cocktail

this ones a fun film....there is nothing really exceptional about the movie...good or bad....so you can watch it, once....with your friends if you are in mood to chill out...the actors are easy on eyes...and you get to see london and cape town....

story is simple....a flirt, Gautam (saif ali khan) gets into a time pass relationship with sexy girl Veronica (deepika padukone)...starts living together with her and her roommate, the traditional girl Meera (diana penty)....when it comes to falling in love, what does he choose traditional beautiful or sexy and beautiful....

i liked one song, daaru desi....rest songs are ok...saif is good...but u dont reach for the loverboy here, like you do for sameer in dil chahta hai....similarly, you dont feel very bad for affection starved, rich bitch Veronica....and as for traditional meera, the way she slips in comfortable happy zone so easily, you dont get touched either....

this is a fun film...just chill the way characters chill......watch it for some fun and some romance...

ferrari ki sawaari

"jo dekhega wahi sikhega" one of the most important messages conveyed by any movie.....very simple father- son story that will not fail to touch your heart....father Rustom Deboo (sharman joshi) is RTO head clerk who wants to fulfill his sons dream of going to a cricket coaching camp at lords, london....and the twists and turns that lead us to lords....

Kayo (ritwik shore) is a gifted boy extremely talented when it comes to cricket....and dreams of playing for indian cricket team like his idol..none other than Sachin Tendulkar....and his father trying to do everything he can including borrowing ferrari from Tendulkar....

acting is good by all the actors....boman irani plays Rustom Deboo's father....i wont write too much about the storyline and the twists...all i ll say its fun watch...a simple story told very well...story is well paced...you dont feel bored or confused about where the story is leading....ritwik is too good...he actually looks like young tendulkar and all his shots and mannerisms are exactly like tendulkar...so thats a bonus for all tendulkar fans....you feel like you are watching younger sachin playing.....and i simply loved sharman joshi in this movie...he plays the simple.....working hard to meet ends while doing his best to fulfill his son's dreams and teaching him good values.....he indeed is a super dad...

direction by rajesh mapuskar is good...hopefully he makes many more such enjoyable movies with simple but profound messages....dialogue bu raju hirani are fun...i loved the parsi lingo in this movie...music is good too..

i loved this movie...its an enjoyable ride!!!

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 )

A Walk to Remember

This movie is based on book by Nicholas Sparks by the same name..

i have not read the book, so i dont know how well it is adapted to the book or which is better book or movie..

As far as the movie goes, its a cute and sweet love story which wil surely make u smile :)

The plot is not that uncommon or unpredictable...but the presentation is beautiful...the way the love story of the lead pair develops is lovely....i just loved it :)

well about the plot : as i said its not very uncommon...cool dude rebellious guy landon carter(shane west) falls is some trouble while playing a practical joke on a classmate....in order that he mends his ways the principle makes him do activities like mentoring students, taking part in play etc etc..things he would not have done ever on his own...but all these activities put him in company of jamie sullivan (many moore), plain jane, simple, sweet girl but with a head of her own and who doesnt care what others think of her...

as they spend time together, they develop good friendship and inpite of initial embarrasement landon has abt acknowledging his friendship with jamie, they become good friends after landon takes jamie's side after a practical joke played on her by his other cool friends...

the way their relationship develops is to be seen...i wont be writing about it and about the end on the blog...

well if u see this movie, u ll guess the end quite soon (at least i did!) but stick on....its worth it..

direction by jim bosgraaf is good...the flow of story is nice, u dont feel bored or find lack of pace...

the lead pair is good.....landon -jamie moments r very very cute....they ll surely make u smile....they have good chemistry, shane west makes a very likable rebellious guy and mandy moore is very sweeet

a nice way to spend an evening if watching a movie is what u wanna do....u ll be smiling at the end of the movie :) :)

my fav scene :

THE LITTLE PRINCESS (1939)

I so love this book Frances Hodgson Burnett by that wen i saw the movie on youtube movies i jus had to see it!!!!!!! i owe big time to rehana for giving me this book to read.....the movie i saw was made in 1939 starring shirley temple as the little princess..

directed by Walter Lang..

