Raavan Movie Review

If a travelogue program covering wonderful places, unexplored beauty of India is mixed with super celebrity cast, a fifteen minute drama, couple of songs sung by pathetically scratched, bruised throat of Ila Arun (I am not sure if I am missing something), then you would arrive at the movie Raavan.

Well, since Avatar, I think all the biggies like Mr. Mani Ratnam, Mr. Speilberg have got more fascinated either by VFX based or God provided beauty in locations or creations rather than a story line.

How would life be if you were a millionaire but do not have a job, no one talks to you, to be very precise there is no challenge in life? Similar would be a movie without a story line. What is the use of having versatile actors like Vikram but not using their acting skills?

Few people told Aishwarya Rai Bachan did very well. Come on folks what did she do??? She looks gorgeous, no doubt. But was she given any scope to act? I do not think so. One more thing, a woman's cleavage is a most beautiful thing in the world, provided the structure is so. Showing it every now and then irritates. Have some respect. Abhishek got a role where he could act and he did okay for his talent.

If you are thinking why am I so negative in writing, I have to give you this rule of Physics. It says ...

Work Done = Force * Distance

So if you have exerted a lot of force but did not move a millimeter that means you did not do any work.

Yes it would have taken a lot of toll for everyone in the cinema house to shoot at those locations. The efforts would have been horrible, especially for delicate personalities like Aishwarya to handle, however no story line and no required efforts make the movie pretty dull.

Mani Ratnam sir, you have utterly disappointed us.

My Rating: 2/5
My Verbal Rating: Watch the movie for locations, nothing else. Those locations do not look good on our small television sets. But wait for a while till the ticket prices reduce. No hurry to watch a documentary right!

Vedam Movie Review

I have to say, after a very long time the Telugu Film Industry, sweetly called Tollywood, has produced a wonderful movie. Vedam is a movie with content, message to carry home, action, a little romance and some very good comedy.

Padmashri Bhramanandam appears very early in the movie and has a short stay. However the remaining part of the comedy is attributed via the wonderful dialogues of Allu Arjun, our hero and few others. The comedy dialogues are actually punch lines which one cannot forget so easily.

The movie revolves around different individuals & their personal lives. Finally the story line connects everyone and shows how can everyone try and live together progressing towards prosperity. It also show how dogmas/prejudice can be proven wrong. Every human being should be considered by what they are rather than their caste/creed/sex/citizenship. That is the baseline.

According to me, it should be a career milestone for Allu Arjun and Manoj Manchu. Manoj Bajpai did wonderful however his performance in Rajneeti overwhelms most of his other performances. Similarly Anuskha's Arundathi is a top rank in her career ladder till date.

Anushka, put in a sleazy role did very well. However her role is mostly for the masala. Yes she was looking great just as usual. Moreover you get to see her hot bod in this movie; longtime after Billa. If that is what is the interest of the audience :-)

Overall the movie is very good and is a must watch for all those who understand Telugu language. After watching this movie one would understand how vital is money and how will your financial requirements change when you do not have the right attitude.

My rating: 4/5
My verbal rating: Must watch. Don't just watch, carry the message home.

Rajneeti Movie Review

For all those people who have watched the movie and are a little confused in comprehending it and for those who are yet to watch, Rajneeti, very simply to be put is a modern version of the Epic MahaBharatha. Also to remove the confusion/rumors that the movie is a resemblance to Smt.Sonia Gandhi or a Gandhi family story; no it is not at all. Not even a near match to it.

Now I am only wondering why the papers/critiques have not given either a 5 or a 4.5 for it. The movie is a perfect replica of what is going on in many countries like ours when it comes to political power. How far can insane people go just to retain/achieve power is perfectly shown.

I should say the director or whoever has chosen the right cast for each and every character. Ranbir, Nana Patekar were excellent. I felt Arjun Rampal has an unique personality and is something very similar to Anil Kumble's bowling. There is no bowler like him and similarly there is something very unique about Arjun Rampal. Each and everyone in the cast have put an impeccable performance.

This movie is highly recommended. Its a little lengthy; around 3 hours excluding the break. The best part of the movie is, there are no songs. I really liked it.

