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Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai - Beauty of Retro with Drama is Missing
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Movie: Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai
Director: Milan Luthria
Year: 2010
Stars: Ajay Devgan, Emraan Hashmi, Kangana Ranawat and Prachi Desai
Snapshot of the story
Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai is a story of an underworld don Sultan Mirza / Haji Mastaan (Ajay Devgan) and the rise of Imran/Dawood (Imran Hashmi). Sultna Mirza is famous don of Mumbai and lives life wanting to rule Mumbai in a clean way as this city has given him shelter. Imran wants to rule the city by any means (hook or by crook), this leads to clashes between the two. Movie has the retro look of the 80’s and has some excellent dialogs which are refreshing to watch and listen.
Movie reviews and Ratings of Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai
Storyline
Commissioner of Police (Randeep Hooda) puts himself in charge to create a don because due to him a Mumbai blast happened when once a gangster Sultan Mirza (played by Ajay Devgan) ruled Mumbai. Sultan was not only a gangster, but also godfather of the poor people, he used to donate half of his earnings to poor people when he was a child and was working in a dock yard. He used to handle his job with discipline and humanity. He believes in his ideology that “when the work can be done with friendship then, why make enemies”. He is fond of the film actress Rehana (played by Kangana Ranaut) and manages to meet her and impress her and they start dating each other and both fall in love.
There is a guy named Shoaib as depicted underworld don Dawood in real life (played by Emraan Hashmi). He is ambitious and an unruly boy from his childhood. Sultan Mirza is powerful and Shoaib also wants to be like him and joins his gang and in the passage of time Shoaib becomes the right hand of Sultan. Shoaib has a girlfriend named Mumtaz (played by Prachi Desai) whom he deeply loves.
Sultan decides to leave all the bad jobs of his past and wants to join politics and gets involved over in Delhi, but here in Mumbai Shaoib is taking care of his empire in his absence. Shoaib enjoys his powers and position and continuous with all of his illegal ways including contract killings, extortion and production of illicit liquor. When Sultan returns to Mumbai and comes to know about Shoaib’s act he asks him to stop all that he is doing which create a rift between them, Now the infuriated Shoaib in is no mood to shut his operation as he wants to be the king on Mumbai underworld and plans to kill Sultan Mirza.
Movie has the complete look of 80’ retro fashion and shot with immense perfection. Ajay Devgan has been shown in larger than life image. Movie has great dialog and every scene of Ajay Devgna was phenomenonal. Imran Hashmi looked very in good in the movie and helping him to shed his serial killer role as in his previous movies.
Final Thoughts
Movie is shot in the 80’s when Mumbai was called Bombay. It was the time when the underworld drug mafia was ruling the city, no opportunities for the young and crime too its place in the city. Movie has been shot very well and the screenplay of the movie is excellent. Movie connects with the audience and engages them throughout. Both ladies Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai gave strong performances. Director Milind Luthria, directed movies like Kachhe Dhage and Taxi No. 9 2 11 and was able to deliver once again on the silver screen.
Rating
Once Upon a Time in Mumbai scores 8.5 for its larger than life image of mainly Ajay Devgan with good music and recreating the entire 80’s era and gains an extra half a point extra for its very well written dialogs. This pushes the overall rating to 9 out of 10.
Tags: Ajay Devgan, Imran Hashmi, Kangana Ranaut, Milind Luthria, Movie reviews and ratings of Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai, Once Upon A Time in Mumbaai - Beauty of Retro with Drama is Missing, Prachi Desai
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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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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