The movie is about this little girl sarah crewe (shirley temple) who is put up at a boarding school by her father Captain crewe when he has to go to south africa to fight in a war.

the story is about how sweet the little girl is and does not leave her hope, strength,and dignity even under the worst circumstances....she sure is mischeivous, naughty and imaginative...i love the character of sarah crewe.....but what is the highlight of the movie is the HOPE in the little girl.....and the fact that she never complains about anything, tries to be happy in adverse cirsumstance..she is jus too sweet!!!!!!!!

sure its a predictable story!!!!! but it is so well presented...and so well described in the book and well enacted in the movie.....that touches our heart and the predictablity of the movie just does not make a difference....

the hope in the child makes us hope too for a better tomorrow no matter what goes thru today...watch this movie anytime (m yet to see the 1917,1986 and 1995 version)...and u ll be smiling at the end of 90 min!!!!!

Serendipity

serendity means windfall or accidental good luck...
In this movie Sara thomas (kate beckinsale) is a hard core believer of fate and destiny...when she meets Jonathan Trager (john cusack) while shopping for a christmas gift and ends up spending an evening with him (inspite of the fact that both of them are in relationship with other people), she decides to let fate decide if their mutual attraction would turn into something more or not.

so she asks him to write his phone no on a 5 $ bill and writes hers on a used copy of book LOVE IN TIME OF CHOLERA.She tells him if they are meant to be together either one of them at least will come across other persons phone no.

5 yrs later they both are set to marry different people, but they both cant forget that one evening spent on streets on Manhattan....so they both decide to look out for each other once again...
whats follows is a hilarious series of events and coincidences where they just miss each other or where something abstract leads one to another, and ultimately.................no prizes for guessing the end :)

its a typical hindi movie types....very predictable....good acting though by john cuzack and kate beckinsale...even though u know whats gonna happen you root out for both of them :)

story flows well...and u look forward to how the two lead characters are gonna meet up :)
its a cute and sweet romantic movie which is fun to watch....

99

this movie is a story of two petty thieves sachin (kunal khemu) and zarra mud (cyrus broacha)...sachin wants to do something big once and for all, so that he can stop stealing and open a nice coffee shop....

their run ins with fate...how they are forced to work for a bookie cum hooligan AGM (mahesh manjrekar)....

the story turns funny when sachin and zarra mud are asked by AGM to retrive money from rahul (boman irani) who has lost 20 lakhs in match betting...

during the first 45 min u might wonder what exactly is goin on....and where is the movie leading...but after that everything starts falling into place..
also seen in movie are : pooja (soha ali khan), vinod khanna.

good points:
good acting by entire cast.....nice comedy....funny dialogues...
the story is set in the yr 1999-2000.....so the movie takes us back a decade in a nice way....small details r taken care of like....really old model mobile handsets...posters of movies released in 1999......

a very enjoyable movie....you ll get your money's worth..

MUMBAI MERI JAAN........A WEDNESDAY

anything i say about both this movies is going to fall short of how good they are....
so i ll do the best i can do.....i wont say anything at all :)

both these movies are very apt for todays times....as they deal with effects of terrorism....how the terrorism has affected human lives today....all of us can identify with these people and their feelings....

kudos to both the directors for coming up with the idea.....neeraj pandey for " a wednesday" and nishikant kamat for "mumbai meri jaan"

please dont think that these movies r similar....sure they deal with aftermath of mumbai train blasts....but thats where the similarity ends....
MUMBAI MERI JAAN deals with stories of 6 people affected in blasts...
soha ali khan who is a tv news reporter...and whose fiance dies in the blast....
r madhvan....a survivor of the blast...
paresh rawal....a cop in the city...
kay kay menon......a hindu guy who thinks all muslims are bad
irfan khan...a common man who suffers coz he is at wrong place at wrong time....

amongst all the stories what is highlighted is the NEVER SAY DIE attitude of spirit of mumbai...
but i guess it could be said of any city in world...i would like to say it talks about NEVER SAY DIE attitude of we human beings....
on the other hand A WEDNESDAY deals with a story of one day....wont elborate more on it as it will spoil the charm of the movie....
cast of wednesday is : naseeruddin shah ,anupam kher,jimmy shergill,aamir bashir,deepal shaw
great acting by all of them

all in all great direction....wonderful editing....nice dialogues....good message in both these movies....
both of them a must watch

ROCK ON!!!

