HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF PHOENIX....

could not wait to see the movie in english..so saw it in hindi in vasai only....what do i say...for the first time i feel the movie has surpassed the book...i dont know about others but the fifth book is not my favourite HP books...so i wasnt even too eager to see it....as in this book i feel the story doesnt move forward....also sirius dies....n nothing really happens..i mean order of phoenix is not so strong nor anything good happens....also parts abt cho n harry's love story n some other parts r outright boring..

but hey i m supposed to tell abt movie...

so well the movie is fabulous....excellent editing...n mixing of various sequences...so presentation is too good....the dumbledore's army part is excellent.....so is the umbridge....u really hate her....friendship between harry ron hermione is shown well......fred n george r cool as usual....grawp is cute....u fall in love with hagrids brother immediately....lots of stuff is covered as news in daily prophet....thats cool...nice way to take the story forward.....n the last fight in the ministry is wonderfully shot....the entire sequence is too good....must watch for all harry potter lovers...n all movie lovers too....extremely entertaining movie..

things u miss....quidditch...well there is no match in this movie....well the OWL exams were interesting to read in book which was not shown...also the part that ron n hermione r prefects...they dont show that too.....thankfully harrys n cho love story..their fights etc is cut off....also kreecher's part is cut off...so v really dont know if u have not read the book what he is saying n why.....also they have shown fred n george trying their products...but that cud have been elaborated on....the galleon thing in DA is cut off....n god knows why did they have to show cho as culprit in DA's getting caught....poor thing...n everyone hates her then....i guess thats it...at least i cant think of anything else....lemme know if i have missed out....GREAT MOVIE MR YATES.....THANK YOU

cheeni kum..

this is one of the movies i really liked.....amitabh's look in the movie is gr8....n of course i dont have to say that he enacted the role of a egoistical bachelor cum chef extremely well....who cant take it when others point out his mistake or find fault with him or his food...
the chemistry between amitabh n tabu was great....
the way he goes out of his way to impress her but doesnt admit it etc etc is shown well...
the kid was gr8 too...
but i thought the 1st half was better than the second half...expected it to be more hilarious..given the fact paresh rawal's presence...felt he was under utilized...
even though it deals with an older man n younger woman romance it is nothing like nishabd....the two movies r not comparable...
still gr8 songs...good editing...good dialogues...all in all a must watch at least once...one of the sweet n funny romance...

umrao jaan 1 vs umrao jaan 2

i was really expecting the second umrao jaan to be a great movie considering the director J P Dutta whose two movies border n refugee i have liked a lot...also was expection was raised knowing the star cast...was looking forward to see this movie n see abhishek as nawab n ash as umrao jaan....

but of course it didnt stand upto my expection....but mostly coz of change in storydone by JP Dutta....i know the changes coz so eager i was to know wat umrao jaan was n what the hype was abt that i actually went n got cd of the movie n saw the movie wit rekha as umrao jaan....

well the failure of the new umrao jaan only consolidates the fact the story is the most important part of film making..not the actors n the producer (by that i mean not how much money put into it) nor the director......only if the story is good will the movie succeed

cause of failure:
here i bring to u the changes made in new movie wrt wat it was in old movie...i too dont know the actual story as i have not read the book...

firstly the greatest negative is that there r no ironies in the new movie...it jus deals with the same old tragedy of an innocent girl who becomes a prostitute.....well v all know the sad story....nothing new abt it..

differences in old n new movie:
old movie:
1) the man who kidnaps her has kidnapped one more girl too...the other girl is not a very good looking girl....he takes them both to some nawabs home n asks the wife too buy them both n keep them as servants....well she says she needs only 1 maid not two..also he asks more money for the amiran (umrao jaans childhood name) as she is pretty..so the nawabs wife refuses to take her saying she doesnt need the beautiful girl for a maid the not so good looking girl wud do...n so finally she keeps other female n the guy takes her to a brothel..
thus 1st irony :her beauty works against her...coz of her beauty she lands up in a whore house otherwise she wud have been taken as maid which is not as bad as becoming a prostitute...
well this whole sequence is cut out from the new movie...in the new one the man directly takes her to a brothel...

2)she does try to run away..but gets caught n then she is beaten..n then she is kept tied...
in new one...she tries to run...but the care taker catches her n then tempts her with fineries..n she gets tempted n forgets her family as she comes from a poor family n has not seen such things.....

