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Movie Ratings and Reviews : Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Movie: Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Director: Karan Johar
Time: 1998
Genre: Romance, Musical, Comedy, Drama, Family
Stars: Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Mukherjee and Salman Khan
Snapshot of the story
Debue director Karan Johar has made musical love triangles to start his Bollywood career. Gripping on-screen story makes the audience smile, dance, cry and fall in love all in the same movie. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai was a super hit on the year that it was launched and bagged many movie awards.
Movie Ratings and Reviews : Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
Storyline
The story starts with the college days where Shah Rukh Khan as Rahul, Kajol as Anjali and Rani Mukherjee as Tina. Kajol and Shah Rukh Khan are always fighting with each other, play pranks but they are always best of friends. Kajol is a tom-boy and unlike other girls does not do any makeup and dress or the latest fashion to attract boys. Shar Rukh Khan is always behind girls and looking for a sweet heart. In comes the Rani Mukherjee as sweet, gorgeous and up to date with fashion and becomes Shah Rukh Khan’s friend. However, Anjali is in love with Rahul and want to tell his feeling. Jealous of Tina, Kajol also wants to dress like her to impress Rahul but hiding her feeling from him.
Finally Rahul tells his feeling to Tina and unable to bear this heart break Kajol goes ways from their life and does not contact either of them. Tina gives birth to a sweet baby girl but unfortunately dies during labor. Now Rahul is alone again with only his daughter.
There is portion of the story where Tina left a diary for her daughter about what happened in the college and how much Kajol used to love Rahul which Rahul was not aware of. This left a lot of question in that Tina was aware about her imminent death. Any way these is the part of Indian cinema where you are not supposed to think too hard but follow your heart rather than you brain.
Then start the series on how Rahul’s daughter turns the situation and makes arrangement so that both Kajol and Rahul can rediscover their love. But now Kajol is engaged with Salman Khan and is soon to be married. This is the time of high drama and emotional scenes.
Final Thoughts
Kukh Kukh Hota Hai did turn to be the mile stone for the debue director Karan Johar. KKHH has a great music score of 90’s with Jatin-Lalit with some unforgettable lyrics and songs. Lyricist Sameer wrote the romantics songs to add much charm this story. Yash Raj banner also showed faith in Karan Johar and he did not disappoint them. Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol, Rani Kukherjee and Salman Khan all looked good and gave some of their best performances.
Rating
I give 9 out of 10 to Kukh Kukh Hota Hai for portraying brilliant on screen romance and heart touching emotional scenes.
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Movie Ratings and Reviews: The Thing - It’s Not Human Yet
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Movie: The Thing
Year: 2011
Genre: Horror/Sci-Fi
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and Ulrich Thomsen
Snapshot of Story:
The movie is a recreation of the 1982 horror sci-fi by John Carpenter where an alien being terrorizes a group of explorers in the Antarctica.
Movie Ratings and Reviews: The Thing - It's Not Human Yet
Storyline:
It is a tall order to recreate the monumental movie of its time ‘The Thing’ in 1982 directed by John Carpenter. However, the movie does have it’s moments but unfortunately does not quite live up to the previous showing where Kurt Russel’s brilliant performance coupled with John Carpenter’s directing adds great depth and realism to the whole story.
The new main star played by a woman Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Kate Lloyd) may not have been a good choice as the person to take the lead role when comparing like for like roles (ie. Kurt Russel) in the last movie.
Although the story has good twists and turns, it does not quite gel together to make it a worthy movie to remember. The lack of coherency in the storyline despite some very good special effects brings it down.
There were some sensational scenes where the bodies mutate into disturbingly contorted figures that were very life-like. At parts also there is great tension amongst the team which was well portrayed and the clever part of the ‘teeth fillings’ which could not be replicated by the alien. Often directors miss essential points in the movie that adds realism to the whole story telling and this is what separates some great movie directors of our time. The parts can be so minuscule but adds to the overall credibility and realism to the movie and many a times directors with vision surpass the limitations of current technology and philosophy of cinema making and is able to come up with something great.
Final Thoughts:
The movie is a satisfactory rendition of the original but the towering performance of Kurt Russell and the brilliant directing of John Carpenter cannot be beat in the original version. Although today the modern aspects of movie making are far superior to that of 20-30 years ago, ultimately the storyline has to be on par to have an effective overall movie that can be appreciated by everyone. Take the examples of the movie series ‘Paranormal Activity’ where a good story telling with some special effects brings the movies together into something very watchable and almost addictive.
Rating:
6.5/10
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Review of Salman Khan’s Action Movie: Wanted
Friday, November 18th, 2011
Movie: Wanted
Director: Prabhu Deva
Time: 2009
Stars: Salman Khan, Ayesha Takia and Vinod Khanna
Snapshot of the story
Wanted is a story of an under cover cop played by Salman Khan in hunt for a gangster that made life in the city like hell even during daylight. Corrupt cops are also mixed with then making the situation worse. Salman Khan works for Gani bhai ( Prakash Raj) and will kill any one for money.
