The Movie Review – God Tussi Great Ho

Star rating:

Cast- Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Sohail Khan, Anupam Kher

Producer- Afzal Khan

Director- Rumy Jaffery

Music Director- Sajid Wazid

It’s high time our Bollywood film makers should think of original concepts. We have had enough of inspired stuff!! This is my one wish after watching GodTussi Great Ho. Salman Kahan, Priyanka Chopra, Sohail Khan and amitabh Bachchan starrer, the film is a directorial debut of Rumy Jaffery.

The film started off well. The first half tells about Arjun Prajapati (Salman Khan), a struggling T.V anchor whom success has always alluded. He is in love with Alia( Priyanka Chopra) who is also a T.V anchor and working in the same channel, but Arjun has never been able to express his love for her. Luck hits him harder when Rocky (Sohail Khan) is appointed as anchor of the channel. Arjun fears that Rocky will win over Alia. Arjun gets thrown out of the channel and blames God for everything. Soon Arjun has an encounter with God Almighty (Amitabh Bachchan) and obviously like most of the hindi films he fixes the things for him.

The film was bit pacy in the first half, but the second half was quite an disappointment. The movie got really slow in the second half. There are some good comic scenes here and there by Salman and Anupam Kher, but that does not make it more than an average entertaining film.

I was expecting lot more from Salman and Sohail. The duo have given some great entertainers in the past. But, it was a complete disappointment for me as I was expecting a lot from him. There is a very average performance given by both Salman and Sohail. I thought this film more being a promotional gimmick to uplift the sinking popularity of the Salman Khan anchored “Dus ka Dum” . Priyanka had hardly anything to do in the film other than adding to the glam quotient. Amitabh Bachchan undoubtedly fits in any role. But, I personally felt that the director could have utilized the talent of all these great actors in a better way.

Talking about the songs, I feel that they are good in the first half but got boring in the second half. Dialogues are funny, cinematography is also good. But, over all the film gives a feeling as if you are watching an old D.V.D. Be it the story, sets, songs picturization, costumes, everything seems quite old.

If you are expecting an average comedy film, you can go for this movie. Overall, God Tussi Great Ho is a one time watch.

The Movie Review – Bachna E Haseeno

Star rating:

Actors: Ranbir Kapoor (Raj), Bipasha Basu (Radhika), Deepika PadukoneGayatri) and Minissha Lamba (Mahi).

Director: Siddharth Raj Anand

Producer: Aditya Chpra

Music Director: Vishal & Shekhar

The towel boy of the industry Ranbeer Kapoor blazed the silver screen with his star qualities on August 15, 2008, with the release of his second movie ‘Bachna Ae Haseeno.’ Posing as the center of attraction with three beautiful ladies of the film industry, I thought that the actor has actually put behind his first catastrophe which came in the form of Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s blue film…I mean the film with an all pervasive blue set- Saawariya!!

I thought that the story line was quite simple. It is the story of a young boy who graduates into a man and in these years he falls in love with three girls at the different stages of his life. The young gun goes rampant with his relationships breaking the hearts of the first two girls played by Minisha Lamba and Deepika Pudukone. Though the director had set the first affair in 1996, with both Ranbeer and Minisha aged 18. It is interesting to see two grown ups acting like teenagers…specially so, when the task has been carried out so well. The entry of Dipika adds a new dimension of glamour to the movie. The movie has been brilliantly directed by Siddharth Raj Anand and he has brilliantly used the phenomenon of moving to and fro in time. This movie is a brilliant example of a well directed motion picture that covers all aspects of human tendencies.

Apart from good direction, there are certain other things in the movie also which if you ask me are definite crowd pullers. The first and the foremost of them is Ranbeer Kapoor’s acting, which, in one word is superb. Till Bachna… happened I was only fond the looks of the Kapoor boy, but now I believe from the core of my heart that the youngest Kapoor in the industry has ably inherited the legacy from his great grand father Prithviraj Kapoor. Why just Ranbeer, the acting skills of the leading ladies is also worth applause. Further, the film is an burning example of great cinematography with the panoramic views of Switzerland and Australia.

Talking about ‘Bachna….’ I can’t help but to mention the music which I think is just amazing. The music had every thing that you could ask for, beginning right from dance numbers to heart rendering romantic songs.

I would personally sum up the movie as a good one time watch.

The Movie Review – Singh Is Kinng

Star rating:

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Om Puri, Neha Dhupia, Kirron Kher, Javed Jaffery, Sonu Sood, Kamal Chopra, Yashpal Sharma, Brad McMurray and others.

