This movie talks about a very average guy karthik ( guess the director wanted to break out of rahul, raj image) so this guy is an invisible guy (not in actual sense of word)...just that no one will ever notice him...until one day he gets this call from another person who calls himself karthik and changes his life.... this movie is a suspense movie so am not gonna talk much about the plot....it definitely is interesting first watch....good direction by vijay lalvani....farhan akhtar is as good as u expect him to be....deepika adds charm of her own to the movie....the songs r wonderful...simply loved all the songs....full marks to shankar ehsaan loy for all the numbers.....i liked the movie coz it does make u sit upright, feel the horror n u wait to know the suspense....the movie is very well presented, romantic scenes are cute, will surely make u smile.... all in all its different than the routine run of the mill stories....
This time around karan johar has tried to make a movie with a message rather than the usual love story or the family drama we normally expect from him... He does deliver two messages that, not all muslims in the world are terrorists...and that good people are good and bad people are bad irrespective of their religions.... the messages are great in their simplicity...and it would have turned out to be a great movie if the movie was kept simple, erasing the complicated and unnecessary subplots and twists... i loved the character of Rizwan khan, an autistic guy with asperger's syndrome (and shahrukh khan does the role well...some say it is one of his best performances..am not sure of it though..i have liked him in lot of other movies to be biased for this particular role)..and i actually had goosebumps when rizwan says it for the first time "my name is khan and i am not a terrorist".The simplicity of the character...the "ability to repair almost anything"...the way he courts mandira.....his honesty as a salesman of herbal beauty products..his ability to memorize everything.....the guy is just great...the simplicity of the way he lives touches us to the core... But as I said, the subplots and twists and the repetition of the two messages over and over again, takes away the charm of the movie.. the movie centers around how muslims are viewed in USA pre and post 9/11....and how the selfless love of one man overcomes hurdles that come up....somehow I didnt like anything in the movie except the character of Rizwan khan, that i dont know what more to write about... Somehow I feel that the movie lets us down...we go to the theaters with so many expectations and the movie fails to live upto those...am glad KJo ventured into a different territory and tried to make a movie thats different than the previous ones.... I just feel bad that a movie that could have turned out to be one of its kind and an all time classic fails to hit the mark! watch it if u r a big time shahrukh fan and if u dont ever miss any of his movies..
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...
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 )
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 :) :)
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!!!!!
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....
