Well Priyadarshan is back again, this time with a remake of Siddique-Lal's hit malayalam movie,In Harihar Nagar which already had a bollywood version long back called Parda Hai Parda ( anyone heard of it???). Well Partner,Hey Baby,Dhamaal & now Dhol prove that comedy is the in thing now.
This is a story of 4 guys ( Rajpal Yadav,Sharman Joshi,Kunal Khemu & Tushar Kapoor) who have nothing else to do to aprt from dreaming of making it big.When a beauty ( Tanushree Dutta) arrives in the neighbourhood all of them try desperately to attract her & get married to her.They end up claiming to be friends of her dead brother.
What follows is a series of gags as usual & some loony dialogues.The movie is good in parts & certainly Rajpal Yadav walks away with the applause.The other 3 are competent.Tanushree & Payal Rohatgi have nothing much to do.All in all a decent fare.
Rating-2.5/5
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Saturday, September 22, 2007
Satham Podathey-A Quick Review
Hey!Its been a while since I saw a tamil movie ( not after Sivaji & Kireedam) & last week I happened to watch Vasanth's Satham Podathey in Coimbatore's Archana theatre.To start off, its a decent attempt, the cast is good & there is promise in the script.
Padmapriya gets married to Nithin Sathya ( of Chennai 28 fame) who does not reveal that he is a habitual drunkard & impotent.On discovery he tries to lie to Padmapriya & finally she gets divorced.She comes across Prithviraj who takes a liking to her & they get married.
Enters Nithin again in her life & what happens next is the way the story moves. On the negative side the pace gets quite slow at times & 2 songs in the 2nd half are completely not needed.On the positive side performances from all the 3 are commendable.Overall a decent attempt.
Rating-2.5/3
Padmapriya gets married to Nithin Sathya ( of Chennai 28 fame) who does not reveal that he is a habitual drunkard & impotent.On discovery he tries to lie to Padmapriya & finally she gets divorced.She comes across Prithviraj who takes a liking to her & they get married.
Enters Nithin again in her life & what happens next is the way the story moves. On the negative side the pace gets quite slow at times & 2 songs in the 2nd half are completely not needed.On the positive side performances from all the 3 are commendable.Overall a decent attempt.
Rating-2.5/3
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Dhamaal-A Quick Review
Indra Kumar seems to have got belief in comedy & so you see him again with Dhamaal after a successful Masti & a disastrous Pyare Mohan behind him.Want to know the plot of Dhamaal?well actually there's none.Its all about a series of gags played by on & by 4 guys-Ritesih Deshmukh,Arshad Warsi,Javed Jaffrey & Ashish Chowdhary.They play good for nothing guys whose world changes when a dying Prem Chopra tells them of a 10 crore fortune hidden in Goa.
Unfortunatley for them Sanjay Dutt a cop finds them and he wants to get the money too- after all he was chasing Prem Chopra for the last decade.Then begins a series of comic events as all of them try to find the fortune.Javed Jaffrey as the idiot is excellent, Riteish is good & Ashish impresses but Arshad disappoints a bit. Sanjay Dutt is not bad & Asrani is superb. Sanjay Mishra too is ok.Indra Kumar seems to have made a good return.
Rating-3/5
Unfortunatley for them Sanjay Dutt a cop finds them and he wants to get the money too- after all he was chasing Prem Chopra for the last decade.Then begins a series of comic events as all of them try to find the fortune.Javed Jaffrey as the idiot is excellent, Riteish is good & Ashish impresses but Arshad disappoints a bit. Sanjay Dutt is not bad & Asrani is superb. Sanjay Mishra too is ok.Indra Kumar seems to have made a good return.
Rating-3/5
Chak De India-My Thoughts
Well I know its too late to write a review for a movie that millions of Indians have already watched ( lots of them including me more than once!!!), but nevertheless felt like writing what I felt while watching it for the 2nd time last night.
Even in its 5th week, the movie is getting good crowds, the junta seems to like all the poignant moments. I think the movie combines all elements of a good film in the right doses. SRK continues where he left in Swades & is very very natural.Most of the girls in the movie have already got popular especially Sagarika Ghatge ( Preeti Sabharwal).
Hope Yash Raj Films continue to give us films like these.
My rating is a sure 4/5 .
Even in its 5th week, the movie is getting good crowds, the junta seems to like all the poignant moments. I think the movie combines all elements of a good film in the right doses. SRK continues where he left in Swades & is very very natural.Most of the girls in the movie have already got popular especially Sagarika Ghatge ( Preeti Sabharwal).
Hope Yash Raj Films continue to give us films like these.
My rating is a sure 4/5 .
