U ME aur HUM

Despite the poor movie reviews I gathered courage and went to see this movie….i was not particularly enthusiastic to watch this movie for the simple reason that in reviews it was mentioned that this movie was a copy of THE NOTEBOOK & 50 FIRST DATES…I love both these movies…and THE NOTEBOOK is one of my all time favorite books too….

Well I can say I was in for a surprise…..at the end of it I actually liked this movie and enjoyed it….the only similarity it has with THE NOTEBOOK AND 50 FIRST DATES is that in these two movies too the story revolves around ALZEIMERS DISEASE….actually in 50 FIRST DATES its some other disorder…

So basically coming back to U ME AUR HUM…..

Good points :

love the tag line SOMETIMES THE GREATEST JOURNEY IS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE

Acting by kajol and ajay devgan is nice especially in emotional sequences….

The title track is nice…..and jee le is nice….lyrics of both these songs r beautiful and so is music

Story moves ahead at a good pace….esp in second half…the romantic dialogues r beautiful

The friendship between ajay and his friends is nice to see……also the relationship between pia (kajol) and dr ajay (ajay devgan) is shown beautifully…chemistry between the lead pair is nice…romance is shown well …..practical difficulties and problems encountered with someone having alzeimer’s is shown well….some emotional scenes touch your heart….and your heart reaches out for dr.ajay as he faces problems due to pia’s illness….. The entire story is handled well

Bad points :

Some dialogues are cheap….some stupid comedy sequences are just not needed…editing in first half could have been better….the song dil dhakda hai and the Punjabi wedding song (I forgot the name) could have been cut….

Music by vishal bhardhwaj is overall average (not something extraordinary as wud be expected of him)

Direction is ok…..in the whole movie they have jus zoomed in on kajol and ajay devgans face so much so that they fill entire screen…that cud very well be avoided….unlike the book THE NOTEBOOK here it is shown that pia gets alzeimers wen she is 28…well this is a really really rare thing…..in the book she gets it in her late fifties…well ajay devgan has jus stretched his imagination…we cud call it creative freedom :)

Over all its an entertaining movie…..u ll be smiling at the end of it….watch it if u r a movie buff and have no plans for some Sunday afternoon

27 dresses

its a simple story..abt a simple girl named jane nicols (katherine heigl)..

its abt a sweet kind hearted helpful girl who cant say no to anyone or cant hurt anyone....not even her wile younger sister tess (malin ackerman) who makes jane's boss george (edward burns) fall in love with her by telling her lies abt herself...btw jane thinks she is in love with george...

also jane loves to organize weddings...so she ends up being bridesmaid to 27 times....always imagining how it will be wen she gets married...

at one of the weddings she meets this cynical guy kevin doyle (james marsden) who thinks little of weddings...thinks lot of money is unnecessarily wasted in weddings....which can be put to better use..

kevin is a wedding journalist for a newspaper..so when george is gonna marry tess..jane runs a lot into kevin....who sees her thru n realizes her feelings for george...simultaneously he is falling for her too....

then its routine again...she too falls for kevin eventually..then there is misunderstanding....but ultimately the lovebirds unite...so alls well that ends well ultimately :)

its a sweet feel good movie....james marden is a simply adorable who just makes ur heart melt with his smile....katherine heigl has acted well her part so has malin akerman...u jus hate the sight of her in the movie...

its a 2 hour movie..so u dont get bored at all...the pace of the movie too is just right...direction by anne fletcher is fine...dialogues r good...editing is good....u dont feel there r sequences which the movie cud have done without...

girls will surely love this movie.....its good use of two hours wen u feel like getting entertained....

