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Movie Review: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

Zindagi na milegi dobara, as would be expected with such a star cast, had managed to raise expectations a lot..! And it did match those, but failed to surpass them.. The first half of the movie is awesome fun! Three friends on an adventure trip across the towns of Spain, three men who try to be boys and have some old-styled fun! The dialogues are witty, the jokes outright funny, poking fun at each others shortcomings: its all just like the old school and college days:). The jokes in this half of the movie are the type that you would laugh out loud at while rocking your seat. Totally enjoyed it! Farhan Akhtar was a revelation, he totally rocked as the funny guy of the group. His expressions when trying to crack a joke or stifle a laugh were just so real! Hritik was a caricature of the materialist banker, though of course his actual profession could not be ascertained with certainty:))! Was he a trader or an investment banker or a broker! But thats not important I guess. Abhay acted...

Movie Review: Delhi Belly

Wah wah wah! Am so impressed.. Seeing a new Hindi movie after so long, and I wasn't disappointed at all! Aamir Khan has managed to consistently deliver something new and good everytime, and he has done it again..! And I think its a good idea for Imran Khan also to stick to doing projects with his mamu . Was a welcome change from Luck and Kidnap (neither of which I had the courage to watch actually!). Anyways to the movie.. Delhi Belly is in a league of its own, so very different from the English artsy kind of movies we are so used to seeing.. So cool and chic and youthful without being pretentious and artificial.. It just felt so natural, to the point of surprising me! The story is nothing new I guess, its been done to death in many movies especially Guy Ritchie's ones.  Delhi Belly is similar, tracing a couple of days in the life of three friends staying in a run-down house in Delhi. One is a journalist, one a photographer and one a cartoonist: each character has his ow...