My rating: 4.5/5

My Verbal rating: Should watch at least once in the theater. It's lovely to watch the way the story turns.

Kites Movie Review

The starting of the movie reveals the ending of the movie. However one would not comprehend the same till the end. The movie is all about true love. Two very ordinary people who struggle to make a living just get a chance to get rich overnight. However they forgo the same for true love.

The glam quotient added by Hrithik was really impressive. There was one particular dance sequence shot with Hrithik and Kangana. I wonder if the adeptness for such suave moves comes naturally to him or is it practice. He did very well. 

Well coming to Kangana Ranaut, I think post the movie Fashion all roles she got were only because of her body and nothing else. Very early in the movie, she, while sitting on the bed crosses her legs and exposes more than her thighs. Of course it was quick. This was something like the stunt done by Sharan Stone in Basic Instinct in front of the cop; the only difference here, in Kites, is there is a garment and the action was quick.

Movie goes pretty slow and most of the times I was confused trying to classify the movie. I mean, is it a Hindi movie or an English one or is it a Spanish? Most of the time we were busy reading the sub-titles. The most important ingredients missing out of the movie were comedy and a continuously ticking story line. If you have ever watched the Ramanand Sagar Ramayan on TV in the nineties, there were few episodes where the only content was Lord Shriram looking at Devi Sita and nothing else but some background score. Similarly goes the movie here for most of the time. 

However I would say people who are in true love will certainly like the movie. The movie is not for people who like something like Bourne Ultimatum where things keep moving. Its a very slow paced love movie. So it is suggested to watch this movie only when you are not bored and that too with the one you love. Not a movie to go with friends.

My rating: 3/5

My Verbal rating: Good movie on true love. However not for people who are interested even in a little action, cos there is no action at all.

Darling Telugu Movie Review

Darling, name given for the heck of filling the title is a good comedy movie. Prabhas and his group of friends including the villain have put decent efforts to make us laugh almost every moment.

The story runs around Prabhas and his childhood love and another girl who falls in the triangle. The movie was shot in the wonderful locations of Switzerland showcasing decent locations.

Now the best part I like in the movie is this. Once due to certain difficulties the hero and his group get, kind of jailed in a slum in Switzerland. Then a guy in the group says I never thought there were slums in Switzerland; why the heck was "Slumdog Millionaire" shot in India when there are slums even here? I clapped heart-fully to this dialogue. Something to ponder???

Well the movie is worth the money invested as it really gives you the comedy ride and makes you laugh well. However there were two minor things which I wanted to highlight in spite of them being minor.

1. Prabhas Wardrobe: I am not sure which idiot took care of his new style of clothing in this movie, however the clothing was awful and pathetic.

2. I have an example. If you goto any small restaurant for lunch/dinner in South India you would observe that many items which are supposed to be dry are generally wet and in fact contain a lot of water. If you bring the same chef home and tell him there is no need adulterate for profits he still mixes water because that is in his blood now.

Similarly Andhra movie directors, however good they make a film they can't spell complete without one or two silly/sleazy scenes which look awful for any ordinary human being with brain.

My rating: 3/5
My verbal rating: Watch the movie for a good laugh. Its a family movie. Actress Kajal Agarwal somehow kept all her clothes on.

Iron Man 2 Movie Review

First question: Have you watched Iron Man? If yes ...

Second question: What would you script for your sequel movie if you have used all your ideas in your first?

Simple answer is beat around the bush and try and make the two hours count somehow. Correct? I am sure I am and something very similar happened with Iron Man 2. The first movie had so much of Sci-fi and novel ideas that I thought the director ran out of any more ideas for the sequel. Thus created one with sentiment, a little politics and some glam less sci-fi.

However there seems to be one good message out of the movie. If you ever happen to realize that someone ranks high in intellect to you, you better try and dwell into their lives. They certainly leave a message, if not for the whole world, at least for a few.

The movie would be good to watch for once, however no regrets if you missed it. Watch part I again and you should be happier than watching this.

