed Mukesh Mehra at exactly the same spot where whe was buried. The movie ends! There were still a few good points in the movie like the dressing sense, styles, sets, language etc looked contemporary to correct periods. SRK showed that he can act as well (Yes you read it right..he acted well this time and showed some diversity in his acting this time).
He died in the movie and that suggests the movie should make good business but I have a feeling that his lucky charm might not work this time.
Rating: OSO gets 1.5 stars
Why to watch?: Consistency in styles as per time SRK finally acted!
Why not to watch?: No entertainment with no storyline You watch almost the same twice (Post-interval =Pre-interval after 30 years) Read the above post, if you haven’t
Saawariya gets 1 star Why to watch?: Melodious songs Cute Hero, Beautiful Heroine
Why not to watch?: No storyline at all Melodious songs! (The frequency makes it very frustrating) Drags are there Rani Mukherjee and Salman Khan both wasted!!
So overall a poor week for Bollywood and for cinema lovers. Do not bother your pockets for any.
BTW my placements start tomorrow morning 7:30 a.m. and I have been writing this for now over 2 hours since 10:00 p.m. Definitely a stupid time to do this but anyways this is who I am!
It is evident from my posts that I generally dont write many movie reviews but again like it happened as with Blood Diamond, I am deeply touched by the simplicity, by the screenplay and more importantly by the message conveyed by the movie. This time it is ‘Dil Dosti etc.’.
I dont know how many would have even heard the name of this movie or even if heard how many would have seen. Further, even if seen, I doubt how many would have seen the value in the movie.
Introduction: The movie is simply about Politics and Sex! That’s what those who have seen will tell you. My perspective is different. I believe the movie is about the values and the mindset of different economic castes. The upper class believes in freelancing and living-in while the middle class believes strongly in values like trust, bond, love, relationship. However, I do not comment anything on what is correct and what is not. Neither did the movie. I neither comment on which one is better. Nor did the movie. It just brings out these aspects in a very touchy and emotional setup. The movie also seems to be following my line of thought that nothing is wrong and it is the perspective which makes it right or wrong. The story teller tells it as a high class individual but more from a middle class perspective. (which ensures it doesnt touches any of those extremes)
About the Story: There is not much in the story as such. The story revolves around two individuals: One from a very rich family in Delhi, who has only one ambition in life – SEX and other from a middle class (or may be lower middle class–The whole point being not a rich/upper class) family from Bihar who wants to become student council president and may be join politics. Thanks to the ragging in campus, these two get into a friendship and the rich guy ends up helping the other in election campaigning. The middle class person tried preaching his values to the high class dude and ended up challenging him to have Sex thrice in a day before the elections. With self-respect at stake, both sincerely get set to their missions. In the meantime, the middle class guy also finds a love(as likely to be used by upper class people) in a high class babe who aspires to be a model in recent future. The conflicts in their thinking are apparent as well. Finally, the movie ends with guy from Delhi having sex with Bihari’s girlfriend(third sex on the day of election), which meant nothing to the two high class people but meant his life to the middle class guy from Bihar. The poor guy had even lost the meaning and excitement of having won the election.
Plus: Smooth Story telling, No major breaks as such, Songs much into the story line of the movie, No explicit content (Plus from middle class point of view, although may be minus from upper class point of view [:P]), Good screen play, Decent pace, No preachings, Overall Well executed
Minus: Nothing much into story, No well recognised stars(although acted well), Somewhere between a commercial and an arts movie.
Recommendation: Recommended for people who like to watch movies that make some sense, that give some message. If you liked ‘Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi’, you are quite likely to like this movie as well. Additional Remarks: Not many movies impress me enough to write a review for.
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ould not let this happen. He makes his family safe and himself goes against the odds to save the world. He tries..fails. Then suddenly something makes him realise that he was almost correct and he finds the solution, sometimes minutes before he dies or sometimes being alive.
