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Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna - Just a One Time Watch
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Movie: Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Director: Karan Johar
Year: 2006
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Abihshek Bacchan, Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Kiron Kher, Amitabh Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee
Snapshot of the Story
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna is story of an extra marital affair between an unsatisfied man and woman with very different reasons. Story flows smoothly until both meet each other and share their unsatisfaction in their love life. It generates a soft corner for each other and they fall in love with each other.
Movie reviews and ratings of Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna
Storyline
Story is about the two married couples, Dev (played by SRK) and Riya (played by Preity Zinta) and Rishi (played by Abhishek Bachchan) & Maya (played by Rani Mukherjee). Dev is an ex-football player who could not make it to the professional league because of an accident that crippled him and Riya is a successful model. Due to her profession she has to meet different people. Dev in not happy with her professional contact and want her to spend more time with their son. On the other side Rishi and Maya are a young couple about to get married. Rishi is a successful man and popularly know as “Sexy Sam”. Maya is a school teacher of Arjun (Son of Dev and Riya) but Maya is not comfortable with Rishi’s casinova image.
Dev and Maya meet at Arjun’s school and connect with each other very quickly. They share their life with each other that becomes the catalyst for their love for each other. They soon get involved in a physical relationship with each other and realize that they took the wrong steps that could hurt their marriage. Both Maya and Dev decide that they will tell their partner about this and accept whatever consequence.
Riya and Rishi were shocked by this extra marital affair and take extreme steps. Riya divorce Dev and Rishi refused to get married to Maya. But the story does take a twist as both tell each other that Rishi and Riya did forgive them for their mistake. The completely broken Dev leaves New York and join as a coach of a school football team in Chicago. Maya also gets an offer from school to teach 2nd grade student. This entire drama gets exposed when Riya finds Maya in Chicago living alone. Riya finds that both Dev and Maya are living alone and force Maya to meet Dev. Both of them meet and realize that they still love each other and they eventually get married.
Final Thoughts
After the success of “Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham” and “Mohabbatein” Karan Johar got sidetracked and strangled the story with too many twists. The first half hour of the movie is good and has romantic and comic scenes. However, as the story goes on it looses its charm. Extra marital affair movies are not new in Indian cinema. Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee were good in the movie and justify their role, but Priety Zinta and Abhishek Bhachchan did not have much to show in the movie and look as if their talent was wasted. Music of the movie is good as trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy did a fantastic job but even that could not make it to the big charts.
Rating
Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna scores only 6 out of 10 even with his big star cast which failed to make it hit. It is truly said that fresh innovative ideas that can make movie successful even if it does not have a big star cast.
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The Must Watch Movie of Ranbir Kapoor - Rockstar
Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Movie: Rockstar
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Time: 2011
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Nargis Fakhri (debutant) and late Shammi Kapoor
Snapshot of the story
Yet another love story from Imtiaz Ali camp but bit different from his earlier romantic story like Jab We Met and Love Aaj Kal. The movie is about a Delhi based college student Janardan Jakhar aka Jordan who dreams of becoming a “Rockstar” someday. He gets suggestion from his friend that true music can evolve only from the broken heart, and he tries to get his heart broken from a girl Heer who has done this many time with other guys. But as fate has decided something else they fall for each other and then separate because their ways were different. Rest of story shows us the music evolving from the broken heart and how deep was the love between Jordan and Heer.
Movie reviews and Ratings
Storyline
Story of the movie starts with a nerdy college student from Delhi Janardan aka Jordan (played by Ranbir Kapoor), who has fond of music and dreams to become a Rockstar someday. Once while sitting with his best friend he is told that “tute hue dil ses hi sangeet nikalta hai” means true music evolves only from the broken heart. Now Jordan tries to get his heart broken from a girl named Heer who is famous for ditching guys.
On meeting Heer first he gets insulted by her but later on both of them gets befriended and slowly starts loving each other. But as their ways were different they have to get separated. Heer gets married in Prague and Jordan becomes a Rockstar (as his heart is now actually broken). Then there are few superb songs from A R Rahman and beautiful camerawork by Anil Mehta.
Now the story gets a turn when Jordan gets a chance to go for a music concert at Prague. There he starts searching Heer and finally meets her. Confronting each other both Heer and Jordan feels refreshed and becomes exciting. There are few romantic scenes that show the love between both of them still alive even after so many years.
Final Thoughts
Rockstar is emotional love story where Janardan Jakhad becomes Jordan. Ranbir Kapoor acting was awesome in the movie. Nargis Fakhri is impressive in her debut movie more with her beauty. Music composed by Oscar award winner A.R. Rahman and songs sung by ace singer Mohit Chauhan create the magic as they made the chart topper songs. Rockstar certainly established Ranbir Kapoor in the industry and gave Nargis Fakhri the perfect start needed.