My rating: 2.5/5
My verbal rating: Okay types. Not bad

Yem Maya Chesave - Movie Review

After months of waiting and because of lot of my friends and known people telling me that it was a good movie, I have attempted to watch this movie.

Now I have some friends who do not expect anything from life and they just take what it comes. Well that is their way of life. We cannot have everyone like me, who expects something when invested in something or may be a kind of maverick.

So my review is not for those who take life as it comes.

To say in short this movie neither has anything good to talk about nor anything bad to criticize. This is a typical Ramoji Rao kind of venture sans the twists. There was neither fun nor there was action nor romance nor a punch story. A typical Andhra film story which as always runs around stupid love and ends no where but either a fight or bride running away at last moment.

Yeah may be for a while certain picturesque places of "God's own country" have been shown as most of the movie runs around a Keralite girl.

To stop beating around the bush and to put it short, this movie is for those people who are ... to tell you with an example.

Recently when I was driving to office, I spotted a girl in a call center cab next to my car. She was sitting at one corner squeezed up and holding the door handle and couple of other men in similar positions in the back seat. These people can either be classified as unfortunate or those who do not struggle enough in life to avoid that kind of a squeezed life.

For such people this movie should be good because they just go to a movie for the heck of it.

For people who want either drama, action whatever there could be in a movie, you are up for a total loss.

My Rating: 2/5
My Verbal Rating: I have given 2 above for certain locations and some intimate scenes that were shot with grace. Nothing else. Watch it on TV; it will be soon on our MAA channel.

Housefull - Movie Review

What else could happen when Sajid Khan and Akshay kumar pair up? A wonderful blast of laughter. However the one little change this time is the higher volume of Nitrous Oxide is packed for the part after the break. The first part of the movie goes a little normal.

Now as usual, our Bollywood babes have been used completely and fully in the prostitutionaly ... oops sorry glamorous ways. Every one was bought one bikini which could show them as sleazy as possible and the heroines very comfortably wore those clothing.

I remember once Smt. Asha Bhonsle explaining how a particular song can be sung in numerous ways. She just took one single chorus and sang it in different moods; viz, sad, happy, sexy, romantic ... as far as I remember.

Similarly a woman's body is supposed to be a sensual/subtle thing. People should have an aesthetic mind to show case the sensuality and bring in the right kind of pleasure. Just stripping a woman does not precisely ring the bell, unless you are seeing her for the first time like that.

Okay leaving my philosophy aside, the movie is a overflow of comedy. Boman Irani, Lara Dutta and very well our king Akshay have made it a blast of laughter.

It is a must watch as it acts as a good break from our normal routines.

My Rating: 3/5
My Verbal Rating: A must watch in theater. so that you can have fun without disturbance of either a cellphone or a door bell ring.

Kedi - Movie Review

Number 13: It is ominous even if it does not fall on a Friday. Yes, it was proved once again when I saw Kedi, the Telugu movie in which Akkineni Nagarjuna and Mamata Mohandas were the main cast.

Unless you are pretty dumb, after reading the above line, you do not expect me to tell you how the movie was. Well to substantiate my conclusion ... 

In the recent times I watched movies like 3 Idiots & My Name is Khan. Actors Aamir and Shahrukh have waited for long time to find such wonderful scripts; also SRK took time to learn how a person with asperger's disability would be, so that he can perform in a perfect manner. Look at Taare Zameen Per how well the movie was taken. The most important thing of all these movies was there is a message for the audience, which was well depicted.

Nagarjuna, however after these many years of acting and at such an age does not have even a percent maturity to find some story which at least has a story line if not a message. In any number of ways you abuse Nagarjuna for his immaturity, I am sure it would fall short in insulting him.

Its time Andhra Pradesh citizens show a minimum class of dignity and maturity when it comes to what they watch. And those in Tollywood show enough maturity to produce decent movies.

There is no film in Tollywood which can even run for a week without Shri. Padmashri Bhramanandam in it. This movie too is no exception. 

My rating: 1/5

My verbal rating: If you find Nagarjuna, say this, "Get well soon".

