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...

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....