P.S I LOVE YOU

this movie is based on book by cecelia ahern...i have not read the book so m not sure which is better the book or the movie....but i sure loved the movie...i guess the book wud be interesting to read.......

well this is story is about holly kennedy (hilary swank) and her husband gerry kennedy (gerard butler)....when holly loses gerry to brain tumour she is devastated.....she becomes a recluse..does not want to meet anyone talk with anyone....its of course natural if your husband who u have been married to for nearly ten years dies and u r still short of ur 30th birthday......she loses interest in life....

till she gets a surprise b'day cake with a letter and cassette in gerry's voice saying how he has planned how she should get further in life..and that he wud guide her through this phase of life...and so she keeps getting letters addressed to her from unexpected places which guide her..as he knows her the best...he knows how she is gonna react to the situation...he makes her do stuff they did together like sing in bar.....go to ireland on vacation (where they had met first)
by making her do these things which r so difficult for her he purges himself out of her......he remains with her but as a fond memory but not as someone who holds her back in life....he helps her find direction in life.....

good points :
beautiful story......romance is beautifully shown.....
blending of past with current is done very well
acting by hilary swank and gerard butler is good...they r well supported by by lisa kudrow and kathy bates as friend and mother
direction by richard lagravenese is nice

bad points :
cant really think.....

its a feel good movie..some parts r really emotional......i had tears in my eyes at certain times...
good movie all in all

AAMIR

after listening to great reviews and all the wonderful things abt the movie i decided to get the dvd of the movie...

well the story is of a young doctor aamir ali (rajeev khandelwal) who is returning to india after living and working in london for 3 yrs....its abt how he gets trapped by a fistful of people who r holding his family as hostage and make aamir to do certain terrorist activities...
how that group of people share a different view of current situation of muslims particularly in india....that they hold hindus responsible for the poor state of affairs of muslims in general..thats how they justify placing bombs in trains and buses etc etc...

and how a certain group of muslims like aamir believe that only factor stopping ones progress is self...if we work hard for anything we can achieve it....nothing can stop us...not our cirsumstances or environment or where we r born.....we have to make external factors conducive for our own growth with our hard work.......

he tries to convey these things to the people he is talking to..and they try to make him see the different world..where people live in impoverished condition....telling him how others r responsible for the sad state of the community in general...

good points :
acting by rajeev khandelwal as a troubled common man is brilliant.....simply superb....
its a short film...good editing...good cinematography i wondered how they must have shot in all the narrow lanes of mumbai
it shows both sides of story.....the simple hard working guy who achieves stuff in life...and the religious fanatics....
direction by raj kumar gupta is good.....

bad points:
i dont think that the plot is that realistic......i dont think they involve novice people to do stuff...it wud be too risky i think if anybody goofed up.......and why involve an outsider when u have so many people to do work in your network.....

anyways....watch it if u want a dose of reality.....its certainly is a different movie

shaurya....

shaurya means courage... courage meaning differently to different people..
sid : shaurya means making right things right
aakash :accepting that truth comes before self
kaavya : search for truth
rudra pratap singh : living by what he believed in

this is a story of a lawyer major siddhant chaudhary (rahul bose) in army who is very cool about his job as he does not want to be in army at all as his father was in army and was killed and after his death became a hero......he still holds army responsible for taking his father away from him wen he was still a child and then celebrating his death......he is assigned a case of an army officer capt javed khan (deepak dobriyal) who has shot his superior and has accepted his guilt and is about to be sentenced......

even as he gets the case his friend major aakash kapoor(javed jaffery) prosecuting lawyer tells its an open and shut case..there is nothing to be done.......but when a reporter kavvya shastri(minisha lamba) in search of story stumbles across the case...and realizes that the siddhant defending javed does not even know the case properly takes the matter in her hands to teach sid a lesson.........

then sid is in a soup and so has to investigate the crime and the background without the help of javed as javed does not even talk with sid and tell him the true story....
sid along with kavvya investigate the background of the murdered officer and javed khan...
as they get deeper into the case they realize that its not a simple murder case and that it affects people namely brig .rudra pratap singh (kay kay menon) who r very influential and who wud go to any lengths to see that javed is sentenced....

it opens can of worms abt how some seniors in army act inhumanly.......how communal riots tear our country apart....and how we as responsible citizens of our country shd behave....

good points :
good acting by rahul bose javed jaffery minisha lamba and kay kay menon.... friendship between sid and aakash is shown beautifully... pace of movie is good.....good storyline...the way the case is solved by sid is shown well

bad points :
initially for some time u dont know whats happening and where the story is going.....but towards the middle of movie things start falling into place......

this movie makes u think......who is right..who is wrong.......can certain acts be justified........is it right to make others suffer fate similar to urs just coz u have suffered at the hands of others.....how do we put an end to all these inhuman acts.....are we overlooking things that are right in front of us...we all think differently....for each of us whats right is different but we have to realize that there are somethings that are right universally and somethings that r wrong univerally.....
watch this movie wen u ready to think.....good work mr samar khan...