My name is KHAN and I am not a terrorist - Movie Review

Hum Honge kaamiyaab hum honge kaamiyaab hum honge kaamiyaaaaab ...... Ek Din!

हम होंगे कामियाब हम होंगे कामियाब हम होंगे कामियाब ... एक दिन!!!!!!

Now have you ever heard this song??? If so ... then sing the below lines in the same tune.

We shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome ... One day!

Just keep singing and watch My Name is Khan, not one/some day, but today. In the movie Hurricane, where Denzel Washington casts as Rubin Carter, he says to a small boy, "Hatred for some society/creed/culture has resulted in me serving 25 years in prison; so do not develop that feeling towards anything". The movie completely runs on the same lines.

Till his last film, all of Karan Johar's films were so far from reality. They were full of love, heart breaks, songs and dances. But My Name is Khan is different from all those.

SRK plays Rizwan Khan ('Khan' from the epiglottis :D ), who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a type of autism.  SRK's performance was excellent. The story revolves around him, his wife Mandira (Kajol) and his son Sameer, and how their lives changed after 9/11 attacks. Rizwan Khan travels from San Francisco to Washington D.C to meet the American President, and tell him that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The message of the movie is old, yet unrealized. No religion, including Islam, preaches violence against the innocent. If one sect/caste/religion/country is called terrorist then mind you there is a terrorist in everyone. Those people who have made fun of democracy and stopped the filming of this movie in some parts of the country are also terrorists. Those people who went into a pub and misbehaved with young girls there in the beautiful town of Karnataka on the name of Lord Shri Ram are also terrorists. The movie sends this wonderful message, "No one is a terrorist by his caste/sect/religion/country".

My rating: 5/5

My verbal rating: A must watch ASAP for everyone.

On a lighter note: Today morning when I saw Times of India giving 5/5 for this movie, I thought these guys are too much. But the movie proved me wrong. Its certainly 5/5

Movie Review: Striker - A documentary for ........

To complete the title, this documentary is either for those people who are gullible like me (I mean those who think Siddharth's movies are generally good) or for those who do not have any other work to do excepting watching movies.

The movie runs around a particular slum in Mumbai. Story is about gambling mafia that can be found in the streets/slums of Mumbai. How people fall prey for easy money (gambling) and put their lives at risk has been portrayed well. 

Unfortunately I have nothing else to write about this movie, because it does not have anything. I could not believe myself that it just took only an hour to complete the first half of the movie. I felt as if it was hours gone by, but the interval never showed up. Almost similar experience with the part after the break.

My rating: 2/5

My verbal rating: Very soon it is going to be aired on TV, wait for that.

Ishqiya - Movie Review

Ishqiya, all that I wanted to know first was the meaning. Then I found this wonderful blog entry which gave a funny derivation for the word. May be its true. Now my review.

Well as the readers of my blog are well aware I just don't write the story of the movie and say this is my review. For the story you can always bank on wikipedia.

Primarily the movie does not have any great story line. Infact the plot starts only just before the interval. The movie is all about two rogues (Naseeruddin Shah & Arshad Warsi) who ditched their boss and are on the run. These people land up at a friend's place in Gorakhpur only to know that he is no more. The friend's widow (Vidya Balan) gives them space to live for a while. Cunningly, she does that to use them to execute a plot which she has in mind. She tries to seduce both the guys without out one anothers' cognizance.

Leaving the plot aside, the director prodigally filled the whole movie with taboo words. Have we, the viewers got so perverted that we accept anything and everything coming into our way of communications? Are we ready to watch such a movie along with our kids? Are we ready to answer if those kids ask for the meanings of these words??? Is it only by using abusive words that we can laugh? Not by decent comedy?

The Crore Rupee question is "Is the censor board sleeping"? Does an A grade film mean that abusive language is used?

It is so shameful of all those media critics who have unnecessarily overrated the movie. Critics, I think, these days are bought. Obviously a producer who spent huge sums on a film cannot afford to lose the money to critics; right? Shame on those who hide the truth.

For readers who trust in me: This movie is an absolute waste of time and is no worth watching.

