Movie: Ajab Prem Ki Gajab Kahani
Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
Year: 2009
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Katrina Kaif, Upen Patel and Darshan Jariwala

Snapshot of the story

This is the story on unemployed young guys Prem (Ranbir Kapoor) who finally decide to run his fathers restaurants after trying his luck to find a job. Prem along with her friend help lovers to get married in case their parents are against them. Jenny (played by Katrina Kaif) mistakenly kidnapped by them and then start the love and affection fairly one sided by Prem as Jenny loves his childhood friend Rahul (Played by Upen Patel).

Storyline
Prem (Ranbir Kapoor) is in the role of boy next door and looking for good job after graduation. After trying hard he joins his father’s restaurant. Prem and his friends help lovers by helping them getting married if their parents do not agree, they call it as social work.

One day they by mistake pickup Jenny (played by Katrina Kaif) in their mission. Jenny lives with her foster parents who are indifferent and uncaring. When Prem saw Jenny he falls in love with her and tries to impress her but fate has decided something else for him & he comes to know that Jenny loved another guy – Rahul (Upen Patel) who is a son of conniving politician. When Jenny tells Prem that the father of the guy is not ready for their marriage, Prem had a plan with his friends to flee away rahul and make arrangement for their wedding. Thye have to make another plan to flee away with Jenny also as her parents decided to she will marry with rich guy.

This plot of the movie is weak and does now convince audience but with charm of Katrina Kaif and boy next door image helped movie to do well in cinemas. Romantic scenes in the movie are good and it is the first time Katrina and Ranbir worked together, both looked good onscreen. Ajab Prem Ki Gajab kahani has lot of funny moments in the movie which makes audience glued to their seat.

Final Thoughts

Both Ranbir and Jenny look best in their role, all credit goes to Rajkumar Santoshi. Rajkumar Santoshi is the stable director in the Bollywood and has made movie of all genre like Romance, Musical, Drama, and Comedy. “Andaz Apna Apna” was his first hit comedy movie. Music of “Ajab Pre Ki Gajab Kahani” composed by Pritam who did fair job by giving it vibrant touch. Screenplay of the movie which made it looks good in spite of weak story line.

Rating

“Ajab Pre Ki Gajab Kahani” scores 5 out of but I would like to add 1 more start for only because of the char that Katrina brings on the movie.

The hot item song by Katrina Kaif “Chikani Chameli” from Agneepath

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Movie: Parineeta
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Year: 2005
Stars: Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Dia Mirza and others.

Snapshot of the story
Parineeta is a story of simple human emotions consists of love, happiness, ego, jealous, etc. Lolita (Played by Vidya Balan) is the lead characters of the story, an orphan who grew up in her uncle’s house, Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend and Girish (Sanjay Dutt) a London return business-man loves Lotita.

Storyline

Parineeta is basically a story of a girl named Lolita (played Vidya Balan), who is an orphan and grew up in her uncle’s house. She is a born beauty, with awesome looks and is very attractive. Shekhar (played by Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend. Both of them loved each other since childhood but their love is unspoken and often expressed in metaphors.

But unfortunately Shekhar’s father is a scheming man and has plans to usurp the property of Lolita’s uncle. His plans seems to be succeeding but here comes Girish (played by Sanjay Dutt), a businessman who helps Lolita’s uncle bail out of the financial crisis. He is a self-assured man of pragmatism and calm composure. Slowly with his jolly nature he begins to make place in Lolita’s heart. Shekhar start feeling jealous, rifts between the lovers goes on increasing day by day due to the aggressiveness of Shekhar.

Finally Shekhar gets married to his father’s business partner’s daughter Gayatri (played by Dia Mirza) and as a result of this heart break Lolita too, accepts a different destiny for herself and settles down. But the emotions that have been stifled keep simmering until they boil out in the climax of this story.

Director Pradeep Sarkar has made good movie inspired by the story of Saratchandra’s novel. It is well written and directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar as expected. Every character in the movie has done the perfect job.

