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Movie Review : Anjaana Anjaani

Frankly, Anjaana Anjaani is a bad movie. It did have potential though, if the makers had just spent a little more time and effort on ironing out the problems in the script, as well as editing the movie well. But as of now, there are things too unbelievable or stupid happening in the movie, too many 80s Bollywood type of dialogues and corny stuffplus sequences which are stretched way way too much. Priyanka's acting is badddd, trying to do a Kareena from Jab we met and sounding very very artificial throughout. Ranbir is better just in comparison. However, the movie is still enjoyable if you can go to the theatre with zero expectations. There are a few good laughs in between and some insane sequences which if you can laugh about them, can still be enjoyed. Would give the movie 2 stars.

Movie Review: Dabangg

I Proud to be Salman Khan fan:)! Chulbul Pandey! Whatay character..!! It roxx and so does Salman Khan! Am sure there will be a sequel to this movie: a character like Chulbul needs more than one appearance to do it justice. Well, lets talk about the story first.. Hmm, not much to talk about really. There is the mandatory romantic track, some fight scenes between our 'Robinhood' Pandey and the local politician, some family fights thrown here and there and lo, thats the summary of the story:). It doesn't really matter, as long as you can enjoy what is being shown on the screen and forget what happened before and what will happen after. There may not be any connection between them all! The plus point of the movie is just its style, the mood in which it was made. Pure in-the-moment entertainment. There are regular cracking lines to make you laugh throughout the movie. The music of the movie, especially the background score is commendable. Other actors play their parts well, bu...

Movie Review : Peepli Live

What a movie!! Hail to the amazing movie maker, Aamir Khan, the actor director and producer... (and that too coming from a Shah Rukh fan!). You have to give it to the guy, where does he manage to find these ' hindi movies' from! Rang De Basanti, Taare Zameen Par and then this! With a subject matter like farmer suicides in India, it is so easy to go horribly wrong and look at what a masterpiece he came out with! So beautifully crafted, funny, well edited, with brilliant acting, a tight story and the hitting end.. It is difficult to imagine how a movie which throughout is just funny ends up making such a strong statement on such a strong topic! Peepli live is the story of a farmer in Peepli village, Natha, his bid to commit suicide to get money for his family and the ensuing drama by the Indian media and politicians. The whole rural setting is very realistically portrayed, the characters so perfectly crafted that they are etched in your mind even after the movie finishes and ...

Theatre Review : Mahim Junction

A play which had all the ingredients of being a top-notch enjoyable and entertaining play... However it turned out to be none of it in the end!! A really forgettable play to put it mildly... The background setting is of a motley group of people who stay in a slum near the Mahim Junction Station. Their lives, interactions, ups and downs, goods and bads.. The play takes you through it all. For the cast, you have the drunkard, the eunuch, the chai-wala, the phoolwali, the hero and the heroine, and the one who loves the heroine, the villain, the NRI MLA, the police inspector and his side-kick and so on... The whole cast of the overboard 70s is there on the stage, interacting with each other, mouthing loud dialogues, singing and dancing to the old songs at the right (and the wrong) moments, the villain creating a problem in the hero-heroine's life, the corruption, the power hunger, the non-secular events.. All you could expect in a pot boiler of the 70s and more... Doesn't it s...

Movie Review: Tere Bin Laden

Given the drought of good movies in the earlier part of the year, this sudden spate of decently good movies has been tough to handle:)))). Also as a positive for these movies, the standards have been so lowered, that they do seem to be getting a better response than they deserve.. But I am not complaining... At least there are some reasons to go to movie halls again!! Anyways Tere Bin Laden is one of the same category, not a bad movie but surely does not deserve the ratings its getting! Am sure its notched up by one star just because there have been so many terrible movies recently.. Not to say though that its not a fun movie, it surely is. The premise of the movie is of Ali, a Pakistani reporter who desperately wants to go to Amreeka running into an Osama look-alike, and the whole movie is about how he makes use of this oppurtunity to get what he wanted. The rest is just a laugh riot, of the unexpected and over-the-top happenings. Of how Ali ends up changing not just his own li...

Movie Review : Udaan

Udaan got tons of positive reviews from critics and multiple awards to boot. That was the reason I went to see the movie. I should have realized though, to expect just that, a movie which wins lots of awards for being a serious take on some aspect of life. But I should not really have expected any entertainment from it! Anyways to be fair, its a well made movie for some with some seriously good acting. Its the journey of Rohan, from his hostel to his father's house, to a new life with his till now unknown (but sweet) step-brother Arjun, to a father who likes to live by strict if not draconian and many times unfair rules, to a career in engineering forced onto him, to making new friends as being the only outlet for his frustration.. And towards finally being able to gather the courage to rid himself of all this! The pace of the movie is slow, building up on the events to show how the frustration in Rohan grows. Wasn't that to be expected of an artsy movie? Another thing yo...

Movie Review : Inception

Its a brilliant movie (more so because I had to put sooo much effort to understand it:)) but seriously hats off to the writer and director for thinking of something so out of this world and then being able to put it into a movie so beautifully well. Inception has got rave reviews everywhere anyways, so am not sure what more I can add other than to support the view. Its a movie which needs you to be absolutely and completely involved to be able to 'get it' but more so, is able to achieve that by itself! The pace is so quick, that try as you can, you cannot escape it. You are bound to the movie, trying to get a grasp of all that is happening and trying to figure out the gaps by yourself too. Inception gives the mind a new concept, of being able to enter other people's dreams and then slowly builds up this idea on what all can be done by entering other people's dreams, trying to make it a believable and complete theory. And frankly I think thats the biggest USP of this...