Movie: Ghajini
Director: A.R. Murugadoss
Time: 2008
Stars: Amir Khan, Asin and Pradeep Rawat

Snapshot of the story

Ghajini is story of a business tycoon Sanjay Singhania (Aamir Khan) who falls in love with junior artist Kalpana (Asin). But one incident changes his life forever as Kalpana is killed and Sanjay loses his memory and becomes a patient of short terms memory loss. Now revenge is in Sanjay mind but his short term memory loss becomes his biggest hurdle. Story goes through situation which is fairly entertaining to watch.

Storyline
Sanjay Singhania (played by Amir Khan) is a business tycoon of India. He was residing in a foreign country for a long time and not many people knew him. As a result of this a girl named Kalpana (played by Asin), who is a junior actor in the film industry spreads the rumor that they are having an affair. Sanjay starts getting calls from every one and becomes annoyed and he decides to meet up with Kalpana. When Sanjay meet Kalpana, she thinks that he is also junior artist and wants a small role in movie. They start interacting on this basis and Sanjay develops feelings for Kalpana and he decides that he will tell Kalpana who he really is and from where he comes from.

Story takes a violent turn as Kaplana saves an orphaned girls from the mafia gang whose leader is Ghajini (played by Pradeep Rawat). This brave act of her creates problems for her and she becomes the enemy of Ghajini. Ghajini decides to kill Kalpana and this is all witnessed by Sanjay. While saving Kaplana Sanjay gets very badly hurt and can only remember short term memories and can not remember anything more than 15 minutes.

Now Sanjay is living a life of a patient whose memory resets every fifteen minutes and he literally lives one life for fifteen minutes only. He keeps his memory alive through the writings and snapping photos with captions to remember important persons and places. The only thing he remembers is the name Ghajini but he is unable to remember who is he and what is his relationship with him. Then comes a girl (Jia Khan) who reveals his past life and helps him in finding Ghajini.

Final Thought

Ghajini is yet another movie with Aamir’s midas touch, his special look for movie was very much popular and for this movie only he worked so hard to create six-pack abs. Aamir is Mr. Perfectionist and he proved yet again with so much dedication for his role. Ghajini is first Bollwood movie for Asin and she looked very beautiful. Ghajini is remake of Tamil (regional language of South India) version of Ghajini made by A.R. Murugadoss. Ghanjini is fast paced action movie and engages audience with every scene in movie. A.R. Rahman did fantastic job in hit making music which was difficult task for movie like Ghajini.

Rating

Ghajini scores 8 points out of 10 for being a complete entertainer and 1 extra start for Aamir’s dedication and marketing skills, which make 9 out 10.

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Shahrukh Khan avoids wishing Amir Khan, a newly turned papa

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Movie: Saajan (Lover)
Director: Lawrence D’Souza
Time: 1991
Stars: Salman Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Madhuri Dixit and Kadar Khan

Snapshot of the story

Saajan is story of a poet Aman (Sanjay Datt) who is unknown to the world and world knows him by his imaginary name Sagar by which he writes poems. Aman has a best friend called Akash (Salman Khan). Pooja (Madhuri Dixit) is a secret admirer of Sagar and is in love with him. One day Pooja meets Aman who tells her that he knows Sagar and can help her to meet Sagar.

Storyline
Akash (played by Salman Khan) is a son of a very big businessman living a luxurious life. One day they go to an orphanage where Aman meets Akash one of the handicapped orphans in the orphanage, both of them become friends and Aman insists to his parents to take Akash to their home along with them.

In response to this Aman’s parents agree to adopt Akash. Akash and Aman grow up as brothers with all the things getting equally but the difference between both of them is that Aman is a womanizer wandering around with girls while Akash is a responsible guy who looks after the business of his father and writes poems as a hobby in the name of “Sagar”. When the poetry book of Sagar releases into the market he becomes very popular as the book becomes an instant hit. Pooja (played by Madhuri Dixit) is a book stall owner and a fan of Sagar. Pooja is an excellent dancer and recites Sagar’s poet in her songs during her dance performances.

Aman on his business trip meets Pooja and falls in love with her and realizes that Pooja like Sagar, however he never share his feeling with Pooja. When Akash finally meets Pooja he also falls in love with Pooja and Akash shares his feeling for Pooja with Aman. Aman think that this is the right time to repay what Akash’s parents did for him and introduce Akash as Sagar to Pooja.

Saajan becomes the emotional drama like all love stories in Indian cinema as Akash comes to know that for him Aman has sacrificed his love for Pooja.

Final Thoughts

Saajan is an emotionally tangled love story of 90’s and reminds us the classical love story Sangam by legendary Raj Kapoor. Sanjay Dutt was outstanding in Saajan so as Madhuri Dixit. For Director Lawrence D’Souza this is the first big hit, with Saajan he shows that he can make very emotional love stories. Duo Nadeem-Shrawan was exceptional with Saajan’s romantic music.

Rating

We give Saajan 7 out of 10 for strong story narration, good handling to twist in the story and for Nadeem-Shrawan’s music that topped the charts for a long time.

Salman Khan and Sunjay Dutt hosting Big Boss 5 - Indian version of Big Brother

Madhuri Dixit in cookery show with Sanjeev Kapoor on Food Food Channel

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Movie: The Rite
Year: 2011
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: Mikael Håfström
Stars: Colin O’Donoghue, Anthony Hopkins and Ciarán Hinds

Snapshot of Story:
An American seminary student arrives in Italy to attend a course in exorcism, something which he has many doubts and events ensue that leads him to question his very own faith.

