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Subhash Ghai’s Musical Love Story - Taal
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Movie: Taal (Rhythm)
Director: Subhash Ghai
Year: 1999
Stars: Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Snapshot of the story
Taal is a love triangle between Mansi, Manav and Vikrant. Mansi (played by Aishwarya Rai) lives in a small town of Champa with her father Tarababu, who is a classical singer and dancer. Due to business dealings Manav comes to Chamba and falls in love with Mansi. Taal takes you through a roller caster ride until it reaches its climax.
Storyline
Mansi (played by Aishwarya Rai) is daughter of classical singer and dancer Tarababu. Mansi is also a good singer and with good looks. Manav (played by Akshaye Khanna) is son of a businessman and find Mansi on his business trip and both fall in love at first sight. Manav flies over to the city promising Mansi to marry her. But Manav’s foreign-bred aunt creates trouble in the love story and opposes their relationship.
The first hour of the movie is good as Aishwarya steals the show with her beauty and charming performance. Akshaye Khanna’s acting did not full-fill everyone’s expectation. Taal becomes an exiting movie to watch as Anil Kapoor enters the scene. Anil Kapoor plays the role of Vikrant. Vikrant is a well known music director and encourages young talent. Mansi joins the group and taste success and in this journey she loses Manav’s company and the audience starts to ignore Manav and starts liking Vikrant.
This tussle is good to watch as Vikrant deliberately annoys Manav and this gives lot of comical moments in the movie. The entire plot loses its grip and becomes predictable as the story progresses. Subhash Ghai has made excellent movies in the past like Ram Lakhan and Pardes and naturally the expectation were high but Taal disappoints in the storyline.
Final Thoughts
Taal fails to engage the audience with the movie which has been the success mantra for Subhash Ghai in the past. Music of the movie is good and has topped the charts for months. Oscar award winner A.R. Rahman was versatile with his music. Anil Kapoor won the Filmfare- Best supporting actor role for the role of Vikrant.
Rating
Taal scores 6 out of 10 which is an average score for Sughash Ghai movie. Storyline has nothing fresh to offer and the movie is entertaining in patches.
Tags: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Akshaye Khanna, Anil Kapoor, Movie review of Taal, Mukta Arts, Subhash Ghai, Subhash Ghai's Musical Love Story - Taal
Young Love Story of Kareena and Shahid - Jab We Met
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Movie: Jab We Met
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Year: 2007
Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Tarun Arora
Snapshot of the story
“Same recipe with new cover on it” but it tastes a bit different from others and is good. Director Imtiaz Ali is not afraid of experiment and touched new heights in direction with “Jab We Met”. The story revolves around the two persons who are in love with some other person but as the fate has something else in their lives they meet each other. As they start spending time together they fall in love with each other. Story is perfectly handled with perfection by Imtiaz Ali which makes it look sweet and peppy love story.
Review of Jab We Met
Storyline
Aditya (played by Shahid Kapoor) is an industrialist and in love with a girl, but unfortunately the girl gets married to another person and the heartbroken Aditya being unable to muster up the courage to return home aimlessly boards the train bounding away into night.
On the other hand, a beautiful and annoyingly talkative girl Geet (played by Kareena Kapoor) leaves Mumbai to return her hometown Bhatinda. Co-incidentally both of them cross one another’s path by boarding the same train. Geet with her talkative nature irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. Another misfortune happens there and both of them find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money. Then both of them travel through bus, taxies and even in bullock cart to reach Bhatinda. Ths part of the movie is full of fun and confusion as Geet’s family think that Aditya is the boy friend. Soon both go back to their normal life ending it no high note. Both Aditya and Geet after an month with different situation in life and has feeling for each other but now both has confused feeling where they like each other or not and this keeps momentum of the story. First half of the movie is filled with fun, humor and charismatic presence of Kareena.
“Jab We Met” is peppy love story and Imtiaz Ali has made it look fresh. Story gives you plenty of reasons to laugh and one can take get lost in sweet screen romance of Kareena and Shahid. This is the story when Shahid and Kareena were having and affair which helped them portraying romantic scenes with ease.
Final Thoughts
First half of the movie is the best part of the movie and makes the audiences glued to their seat. Fresh story, good screenplay, charisma of Kareena Kapoor and impressive Sahid Kapur made it hit and Music by Pritam was icing on the cake. Pritam has did a successfully experiment with music as the fusion of Indian and western and made popular within young crowd. All in all a good entertaining movie with few hick up there and there this can easily be ignored.