Theme of Story
There not much sense in the story and it is just for pure entertainment masala movie. There are many other movies made by Salman Khan and Wanted is one of them. Wanted is the remake of Tamil film Pokiri directed by Prabhu Deva which is also not an original concept and inspired from a Telugu film. Wanted from the beginning has the high action drama and shows Salman Khan doing the action scene across the city. Bullets firing, head smashing in the windows and Salman coming out of smoke fires put Salman Khan’s Dabangg on screen and off screen image. In all there action scenes Salman falls in love with sweet girls Jhanvi (played by Ayesha Takia) who works in a call center. Wanted is fast paced movie and if you are a action movie lover then this one is full of entertainment for the viewer. Released on the eve of EID, it contributed to it’s grand opening of the movie worldwide. Salman has made lot of effort with this release and in the marketing of the movie. Music of the movie is good and the song like “Mera Hi Jalwa” was the popular dance number used in many dance reality shows.
Review of Salman Khan's Action Movie: Wanted
On Screen Chemistry
Salman Khan was outstanding and as I said earlier the film does not make any real sense. Vinod Khanna as Salman’s Father and ex-policemen was good in his short performance. Music was not the highlight of this movie despite the one off hit of ‘Mera Hi Jalwa’.
Rating
I would give this 6 out of 10 for a powerhouse performance by Salman, the cuteness of Ayesha Takia and good choreography by Pradhu Deva on “Tera Hi Jalwa” that features Govinda and Anil Kapoor.
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Ratings and Reviews of Singham
Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Movie: Singham
Director: Rohit Shetty
Time: 2009
Stars: Ajay Devgan, Kajal Agrawal and Prakash Raj
Snapshot of the story
Rohit Shetty has made good action movies as a small town cop Singham (Ajay Devgan) who is honest, likes to help all and can not tolerate injustice (in short a perfect cop) gets entangled with a gangster who uses his political power to make his life a mysery. It is a face paced story showing how he overcomes these challenges.
Ratings and Reviews of Singham
Storyline
Ajay Devgan is an honest cop living in a small town who believes in helping people. Because of the small locality every one knows each other. Every thing goes smoothly until the day when Singham wants a local high profile goon Jaykant Shikre (Prakash Raj) to see him in police custody. He tries to avoid this by using his influence which did not work and he needs to visit the police station. With revenge in his mind of this humiliation Jaykant Shikre uses his political power and Singham gets transferred to this locality and then starts the cat and mouse game between them.
This is the most interesting part of the movie as the goon Jaykant Shikre and Singham try to have an upper hand with each other and this is the part of movie where action, drama and love follows. The role of Singham suits very well with Ajay Devgan. The movie has some strong dialogues and larger than life image of an Indian hero. There are some action scenes where we defy the laws of gravity and is entertaining to watch.
In this high action drama director Rohit Shetty has introduced a moving story. Debutant Kajal Agrawal looked beautiful and very impressive in her first movie. Singham finds plenty of convolution in the story and it was good to see how entire police department stands against the goon and overpowers them.
On Screen Chemistry
The charismatic appearance of Ajay Devgan’s steals the show, romance is not the theme of the movie and could be the reason it has not been showcased as well. This is typical of the movie where there is fight over good and bad and one may think if one never gets tired of such stories? Singham does not have a strong storyline but fast paced movie which this is, keeps the audience interested.
Rating
Singham score 6.5 out of 10 for good performance of every actor especially Ajay Devgan and Prakash Raj. Action scenes were good but did not have freshness which we expected.
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Superhit Crime Thriller: Scarface
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
Movie: Scarface
Year: 1983
Genre: Crime/Thriller
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Steven Bauer
Snapshot of Story:
Tony Montana played by Al Pachino is a refugee from Cuba who has dreams of making it big in the USA. He enters the world of high drugs and crimelords and is unable to steer the life he wants in this pulsating movie by director Brian De Palma.
Superhit Crime Thriller Scarface
Storyline:
This is one of the most popular movie that is often found on the shelves of many homes, a timeless piece that is still very watchable today.
Tony Montana along with his best friend Manny Ribera come to Florida as refugees and immediately enter the life of drugs and brutal killings. The beginning of the movie is quite entertaining as they both get used to a new culture and clumsily and often comically find their way around town.
Tony has big dreams and is itching for those dreams to materialize soon and manages to connect with the right people to enter into the world of drugs. His quick thinking and his talent for spotting trouble quickly makes him a close buddy of one of the top drug lords in his area. However, he yearns for more and from a bloody duel with his long standing boss becomes the new drug and crimelord of the area. As Tony yearns for more power he also becomes very protective and isolates himself in a highly secure mansion in a very desirable area. His desire for more power and shrugging authority, soon brings in the fists of the other drug lords of the country. Along with his rapid rise, he also becomes more suspicious of his close comrades and in one scene he shoots his best friend.
Al Pachino gives a brilliant performance as an ambitiuous calculating Cuban who uses his wits to get to the very top of the drug empire. Unfortunately, the story has a tragic ending where a bloody shoot out at his house results in his demise.
Final Thoughts
The movie has all the traits of an authentic story telling and has been brilliantly directed by Brian De Palma which makes it a classic and one for the hall of fame. As you watch this movie at different periods in your life you can almost connect with all of the characters and their inner thoughts. This gives it the wide appeal and a timeless classic that is still enjoyed today.
Rating:
9/10
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