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Posted on 6:56 AM
Genre: Drama
Starring: John Abraham, Farida Jalal, Anaitha Nair, Sonal Sehgal, Ashwin Chitale, Girish Karnad
The story of a chain smoker, Rahul (Abraham) who gets lung cancer due to his smoking habits. He has just 3 months to live and decides to make full use of it. He spends his money left, right and center and believes that since he is a dying man, he is entitled to everything, this attitude and ego get into the way between him and his girlfriend, Nafisa (Sehgal). He learns about a special retreat for dying patients where they can spend the last few days of their life being happy before withering away and decides to relocate there. He meets a whole lot of people at the retreat, including a prostitute, Manju (Jalal) who gained AIDS and is shunned by all the patients, Padma (Nair) a loud-mouthed and rude cancer patient and Govinda (Chitale) a young boy whom people proclaim have super-natural powers. The movie at first sight seems slow, which it is, but give it time and it improves greatly. Each and every performance in the movie is exceptional, big or small, especially John Abraham, Anaitha Nair and Ashwin Chitale, who instead of being overshadowed by the popular image of Abraham, have managed to keep up and support his character throughout. It's a lovely movie and probably many smokers might get an urge to drop the habit right away. The flaw, within the first 10 minutes the rest of the plot becomes predictable but that doesn't make the movie a less enjoyable watch. Is capable of bringing forth a tear even from the cold-hearted.
Thumbs up: Performances of lesser known cast
Thumbs down: First half, predictable plot
Rating: 7.0/10
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Posted by Bell Mattew
Posted on 2:35 AM
Genre: Drama/Romance/Musical
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape, Donna Pescow
The life of a typical American youth. Work and earn money throughout the week and blow it all away on a Saturday night party with women and alcohol. Tony Manero (Travolta) lived the exact same life and was proud of it. He and his bunch of friends went around the city like Casanova's and spent the entire night away at the nightclub. Tony loved to dance and he was the hottest and most dashing young man who burnt the dance floor. Woman craved for him and he loved the attention he got. The club hosts an annual dance competition and Tony along with his partner Annette (Pescow) were last years winner. Annette was head over heals for Tony and would do anything to get his attention and go to bed with him. Tony, however, was eyeing the new girl Stephanie (Gorney) whom he believes is as good a dancer as he is. Most of the movie reflects about the aimless and ambition-less youth for whom sex and money is everything. The movie has some very amazing 70's dance moves and John Travolta fits the role superbly. The movie might appeal to someone who loves music and dance and they might just pick up some really smooth moves too, but apart from that the movie is a now show. Somewhere during the middle the movie gets slow and boring but steadily picks up pace towards the end. Avoidable unless you want to pick up some dance steps or recall your youthful days of the 70's.
Thumbs up: The smashing John Travolta
Thumbs down: May not appeal to all
Rating: 6.8/10
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Posted on 8:12 AM
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
Starring: Tricia O'Kelly, Patrick J. Adams, Ryan Devlin, Mark Harmon
A sassy weather girl, Sylvia (O'Kelly) announces her decision to quit her job during a live news telecast. She also reveals her hatred for her co-host and lover Dale (Harmon) and reveala some of his sexual secrets. Having no job, no money and no shoulder to cry on, Sylvia moves in with her brother, Walt (Devlin). Walt's best friend is Byron (Adams) the guy who lives right across his apartment. Sylvia's infamous announcement on TV has made her famous across Seattle but that also made it difficult for her to get a new job. Nobody wants to risk seeing a similar fiasco on their TV channel. 35 and single, shes worried that she may not find the right guy to settle down with and her life is going to be a mess, which it anyhow is. The movie is plain boring with absolutely nothing to look forward to. A cliched romance plot, average performances and no high point at all makes this movie, as you might guess, a big bore.
