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