Rating
Rockstar scored 7 out of 10 with rocking performance from Ranbir Kapoor. Director Imtiaz Ali has proved him as versatile director but he still need to come out of his emotional love story theme. Even though Rockstar failed to bring expected audience but it silence all his critics.
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Ranbeer Singh the Con Man in Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl
Friday, December 23rd, 2011
Movie: Ladies V/s Ricky Bahl
Director: Maneesh Sharma
Year: 2011
Stars: Ranveer Singh, Anushka Sharma, Parineeti Chopra, Dipannita Sharma and Aditi Sharma
Snapshot of the story
“Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl” is another movie from the team of “Band Baja Baarat” however it fails to create the same magic as the previous movie. “Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl” is a story of a con man who cons the girls in different instances in disguises of Sunny, Dev, Iqbal. He has conned many girls amongst whom three form a team to take revenge. They hire Ishika (played by Anushka Sharma) as a millionairess girl to con Ricky. The plot of the story is well set in the first half.
Movie review and ratings of Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl
Storyline
“Ladies v/s Rick Bahl” is a story of a guy named Ricky (played by Ranveer Singh) who con girls, sometimes with his charm and sometimes with his cleverness and whatever works best for him. He cons three girls named Saira (played by Aditi Sharma), Dimpy (played by Parineeti Chopra) and Raina (played by Dipannita Sharma) who team up to get even with him.
Ishita pretends to be millionairess girl and wants to start a hotel in Goa. Anushka Sharma looked good in the movie but does not have much part in the movie. Her role is very short as the director Maneesh Sharma introduces her in the second half. First half of the movie is interesting as it dishes out fresh content. Ranbeer Kapoor looks good in the movie and looks like he started where he left in “Band Baja Baarat”. Second half of the movie is quite predictable and the story looses it’s charm as it moves to the climax.
The story has the final twist in the tale where the trio thinks that they have fooled Ricky and have robbed a thief but later comes to know that this is again a con Ricky had setup for them.
Final Thoughts
Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl does not prove to be good for anyone except Parineeta Chopra as Dimple in the movie. She was good in the movie and her comic timing was very good. Ranbeer Kapoor would not gain anything from this and so does Anushka Sharma. Director Maneesh Sharma did a good job but failed to create charm in the same way as he did in “Band Baja Baarat”. Even the music of the movie did not give it an extra zing where needed.
Rating
“Ladies v/s Ricky Bahl” scores 6 out of 10 not because of the weak storyline but failed to live up to the good story that it promised in the first half.
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Romantic Comedy of Aamir Khan and Ajay Devgan - Ishq
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
Movie: Ishq (Love)
Director: Indra Kumar
Year: 1997
Stars: Aamir Khan, Ajay Devgan, Juhi Chawla and Kajol
Snapshot of the story
Ishq is love story of 4 lovers who are young and believe in true love. Raja (played by Aamir Khan) and Ajay Rai (Played by Ajay Devgan) are best friends. Ajay’s father is rich industrialist and does not like Raja as he comes from the poor family. Similarly Kajal (Played by Kajol) and Madhu (Played by Juhi Chawla) are best friends and Madhu’s father do not like Kajal as he thinks in line with Ajay’s father. Their father this thinking becomes the hurdle in the love story.
Movie Reviews and ratings Ishq
Storyline
Ranjit Rai and Harbanslal are two wealthy men who hate poor people and thinks that the poor people does not have any right to live in society, but their children Ajay (played by Ajay Devgan) and Madhu (played by Juhi Chawla) does not think like wise. They fell in love with mutual friend who does not belong to such wealthy family.
Ranjit Rai and Harbanslal wanted their children to marry to wealthy spouse as they despise poor people and when they come to know that their children are in love with poor they deceivingly gets Ajay and Madhu to sign a marriage documents which indicates that they are lawfully married to each other. As they realizing their father’s dirty trick, both children refuse to it and turns the certificates to ashes. Then their fathers pretend that they have changed their ways and are ready for their marriage with the one whom they loved. But they again play a nasty trick and in their engagement ceremony show Raja’s and Kajal’s pictures in which they are acting very intimate with each other.