Thumbs up: Nothing really
Thumbs down: Everything else
Rating: 5.7/10
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Posted by Bell Mattew
Posted on 1:46 AM
Genre: Animation/Adventure/Comedy/Drama/Fantasy
Starring (voice): Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, Wayne Knight
Andy's toys are having a good time as usual. The only person not having a good time is Woody (Hanks) whose arm gets accidentally ripped while playing with Andy. Woody gets shelved where he finds an old toy, Wheezy the Penguin whom everyone had assumed was lost. A garage sale is coming up and Wheezy goes up for sale. Woody tries to save Wheezy but gets left behind and later stolen by Al (Knight) the owner of Al's Toy Store. A Japanese toy museum wants to show case toys of Woody and his Roundup Gang, but the toys are now rare and hard to find. Woody and his Roundup Gang comprise of Jessie (Cusack), Stinky Pete (Grammer) and Woody's horse Bullseye and were once a famous cartoon show and all their accessories and toys were very famous. A new era of space toys brought an end to Woody's show. Buzz Lightyear (Allen) swears to save Woody as an act of repayment for what Woody had done for him in the previous movie. With a few other toys, they undertake a perilous journey to get to Al's Toy Store and rescue Woody before it gets too late. The movie doesn't really give the same feeling its predecessor did and there always is this feeling that something is missing. The movie gets a bit boring at one point but swiftly picks up pace and improves. The animations are fabulous for a movie of its time and would do a good job in entertaining an 8-year-old. The previous movie had some high points and some very dramatic and gripping scenes which the second movie completely lacks. A great movie nonetheless with some scope for improvement.
Thumbs up: Animation, hugely entertaining
Thumbs down: Not as dramatic or gripping as the earlier movie
Rating: 8.3/10
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Posted by Bell Mattew
Posted on 10:34 AM
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
Starring: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei
David Buznik (Sandler) is a man who always gets pushed around and is taken for granted and cant seem to stand up for himself. He keeps his anger locked up inside him which is not helping his life. Things get a little out of hand for him and the court orders him to take up anger therapy. His therapist, Buddy Rydell (Nicholson) has a very funny way to conduct his therapy, which is not going down too well with David. He hates his therapist and he hates all the kinds of stupid things he makes him do. His life goes from bad to worse and the only person he can blame for all of this is Buddy Rydell. First off, the movie is badly slow and boring. There is just not enough humour that one would have liked it to have and feels dragged. Towards the end things do improve, but not substantially. Performances are average, plot is decent but the absolute lack of good humour spoils the show. Just makes you more angry that you ended up wasting an hour and a half of your precious time.
Thumbs up: A plot with good scope for humour
Thumbs down: Needs to be funny, a lot more funny
Rating: 5.4/10
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Posted by Bell Mattew
Posted on 12:39 AM
Genre: Science-fiction/Fantasy/Adventure/Drama/Comedy
Starring: Chris D'Owd, Marc Wootton, Dean Lennox Kelly, Anna Faris, Meredith MacNeil
Three friends, Ray (D'Owd), Toby (Wootton) and Pete (Kelly) are siting in a pub and are discussing a topic anybody else would be least likely to discuss, time travel. Ray strongly believes in it and reads various fictitious books on time travel. He meets Cassie (Faris) who claims to be a professional time traveller and who knows Ray from the future because he becomes really famous. Toby, who is a film fanatic, writes a crazy movie story which, unknown to him, would lead him to an adventure of a life-time. Pete refuses to believe Ray's story and after taking a piss, sees a pub full of dead people including himself. He allegedly went through a time-leak and managed to see the future and is badly shaken. The three friends start an adventure through time and realise that Toby's crazy movie idea made them famous, so famous that they might just get killed. The movie attempts at a wacky and crazy plot and almost manages to pull it off. The first half is confusing, slow and boring and its only during the second half that the movie picks up pace and starts making more sense. Perhaps if the movie was more than just going in and out of time and had some interesting parallel plots running alongside it, the movie might have been an even better watch. A nice movie, but may not appeal to all.
