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 :)