To make the matter worse, Kajal’s uncle testifies to the fabricated illicit affairs between Raja and Kajal. As a result of this Ajay and Madhu break up with Kajal and Raja and they agree to marry each other. The situation worsens when Ajay thinks that Kajal is pregnant with Raja’s child again. Then Ajay and Madhu moves to Raja’s house to congratulate them for a new baby and tell that they are going to marry, on listening this Kajal tries to kill herself, but Raja stops her. Now Raja decides to go to punish the people responsible for their ill-fate and misery, he tries to rape Madhu but Ajay stops him and police arrests him. In the police station Raja is beaten brutally by the policemen on the words of Ranjit and Harbanslal. Kajal comes to plead for him to be released from jail but the two fathers put a condition that they should leave the country only then they will release Raja. Kajal agrees to the condition and also convinces Raja. On the other hand, Ajay and Madhu are going to marry each other, but at the right time Ajay’s uncle proves the innocence of Raja and Kajal, also Kajal’s uncle confess that he had been paid by their fathers for giving the false testification. At this point Ajay and Madhu realize their mistake and go to Raja and Kajal. Finally the lover birds meet each other with a happy ending.
Final Thoughts
Ishq is good emotional love story with good screen play. Pace of the movie engages audience and make them glued to their seat. Ishq also have good comedy scene and Aamir khan and Juhi chawla had good comic timing. Music of the movie composed by Anu Malik also contributed in success of the movie. Ishq was big hit and made the box office collection of $30 Million.
Rating
8.5/10
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The Most Advanced Animated Film in HD - Avatar
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Movie: Avatar
Year: 2009
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Action
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver
Snapshot of Story:
A paraplegic soldier arrives at a far distant world called Pandora where humans have setup mining operations for precious materials. The soldier sides with the natives of Pandora called Navi to defend their own home against a ruthless Colonel .
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Avatar
Storyline:
Avatar was a major worldwide blockbuster hit of 2009 coming from the camp of James Cameron who also happens to have the number one spot for the movie Titanic made back in 1997. This epic movie in typical Cameron style had one of the biggest budgets in movie making history and when you watch the movie, you will know why.
For Cameron, it is not sufficient to have a movie with just great special effects and action but it needs to be tied to an engaging storyline which Avatar delivers upon. At the beginning of the movie we are introduced to Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington) who is a paraplegic and disembarks the ship that brings him to the remote planet called Pandora. We are introduced to the planet bit by bit as the story unfolds and the superb special effects have their place when the helicopter ascends to the skies and shows the wondrous planet in its full glory.
Jake Sully is recruited to become an Avatar of the indigenous race Navi in order to learn more about them and indirectly exploit their planet. There are many Avatars recruited by the mining company and Grace (played by Sigourney Weaver) heads this research part of the operation. Sully who is paraplegic becomes suspended in the sleep like state in order for his Avatar to come alive. This is a touching moment since he is now able to walk and roam like the others in his new Avatar form. He ultimately bonds with a small group of Navi and befriends them to learn more of their ways. Cameron does not focus on too much of the technical details of the Avatar such as when the Avatar goes to sleep when Sully comes out of his state of suspension. Cameron leaves this to the imagination of the audience.
Sully falls for one of the Navi called Neytiri and the special bond between them is carried throughout the movie. Most of Cameron’s movies centers around a strong union and bond between two central characters within the movie and Avatar is no exception. Cameron is able to convey a heightened sense of feelings and realism through the eyes of these characters to the audience. This was typified in one of the scenes where Sully and Neytiri find themselves exploring the forest at night of and the audiences gasp at the foliage and plants of the Pandora’s forest. Cameron obviously spent a great deal of time to get this scene right as it was the very first time that the audience witnesses the awe and sensation of Pandora. The fact that he recruited biologist and paleontologists to bring about this scene is a testament to his vision of producing something just right.
As Sully becomes more immersed with the clan he develops a deep affection for the Navi race and their beliefs and culture. This however is at odds end to the ruthless dictatorship of the mining company whose sole aim is for profit and they see the Navi race as a hindrance towards their objective. Under the leadership of Colonel Miles Quaritch (played by Stephen Lang) the soldiers are sent to show their might and displace the Navi population away from their operations. Cameron is clearly sending an underlying message in this part of the movie and possibly showing his resentment towards super power politics of today.
There is a final battle with the Navi and the Colonels army where the Navi’s prevail. Cameron cleverly brings about the supernatural forces lying within Pandora where the Navis are intrinsically connected to.
Final Thoughts:
Although Avatar failed to receive many Oscars for its block buster hit in 2009, unlike the previous movie Titanic, it nevertheless set another milestone in cinematography. The resounding success throughout the world and topping the all-time box-office chart is an indication of its wide appeal. Look out for the next Avatar which is said to be taking place under water, a favorite theme of James Cameron.
Rating:
9/10
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