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A Classic Love Story - Silsila
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Movie: Silsila
Director: Yash Chopra
Year: 1981
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Rekha and Jaya Bachchan
Snapshot of the Story
Silsila is a classical romantic story that made the history with love stories and extramarital relationship which created plenty of controversies. Shekhar (Rishi Kapoor) is a squadron leader in Indian Air Force and in love with Shobha (Jaya Bhaduri). Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) is a romantic poet and loves Chandni (Rekha). Silsila is story of love, scarifies and extra marital affairs and released under Yash Chopra studio who created history for generations to come.
Movie reviews and ratings of Silsila
Storyline
Amit (played by Amitabh Bachhan) and Shekhar (played by Rishi Kapoor) both are orphaned at a very young ages, they grew up independent as Shekhar being a squadron leader in IAF and Amit being a struggling writer. Shekhar fallas in love with Shobha and wants to marry her, but story takes an unpredictable twist as Shekhar dies in a plane crash leaving behind a pregnant and helpless Shobha. Now Amit takes the responsibility of his friend and gets married to Shobha and tells Chandni to forget him. Heartbroken Chandni believes that this is in their fate and marries her childhood friend Dr. Anand (Sanjeev Kumar). Even if Amit and Chandni have accepted what is written in their destiny, but they still love each other.
Their love turns to be an extra marital affair and Amit happens to meet Chandni and their romance is rekindled once again. This on screen romantic couple was part of the controversies as there were lots of rumors about their love affair of Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha that gave this movie an extra mileage. This affair was never proven true which gives the impression that the controversies were created to get publicity for this movie.
Story take lots of roller coaster ride and have lots of convolutions before reaching to the climax. Story becomes unpredictable as both Chandni and Amit realize that what they are doing and will lead them nowhere and they should stick to their partners which happens to be the happy ending of the movie.
Final Thoughts
Excellent performance made it a classical romantic movie to watch, Amitabh Bachchan is exceptional and director Yash Chopra proved again why he is the king of Romance in Bollywood. The pace of the movie was perfect and engages the audience during the movie. Jaya Bachchan touched the audience with her sensitive performance that touches everyone’s heart and Rekha looked very gorgeous. She has very short role and one should give full credit to her mature performance. Sanjeev Kumar was in a simple character and justified his role with some grace. Yash Chopra was excellent with his screenplay and cinematography.
Rating
Silsila bags 8.5 out of 10. This classical romantic story deserve this and credit to everyone who is part the bigger crew and worked like a team effort rather than an individual’s effort.
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King of Romance in Mohhobatein
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
Movie: Mohabbatein
Director: Aditya Chopra
Year: 2000
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Amitabh Bacchan, Uday Chopra, Jimmy Shergill, Jugal Hansraj, Kim Sharma, Shamita Shetty, Preeti Jhangiani and Amarish Puri
Snapshot of the story
Mohabbatein is an emotional but an unsuccessful love story. The college going guy Raj Aryan (Shahrukh Khan) falls in love with the principle’s daughter- Megha (Played by Aishwarya Rai Bhachchan). He gets expelled from the college when Narayan Shankar – principle (played by Amitabh Bachchan) come to know about their affair. It has been said that once expelled from Gurukul no other college will give him admission. Heart broken by this decision Megha commits suicide.
Movie reviews and ratings of Mohhobatein
Storyline
Yash Raj camp is from the most prestigious camp in Indian cinema and made some of the best romantic movies in the past and came up with Mohabbatein. Mohabbatein is the story of Raj Aryan who gets expelled from the college on the charge of loving the principle’s daughter. The principle of the college Narayan Shankar is very strict and wants every one to follow his dictatorship rule and regulation of the college. Loving someone in Gurukul is equal to crime in his eyes.
With the start of the new session there are three young guys Vikram (Uday Chopra), Sameer (Jugal Hansraj) and Karan Choudhry (Jimmy Shergill) who get admission to the college. There is a girl’s hostel in the vicinity and Vikram goes there where he meets Ishika (Shamita Shetty) and falls in love with her. Sameer has a child hood friend Sanjana (Kim Sharma) whom he loves so much but could not manage to tell her his feelings for her. Karan finds a young window in town. Her husband goes missing in the war with Pakistan and everyone believes that he is dead, but she can not believe it and still thinks that one day he will come back.
Now all of them are in love but they know the rules of Gurukul and think that it is better not to express their feelingss as this could lead to their termination in the college. The situation is well poised and here comes the Raj Aryan who has been appointed as music teacher, but Narayan Shankar does not think that he will get enough students. Surprisingly he gets quite a good number of students and starts his music classes. Here all three tell Raj Aryan about their love story and he promises them that he will help them to be successful and history would not repeat itself.
The clash between Narayan Shakar and Raj Aryan is the most interesting part of the movie and the on screen clash is great to watch as the two legends in Indian cinema battle it out with powerful dialogs.