This is a story of 4 friends :

Adi - the singer (farhan akhtar) , joe - the guitar player (arjun rampal), rob- the keyboard player (luke Kenny) ,kd -the drummer (purab kohli)

They share their love for music…..they are members of a band MAGIK….they are each others best friends ….they love each other…and they share a common dream of making it big as a rock band…..

Alls well till they face the music of life….as their dream is about to become a reality , disaster strikes and in a moment of fury all is lost and they go their separate ways…….

Their life after the band disbands turns pathetic….

For adi it is difficult to keep in touch with anything and anybody that reminds him of his shattered dream…so he keeps away from his group and music and leads a mechanical life earning good money as investment banker……he cant even talk about his past with his loving sweet wife sakshi (prachi desai) who keeps wondering what she should do to make him smile….

Kd the goofy drummer who keeps the moment light with his humour misses his friends but the work load of his jewellery business keep him from meeting his friends regularly..

Joe he teaches guitar to young children…he plays guitar at some parties that barely keep food in his home as his wife Debbie (shahana goswami) manages his family run fish business and keeps things going in their home…

Rob who is assistant composer to anu malik is dissatisfied with his job but he does not what to do and he has his share of load to deal with….

Events take a turn as sakshi accidently finds out about the band and happens to meet Kd at the jewellery store….she plans a surprise reunion for adi….Kd and rob are more than happy to meet up but not adi and joe…they still have their demons to deal with….but after initial aloofness adi and joe too realize they should get back together….and that’s when the movie turns and things are looking good when of course disaster strikes again…..but this time it binds them together rather than take them apart…..

Good points:
Excellent acting by all the guys and they are well supported by the girls…..also to be mentioned are koel puri as devika and nicollete bird as Tanya do a good job of the roles given to them…

Great direction by abhishek kapoor in his debut movie…..the presentation is superb….the blending of past and present is wonderfully done…crisp editing by deepa bhatia ….not even one scene is out of place or not taking the story forward

Music by Shankar ehsaan loy is lively and foot tapping….lyrics by javed akhtar is exceptional esp the song socho to and tum ho toh…..singing by farhan akhtar is a wonderful surprise package….dialogues by farhan akhtar are good….

Nice touches like the band playing in garba to raise money for their group….makes us laugh spontaneously….

All in all wonderful feel good movie…….i know its being said everywhere but still I ll say “ROCK ON!!! ROCKS” …great going abhishek kapoor

jaane tu.... ya jaane na

after almost all my friends and family saw this movie and recommended it as a must watch i went to see this movie....and it lived upto or should i say exceeded my expectations......

firstly want to congratulate mr abbas tyrewala for making such a lively movie as a first time director…for treating the movie so well…right from the credits till the last scene of movie

wont dwell too much into the plot of the movie.........as basically this movie does not have any....this is a movie which has excerpts of memory......of incidences.......the memory here is of a bunch of six friends but if we go to see it cud be a memory of any group of friends who sit down and go for a jog down the memory lane........abt those wonderful college days wen all we friends r inseparable....i guess all of us have some group or the other....and all of us surely miss those days where we wud do things jus for the heck of it.....well i am getting diverted here...some of the last couple of sentences belong to the main blog and not to the movie review ,but i guess this is what the movie does to u it takes u back in time...similar to a hangover u cud say.....

well i cud say the story is abt two inseparable best friends jai alias rats (imran khan) and aditi alias meow (genelia d’souza) who initially dont realize they r meant for each other till jai gets a girlfriend and aditi starts feeling neglected , she retaliates by getting engaged and jai feels jealous seeing aditi with someone else….…and they finally realize they r made for each other......but i wud be very unfair if i summarized the entire movie in mere two sentences....

as i said earlier ,the movie belongs to the whole group of friends not just the lead pair….what I liked abt this movie is that even the smallest of roles is well defined…..nobody is there in a movie without reason…no scene or song is extra in the movie…

Bonuses :
Naseeruddin shah as a dead talking husband is too good…..u wait for him to show up in the movie

All the supporting actors r wonderful…

the friends :

Rotlu : karan makhija , bombs : alishka varde , jiggy: nirav Mehta , shaleen :sugandha garg

Amit :prateik babbar (aditi’sbrother) , paresh rawal :inspector waghmare and everyone else too…..