Director: Anees Bazmee

Producer: Vipul Shah

Cinematography: Ben Nott

Story Writer: Anees Bazmee

Yet another movie starring the most hit pair currently in the Bollywood, Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif is out there to entertain all of us. Unlike the previous movies featuring this leading pair, the movie ‘Singh is Kinng’ is completely hilarious from its beginning till the end. The story revolves around Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar) who is popular for his clumsiness. All the people of his native place, a small village in Punjab after being completely tired of his menace (although done with a good heart) decide to get rid of him. They set him on a long journey to Australia to get back a fellow villager, Lucky Singh, now a famous gangster. Forced by his inherent nature of messing things up, Happy Singh gets himself landed up in Egypt instead of Australia and there he meets his lady love. The story then takes you through all his misdeeds till he manages to get himself in front of Lucky Singh.

Directed by Anees Bazmee, the movie has every ingredient for delivering a spicy entertainment in true Bollywood sense. Being himself the story writer as well, Anees Bazmee has made up his mind to gift the audience with a true comedy movie. So, while watching it, do not fool yourself by trying to find the logic behind every scene, rather enjoy it with a light heart, putting your brainy instinct on rest. Akshay Kumar is the epi-centre of the movie delivering a fantastic performance like in all of his previous movies in recent past. His superb comic timing sets your mood to watch this heart warming tale. He not only looked great with Katrina Kaif, but also has shown a tremendous comic timing with Om Puri. If you have wished to see more of them interacting in Hera Pheri, Singh Is Kinng gives you that opportunity. The hilarious dialogues along with funny one liners will keep you laughing all through the movie.

As for the performances are concerned, the most convincing part of the movie is the impressive on- screen chemistry between Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif. It has been a pleasure watching the twosome in romantic songs, especially the one set against the backdrop of the famous pyramids of Egypt. Katrina Kaif looked and acted quite well, trying to match up to the level of Akshay Kumar. Om Puri and Kirron Kher have been exceptionally good. Neha Dhupia, Javed Jaffery, Sonu Sood and others have managed to create their own distinct space in the movie.

In addition, the music composed by Pritam had made the movie much awaited even before its release. Most of its songs are already chartbusters, giving extra mileage to the movie. Apart from the top, well known singers like Shreya Ghosal, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Daler Mehendi and Mika Singh, he has got Akshay Kumar also into the singing league, which has turned out to be an added attraction. Snoop Dogg’s song at the end wraps up the movie well. Cinematographer, Ben Nott has done a commendable job. All my thanks go to the producer of the movie, Vipul Shah for bringing together such a great package.

This summer, indulge yourself in a funny and fast comedy movie, giving a break to your thinking nerves. Just go, watch and enjoy.

The Movie Review – Ugly Aur Pagli

Star rating:

Actors: Mallika Sherawat, Ranvir Shorey
Director: Sachin Khot
Producers: Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd

The makers of ‘Pyar Ke Side Effects’ bring you another slapstick comedy in the form of ‘Ugli Aur Pagli’- a boisterous comedy marked by chases, confrontations and crude but practical jokes. Though the movie has been typecast as a slapstick comedy, I think ‘Ugly Aur…’ takes the genre of slapstick to another level…for that matter a literal level as the tag line goes “99 slaps and 1 kiss.”  The movie is funny beyond any doubts, but if you ask me there is nothing exceptionally hilarious about it that would make your stomach ache or make you laugh till tears roll down your cheek. And surprisingly enough it were the women in the theater who were laughing more than men…probably because a man was getting slapped by a woman.

 

Beyond, the slaps that have been used as comical tool to tickle the funny bone in you, the movie has a story too. It is essentially a romantic comedy and revolves round the central character of Kuhu played by Mallika Sherawat, an attractive and aggressive girl. Right at the beginning she bumps into the another central character Kabir Achrekar, played by the tremendously funny Ranbir Shorey. One of the first things that attracted me towards the movie as a viewer was its star cast. Though not a multi starter or an SRK movie, Ranbir and Mallika are crowd pullers enough because of their natural acting prowesses and appropriate comic timing.  Kabir is a loser and the director does not mince meats to show that in the very first scenes of the movie.

 

Though it is an old concept to use the theme of female subversion for comedy in Hindi films, I thought was refreshingly different here. Kuhu has not been portrayed as the wrong girl, but has an air of attitude about herself, which seems to speak large and say “take me or leave me.” At many occasions I thought that the situations depicted in the movie were quite exaggerated and so were the characters, and seemed only like caricatures without any connection to reality.

 

Apart from the brilliant acting, the movie can boast of good music…or atleast that’s what I think. After a long time Anu Mailik seems original in the movie. Part from all this, one thing that always disappoints me about Bollywood is the tendency to copy from western films. And even ‘Ugly Aur Pagli’ was no exception. This film is said to be a copy of the Korean film ‘My Sassy Girl’. However, I thought that the directors had made a decent effort to make it look finally different.

 

Finally, for the one who have still not watched the movie, my only tip is “Don’t take it too seriously.”