RACE..

this certainly is a fast movie....right from the first scene...there are many plus points...unpredictable twists and turns in the plot....good acting by all the actors...crisp dialogues...some of the dialogues r jus too good....comedy is a bit stupid....but u laugh anyways...good action...good cinematography....good editing...

negative points..chiefly one big negative point...too many songs..unnecessary songs...and the songs r not good too so cant listen to them..nor the dances r good so cant see them either....music by pritam goes below expectations....if u watching on the laptop u r better off fast forwarding all the songs....

set in south africa the plot is on the lines of two step brothers scheming against each other for the insurance money of 100 million dollars....the two brothers r ranvir (saif ali khan) and rajeev (akshaye khanna) who r in the buiesness of horse racing.....helping them in their plotting r the two ladies sofia (katrina kaif) ranvir's indespensible secretary who loves her boss and sonia (bipasha basu) an upcoming model with a criminal past who ranvir is about to propose.....dont exert your mind as to who is on whose side as they apparently keep switching sides in every other scene...anil kapoor is a fruit loving cop...and sameera reddy is his dumb assistant...both of them keep us entertained in the later half of the movie...

like a typical abbas mustan movie....there r exploding cars...fast cars....fast horses....hot babes....there is one big flaw in the plot which m not going to tell u coz it ll ruin the movie for u....
this is a story of greed, revenge ,betrayal which plots a brother against a brother...one plays to win another plays to defeat....one is right other one wrong.....and the right one wins the race ultimately :)

watch the movie once.....coz u wont have the time to think abt flaws in the plot...the second time i m sure u ll be busy searching flaws which i might just do one of these days ;)

Black & White

kudos to Mr Ghai for making this movie...

wonderful concept.....end terrorism not terrorists...
very well directed...editing is crisp...acting is superb by all actors be it anil kapoor as a peace loving professor mathur...shefali shah as roma his outspoken bengali wife...or debutante anurag sinha as afghani terrorist numair kazi....
inspite of this being his first movie he has acted this difficult character very well....his character had to be strong jehadi intelligent silent terrorist...hardly had any dialogues but conveyed everything thru his expressions and body language

well the concept of movie...
it revolves around this guy who is from afghanistan...who has become a terrorist after his family died in the bomb blasts....he has come to india with a mission as suicide bomber and is supposed to blow up red fort on 15th aug.....
when he arrives in india he lives with a muslim family who r getting money from the terrorist groups.....as he stays in india he sees how other people r..how politicians for their own gain provoke people in the name of religion....how some people (like anil kapoor's character) maintain communal harmony...and see everyone equally and dont discriminate people on the basis of religion....seeing all this there is inner turmoil within him as to what is right and what is wrong...
still the junoon of being a terrorist is there and the thing that all non muslims are kafirs and have no right to survive in so well into his head that he does not abandon the mission easily....

also the fact that he sees himself as devout muslim and believes he is doing what is written in koran and will please allah is there...so wen a fellow muslim terrorist says he has had alcohol he kills him too...as his dialouge goes जो इस्लाम की इज्ज़त नही करता मैं उसकी इज्ज़त नही करता
there are a quite a few similar occasions..so he basically is a nice guy.....just circumstances and the environment have made him what he is....
and when he comes in contact with anil kapoor (which he hates initially as he is taking favour from a hindu person).....he starts seeing things differently....also what triggers him at last is the fact that roma who takes him as a brother is murdered by one of his fellow terrorists....

so at last in the end at the last moment he does not blow up the bomb.....the police try to kill him but he escapes as professor mathur stops the policeman from shooting...
so numair returns to his home alive a different individual....understands that he wud have gone against allah had he blown up the bomb and killed innocent....

different kind of movie...not typical...bit serious...but it has its light moments...wen they show roma and professor mathur teasing each other...songs which come in background are good...blend well with the movie...
watch it...you wont regret it....

Jodhaa Akbar

i went for this movie despite mediocre movie review...and despite the frightening length of the movie of 3 and half hours....ya i know m a movie freak....

anyways abt the movie....
well the plot is not so simple...dont know how much was reality n how much fictional....
plot is king bharmal of amer doesnt wish to give the kingdom or a part of it to the son of his elder brother sujamal (played by sonu sood) who is elder n more deserving than his own son...this leads sujamal to seek help from other king to help overthrow king bharmal..

this other king happens to be akbar's brother in law who decides to help sujalmal only if after being crowned king sujamal will help him to overthrow akbar...

bharmal wants protection for his empire n so he proposes the marriage of his daughter jodhaa to akbar....
to strengthen the ties with rajputs emperor akbar agrees to marry jodha daughter of rajput king bharmal of amer....

well jodha is not happy abt the situation that her opinion is not asked in this matter n that the marriage is purely a political alliance...but for the sake of the people of her kingdom n ensure their protection she agrees to marry...provided her conditions r met with...they being she shd not be converted to islam n be allowed to follow her hindu traditions and a temple be made in palace for lord krishna...

