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Don 2 - Farhan Akhtar Missed the Trick
Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
Movie: Don 2
Director: Farhan Akhtar
Year: 2011
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Boman Irani, Om Puri, Lara Datta, Florian Likas and Kunal Kapoor
Snapshot of the Story
Thrilling fight scene, smashing car chases, boats blown up in the air with smoke every where and a plot based around robbery inspired from the movie “Ocean 11” and “Mission Impossible” the movie Don 2 tries to re-create the same magic as it created in 2006 with remake of original Don in 1978 starting Amitabh Bachchan. Shahrukh Khan is in the role of flamboyant criminal named “Don”, planning a bank robbery and looking for a safe escape from there.
Movie review and ratings of most awaited movie of 2011 -Don 2
Storyline
Don 2 is an action packed film and pre-release interviews of Farhan Akhtar suggested that one should not watch this movie with expectations apart from action and thrill, but after watching the movie I felt let down and has nothing much that excites the audience apart from random car chasing scenes.
Story of Don 2 revolves around a bank robbery by Don (Shahrukh Khan) and for this he takes help of his friend or should call him enemy Vardhan (Boman Irani) who is in a Malaysian jail and escapes with help from Don. Don (Shahrukh Khan) creates a plan to get out of jail along with Vardhan (Boman Irani) and creates a master plan of bank robbery. Kunal Kapoor plays the role of a hacker that helps them to break into the security system of the bank and is picked for this assignment. Lara Datta plays the role of Don’s girlfriend and proves that the old saying “Beauty with Brain” is actually true.
Om Puri plays the role of Interpol chief and Priyanka Chopra as Roma is an Interpol investigating officer that carries old rivalry with Don (Shahrukh Khan). Movie “Don 2”
entertains you in the first half and has some good action scenes but as soon as the story enters into the second half the story looses its grip with the audience. “Don 2” in the second half is a bit slow and has nothing much to offer other than the predictable robbery and Don’s escape.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Don 2
Director Farhan Akhtar has written some good Donism for “Don 2” that show he lives Don unlike any one else and expresses this in his personal interview with Farhan Akhtar where he said that the original Don in 1978 was a life changing movie for him.
Final Thoughts
Director Farhan Akhtar has worked well on the script but could not create the movie with the same intensity as one had expected. Shahrukh Khan was good in the movie and was good in action scenes but he was bit boring at times and I am sure his fans would think the same. Priyanka Chopra was good with her share of action scenes and looked natural. Kunal Kapoor fits well for the role of young computer hacker. There is no room for hit music in this movie and looks like Farhan Akhtar missed the trick here. Unfortunately, the producers worked more on the hype than to bring about a movie that excelled the original.
Rating
We give “Don 2” 6 out of 10, “Don 2” was the most awaited movie of 2011 and expectations were high but the audience gets nothing much apart from few good action scenes. The whole second half of the movie was slow and tiring to watch.
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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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The Most Unromantic Love Story Revisited - Devdas
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Movie: Devdas
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Year: 2002
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Madhuri Dixit and Kiron Kher
Snapshot of the Story
Devdas (Shahrukh Khan) is a son of an affluent landlord and born with a silver spoon to his mouth. His upbringing is luxurious in every way. Paro (Aishwarya Rai Bachachan) is a childhood friend of Devdas and both love each other, but destiny has decided something else for them as Paro marries someone else as a result of family pressure. Shattered by this news Devdas becomes recluse and alcoholic.
Movie reviews and ratings of Devdas
Storyline
The story of the movie revolves around the three characters Devdas (played by SRK), Paro (played by Aishwarya Rai) and Chandramukhi (played by Madhrui Dixit). Devdas is a son of an affluent landlord and has grown up in a much wealthier environment and lives a luxury life. Paro is Devdas’s childhood friend and lives in his neighbourhood. Being childhood friends both of them love each other. Devdas’s parents had sent him to London for higher studies. Here in Indian Paro is waiting for Devdas to return.
When Devdas returns from London Paro’s mother (played by Kiran Kher) proposes Paro’s marriage with Devdas. But Devdas’s parents condescend and insult Paro’s mother. This creates the rift in both families and Paro’s parents look at another groom for Paro and makes Parro marry a wealthy man without knowing the fact that he is a much older than her. Heart broken Devdas becomes alcoholic.