Final Thoughts

Parineeta is a well directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar, manages to get the best out of all the characters. Best on the novel of Saratchandra’s Chatterjee written in mid 90’d but looks a fresh story. Vidya Balan has shows that she has talent and she can portray different style of characters. She has shows lots of grace in the movie, Saif Ali Khan was first time look very natural in Parineeta that show that he is improving. Sanjay Dutt shows flow less in his royal touch. Music is the soul of the movie with the song like “Piyu Bole” and “kasto mazza” are the pick of the songs. Shantanu Moitra did a fantastic job as Parineeta becomes his first hit movie.

Rating

Parieeta scores 7.5 out of 10 for it good movie to watch with good story, top class narration and finest screenplay. Parineeta again proves all you need a good story to make a hit.

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Movie Review: Thor
Year: 2011
Genre: Fantasy/Action
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Anthony Hopkins and Natalie Portman

Snapshot of Story:
Thor is born into the royal family of the fabulous city of Asgard, a far distant planet from earth and possesses fantastic powers and strengths nothing like that seen on earth. He is cast out of the realm by his Father (King) for disobedience and has to battle with the evil elements of the universe before being restored to his full glory.

Story:
Thor came about in the midst of many Marvel movies such as the Green Hornet, Captain America and has a unique quality and entertaining value all of its own. The story though typical is well executed by the director and adds a charm, romance and chivalry into one package that leaves you feeling satisfied at the end.
Unlike the other movies with the exception of the X-Men, the story telling of these much loved Marvel comic heroes can be difficult in the two hours permissible. The Green Hornet fell mercy to this but Thor takes you on a fantastic journey that propels you through the action including the romantic scenes between the two stars Thor and the scientist Jane Foster (played by Natalie Portman).

As always Anthony Hopkins manages to bring a strong presence to the role as King of Asgard and the characters of the two rival sons come out as both believable and strong. When Thor is evicted from his home planet and lands on earth we see a representation of a character that strives for more with his power but lacks the discipline of a responsible and a wise mature man. This is nicely carried forward into the predicament that he finds himself on earth and how his personality becomes shaped by people around him. In particular his gentle side of his character comes out when he is in the presence of Jane and the more toned down he becomes as he interacts with the other humans.
The final culmination of the movie happens when he is again given a chance to come back into his domain and kingdom and we can immediately see the new Thor. This was the very quality Thor’s father was looking for inside of his sone and it was a fitting end to the whole movie.

Final Thoughts:
Thor is an interesting movie in that it does not try to buck the standards of movie making but the director has taken a different approach and addressed the ‘plot’ which makes a good movie. Most other movie makers will attempt to use all the latest techniques of movie making and therefore overshadow the whole plot. One notable movie that does this is Transformers where the overuse of special effects can lead to a confusing plot as in the last helping of the Transformers series. The director Kenneth Branagh manages to capture a fantasy movie that encapsulates all the action, romance and chivalry into one highly entertaining package.

Rating:
7.5/10

Bikini Shots of Chris Hemsworth’s wife

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Movie: Hum Tum
Director: Kunal Kohli
Time: 2004
Genre: Comedy, Romance and Drama
Stars: Saif Ali Khan, Rani Mukherjee, Rishi Kapoor and Kiron Kher

Snapshot of the story
Hum Tum is love story story of flirty, careless, disrespecting guy Karan Kapoor and simple girl Rhea. Their love story starts with a fight like all other love stories usually do, then patch up and fall in love again with each other. There are too many emotional scenes in the movie, especially with Rani Mukherjee that might bore you.

Storyline

Karan Kapoor (played by Saif Ali Khan) is a cartoonist at the news paper agency and has his best cartoons going under the name “HUM TUM”. He is a careless, frivolous and flirty guy having no space for girl’s feelings. Rhea is a simple girl (played by Rani Mukherjee), both of them meet on their way to New York. Two of them are opposite poles and has a big difference in their practical view towards life – especially love. In order to put the things right Karan kisses Rhea which results in the fight between them and leads to much resentment for each other.

