The Backup Plan

Its a very sweet romantic movie....Zoe (Jennifer Lopez) realizes one day that she is 30 and single..she never imagined that it was going to be like that...she like all other girls, had visualized herself, happily married and having or planning to have kids by the time she was 30...thats when she decides that its the time for the BACKUP PLAN..lack of a boyfriend/ husband wasn't going to deter her from having children of her own, a family of her own...she goes to a gynaec and gets artificially inseminated....

            As fate would have it, soon after she gets inseminated she meets Stan (Alex O'Loughlin), like every love story, they rub each other the wrong way the first time they meet....and coincidental second and third meet leads to Stan asking her out....it is a very routine love story except for the fact that Zoe is pregnant!!

            It shows very nicely, how she tells him....his initial outrage at not knowing earlier....but then realizing that he wants Zoe in his life no matter what, and that he is ready to take the step of not only dating a girl but planning a future and raising a family....

          Its a very cute movie...well paced...U wont get bored..it has very cute and funny scenes....Alex O'Loughlin is adorable, n J Lo is good too...You should watch it, if u want to have some relaxation and a few laughs...you will end with a very warm nice feeling within you at the end of the movie...          

A Beautiful Mind

       This one is one of my all time favourite movies...it is adapted from biography of John Nash, a mathematician n economist, who won nobel for his work....I wont tell u anything about the plot, coz that will ruin the movie for u...all i ll say its, its an inspiring movie....where we see an individual triumph against all odds by the strength of his determination alone....excellent acting by russell crowe in the main lead, and he is well supported by jennifer connelly who plays part of his wife....the movie is very well directed, edited, paced...It is one of the all time classic movies, which will always leave u speechless about the ingenuity of the human mind.....we realize what we are capable of, everyone of us, if u decide to persue our goal...
       totally worth a watch any number of times...u ll never get tired of watching this movie...

Manorama Six Feet Under

if u like murder mysteries...this is your movie...inspired by chinatown (1974) it is a very well written, directed, acted,edited, n shot.....totally loved this movie..the length of this movie 2 hr n 15 min is just right...during the middle point of the movie u might get little lost....you might wonder whats happening, or where is it leading....but just be patient when u feel the movie lacks pace....coz the lack of pace is the beauty of this movie...n just enjoy what is going on in the screen in front of you, rather than racking your brain, with what happens next, or who killed the lady....n ull be pleased at the end...u ll be smiling i guarantee
              the movie is set in a small city of rajasthan, lakhot near jaipur...the pace of life there itself is slow...n hence the movie....the movie shows very nicely how a middle class couple in a small town live their life....where once you nurtured a dream of making it big....and when you realize you have not made it big...your chance is gone...n u almost stuck in the place you are, and there isn't anything much you can do about it....it tells a story of a couple who had an arranged marriage, n so even though they do love each other and stand by each other when needed, they don't hesitate to compare their partner with the other probable partners, and wonder how different their life wud if they had chosen someone else.....
                the cast is superb, abhay deol comes out as a versatile actor who doesn't need to do the run of the mill stories n roles to make a name in the industry....gul panag, vinay pathak, sarika, raima sen all have done justice to their role...
             love the truth alone triumphs theme of the movie...n the subtle sequences, like the guy in the taxi....or the dialogues "zara si saavdhani, zindagi bhar aasani"....the references might seem out of place, but if u take a closer look, u ll notice its connection with the situation in the movie or something....
          watch the movie..if u have a mind for a murder mystery with a twist...

Karthik calling Karthik

This movie talks about a very average guy karthik ( guess the director wanted to break out of rahul, raj image) so this guy is an invisible guy (not in actual sense of word)...just that no one will ever notice him...until one day he gets this call from another person who calls himself karthik and changes his life....    
            this movie is a suspense movie so am not gonna talk much about the plot....it definitely is interesting first watch....good direction by vijay lalvani....farhan akhtar is as good as u expect him to be....deepika adds charm of her own to the movie....the songs r wonderful...simply loved all the songs....full marks to shankar ehsaan loy for all the numbers.....i liked the movie coz it does make u sit upright, feel the horror n u wait to know the suspense....the movie is very well presented, romantic scenes are cute, will surely make u smile....
      all in all its different than the routine run of the mill stories....