Thumbs up: Attempt at a great plot
Thumbs down: Slightly dragged and may not appeal to every ones tastes
Rating: 6.8/10
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Posted on 12:44 AM
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Starring: Keith Davis, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Regina Hall, Ron Glass, Kevin Hart, Martin Lawrence, James Marsden, Tracy Morgan, Chirs Rock, Zoe Saldana, Columbus Short, Luke Wilson
'Whats the point?' is the question a lot of other people including myself would ask after watching the movie. What is the point in remaking the popular British comedy with the exact same dialogues and jokes and only replacing the British star cast with an entire African-American one? Aaron (Rock) has just lost his father and is preparing his funeral. His younger brother Ryan (Lawrence) is a famous author and has gained a lot of respect with the family. Secretly, Ryan is broke and leads a lavish lifestyle just to show the world that he has enough money. Elaine (Saldana) and her fiancee Oscar (Marsden) are on their way to pick up her brother Jeff (Short) before heading to the funeral. Elaine gives Oscar some Valium to ease his nerves, which actually does not turn out to be Valium but a hallucinogenic drug that Jeff has developed for a friend. Oscar hallucinates about a moving coffin and accidentally drops open the coffin. Meanwhile, Norman (Morgan) has to help a crippled and impatient Uncle Russell (Glover) everywhere and manages to get covered in his poop. Ryan and Aaron are in for a surprise when a midget, Frank (Dinklage) reveals to them that their father feels the other way and blackmails them into paying him money to keep his mouth shut. The movie is word-by-word exactly the same as the British original. Considering that the British movie was made just 3 years prior to this one, the core audience remains more or less the same who have seen and enjoyed the original and may not laugh at the same jokes again. Perhaps if the movie had some 'black' or 'nigger' jokes with some slight tweaks here and there, the movie would have been at an entirely different level. If someone hasn't seen the original, they could try this movie first. Once again, what is the point?
Thumbs up: Great performances
Thumbs down: A carbon copy of the original, but written in 'black' ink
Rating: 5.4/10
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Posted by Bell Mattew
Posted on 8:59 AM
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Starring: Ali Zafar, Barry John, Rahul Singh, Pradhuman Singh, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Piyush Mishra, Sugandha Garg, Chirag Vohra, Chinmay Mandlekar
9/11 changed the face of the entire world. Islam and its followers were looked upon with suspicion and the United States became jumpy about any minuscule threat in their backyard. Ali Hassan (Zafar) a budding Pakistani journalist, desires to make it big in America, but his visa gets rejected for seven straight years. He works for peanuts for a little known TV channel called Danka TV and simply hates his job. While covering a certain event, he stumbles across an Osama Bin Laden look-alike and hatches an insane plot to make himself big. Along with his co-worker Gul (Ratnaparkhi) they decide to caste the look alike, Noor (Pradhuman Singh) in a video posing as Osama Bin Laden and sell the video at a high price. They rope in fellow conspirators, namely Zoya (Garg) an aspiring beautician, Lateef (Vohra) a film editor from Saudi Arabia and Qureshi (Rahul Singh) a famous radio jockey to dub the voice of the actual Osama. The video escalates and before anyone knew it, Uncle Sam is all ready to bomb the middle-east. The movie does the perfect job of being funny and does what it is supposed to do, entertain. The lesser known star cast puts on fabulous performances and the conception of such a plot is marvelous. That said, the jokes aren't all that hilarious or amazing as one expected it to be. Smooth, funny and entertaining is what comes to my mind.
Thumbs up: Great plot, good performances and entertaining
Thumbs down: Could have been more funny
Rating: 7.0/10
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Posted on 3:57 AM
Genre: Crime/Action
Starring: Cyril Raffaelli, David Belle, Tony D'Amario, Bibi Naceri, Dany Verissimo
English Title: District B13. Paris, 2010. Crime rate in the city is sky-rocketing and in order to curb it, the government built a massive wall around the cities most shady area, Banlieue 13 aka Borough 13. Leito (Belle) a resident of the area steals heroin from the local gang lord, Taha (Naceri). Taha's sidekick K2 (D'Amario) kidnaps Leito's sister Lola (Verissimo) and uses her as a slave and manages to get Leito arrested by the police. A nuclear bomb is stolen from the government by Taha and Capt. Damien (Raffaelli) of the French Police has been assigned the task to recover it. Leito is freed and is made his assistant and guide to navigate his way around the area. The movie has a very average and predictable plot, but what makes it fun to watch is the superior action. The crisp moves of Raffaelli and Belle steal the show and leave you craving for more. Sure, some scenes are a bit overdone and seem like a video game, but they can be easily overlooked for a better overall picture. Great action flick which is short and precise.