obviously akbar agrees....after their wedding jodhaa refuses to let akbar near her as she doesnt love him....again akbar agrees....n so starts love story...love story is cute like any other love story where the guy n girl try to impress each other n try to make each other happy....
but life is not so simple....
the dai (who has raised akbar) is a possessive female and cant bear if anyone else becomes more important to him....not even jodhaa...so she creates misunderstanding between two...puts jodhaa in trap n akbar in his blind faith in dai sends jodhaa back to maika....

well the dai is caught quite easily n misunderstanding is resolved...but now akbar has to win jodha's love all over again....which he manages to do as he becomes a people's king....and makes amends in the policies to help common man....
but there is still trouble in paradise as akbar's brother in law tries to murder him so that he can rule over entire empire....
well now jodhaa nurses him back to health with her prayers n love...

then finally as all seems goin well there is final war with his brother in law which of course akbar wins...n alls well in paradise...on the way of course akbar's brother in law kills sujamal as he refuses to fight on his side...

a long story....
as for the actors......hrithik as akbar is good jus it takes some time to settle in...
ash too is good as jodhaa....sonu sood is good too...rest all actors also good...

good direction...but mistakes like child actors have black eyes shd have beem taken care of...many nice sequences (its a treat to watch hrithik's sword practice scene)...the one with elephant is also cool....nice romantic sequences too...nice choreography in the marhaba song....

cud have been edited quite a lot..cud have easily been a three hour movie...songs r too long...couple of them cud have been edited completely....war scenes too long...sword fight scenes too long..
LENGTH ....thats the only problem of the movie...

sets by nitin desai r grand..costumes r good...
movie appears nice colourful...
watch the movie for the grand splendor of moghul forts n palaces...leaves u wondering how it must have been in reality...to know the lifestyle of the royals...

at the core of it this is a simple love story of a man and a woman who r bound to each other and finally fall in love with each other n make their marriage work despite all odds

GO FOR IT if u have enough free time....

Bhool Bhulaiya

as the name suggests u will be in bhool bhulaiya once the movie begins... comedy is good...

u will keep laughing thru out the movie at both the comedy and horror of the movie
as for the actors akshay kumar is too good...shiney ahuja is cool as prince (looks like a prince too).. paresh rawal is good...rajpal yadav is wasted in his role as pujari..vidya balan is ok ok....
for a while the story keeps u guessing about who wud be the main culprit n why whatever is happening is happening...
but when the story unfolds it disappoints u....its jus not gripping enough to retain your interest
unnecessary placement of songs jus for the sake of putting some songs...
ok for once watch if u have nothing better to do...

AAJA NACHLE....

welcome back Mrs.Madhuri Dixit-Nene

go to see this movie if u love dhak dhak girl n miss her on screen presence...
she is too good...jus as in good old days...i dont have to say but great dances....
her screen presence is too good...she is there in practically every frame but u jus dont get tired of her...she is a feast to eyes...her dialogues her smile her dances..everything is a feast after a long long time....
yes she looks 42 yrs old...she looks like mother of two...but thats what she is isnt it...
she doesnt need to look like a girl in her twenties wen she is not....

well abt the movie...story is a bit run of mill...not really new story...but dialogues by jaideep sahni (of chak de fame) r funny.... how NRIs behave wen they come to india after a long time is shown perfectly ...

madhuri is well supported by her co actors vinay pathak (loved him in boring govt professor role)..konkona sen sharma (tom boy), kunal kapoor (gunda) ,ranvir shorey ,divya dutta,irfan khan, jugal hansraj (plays gujju stock broker) ,the girl who played her daughter n of course last but not least akshaye khanna....

direction is fine...not something really great but doesnt make u feel as if there r major blunders except one...madhuri's ward robe cud have been much better...some of her clothes were outright silly...dances were choreographed by vaibhavi merchant..she needs a mention for a job well done..
loved the laila majnu musical...beautiful words..n beautiful everything..

the length of the movie is jus fine...u dont get bored or feel wen is it gonna get over...

over all a good fun filled family entertainer...
hope to c u soon madhuri