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

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