One good note is ... the official website of this movie is pretty good :-)

My Rating: 1/5
My Verbal rating: Need not watch

Rann - Movie Review

After Ram Gopal Varma's recent failures, I was a little hesitant about watching Rann in the theaters, however the movie proved me wrong.

Rann is an unconventional movie. It highlights "Media Business" and how the fourth estate is cashing on people's insane craze for Sensational news. The movie has a strong theme, good casting, perfect background score and a nice story line. 

Vijay Harshvardhan Malik (Big B) owns a news channel called India 24x7, which runs on high journalistic ethics. In the age where news is edited, and presented with attention-grabbing headlines, Vijay Malik believes in showing people the true news and not in creating news. His son, Jai Malik, on the other hand, wants to use the channel to earn more money. He joins hands with opposition leader Mohan Pandey(Paresh Rawal) and Naveen Shankalia(Rajat Kapoor) , and turns his channel as a weapon which wins Pandey the Prime Minster's throne. The movie revolves around how Mohan Pandey plots to use the channel to win elections and how Purab Shastry (Ritesh Deshmukh) stops him from succeeding. 

The movie is not about media bashing. It is about how politics affect its transparency. The casting was perfect, with Amitabh Bachchan bringing in the seriousness, and Raj Pal Yadav adding humor. Ritesh and Paresh Rawal did justice to their roles. The background score of the movie was amazing, just like Sarkar. I enjoyed watching the movie, and you will too.

My Rating: 3.5/5
My Verbal Rating: The movie is for thinking viewers, go for it.

3 Idiots

3 idiots is an entertainer based on Chetan Bhagat's bestseller, Five point someone. The story is loosely related to the book. It is a story of three friends, Raju(Sharman), Farhan(Maddy) and Rancho(Amir), who join the country's best engineering college.

While Raju and Farhan are studious, Rancho is the odd one out. He is against the education system in India, and believes that learning should be passionate and practical. The movie is about how he explains the same to his friends and the director of the college Viru Sahastrabudhhe, aka Virus(Boman). Mean while he also falls for Pia (Kareena Kapoor).

Raju Hirani was all set to make the audience laugh and cry. The movie is a complete entertainer, and all the actors palyed their part well. The effort spent on deciding the casting did not go waste. Raju Hirani got just the perfect players for the roles. Personally, I liked the character of Chatur, aka Silencer.

To cut the long story short, the movie is a must watch for those looking for a complete entertainer.

My Rating: 4.5

My Verbal Rating: It's just awesome. Don't miss it.

Aarya - II

Someone once told me that this movie sucks big time. Respecting that Mr.Someone's opinion I refrained from watching this movie. However after good enough time after the release, recently I thought why not give it a try. After watching, now I am trying to find out that Mr.Someone.

This movie is a sequel to a wonderful entertainer of 2004, Aarya. You need to understand, in India a sequel doesn't mean you would be finding the same story of part-I getting continued. A similar concept, is what a sequel means in this country. The reason behind it is LOVE. Yes, our audience love to see the concept of love in every movie. So if part-I had a successful love story then what is left in part-II? Simple another love story has to start. Heroine changes, Hero is constant. MALE DOMINATION :-)

So just like the part-I, its all about love and sacrifice which every time is offered only by our hero, Allu Arjun. As usual with hatred for the hero, the heroine falls in love with the side-hero. Then the remaining movie runs around our hero getting back the babe. Though the story outline is not new, the entertainment is absolutely fresh. Also this guy Navdeep, I should say, got a very good break by this movie.

Padmashri. Brahmanandam garu, did marvelously. His humour and the way he presented it was exemplary. The other good part of this movie is, the heroine who used only to expose did not have to do that. She was decent. No indecency. May be the whole family got bored of her cleavage :-)

By all these means this movie is a very good entertainer. The ROI is 100%.

My rating: 4/5
My verbal rating: Good to watch with everyone in the family. A very good entertainer.

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Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year

"Ethical movie of the Year"

Harpreet Singh Bedi(Ranbeer Kapoor) is an honest and ambitious salesman who believes in doing things the right way. After passing out from college with minimal marks, he decides to make his mark as a salesman. He joins in a company as a trainee, and soon finds out that the sales world runs on bribery and corruption. He innocently complains to a client organization about the bribery. Instead of the expected appreciation, he is treated as a loser and denied field work.

