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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