Monday, January 31, 2011

DIL TO BACCHA HAI JI


Director-madhur bhandarkar
starring-ajay devgan,emraan hashmi,omi vaidya,tisca chopra,shruti haasan,shehzan padamsee,shradha das

Madhur bhandarkar attempts a light hearted comedy after the bunch of his serious films like corporate,page 3,fashion and jail and comes up with DIL TO BACCHA HAI JI,a lovely film that shows the behaviour of men in love.

The plot of the film is nothing but men falling in love, i'd better describe it as a cocktail of 3 love stories of 3 different men from 3 different walks of life and ages.
Emraan hashmi plays abhay a gym trainer who prefers to be called abbey is a playboy who doesnt understand love nd flirts with every other girl.
Ajay devgan plays the role of naren,a man in his 30's waiting for his divorce to be finalised,working in a bank.
Omi vaidya plays milind kelkar a shayar who works at a matrimonial office.
These three fall in love and that is a funny part.The first half consists of the comic instances but the second goes a little emotional and then an unexpected climax.

The lovely music by pritam make the movie endearing and will make u fall in love with the characters.Ajay devgan is at his best playing a nerdy middle aged man falling in love,here is where the comedy is.The combo of ajay devgan and emraan hashmi is tried again after 'once upon a time in mumbai' and its commendable.Omi vaidya is a good addition to the industry for a comedian.

This movie is a must watch.i ll give it 3/5 star rating.And ll guarantee u that you will walk out the cinema hall smiling.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

NO ONE KILLED JESSICA


Director/screenplay-Raj kumar gupta
music-amit trivedi
starring-vidya balan,rani mukherjee

 I was expecting this and here it is,a hattrick of powerpacked performances by vidya balan.After 'paa' and 'ishqiya' its 'no one killed jessica'.Vidya not only does full justice to the role of sabrina lal but also,the shy and bespectacled vidya is very adorable.Alongside is rani mukherjee who also does good but is overshadowed by the might of vidya balan.
     
The plot of the story is based on the real happenning of the jessica lal murder case.
The son of a minister after being refused drinks by a bartender girl shoots her at a socialite party and runs away and we come to know that this girl jessica lal(myra karn) is the sister of sabrina lal(vidya balan).An FIR is filed and the killers are caught this is followed by prime witness and all the other witness' turning hostile also going through interesting sequences of witness interrogation and the courtroom proceedings the court takes two years to rule that jessica was not killed by the minister's son.Simultaneously we are introduced to meera(abusive rani mukherjee) who is a journalist,a very dedicated one of NDTV.She thinks the jessica case is very easy and the killer is fucked and cannot be free so she doesnt think it is important enough, atleast for her profile after reporting live from kargil,but is shocked at the court ruling.And she decides to take up the the case and comes up with a plan.

A little bit of overacting by the side actors try to take away the brilliance of the direction but is not successful.NOKJ is equal on entertainment quotient and is not shown as a biography.
I cant think of another actress who could ve done the role of sabrina lal better than vidya balan.The movie has moments which would make you cry.And no comments on the abuse filled dialogues of rani mukherjee.

NOKJ should not be missed.watch it.And i would give it 3½ out of 5.the extra half is again for the powerful scenes of vidya balan.

RATING-3½ / 5

Saturday, January 1, 2011

BREAK KE BAAD


directed by danish aslam
starring imran khan,deepika padukone
music by vishal and shekhar
lyricist prasoon joshi

Break ke baad starts off on a promising note showing the childhood of abhay and aaliya.Here u will find some lovely sequences including one in which abhay and aaliya dance to pehla nasha of udit narayan.The start and the ending of the movie were the best parts according to me.the movie goes at a slow pace in bettween.

The story goes as abhay (imran) and aaliya (deepika) are childhood friends who grow up and kiss while watching kuch kuch hota hai nd are officially girlfriend and boyfriend from then they grow up more and soon Aaliya feels abhay is not ambitious and abhay feels aaliya is too ambitious.Without stressing on their love story too much danish aslam quickly moves the story forward and brings us to the scene where aaliya and abhay have a fight and take a break.This break is not exactly a break up,just some space from each other.But abhay cant take it for long and goes saat samundar paar to woo her back but ends up being dumped by aaliya.He then makes a list of missions to complete which includes finding a job etc etc and finally taking aaliya back.So he starts by driving taxi.Meanwhile it is learnt tht abhay loves cooking and people love his food so he starts a roadside stall which does good business.Then with a partnership with the landlady (shahana goswami) and her annoying brother cyrus(yudhisthir urs) he starts a restaurant which is succesful.So abhay has found his dream job and now he knows wht being ambitious is and now only thing thts left for him to do is marriage and his mausi shows him a lot of pics of the girls who are not chudail like aaliya,so he is off to india

Break ke baad isnt among the best of movies but it does have moments here and there where it makes you smile.Watch it for the chemistry bettween imran khan and deepika padukone.

I think it deserves a watch i would give it 2 out of 5

RATING-2/5