Thumbs up: Amazing action and chase sequences
Thumbs down: Unexciting plot
Rating: 7.4/10
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Posted on 2:36 AM
Genre: Comedy/Spoof/Drama
Starring: Anna Faris, Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex, Drew Mikuska
The third installation of the very famous movie that spoofs on horrors and thrillers. A strange video tape is doing the rounds of the city and whoever watches the tape dies in seven days. Cindy (Farris) a reporter, tries to investigate the strange deaths. Tom (Sheen) a farmer and his younger brother George (Rex) find mysterious crop circles on their farm. George aspires to be a rap artist but doesn't really make it very far. Most of the movie is a spoof of The Ring and just like any other spoof movie, there is no sensible or logical plot but just random spoofs from a whole lot of movies brought together. The movie is not hilarious or roll-over funny but its stupid and funny enough to entertain you for 80-odd minutes. The only reason to watch this movie is because you have nothing to watch and your simply getting the urge to kill time. The movie makes more sense if one has watched all the various movies it spoofs about. Else, one might not understand the joke or the hidden sarcasm. Anna Faris puts on a very realistic performance by being stupid and typically blond throughout. The lesser said about the movie, the better it is.
Thumbs up: Short and stupid
Thumbs down: Not amazingly funny
Rating: 5.8/10
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Posted on 10:54 PM
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel
Two firefighters, Chuck (Sandler) and Larry (James) have been good friends since a very long time. Chuck has been Mr. February and all the girls drool for him. Larry hasn't been able to overcome his wife's demise and still mourns her death. Larry saved Chuck's life during a fire rescue mission and Chuck promised to repay him in any possible manner. Larry realised that he could die any time and decides to make his children the primary beneficiaries in his life insurance policy. However, he starts facing problems in doing so and is told that the only way to get around this is to get married. Being unable to overcome his wife's death and marry another woman, he decides to go to Chuck and get married to him as 'domestic partners'. The government smells a rat and decides to probe into their relationship to see if it is genuine. The duo decide to hire Alex (Biel) as their lawyer and to challenge the governments accusation of their relationship not being genuine. Chuck and Larry must now walk, talk and be gay and show the world how much they love each other. The movie might sound a bit interesting but sadly it is not. Developments happen at a slow pace which makes it annoying for the audience. Humour too is not all that great and maybe if the movie would have focused on making it more funny, it might have been a different story altogether. Nothing great and avoidable, to be frank.
Thumbs up: Tries to explore a good story
Thumbs down: Bad humour, lack of interesting developments
Rating: 6.3/10
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Posted on 11:56 PM
Genre: Drama/History/Adventure/Biography
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
NASA had launched an Apollo Space Programme where multiple missions would be sent on the moon. Apollo 13 was the third Apollo mission intended to land on the moon. Jim Lovell (Hanks) was appointed flight commander along with Ken Mattingly (Sinise) as Command Module Pilot and Fred W. Haise (Paxton) as Lunar Module Pilot. Ken Mattingly was feared to have contracted measles and was dropped off the list just a week before take-off. His replacement, Jack Swigert (Bacon) was appointed just 3 days before take-off. The mission turned out to be a catastrophe when the oxygen tank leaked en route to the moon and had to be turned back towards Earth. The movie is very typically American which glorifies American achievements and heroism's and is highly patriotic. Good performances by Tom Hanks and Ed Harris go in favour of the movie, but the lack of any excitement makes this movie a drag to watch. Predictable climaxes and anti-climaxes don't go very far in helping either. A decent entertainer but nothing much beyond that.
Thumbs up: Good performances
Thumbs down: Un-exciting and lacks the entertainment factor
Rating: 7.3/10
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Posted on 1:56 AM
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
Starring: Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana, Jonah Hill, Jason Schwartzman
Although a stand up comedian's life may seem to be fun, it's actually as normal as anyone else. George Simmons (Sandler) is a famous stand-up comedian and actor who has been diagnosed with a rare blood disease with a mere 8% chance of survival. His life's mistakes and blunders start flashing in front of him and he realises its too late to rectify anything. He hires Ira (Rogen) to write jokes for him and to be his assistant. They start developing a close relationship and George finally starts seeing more meaning in his life. He tries to resurrect his doomed married life with Laura (Mann), his ex-wife amongst other things to redeem his mistakes. The movie is quite boring, slow and stretched. The little bit of humour that is present is quite lame and doesn't help in making the movie any interesting. The concept and story is good, but could have been explored in a far more interesting and exciting manner.