After this incident they co-incidentally meet again at different places and the drama continues. Karan joins with his mother’s event management company to manage a wedding and there he comes to know that Rhea is getting married to Sameer (Abhishek Bachchan). Few years later when Karan goes to Paris to visit his father he finds broken Rhea who has become a widow as her husband died in an accident. He now being mature helps Rhea to get out of the sad situation but unfortunately does not succeed, then he meets her mother and promises her to bring the best groom for Rhea but he fails there too. It was good to see the guy who does not believe in relationship and used to say that love does not exists looking for a commitment.

Gorgeous Rani Mukherjee with cute and handsome Saif Ali Khan have given a good performance as expected. Saif Ali Khan was a perfect cast for Karana’s role and so did Rani in her emotional scenes. Director Kunal Kohli has shot the film exceedingly well and has extracted best performances from all the actors of the movie. Knitting animation Alias “Hum Tum” with the storyline was amazing idea of Karan Kohli to be appreciated.

Final Thoughts

Movie is good emotional love story and gives many chances to laugh but some where movie fails to convince the audience. Story narration is weak, which is something he will learn over a period of time. “Hum Tum” is yet another mile stone is Jatin-Lalit’s professional life with good mix of light romantic songs to disco and Hip Hop track by Rishi Rich.

Rating
“Hum Tum” bags 7 out of 10 stars for the outstanding performance by all the actors, good music and exotic location of Europe. Strong storyline and screenplay would have made it bigger box office hit.

Upcoming movie of Rani Mukherjee of 2010

Kunal Kohli’s biography

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Movie: Kites
Director: Anurag Basu
Time: 2010
Stars: Hritik Roshan, Barbara Mori, Kangana Ranaut and Nicolas Brown

Snapshot of the story

Kites is an average story revolving around two lead characters Jai (played by Hritik Roshan) and Natasha (played by Barbara Mori). The flick goes with the hero being a salsa teacher and always on the pry to earn money by crooked means. His luck turns around when the doors open with a student who is a daughter of millionaire starts to become fond of him. But he falls for her brother’s fiancée and both elope.

Storyline
Jai (played by Hritik Roshan) lives in LA and earns his livelihood by teaching salsa classes and doesn’t mind getting extra bucks by any means possible. His luck comes knocking on the doors when his student Gina (played by Kangana Ranaut) falls in love with him and he comes to know that he is going to be a member of a millionaire family. While being in her house he meets Natasha (played by Barbara Mori), fiancée of Gina’s brother Tony (played by Nicolas Brown) and falls head over heals for her.

Jai and Natasha realize true love in their lives against the manipulative relationships they were maintaining till now. Both of them elope inviting the angst of Tony who wants them at any cost. The movie’s pace reduces instantly after this and it seems to be boring at some times. The movie then shows the romance between the two lovers and their randevous from place to place for survival and escaping from Tony and his men. Climax of the movie is not so cool and does not look convincing.

Final Thoughts
Not a very good movie but nevertheless a good one time watch. The movie is not able to engage the audience after such huge hype created during pre-release promotions. Performance wise all are good especially Barbara Mori and Hritik Roshan gets more credit as chemistry between both of them are incitingly sparkling. Despite being unfamiliar with each other’s language, they communicate through symbols and connect through momentary monosyllables establishing that love has no language. Barbara appears cute while speaking in broken English and radiates a stimulating smile that brightens up even the most mechanical scene.

Rating

Kites scores 6 out of 10 only because of good performance from Hrithik Roshan and Barbara Mori. Music of the movie is disappointing and so is direction. It was hard to understand why Rakesh Roshan did not direct the movie and asked Anurag Basu to direct Kites.

Barbara Mori on the cover of OK style magazine

Hrithik Roshan becomes international star with Agneepath

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