Storyline:
Michael Kovak played by Colin O’Donoghue is a student of religious studies but has strong doubts about his faith in Christianity. His instructor at college insists that he goes to Italy on an exorcism course which he hoped will open his eyes more.

Once Michael arrives in Italy he is given an assignment to work with Father Lucas played by Anthony Hopkins who performs regular exorcism on the locals. When Michael witnesses his first exorcism that Father Lucas performs on the girl, he begins to doubt whether the condition is not just a simple medical one. He persists in believing that Father Lucas is cleverly manipulating the situation to make it appear that the person is possessed.

It is not until later after witnessing a few more exorcisms that Michael begins to believe this in himself, in particular the unexplained phenomenon of certain events happening during the exorcism procedure. He confides with another class mate on this matter and is drawn more and more into the mysterious set of events occurring all around him.
Father Lucas eventually becomes possessed by himself and now Michael is at the point where his faith and the belief in the devil become more paramount to his cause. Towards the end we see Michael and Father Lucas battle it out with the devil and both ultimately triumphs.

Final Thoughts:
The movie starts well with the story unfolding to reveal the truth in the possession but then loses its focus and leaves the audience confused. Although acting by both Anthony Hopkins and Colin O’Donoghue was on par, the confusing plot and the events towards the end were a bit of a let-down. Although dark and sinister in its portrayal of the horror genre, it had more potential than what was produced by the director.

Rating:
6/10

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Movie: Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na
Director: Abbas Tyrewala
Time: 2008
Stars: Imran Khan, Genelia D’souza and Manjari Fadnis

Snapshot of the story

“Jaane tu Ya Jane Na” is an outstanding fun flick from many of the first time debutants like Imran Khan (actor) and Abbas Tyrewala (director). A love story blended with a very close friendship due to which both of the lovers deny their love and think themselves as only good friends. The story is based on the same plot like that of ‘Quyamat Se Quyamat Tak” being a teenage love story. But it is the art director who is able to present it differently.

Storyline
“Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na” is a story of a gang of 6 friends where Jai Singh Rathore aka Rats (played by Imran Khan) and Aditi Mahant aka Meow (played by Genelia D’souza) are the close friends. They are almost made for each other, everyone including their parents, friends knows this fact but they deny and say that they are just simply good friends and nothing more, But it is also another fact that both of them feel uneasy being away from each other.

Once Jai is called by Aditi’s parents for a talk about their engagement but both Jai and Aditi act childishly and reject the proposal. As a result of this Aditi’s parents starts searching for another guy who can be her life partner. When they get the perfect one, they engage Aditi with him. Now the pace of movie is slow and it is stretched a bit, but this is the most interesting part of the movie as due to jealousy from Aditi’s fiancé Jai looks for a girlfriend for himself. In the meantime, both Aditi and Jai realized their love for each other and start seeking each other out to find out whether the love is from both ends or not.

Final Thoughts

Debutant director Abbas Tyrewala did an excellent job. “Jane Tu Ya Jaane Na” very simple story and does not have any thing that excites audience but it is the story narration that did the trick and it became a hit. Debutant Imran Khan - nephew of Amir Khan has done an outstanding job along with Genelia D’souza and gave the best performance. A.R. Rahman was up to the task in making the music for a romantic comedy. Naseerudin Shah and Ratna Pathak Shah, being both mature actors justified their presence on the screen.

Rating
“Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na” scores 8 points out of 10 for the outstanding job done by each and every member of the crew. Movie did well in the box office collecting about $20 million which is quite an achievement.

Ritesh Deshmukh and Genelia D’Souza getting married

Imran Khan won the best male debut at 54th filmfare award

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Movie: Rango
Year: 2011
Genre: Animation/Adventure
Director: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher and Timothy Olyphant

Snapshot of Story:
Rango is about a chameleon who has ambitions to be a great star and has his wish come true when he is thrown off the back of a pickup truck.

Storyline:
Rango is a chameleon and dreams of becoming a star and then suddenly finds himself in the wilderness where his adventure begins. An amusing part of the movie is when the singing mariachi owls would appear from time to time to narrate the story.

Rango finds himself in a remote western town called ‘Dirt’ far from civilization and becomes the towns sheriff only to discover that the town’s water supply is almost dry. He goes about seeking the answers which has put the townsfolk under terrible duress all this time and tries to find a solution.

In his search Rango meets the Mayor of the town and suspects right away that something more is going on behind the scenes. He meets one of the hoodlums working for the mayor called rattlesnake Jake and also battles with the bird that terrorizes the town. When Rango is able to defeat the bird, the whole townsfolk rejoices and treat him like a Savior.
Rango ultimately prevails and his shortcoming are no match for his quick witted thinking and is soon able to unravel the town’s mystery and free everyone from the dreadlock.

Final Thoughts:
Rango is a very interesting animation in that it has some obvious complexity in its dialogue which requires more of an adult understanding. Despite this, the movie appeals well to the younger audience as well as having the entertainment quality demanded by adults. The complex characters appear dis-jointed at first but come together in the movie to make it a very enjoyable family watch.

Rating:
7.5/10

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