One day he finds Chadramukhi, a stunning courtesan. She develops an affection for Devdas. This proved to be a myth and he keeps on wandering life like a refugee. Devdas’s life becomes sad case as he could not marry the person he wanted and the story depicts his pain and misery.
Final Thoughts
Devdas is best on Saratchandra Chatterjee’s novel Devdas. This is the 2nd Bollywood version of Devdas, the first was in 1955 with legendary Dilip Kumar as the leading actor. Director Sanjal Leela Bhasali did an out standing job as director right from casting to the final editing of the movie. Shahrukh Khan along with the beautiful and gorgeous ladies Aishwarya and Madhuri were good to watch and gave towering performances. Ismail Darbar provided a vibrant and versatile music after his first super hit movie “Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam”. Kiron Kher was very impressive in her supporting role.
Rating
Devdas bags 7 out of 10 as overall rating. Movie is slow at times and fails to connect with the audience. The highlights of the movie were the different choreographer’s being used for different song including Saroj Khan, Vaibhavi Merchant and Pandit Birju Maharaj.
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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 Timeless Love Story by Shahrukh Khan - Veer-Zaara
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Movie: Veer-Zaara
Director: Yash Chopra
Time: 2004
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Preity Zinta, Rani Mukherjee, Manoj Bajpai, Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini.
Snapshot of the story
The movie is about a Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh (SRK) and a Pakistani girl (Preity Zinta) who is daughter of a strong Politician Jahangir Hayat Khan (Boman Irani), about their love. Veer-Zaara is about the man who can sacrifice his whole life just for his love to be happy. The story also gives a message to strengthen a bond of love between the two neighborhoods countries India and Pakistan.
The Timeless Love Story by Shahrukh Khan - Veer-Zaara
Storyline
Veer-Zaara is Yash Raj banner movie staring Shahrukh Khan as Veer Pratap Singh and Preity Zinta as Zaara. Veer is squadron leader in IAF and Zaara is daughter of renounced politician played by Boman Irani.
Veer-Zaara is an emotional love story that goes back in time also shows how true loves goes to trauma as they are not same religion and from rival countries. Zaara come to India from Pakistan for final rituals of her surrogate mother and met with an accident. Veer is part of rescue team save her life and also help her in rituals, both becomes good friend. Veer takes Zaara to his uncle’s place where Zaara shows interest in starting a school for girls. Impressed by her thought both uncle Choudhary Sumer Pratap Singh (Amitabh Bachchan) and aunt (Hema Malini) motivates him to propose her marriage. Before Veer could get chance to express his feelings he comes to know about Razaa that came to receive her on railway station.
Razaa ( Manoj Bajpai) is one who is going to marry Zaara, a decision takes by Zaara’s father to take the political mileage in Pakistan. Veer come to know that Zaara has feelings for him, he decide to go Pakistan to express his feelings. After reaching Pakistan Veer come to know that Zaara is getting married and now nothing much he can do in it. While returning back to her way to India Veer gets arrested and was put behind the bars slashing charges of Indian spy by Razaa. The bus on which Veer suppose to traveling met with an accident and every one think that Veer dead.
This entire plot get reveled by a human right activist Samiya Siddiqi (playes by Rani Mukherjee) who take his case to give him justice. After a trial court gives him clean chit, after 22 long years he sees Zaara. This part of the movie has touchy scenes and the king or romance Yash Chopra used all his experience looks very real onscreen.
Final Thoughts
Veer-Zaara is an emotional love story made by Yash Chopra who has been making love stories like Kabhi-Kabhi and SilSila was the bock buster in 70’s and 80’s. Shahrukh Khan gave his best performance and experimented by plying the role of Veer. Preity Zinta looked gorgeous. Good music that has become the hallmark of YashRaj Banner and with Veer-Zaara legendary music director Madan Mohan. Madan Mohan died in 1975 but his music was used in this movie which was remarkable achievement.
Rating
Veer-Zaara score 6 out of 10 for over all good performances by all and bags 1 extra star for Madan Mohan whose music was truly timeless, that make 7 out of 10. Veer-Zaara made good box office collections.
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