Thumbs up: Decent story
Thumbs down: Long and boring
Rating: 6.1/10
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Posted on 10:31 AM
Genre: Drama/Comedy
Starring: Omkar Das, Raghuvir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farrukh Jaffar, Malaika Shenoy, Vishal Sharma, Nowaz, Sitaram Panchal
Lets get to the point. The movie is slow, quite slow and may not appeal to the mass audience. It seems to have been made more in accordance with satisfying critics rather than the regular movie-goer. Natha (Das) is an average farmer from Peepli, a village in central India, and has taken a loan from a bank against his farmland. He is unable to pay off the debt and the local landlord, Bhai Thakur (Panchal) suggests to Natha that he commit suicide because the government would pay his family a sum of Rs 1 lac after he dies as compensation. Natha's brother, Budhia (Yadav) manages to convince Natha that he should commit suicide because it would benefit the entire family. The local newspaper reporter, Rakesh (Nowaz) overhears Natha's plan to kill himself and realises this could be a big story and informs his head office in New Delhi. Word spreads like fire and before anyone knew it, Peepli became a village of commotion and nuisance with political parties and newspaper reporters hunting for Natha for their own greed. The movie has satirical humour and is very different from conventional media. Aamir Khan has done a commendable job in putting forward a message but has failed to entertain the regular audience. The movie is plagued with rural dialects, profanity and sarcasm which makes it a good laugh once in a while. Not a single actor is a known face in the industry and most of the movie was shot in actual villages with actual villagers or lesser known artists playing the major roles. The humour is inconsistent but Natha's mother, Amma (Jaffar) takes the cake in really making you laugh. Don't go if you wish for entertainment, but is a critics delight.
Thumbs up: A different kind of cinema, which is a step in the right direction for Bollywood
Thumbs down: Gets a bit slow and may not entertain the average person.
Rating: 7.6/10
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Posted on 3:13 AM
Genre: Drama/Romance
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Relationships are always difficult to get over. Spending your life with one person and all of a sudden realising that he/she is gone, can be tragic to anyone. Prof. George Falconer (Firth) is a homosexual man who one fine day receives news that his partner for 16 years has died in a car accident. Shock overcomes him and he finds it hard to even let one day go by when he doesn't feel lonely or doesn't get the urge to end his life. His only respite is a divorced woman, Charley (Moore) his neighbour, who has a crush on George and wished that they could have spent their lives together. Things start changing for him when George's student Kenny Porter (Hoult) starts getting attached to him and he realises that his life might change for the good after all. Many people get put-off from this movie due to the homosexuality story line, but it thankfully doesn't have any content to offend anyone. Most of the movie revolves around the hardships of overcoming a homosexual relationship, and although it might sound slow and boring, the movie is not all that bad. Yes, parts are slow, but that's how it is supposed to be and its not un-watchable. A very simple and well-made movie which has little scope for criticism.
Thumbs up: Colin Firth
Thumbs down: Slow and simple. Not very exciting.
Rating: 7.5/10
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Posted on 10:13 AM
Genre: Crime/Drama/Action/History
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reily
New York, the city of fantasies and the headquarters of huge corporates. 1864, New York was not even close to what we now know it to be. It's streets were run by gangsters and the city was divided into tribes and territories. One such gang, headed by Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting (Day-Lewis) spearheaded the rights of the natives, white people born and brought up in America. They rallied against all immigrants, especially the Irish, who swarmed into New York by the thousands. 'Priest' Vallon, the leader of the Irish immigrants was slayed by Bill while fighting for his people. 16 years later, Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns to those very same streets and swore revenge against Bill. A lot of things had changed in the streets and a lot of people's loyalties had shifted. Amsterdam plotted to gain the trust and loyalty of Bill and eventually avenge the death of his father. The movie is amok with fantabulous performances and Leonardo puts on his usual stunning performance. It is Daniel Day-Lewis who went over the top and put on a show worthy to the character and to his reputation. The movie gives a very raw feel about what New York was ages ago and how different it is today. A movie with stellar performances and would have been much better only if it were slightly shorter.