Final Thoughts
Movie runs very smoothly in the first half and there are some good scenes that can make you laugh. Director Aditya Chopra looked to be in complete control and able to extract the best out of every actor. Shahrukh Khan in the role of music teacher looked good. Amitabh Bachchan was phenomenal in the Narayan Shankar’s role and was by far the best in the movie. Duo Jatil-Lalit looks like becoming a household name in music team as every movie in 90 minutes was jewel to behold.
Rating
Movie scores 7 out of 10 purely for the story and performance for the star cast. It could have been better with good screen play and therefore looses grip. Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan bagged Filmfare awards for best supporting actor and best actor.
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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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Karan Johar’s Melodramatic Drama: Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham (K3G)
Monday, November 14th, 2011
Movie: Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham (K3G)
Director: Karan Johar
Time: 2001
Genre: Drama, Romance, Musical
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Kajol, Jaya Bachchan, Rani Mukherjee and Kareena Kapoor.
Karan Johar's Melodramatic Drama: Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham (K3G)
Snapshot of the story
Like the other movies of Karan Johar this is also big budget, huge start cast, full of drama, family emotions and romance. K3G is story of young man Rahul (Shah Rukh Khan) comes from a rich family and some of well know industrialist. Shah Rukh Khan falls in love with Anjali (Kajol), obviously from a Indian middle class family and want to marry her but Mr. Raichand (Amitabh Bachchan) want Shah Rukh Khan to get married to Naina (Rani Mukherjee). She is family friend and daughter of well know and very close friend.
Storyline
Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham is family drama; Rahul is adopted child to Mr. and Mrs. Raichand (Amithabh and Jaya Bachchan). Shah Rukh Khan likes Kajol and wants to marry her but Amitabh Bachchan is not happy with this relationship. After the death of Kajol’s father SRK gets married to her. Amitabh Bachchan takes the harsh decision and asks SRK to move out of the house and never come back.
Hrithik Roshan (Played as Roshan) was in the in boarding school when this happened and did not aware about the story. As Hrithik Roshan comes back from hostel he decides that he will go and take his brother back to where he belongs. Hrithik makes all sort of moves and ultimately manages to bring SRK to back home.
On Screen Chemistry
Amitabh Bachchan was phenomenon is his role as Mr. Raichand, SRK and Kajol look stunning his as even. Hrithik and Kareena were looked well in their first onscreen presence together. Romantic scenes were the highlights of SRK - Kajol and Hrithik and Kareena Kapoor sizzle on the screen. Music is the highlight and has romantic tunes of Jatin – Lalit which still remembered by millions of audience. Movie comes with the tag line “it’s all about loving you parents”
Rating
Movie scores 8 out of 10 for good music, strong performance all the actors and good music, however movie has lots of emotional scenes and places where completely do not connect with audience.
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Farhan Akhtar Aims Big with: Lakshya
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Movie: Lakhya (Motto)
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Time: 2004
Stars: Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan and Preity Zinta
Snapshot of the story
First half of the movie can be related to boy next door as Karan (Played by Hrithik Roshan) recently graduated from college and totally confused what to do in life. His mind keeps changing every day. However no dream is too big if he decides to achieve something and it is just the matter to when we realizes that dream.
Farhan Akhtar Aims Big with: Lakshya
Storyline
Farhan Akhtar keeps reinvesting the ideal to fascinate the audience and especially young audience. After “Dil Chahta Hai” he comes with “Lakhya” with his signature style direction of story telling and some chart topper songs and choreographed by “Prabhu Deva”.
In the story Hrithik comes from rich family and after college he is confused what to in life as his father wants him to join family business like his elder brother. One fine day with his friend he fills the employment form of armed forces and gets the interview call. However his friend denies as he has taken in the MBA College. Hrithik has a girl friend Romi (Played by Preity Zinta) and both are dating each other from long time. Preity Zinta motivates him to go for it as this could be he is looking for but Hrithik’s entire family is against him specially his dad.
Against everyone, he goes to military academy but the tough training of army grills him a lot and decides to run out if the academy. This decision was not appreciated by his father and Preity Zinta and this becomes the point when there is crack in relationship with Preity Zinta. Hrithik went back to compete his training and get commissioned there and in the mean time extending his passion to his career Preity Zinta has become the Television Reporter.
Twist in the Tale
Priety Zinta goes to cover the war against Indian and Pakistan and come to know about Hrithik. This past of the movie has different emotions of romance, drama, action and patriotism. Second half of the movie has more of war scenes and touches lots of high moments. This is where their old love takes a new spring.
Conclusion
Story runs very slow and at time make you feel bore. Story runs on the straight note and has very few twists. Amitabha bachchan looks very nice if the small role as major of the army. Hrithik was very good and Priety look very beautiful as ever.
Rating
Story fails to make much impact on the audience and I will give it 7 out of 10 for some of the best dialog and songs by Javed Akhtar and to all the technical team which has to work in freezing condition of Kashmir and Ladakh.
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