He secretly starts his own sales corporation while working as a trainee. His company has no employees, but only partners. He reaches out to clients and offers services honestly. He uses the old mantra of selling goods of higher quality for lesser cost. Soon his business becomes a great success. The rest of the movie is about how his bosses learn the lessons of running an ethical business.

Coming from the Chak de India team, Rocket Singh is a must watch movie for everyone. Ranbir Kapoor played his part really well, and I can surely say that he is a very promising actor. The best part of this movie is, there are no useless songs that disturb the flow of the story. All the songs are in the background. Shazhan Padamsee had a very short role to play, so I can not really comment on her acting.

My rating: 4/5
My verbal rating: Good for a onetime watch; can learn some ethics out of the movie

Avatar

Avatar, the new movie from the director of Terminator and Titanic, occurs midway through the 22nd century. Jake Sully(Sam Worthington), a wheelchair-bound ex-marine takes up the mission of his dead brother, with the promise of getting his legs back if he helps the government in achieving the mission. He travels across the universe to Planet Pandora.

Pandora is inhabited by a tribal race called the Na’vi. Jake is sent in to learn their ways so that he can help relocate them and the greedy humans can take over their habitat, which contains a large ore of Unobtainium (yes, the material used to build a vessel in the 2003 movie, The Core). Avatars, are artificially created Na'vi bodies, into which humans can transfer their consciousness using Avatar technology. Early in the film, Jake, in his Na'vi body gets lost in Pandora, and is rescued by the daughter of the Na'vi chief. The rest of the movie is about how Jake becomes one of them, and saves Pandora from human greed.

I liked:

1. The beauty of Pandora: Pandora looked like Al Gore's dream planet, a total tropical beauty. The many legged horses, helicopter-like bugs, terrifying tigers ... all of them were created with utmost detail.

2. The war: The war between the Na'vi and the future machines of humans was well done. The director took no sides. Equal damage was done on both the sides.

I hated:

1. The story: The story of this movie is not exceptional. Lot of attention was paid to the graphics and the creation, but the story was too simple. With all the time and money that went into the picture, I expected a better story line.

Finally, the movie is a visual masterpiece, but it would have been awesome if it had a worthy concept or story line.

My Rating: 3/5

My Verbal rating: All the movie has is visuals. 2D did not entertain me. You might want to try the 3D version.

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2012 - My Theory

Yepp, I was one of the early goers for this movie. However I have refrained from writing a review on this movie, pondering if I am really capable to write about such a creation. I am sure I can use the word creation rather than "making" for this movie. It is truly a creation of disaster one can't even imagine.

However after watching the movie and assimilating the facts the movie was based upon, I tried correlating certain recent events happening in the world. I thought I should key in my thoughts and just leave it for my readers to think.

1. China is building a dam on river Brahmaputra. Just google it and you would find a lot of controversial news.
2. China is claiming Tibet is theirs and also they claim Arunachal Pradesh is theirs.
3. Labor from both of these places are being hired by China in the dam work.
4. China has moved a lot of armed forces across the borders, however India does not respond to it.
5. India says there is no problem with China

Why is all this happening? Whenever borders of India were covered up heavily with other countries defense forces India never sat quiet. This is the first time.

Any other thoughts/facts I shall post them here. Lets just give it a thought.

De Dana Dan - A Storyless Wonderful Comedy

The million dollar question that should come to your mind after watching this movie is "Why are Sunil Shetty, Akshay, Katrina and Sameera Reddy engaged in the movie???". The only answer;  they are the unnecessary selling factors involved for a wonderful comedy movie.

If I need to recompile and tell you what the story line is, it becomes the tough part. However if I need to think how long I was laughing then I can happily tell you that it was almost all the tenure of the movie. The comedy was so great that you need to take deep breaths in-between and drink some water. The entire movie hall gets filled with NitrousOxide. This movie has one more feature, it can be watched by everyone in the family together. Full PaisaVasool.