3)in the old movie....she is a famous prostitute before abhisheks character (played by farooq shaikh) meets her...in fact he hears her singing n is enchanted by her voice first...but he being a good guy doesnt go to the brothel...later on when he hears so much abt her beauty too goes to see her n falls for her

in the new one....she is so called introduced in some mehfil..where all nawabs r supposed to have gathered n abhishek sees her there n falls for her..(weak first meeting sequence)


4) second irony..once rekha n other girls have gone for a picnic....she is supposed to meet farooq shaikh there....other girls r playing..some dacoits come n kidnap one of the girls...well as fate wud have it...this girl is rescued by some king n he marries her...(in the movie of course this is shown in two parts...wen rekha has lost her way in jungle she ends up in this girls kingdom n they meet..till then everyone thought the girls dead....well so the irony being had she been there playing n not wit farooq shaikh she wud have been kidnapped n later married the king...also the irony being her nawab leaves her but this king marries the girl even though she is a prostitute..) this entire sequence is absent in new movie..a vital one i believe to reach out to audience
5)old movie: well farooq shaikh's parents r divorced...n they had this pact that farooq will marry his fathers daughter..now obviously faroq's mother doesnt want that to happen...so she just takes a vow that i will marry my daughter to anyone but ur sisters daughter..if need arises even to the maid of my home... well n on the other side..farooq is shown to be in love wit rekha n all but she doesnt have courage to ask him to marry her...n he doesnt commit anything..rekha also tells him once u shd listen to ur mom i think...n he is under his moms thumb...n he doesnt have courage to tell his mom that loves a prostitute...

thus the third irony: she loses her lover...who marries the maid of the house jus to please his mother...n well no prizes for guessing who the maid is..she is none other than the other girl who was kidnapped along with umrao jaan..so even though they were both kidnapped by the same person....the girl became a maid n later the wife of a nawab due to lack of good looks n umrao jaan is again thrashed by destiny...

in the new one: well abhishek announces his love for umrao jaan..his father disapproves...abhi fights back...father disowns him...so the nawab becomes penniless..umrao's khala insults him n throws him out of her kotha...ash asks him take her wit him..but he like an idiot tells her he has to earn a living for them both n lets her live in the hell...n tells her to be faithful to him else he will leave her.....(i dont know what kind of an idiot is he shown..doesnt he know whats expected of a prostitute n doesnt he know people might force her against her wishes..wat kind of a man lets the woman he loves live in such a hell hole)...n after that he is not shown doing anything that might suggest he being productive...he jus goes to his uncles home..n does time pass i guess..while umrao is facing all the music


6)old movie : well now rekha is alone n lonely..this dacoit comes...enacted by raj babbar...he had expressed interest in her n asked her to go wit him....earlier she had refused..but now bein without any aim she asks him to take her wit him n he does....well on the way..dacoits of the other gang come n kill him...so again she loses someone who truely cared for her n loved her.....
in the new movie: sunil shetty comes dressed as nawab...ash refuses to sleep with him..he kind of rapes her...n then she comes to know where abhishek is so she acts as if she is interested in sunil shetty n asks him to take her...sunil shetty gets caught by soldjers..seeing abhishek there adds 1 n 1...tells abhi ash was unfaithful..n abhi sends ash back without even listening to her...(sad but the sanctity of love is lost here...raj babbars character is so dignified u actually feel bad that he gets killed n rekha is alone...that definately tugs ur heart more than suniel saying ash was unfaithful n abhi sending her back..i mean wat kind of love did he have for her that he believes a dacoit n doesnt even let her talk...wat kind of a judge of character is he....i feel umrao is definately better off alone rather than being with such a person.....)

7)lastly..in old one umraos mother accepts her but she is too weak to fight her son who insults umrao n sends her back

new one....the mother herself insults her.....i mean what kind of a mother wud do that....

there r some more differences too like ash was raped by puru raj kumars character there was no need of that but jus put to create sympathy....but the tragedies ash had to go thru did tug the heart the way rekha's story did...

these were the twists in story of rekha's umrao jaan which made umrao jaan a bigger tragedy..different from other tragedies...

dhoom Vs dhoom 2

this is one of the first of my post of my new movie comparison series.....lemme tell u guys something...i dont sit n dwell on it..this come to me spontaneously coz of my love for movies...as i see a movie my mind automatically starts comparing if its s sequel or its based on a book or if its a remake...n if its none of the above..my mind starts working abt whats good in this movie (if its a nice movie)...or what sets it apart from the rest....n if its a bad movie..whats bad abt it...or wat can be done so that it cud be a better movie....this comes to me naturally.....n as it keeps on going round n round my head i have decided to pen in down (in this case type it down)