Rating
“Jab We Met” scores 8 out of 10 for good music, mature performance, good all round performance in music helped in wining National Award for “Yeh Ishq Hai”. Movie did good office collection of $30 million.
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The Timeless Love Story by Shahrukh Khan - Veer-Zaara
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Movie: Veer-Zaara
Director: Yash Chopra
Time: 2004
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Manoj Bajpai, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini.
Snapshot of the story
The movie is about a Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh (SRK) and a Pakistani girl (Preity Zinta) who is daughter of a strong Politician Jahangir Hayat Khan (Boman Irani), about their love. Veer-Zaara is about the man who can sacrifice his whole life just for his love to be happy. The story also gives a message to strengthen a bond of love between the two neighborhoods countries India and Pakistan.
The Timeless Love Story by Shahrukh Khan - Veer-Zaara
Storyline
Veer-Zaara is Yash Raj banner movie staring Shahrukh Khan as Veer Pratap Singh and Preity Zinta as Zaara. Veer is squadron leader in IAF and Zaara is daughter of renounced politician played by Boman Irani.
Veer-Zaara is an emotional love story that goes back in time also shows how true loves goes to trauma as they are not same religion and from rival countries. Zaara come to India from Pakistan for final rituals of her surrogate mother and met with an accident. Veer is part of rescue team save her life and also help her in rituals, both becomes good friend. Veer takes Zaara to his uncle’s place where Zaara shows interest in starting a school for girls. Impressed by her thought both uncle Choudhary Sumer Pratap Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) and aunt (Hema Malini) motivates him to propose her marriage. Before Veer could get chance to express his feelings he comes to know about Razaa that came to receive her on railway station.
Razaa ( Manoj Bajpai) is one who is going to marry Zaara, a decision takes by Zaara’s father to take the political mileage in Pakistan. Veer come to know that Zaara has feelings for him, he decide to go Pakistan to express his feelings. After reaching Pakistan Veer come to know that Zaara is getting married and now nothing much he can do in it. While returning back to her way to India Veer gets arrested and was put behind the bars slashing charges of Indian spy by Razaa. The bus on which Veer suppose to traveling met with an accident and every one think that Veer dead.
This entire plot get reveled by a human right activist Samiya Siddiqi (playes by Rani Mukherjee) who take his case to give him justice. After a trial court gives him clean chit, after 22 long years he sees Zaara. This part of the movie has touchy scenes and the king or romance Yash Chopra used all his experience looks very real onscreen.
Final Thoughts
Veer-Zaara is an emotional love story made by Yash Chopra who has been making love stories like Kabhi-Kabhi and SilSila was the bock buster in 70’s and 80’s. Shahrukh Khan gave his best performance and experimented by plying the role of Veer. Preity Zinta looked gorgeous. Good music that has become the hallmark of YashRaj Banner and with Veer-Zaara legendary music director Madan Mohan. Madan Mohan died in 1975 but his music was used in this movie which was remarkable achievement.
Rating
Veer-Zaara score 6 out of 10 for over all good performances by all and bags 1 extra star for Madan Mohan whose music was truly timeless, that make 7 out of 10. Veer-Zaara made good box office collections.
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Bruce Lee’s Martial Art Fever on Box Office - Enter the Dragon
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Movie: Enter the Dragon
Year: 1973
Genre: Martial Arts/Action/Drama
Director: Robert Clouse
Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon and Jim Kelly
Snapshot of Story:
An undercover agent joins a martial arts tournament held by a crime lord who is thought to be producing opium for distribution to a worldwide market.
Movie Reviews and Ratings - Enter the Dragon
Storyline:
An undercover agent Lee played by Bruce Lee joins the notorious tournament held by Hans who is thought to be producing illegal opium drugs in an island just off Vietnam. In addition to Lee another two central characters Roper (John Saxon) and Williams (Jim Kelly) also join this tournament.
As they are whisked off to the island in boat and then helicopter one could see the many men of Hans in white suits practicing their karate. They are offered humble abodes for their stay and all the entertainment and pleasure they could dream off. When the host presents Williams with a bevy of beauties to choose from, he simply picks out an handful with a sly remark ‘Please don’t mind if I have left anyone out, but I am very tired today’.