Thumbs up: Great performances
Thumbs down: A bit too long
Rating: 7.8/10
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Posted on 11:00 PM
Genre: Crime/Comedy/Drama/Action
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion Ramsey, Leslie Easterbrook, Brian Tochi, Art Metrano, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tim Kazurinsky, George Gaynes, Bruce Mahler
Captain Lassard's (Gaynes) fine academy is in trouble when the police commissioner announces that the city cannot afford two academy's and one of them will have to shut shop. Which one is it going to be, will be decided by an evaluation committee. Comdt. Mauser (Metrano) who runs the second academy, is determined not to be the loser and pledges to apply every sneaky trick in the book to emerge winner. Comdt. Lassard, calls in some of his fine cadets from the past, to train the new men and hopes to be victorious. Both sides try everything possible to outdo the other and shine in front of the evaluation committee. The movie is the third installation of a seven part series and sadly does not live up to the high expectations its plot hopes to give. The humour is negligible and does not bring more than a tiny grin on your face. Action sequences look like a joke and performances are just about average. Even though the movie has a very cliched outline, if the other above aspects were executed with more finesse, the movie would have been much more appealing.
Thumbs up: Decent movie to kill time
Thumbs down: Bad humour, action and performance
Rating: 5.9/10
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Posted on 10:42 PM
Genre: Drama/Biography
Starring: Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqi, Syed Fazal Hussain, Navaid Jabbar, Maria Wasti
In 2002 after alleged Pakistani terrorists stormed into the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, tensions between the two countries arose. The Indo-Pak border is dotted with small Dalit-Hindu villages who do not know the difference between India and Pakistan. Shankar (Farooqi) was one such farmer cum teacher residing in one of these villages with his wife Champa (Das) and mischievious son Ramchand (Hassain). Ramchand gets upset when his parents forced him to go to school and aimlessly wanders around and unknowingly crosses the border. His father sees him from a distance and chases him and both get apprehended by the Indian Army for illegal border crossing and are held up in prison indefinitely. Over the years, Ramchand becomes a prison favourite and most of the inmates and guards take a fonding for him. The movie is the very typical low-budget film made by a director from a third-world country which gained a lot of appreciation and awards in various European film festivals. Once you get hold of the plot in the first 20 minutes, you know exactly what you are in for and what the final outcome is going to be. The movie is a good attempt but gets slow and dragged with no constant fresh developments and seems monotonous after a while. A good movie in the eyes of a movie critic, but can be a bore for the average audience. Based on a true life story.
Thumbs up: Great performances
Thumbs down: Slow and slightly boring after a while
Rating: 7.0/10
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Posted on 1:34 AM
Genre: Crime/Action/Comedy/Drama/Romance
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Rajpal Yadav, Trisha Krishnan, Milind Gunaji, Manoj JoshiIt soon became cliched. Akshay Kumar starring in a comedy movie led to a stereotypical mentality amongst the audience and they knew exactly what to expect; nothing. The above stated 'genre' in this post will make you wonder, is this movie actually different than what everyone thought it to be? Infrastructure is the biggest hurdle for India, the worlds second fastest growing economy. Contractor Sachin Tichkule (Kumar) plays the role of the average construction engineer who dilutes construction materials to create sub-standard roads and tries to earn money. Due to his sub-standard construction, the municipal department has refused to pay his cheques. Sachin's family hates him and regards him as a worthless and useless liability. His brother and two brother-in-laws, carry out the same work but manage to earn their money by bribing politicians and municipal officers. Sachin's estranged college sweetheart, Gehna Ganpule (Krishnan) becomes the municipal commissioner who decides to end corruption and sub-standard construction and wishes to bring about some improvements to the town, which means eliminating contractors like Sachin and his brothers. The movie is not the average comedy movie that Bollywood cinema has been throwing up lately. It is a step in a different direction which neatly amalgamates politics and crime with comedy. Akshay Kumar as usual puts on a good laughable performance but sadly he has little support here. Rajpal Yadav seemed like a last moment addition and Asrani's small role is good but has little effect on the movie as a whole. The only two chinks in the movies armour was a plot that felt dragged towards the end and the lack of roll-over-your seat humour. A good attempt by Priyadarshan with a well-thought plot but has tremendous scope for improvement.
Thumbs up: Good plot, nice mix of various genres
Thumbs down: Needs more humour, plot feels stretched
Rating: 6.5/10
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