Friday, September 7, 2007
Darling-A Quick Review
Well after last week's epic disaster RGV Ki Aag, RGV is back again with Darling.So you wonder how RGV does this time around. Well at the outset let me tell you that RGV seems to have regained some lost ground with Darling-which is a decent product.It has its own fine moments & positives & though there are some thorns in the bouquet of flowers, the bouquet still looks good.
So we have Fardeen playing a busy corporate with Isha Gopikkar as his wife & Esha Deol his secy cum girlfriend.When Esha Deol tells Fardeen that she's pregnant & Fardeen says that he cant marry her, they have an argument & in the melee Esha dies accidentally.Yes Esha is now back as a ghost.But there RGV manages to stay clear of the ordinary & manages to keep the viewers attentive.
Its a decent mix of horror laced with some comic moments.Esha Deol steals the show & Isha too does well especially towards the end. Though this was a better performance from Fardeen, there are still moments when he gets to you. Music by Pritam & Himesh ( one song) is good- and doesnt really distract.All in all a decent attempt from RGV.Hope he forgets the debacle called Aag & gives us better movies starting from here.
Rating-2.5/5
So we have Fardeen playing a busy corporate with Isha Gopikkar as his wife & Esha Deol his secy cum girlfriend.When Esha Deol tells Fardeen that she's pregnant & Fardeen says that he cant marry her, they have an argument & in the melee Esha dies accidentally.Yes Esha is now back as a ghost.But there RGV manages to stay clear of the ordinary & manages to keep the viewers attentive.
Its a decent mix of horror laced with some comic moments.Esha Deol steals the show & Isha too does well especially towards the end. Though this was a better performance from Fardeen, there are still moments when he gets to you. Music by Pritam & Himesh ( one song) is good- and doesnt really distract.All in all a decent attempt from RGV.Hope he forgets the debacle called Aag & gives us better movies starting from here.
Rating-2.5/5
Saturday, September 1, 2007
RGV Ki Aag-A Quick Review
Well as promised here I am with my review of RGV Ki Aag.First things first, does RGV manage to deliver- the answer is a loud NO.Well more on the verdict later.First off all let me tell you that there's no plot to talk about- everyone knows the plot of Sholay & Ramu has just tried to replicate that with Mumbai's underworld as the backdrop replacing Ramgarh with " Kalinganj"-Ramu would you please tell me where in Mumbai do you have a mini town that too on the sea shore like this?
Well as for the characters- Big B plays Babban ( Gabbar), Mohanlal plays Inspector Narasimha (Thakur), Ajay Devgan plays Heero ( Veeru), Prashant Raj plays plays Raj, Nisha Kothari plays Ghungroo ( Basanti),Sushmita plays Durga Devi.If I were to list the positives I would say Big B does a decent Babban in bits & pieces ( but if want to watch him as bad man watch Aks- its way much better), Mohanlal is restrained & to top it all the Mehbooba song is not bad with Urmila sizzling & Abhishek doing a jig with his dad,Big B.
But the positives are too few in muber. The negatives are far too many.Its pace is very slow at times, there are hardly any arresting moments, dialogues are hardly worth mentioning ( Sajid-Farhad did you do your homework on Salim-Javed correctly?), the music is a big bore, Ajay Devgan & Prashant are both wooden, Nisha might make some front benchers happy with her skin on display but offers nothing compared to the length of the role.
All in all its one big misadventure.Ramu if Sarkar was your best movie then Aag is your worst.Please face it & come back to us with a much better work in Sarkar Raj- we are waiting eagerly for it.
Rating- 1/5
Well as for the characters- Big B plays Babban ( Gabbar), Mohanlal plays Inspector Narasimha (Thakur), Ajay Devgan plays Heero ( Veeru), Prashant Raj plays plays Raj, Nisha Kothari plays Ghungroo ( Basanti),Sushmita plays Durga Devi.If I were to list the positives I would say Big B does a decent Babban in bits & pieces ( but if want to watch him as bad man watch Aks- its way much better), Mohanlal is restrained & to top it all the Mehbooba song is not bad with Urmila sizzling & Abhishek doing a jig with his dad,Big B.
But the positives are too few in muber. The negatives are far too many.Its pace is very slow at times, there are hardly any arresting moments, dialogues are hardly worth mentioning ( Sajid-Farhad did you do your homework on Salim-Javed correctly?), the music is a big bore, Ajay Devgan & Prashant are both wooden, Nisha might make some front benchers happy with her skin on display but offers nothing compared to the length of the role.
All in all its one big misadventure.Ramu if Sarkar was your best movie then Aag is your worst.Please face it & come back to us with a much better work in Sarkar Raj- we are waiting eagerly for it.
Rating- 1/5
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