On the first day of the tournament we see some comical events where Roper and Williams wage bets for some of the duels they are about to encounter. In one of the duels Williams takes a longer time than usual to finalize a deal with pundit and takes some beating before he is able to bring his opponent down. It clearly shows the supreme confidence and ability of the part of Williams and Roper in their fighting skills.
The star of the show as expected was Bruce Lee and his fighting was truly exemplary. In one scene he goes underground in the middle of the night and a guard is alerted. From heron some of best fighting scenes to have ever graced the screen is shown in full glory. Bruce Lee in his true form as one of the greatest on-screen martial artist of his time shows his stupendous skills in overpowering the many guardsmen.
In another memorable scene, when Lee encounters Oharra in one of the duels we see a flashback of how his sister had died in the hands of Oharra. The philosophy of Karate and Kung-Fu teaches one to be disciplined and to be free of vices and grudges and nowhere was this true as in this case. Lee overpowers Oharra in the sparring part of the fight with his lightning swift action and brings Oharra to the ground. When Lee turns away Oharra picks up two bottles from the crowd and breaks them ready to take on Lee again. This gives Lee the opportunity he was looking for and his entire rage and sadness from the death of his sister is focused in this one scene when he jumps up and breaks Oharra’s neck.
In the final scene Lee battles with Hans in the mirrored room where most people would go on to associate these scenes with this movie.
Final Thoughts:
Prior to ‘Enter the Dragon’ Bruce Lee made a number of movies in Hong Kong that brought him cult status and now with this Hollywood version brought Bruce Lee to world-wide fame. It was sad to see Bruce Lee die at an early stage in his life but he left a legacy that will be timeless and his style of fighting will continue on for many years to come.
Rating:
7.5/10
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Aziz Mirza and Shahrukh Khan made an average love story - Chalte Chalte
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Movie: Chalte Chalte
Director: Aziz Mirza
Year: 2003
Genre: Romance, Emotion, Drama
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Satish Shah
Snapshot of the story
Movie portraits the love story of Raj (played by SRK) and Priya (played by Rani) coming from different background and fall in love with each other but slowly their relationship started to show cracks in the seams. Movie takes an unusual twist and turns as their relationship starts with a fight, how Raj conveys Priya who is going to marry some other guy that he is the Mr. Perfect for him. Chalte Chalte is emotional love story made under Shahrukh Khan’s own production house Red Chillies Entertainment.
Review of Movie Chalte Chalte
Storyline
Raj (Shahrukh Khan) is an entrepreneur and one day while being on his way to hill station he meets by accident Priya (Rani Mukherjee). There starts the Mars vs. Venus relationship and fights blaming each other but soon they realize that accidents happened because they both ignored the basic rules of love. Raj and Priya become friends. As they start meeting each other Raj has feeling for Priya, however on the other hand Priya is about to leave to Athens for her wedding to be.
Raj (Shahrukh Khan) has some other plan in his mind and boards the same flight to win back Priya’s (Rani Mukherjee) heart and make her believe that he is the Mr. Right for her. This small section is funny and also the most romantic part of the movie. Raj (Shahrukh Khan) makes all the funny and crazy attempts to rethink Priya (Rani Mukherjee) about her decision. Failing to change her mind as they both reach Athens where Priya (Rani Mukherjee) tells the entire episode to her father. Her father makes Priya understood and realize that how much Raj loves her and wants Priya (Rani Mukherjee) to get married with Raj.
Chalte Chalte becomes the emotional drama and often slow and boring drama as the relationship between Raj and Priya starts showing problems. Priya being grown up in a rich family and loves cleanliness, punctuality and other good habits but Raj being of middle class, hard working man is not able to follow all these systematic habits and the financial crisis makes the situation worst. Unable to handle this situation Priya goes back to her parents leaving Raj alone. Emotional drama continues as how Raj handles this situation and brings himself back to normal life from this situation and also wins Priya’s heart.
Final Thoughts
Director Aziz Mirza gave his 100% to make this hit but it does have a weak storyline, unconvincing drama and sad screen play which did not lift the movie. Chalte Chalte impresses audience in patches which is the sad part of story. Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee were good and gave their solid performance. Music of the movie was good which is evident as Jatin-Lalit made award wining compositions. Chalte Chalte did an average business of $16 million but was in the top ten when it comes to the gross collections.
Rating
Chalte Chalte scores 7 out of 10 for strong performance by Shahrukh Khan. Aziz Mirza made a good effort to make an average story where it can not be called as flop.
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