The whole concept of ranjhaur ka rathore (the family jai belongs to) is hilarious and the need to fulfill the 3 duties namely ride a horse…beat someone up…and go to jail at least once

Might sound stupid now…but in movie doesn’t sound dumb…..

The two hooligans (arbaaz and sohail khan) on horses…..

Comedy is good ,very natural….its very well blended into the movie not just some sequences…

Loved the way everything fits in the end…all loose ends r tied up in a very natural way…without it seeming very difficult

The movie is made very innovatively with some plots which r not a major part of story woven very well into the story to make it different from routine story…

No cheap jokes or dialogues…..

The songs r lovely especially “aditi” and “nazrein churana”(the picnic song)….lyrics r lovely and so is the music by a r rahman….

I wished :

There wud be some more interaction between aditi and amit…and what happens to him finally wud have been shown….i felt his was a very interesting character and wanted to see more of him than what was shown……

I loved the movie….watch it without fail…….great going mr tyrewala looking forward to many movies from u…and thank u aamir khan for producing this movie wen it ran into some financial crises…….

made of honour

well made it a point to see this movie coz i just cud not miss not watching a patrick dempsey movie...though once the movie began i did begin to wonder why the hell he took up this movie....the story is absolutely routine (best friends not realizing they r made for each other till the girl decides to marry.....and the guy breaks the marriage in the last min while the girl is at the altar preparing to say I DO...only difference is here the girl asks the guy to be her maid of honour) , with nothing great in the way its presented...i mean if it was treated well ,the movie cud have been much better.....

bad points :
none of the relationships have been elaborated upon......they jus show how tom (dempsey) and hannah (michelle monaghan) became best friends...but how the relationship developed is not shown....and why, i mean out of so many friends they both might have whats special between them that they r best friends....

also the relationship between hannah and colin mcmurray (kevin mckidd)....how they got involved etc etc isn't shown......

how tom tries to break the wedding isn't shown......i mean he doesn't do anything to actually break the wedding.....he just keeps on saying he wants to break the wedding over and over again

tom's dislike for colin is not shown...
basically none of the emotion or anything is shown well.......everything is touched upon superficially....

direction by paul weiland is bad

the story has its predictable twists and turns......and very predictable misunderstanding...and a very predictable ending

good points:
none that i can think of...............lemme try.......hmmm.......some of the wedding traditions in scotland r funny......dont know if they actually exist or mr.weiland came up with them....

watch it only if u like seeing PATRICK DEMPSEY'S FACE..........

thoda pyaar thoda magic

thats what most of us need in our hectic life...thoda pyaar and thoda magic :)

i had decided i am gonna see this movie when i saw the trailer the first time....i was not going to let any critics' any review change my thoughts....so inspite of mayank shekhar's bad comments i went for the movie as mithu was home and mom was up for it too......

the movie begins with story of little boy ranbir (who grows up to be saif) who tragically loses everyone he loves and cares about......first his best friend....then his mother...he is sent to hostel....where he is loner as he is very reserved and doesnt make friends easily...other boys misunderstand him and make fun of him,mock at him ,rebuke him.....this makes him more antagonistic towards them....then steps in a teacher who acts as his guide, helps him study.....but soon the teacher retires.......and the boy is alone again....but now he has his books with him....he becomes the best student but a loner......comes first in every exam and grows up to be a very successful entrepreneur........but even now he is a loner...never lets anyone come near his heart...he has learnt to live without love...

one day when he is driving he meets with an accident and the people in the other car are killed....as a punishment the judge rules that the 4 children of the couple will live with him..that he has to look after the well being of the children till the youngest turns 18....he cant put the kids in boarding school.....and he cant leave the city without them.....and if does not abide by this he wud be put behind the bars for 20 yrs....