Dhoom Vs Dhoom 2

both these movies made good money...dhoom 2 more than dhoom....but as far as i m concerned...i believe dhoom was a much better movie than its sequel...

my reasons :dhoom.... it was a new concept...it was first of its kind....it practically had no stars...it made the actors stars..dhoom was abhisheks n john's first hit movie....good story good direction...nice action sequence..good songs...good comedy..loved uday chopra in the movie...comedy between rimi n uday too is nice....esha too looked nice...bike sequences were well shot...great dialogues....loved the conversations between john n abhishek...both on phone n in casino in end....abhishek actually does some policemangiri when he gets hold of bike...his role is not wasted in this movie...rimi sen too is good...i mean her role too is well done...all in all a well made movie

well dhoom 2 :GREAT star cast...HRITHIK ASH BIPASHA ABHISHEK UDAY CHOPRA....i did think wud any of these people been associated with dhoom 2 had the first movie not been a smashing hit

at the end of movie i wondered wat exactly was bipasha doing in the movie...wen the movie wud have been same without her too..other than showing off her great body..she had no role....

hrithik did steal the show...with his brilliant dancing n acting...but u cant hang a guy for being so good than even the good appear mediocre...n another question popped up my head now...was there a show to steal
well there was nothing great in story...n it wasnt even as if it was one of the best perfomances by the rest of the cast...well they all have movies where they have acted wonderfully...i dont think dhoom 2 is gonna feature in hall of fame of any of the cast except HRITHIK....

ASH didnt get into the skin of the role she was enacting....my guess is she was supposed to get the LARA CROFT kind of a look...well she did try..her body language her running style etc did get close to it....but she didnt get thru it in her dialogue delivery....it was a different style..but she didnt sound the cool n rough n tough image she was trying to get...

abhishek....well m not comparing his dancing abilities or his physique with hrithik coz they jus cant be compared...but his role cud have been better as it was in dhoom 1....they cud have done something i m sure to make jai dixit appear formidable as against aryan...here there was no competition...everyone knew jai was jus no match for MR A...

uday too sadly didnt carry his character well forward...

songs.....pathetic......pl cant even listen to my name is ali and touch me dont touch me soniya.....

i dont know whom to fault....director or the actor....i asked myself is he the same guy who made dhoom...

action sequences are jus put for the heck of it....thanks to computers....most of the movie i guess is done on computer only....for no reason at all things r exploding...there r chases going on...well there should have been some continuity in action sequence...1 second u show hrithik going down the drain..n in next scene he comes out of fire hydrant ? were the drain n hydrant inter connected mr director...

on the plus side the title track n diljale rocked..but m afraid thats just thanks to hrithik..a sight for sore eyes in this movie

when u make dhoom 3 hope u make the movie comparable to your first if not better than that Mr Gadhvi

spiderman 3

what i liked :
1 the way tobey maguire acted as the bad spiderman
2 the moral : what he says in the end u always can choose between right n wrong...n its in ur hand to choose the right...
3 the special effects

what i didnt like:
very routine predictable run of the mill story n suspense....

ta ra rum pum...

this is an ok ok movie...not that gr8 at all....not whats expected from saif n rani...still there r few points which r shown very beautifully in this movie....i liked the way they show the transition the family takes when they go bankrupt...there is no grumbling or fighting or name calling or pointing fingers at each other...i mean they go bankrupt n it is saif's fault largely...but rani takes it in stride....she has seen happy times with him n is perfectly fine to go along in bad time...she doesnt even get angry with her husband for a second coz of whom they r in such position....she doesnt show reluctance to work...she is willing to give him a second chance....encourages him when he is low....wonderful characterisation of rani...saif's character not too bad either...loves rani unconditionally.. helpful..he too peps her up...he feels bad abt her abt her facing all the difficulties but he is not in a position to do anything much...he is pretty helpless abt their dire state....n their love is shown to be jus the same...thats so nice...the only time she gets bugged is when he lies abt his daughters health....children acted well like all the child actors do...all in all i liked the spirit of the movie....of course v gotta overlook obvious flaws
1.didnt he have finance managin company...he is such a famous driver...when he has made so much money...how the hell can he go bankrupt....
2.songs r really bad...wish they were a bit peppy...n there r too many songs...n v knew he is gonna win the crucial race in the end..with his cabbie crew :)
had this been a two hr movie with few less songs..it wud have been gr8

anyways a good concept....very nice moral...n a feel good movie...one time watch