My name is KHAN

This time around karan johar has tried to make a movie with a message rather than the usual love story or the family drama we normally expect from him...
He does deliver two messages that, not all muslims in the world are terrorists...and that good people are good and bad people are bad irrespective of their religions....
the messages are great in their simplicity...and it would have turned out to be a great movie if the movie was kept simple, erasing the complicated and unnecessary subplots and twists...
i loved the character of Rizwan khan, an autistic guy with asperger's syndrome (and shahrukh khan does the role well...some say it is one of his best performances..am not sure of it though..i have liked him in lot of other movies to be biased for this particular role)..and i actually had goosebumps when rizwan says it for the first time "my name is khan and i am not a terrorist".The simplicity of the character...the "ability to repair almost anything"...the way he courts mandira.....his honesty as a salesman of herbal beauty products..his ability to memorize everything.....the guy is just great...the simplicity of the way he lives touches us to the core...
But as I said, the subplots and twists and the repetition of the two messages over and over again, takes away the charm of the movie..
the movie centers around how muslims are viewed in USA pre and post 9/11....and how the selfless love of one man overcomes hurdles that come up....somehow I didnt like anything in the movie except the character of Rizwan khan, that i dont know what more to write about...
Somehow I feel that the movie lets us down...we go to the theaters with so many expectations and the movie fails to live upto those...am glad KJo ventured into a different territory and tried to make a movie thats different than the previous ones....
I just feel bad that a movie that could have turned out to be one of its kind and an all time classic fails to hit the mark! 
watch it if u r a big time shahrukh fan and if u dont ever miss any of his movies..

Couples Retreat..

story of 4 couples...who are friends and go for a one week vacation to some resort to have some fun and end up learning more about their relationship with their partners...
    Jason and cynthia are having some problem in their marriage and they wish to work it out by going to this resort which has counselling sessions along with all the fun...but they cant afford it by themselves, so they request their friends to come along...initially they are skeptical about taking a sudden trip abroad but they are convinced by their...
    the film gets funny when all the couples are forced to take on couple'e therapy as thats the part of the package they unknowingly signed up for...as the therapy sessions continue..the couples discover whats their marriage about...good and bad..and they discuss with their friends and get to learn what are the other peoples' perspective about them and their partner...
  its a funny movie but does get little slow in between...some comedy scenes are cute...but a lot appear forced..


the characters of all the 4 couples were well etched...
jason and cynthia : apparently perfect couple with perfect exterior but lots of flaws within..
dave and ronnie : again a happy couple with two kids, but who are stuck in mundane daily life and have no time for themselves as a couple.
joey and lucy : high school sweethearts who got married right after high school as lucy got pregnant, they feel they never got a chance to enjoy life and are stuck in their marriage
sam and trudy / jennifer : recently divorced with jennifer, sam thinks he has fallen in love with trudy who is 20 yr old girl...


watch it if u have seen all the other movies u wanted to watch...

3 idiots

fun movie to watch with an underlying messages " Follow your dreams" and " try to achieve excellence and success will follow" AAL IZZ WELL
very well written, directed acted etc etc...
my only problem was i liked the book 5 point someone better!
the movie is unique no doubt....but it lets the book down.....the characters are similar (you do see flashes of hari, alok and ryan in farhan, raju and rancho respectively) but the story is lost...the movie is lot different than the book....so dont compare the two.
If we just see the movie without any expectations you ll like it and enjoy it better...
music in this movie is definitely the highlight.....and it showcases the stress in current youth very well...so almost everyone can connect with the movie...pace of the movie is good..
this movie will make you laugh, and make u think...and it will be an evening well spent..

PS : i do wish someone makes the movie on 5 point someone as it is...keeping the plot intact...that wud be a treat too.......the ideas in the book were truly innovative..loved ryans C2D (co operate to dominate plan )