My rating: 3.5/5

My verbal rating: Its a must watch for everyone who can understand Hindi.

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Kurbaan (2009) - A Karan Johar's Flop Idea

I think the first thing most of the people are thinking about, when it comes to this movie, could be the hot scene shot with Saif and Kareena. The reality is, there was nothing except that Kareena showed her worthless back. Even if you liked it and feet sizzled, then there is nothing else in the movie, which gives you that feeling.

NewYork, Fanaa and the foolish thrilling masala of Final Destination III, if you mix concepts of all these three and try to make a movie, with some good actors, then one would arrive at KURBAAN.

Its a story where the beautiful and gullible Kareena falls in love with the super flirt Saif. Kareena already has a US citizen ship and using that both of them go to USA. They settle down in a remote county in New York. They get introduced to a neighboring family. One day, a girl from that family comes to Kareena and asks her for help. Before Kareena figures out what is happening the girl goes missing. Kareena tries to investigate and finds that all those family members are terrorists; I am sorry, Jihadis, that's what they call themselves. Now the ugly part is even Saif belongs to them.

From here the story is almost nonsense. Special effects of Final Destination have been copied. Stupid FBI plots of Bollywood style are shown. For example, at the end ... an FBI super cop and some  FBI sleuths run behind one terrorist in a subway station. Mind you, this guy has an explosive. After a decent chase, the terrorist runs to a corner and realizes there is no escape; so he triggers the bomb. The station is blown out, many get killed; however, the terrorist who blasted himself, his body could be found. The FBI super cop comes out with some scratches (he was running close to the assassin) while the remaining FBI guys are all dead. BOLLYWOOD ESTYLE ......

Now ... My point of view

India is a country which is a friendly state to USA. Our people have gone to the US for education, employment and business. India, today  is getting a lot of revenue from the US. In such a country why are we making movies which are anti-US??? Is the mafia forcing Bollywood directors make such movies so that at least some set of people start developing hatred towards it???

This movie should be actually banned in India. I am very sure the expected audience for this movie are Pakistanis and Afghans or Iranians. Indians never fired a single bullet or even threw a stone at anyone in the world. We love peace. Even after lakhs of our people die in terrorist attacks every year, we are just trying to talk of only peace.

So there is no point in making such a stupid movie by Indians.

My rating: 2/5

My verbal rating: Worthless

Killing anyone is not the solution. World peace is about extending love. Be it Jesus or Allah or a Hindu god or any one and everyone preached only one thing: Love everyone as you love yourself.

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Ajab Prem ki Gajab Kahani

Complete all your nature calls :-) buy popcorn, soft drink, water, nachos, cakes whatever and just get settled down before the Certificate of the movie is shown; cos you are up for an amazing fun ride. Right from the word go till the end of the movie there isn't a minute that passes without everyone laughing.

Okay, now the boring part, the story. Regular story, idle lad of a middle class guy who does nothing except that he falls in love with a pretty woman, who (the girl) as usual loves some one else. Doesn't it sound pretty boring. Yes it is. If you want a story movie nope then this movie is not for you. However if you still attempt to see this movie you shall never regret.

Ranbir, I think its genes, that he does acting so well. To say it in the Indian way, its Khandani :-). I also felt that Katrina how much ever she tries can never get rid of her western accent.  Both did pretty well.

"Run away Bride" concept has become very common these days. Almost in all the movies the heroin gets ready to wed another chap and suddenly just few minutes before the marriage she realizes that he is not the one. And THE ONE is none other than the hero. And that's it .... she runs away.

Directors of these so called Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood, Sandalwood made the values of marriage a fun. So brothers, I mean you directors, will understand this when either your daughters or would-be wives run out of the marriage you would realize how funny it can be.

Readers might think that I am getting serious unnecessarily, but friends there is a lot of influence on us from movies.

Well ...

My rating for this movie: 3/5

My verbal rating: Don't miss it; no story; but amazing comedy and you shall burst, laughing.