now ranbir has no choice but to get these children in the house......he tries to be nice to them but they hate him as they see him as their parents' murderer and want to take revenge on him ie send him to prison......so their sole aim is to see that they play pranks on him and make him so angry that ranbir is forced to ill treat them and then he will have to go behind bars...

ranbir tries to keep his cool initially but as the children are not willing to take even one step forward to accept his friendship he soon gets fed up with them...and they all r sad....
and the kids pray to god (rishi kapoor) to take them out of this miserable situation...
as a result god sends his chirpy, bubbly ,happy go lucky angel geeta (rani mukherji) to resolve dispute within them and make them into one family...

geeta understands the difficult position ranbir is in as he feels guilty for orphaning the children and he understands what they r goin thru as he himself was an orphan....and he feels bad all the time for being the cause of it...she also understands the pain of all four kids ranging from 5 to 9 yrs of age and their various emotions....but she does manahe to convince them that ranbir too is not totally at fault and to forgive him and that he has their best interests at heart

so geeta with her thoda pyaar and thoda magic manages to unite all of them.....

good points :
saif and rani both have acted their parts well......

the kids :vashisht -akshat chopra
iqbal -rachit sidana
aditi - shriya sharma
avantika - ayushi berman too have acted well.......ayushi is jus too cute in the movie

the way geeta makes opportunties for ranbir to win over the children is nice...

the computerized magic effects r nice...
the songs r ok.....we expect better when music is by shankar ehsaan loy and lyrics is by prasoon joshi......only nihaal ho gayi is really nice song.....
comedy is nice......

one thing which i really liked in the movie..one dialogue that ranbirs tells aditi...winning is important true but more important are the people clapping for ur success...and if u look down from dias and see no one clapping for u ,u r not successful...so wen at times u dont win be sure to clap for ur friend who has won...like that u ll be a part of his victory and celebrations

bad points :
direction by kunal kohli is ok (dont know if i am biased...coz i have not really liked any of his previous movies very much)
the fact that even though geeta is performing magic left right and center no body questions her or asks for an explanation cant be digested
ameesha patel role as ranbir's girlfriend malaika could have been better defined......she should have been a bit more mature role as its difficult to imagine a guy like ranbir liking a girl like (no brains type) malaika...

costumes by manish malhotra r bad.....esp of ameesha patel...did u run out of idea or didnt mr kohli give u enough time for designing?????or u thought nobody wud notice her clothes....all her outfits r of one design only jus the colours r different..
also the concept of jus one outfit for rani seemed weird.....i mean if she had to look as human as possible she should be wearing different clothes daily na...or least she shd have been given a pair of clothes if mr kohli wanted to show her from poor background.......dont know what he was thinking when he came up with the idea of one outfit......

wud like to point to one thing i just didnt like and thought evrything was overboard abt it.........one incident shown in movie where as an attempt to jeopardize the deal ranbir is keen to make with an american guy ,its shown that the kids misbehave with the children of american guy...and that too in such a stupid way.. they pour water on their heads...make them wet ,then they roll the white kids in sand on the golf course....then vashisht makes the kid hold golf ball in his mouth and is abt to hit the ball with the golf stick when geeta sees him and stops him....but still which children around 8 to 10 yrs of age will allow themselves to be manhandled like that by kids of their own age i wud like to know for sure....and then they dont even apologize for it and wen the american guy shouts at them , ranbir comes with some crap that nobody talks with my kids like that.....totally misdirected scene..big blunder in the movie....after this incident its shown that kids reconcile with ranbir....maybe kunal kohli wanted to show to the kids in the movie that ranbir wud stick by them whatever they do......but it doesnt mean that ranbir does not make them understand when they r so wrong in their action...and after they had patched up it should have been shown that the kids apologize to the kids of the american guy and accept their mistake......

other than these minor hiccups it is an enjoyable movie....keep ur brains aside when u go for it.......kids will love the movie for all the magic shown.....watch it when u wanna spend a light hearted fun filled evening......u ll be smiling at the end of it :)

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