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Surrogates

All right lets talk about a simple concept, Yahoo avatars. Click on the last two words if you want to know what it is. Now that you know ... any user with an account on yahoo or any other such site, can create his own avatar. The avatar might completely look different from what the user might be. And with this avatar I publish my own views or do whatever I want to in the world of web.

Similarly if you could create a robo-avatar for yourself and send it into the outside world, where you are still the mind for it, then it would be called as a suggorgate.

So this movie fictiously says that there shall be a time where everyone is home and its their avatars that go outside. Men are dreaded in their beds controlling their surrogates. Leaving this concept the remaining story is almost like the story of iRobot.

The movie lacks every element of a movie viz like action, comedy, drama etc. It was a complete of waste of time for me. So my suggestion readers, please stay away from this movie.

My rating: 1/5

My verbal rating: Please miss it; You can watch it on HBO sometime 

(HBO advantage: You can change the channel if you don't like )

Inglorious Basterds

I am really wondering what should I write about this movie. It starts as a documentary showing us each and every Chapter which are to be compiled finally and ...

Well, I would give you a basic story. Its Nazis versus the Jews. A Jewish family gets killed by German soldiers and the lone person who escapes that tragedy is the beautiful lady below. Time gives her a chance to take revenge.

In an another episode there are a team of American soldiers who are named as BASTERDS by the Germans for their brutality in killing the Germans. These people make a plot to hit the German top brass big time.

Now the remaining part of the picture is their individual strategies against the Germans which become a combined effort by accident and lead to the Nazi downfall.

The movie is a must watch and that too in a theater. Every part of the movie has something to rejoice and has some funny element along with certain anxiety. Brad Pitt and Christoph Waltz were extremely good in their action.

As the above picture narrates, its the BASTERDS' bat versus Nazis' heads.

My rating: 3.5/5

My Verbal rating: Must watch; in a theater

Wake up SID - (Before you make the audience doze off)

Take out a busy day of your life; book tickets for this movie for the last show of the day and I bet you would doze off before the break. *-Conditions apply, like theater ambiance etc.  :-)

Well its a routine story of a lazy, aimless, dull son of a hardworking, rich dad. The guy is goalless, does not pass the final exams and lands up in nothing. Irritated father scolds him and son leaves home. Ends up in a girl's home whom he got introduced to and helped some time ago. Rest is BS. Does any part of the narration sounds even a little novel or interesting?

The other worst part of the movie is there in the picture above. Bollywood is primarily about glam coefficient, next would be acting. We don't go to the movie to see some one so charmless so dull, I mean she does not have anything to be a heroine. I am not trying to insult anyone here, however everyone has their own place. Just as I cannot be the President of the United States, Konkana Sen Sharma does not deserve to be in Bollywood.

My rating for the movie: 2/5

My verbal rating: Please skip it; zero value for time or money or anything

Ganesh - Just Ganesh

I never dreamt even in my wildest dreams that I would go to a movie starring Ram on the first day that too after buying the tickets in Black. But then there is always a first time for everything... :P

Ganesh - Just Ganesh is a typical masala Telugu movie which tries to be different at times but then is gobbled up by the intention to reach out to the mass crowd...!!!

Movie starts well with our good Samaritan hero, Ganesh (Ram of Devadasu fame) putting his hand up to help fructify his friend's love. To attain this, he has to show fake love towards Divya (Kajal Agarwal). Divya falls for him. However our hero falls in real love while faking. Just before the interval, the heroine gets to know about his act. Post-interval is all about how he tries to prove his love. He follows a novel method to justify his act. I think this is something which would instantly connect with the audience.

Ram does well but in most of the scenes he tries to imitate Pavan Kalyan. as always. I think Ram has good potential as actor and it would be good if he creates his own style. Kajal Agarwal looks good. I am seeing her for the second time in one week. Saturday it was Magadheera and now it is Ganesh. I must say I am fast becoming a fan of this lovely lady. Acting-wise she is ok.

All in all, I think this movie is a decent time-pass but then there are 3-4 unnecessary songs which test your patience. There is decent comedy, not path-breaking but time-pass. I think you can watch this movie if there is no other movie ticket available. :)

My rating: 2.5/5