JAANE TU YA JAANE NA
2 best friends - boy and girl in college - with a group of friends. Everyone thinks they are in love but they aren't or are they ?
The realisation of love is what the movie is about. It is not an original concept or story but the movie works - works because of it's fresh feel and look and some really good dialogues and some very good acting by all.
I loved the hero's father (Naseeruddin Shah) and in the beginning I thought the 2 horsemen were there just for the heck of it but no.
Nice music too - it's fun , fresh , frothy and very nice.
Yes there are flaws and cliches in the movie but it makes you smile and laugh a bit and you come out feeling good.
Verdict - 4/5. Must watch.
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LOVE STORY 2050
This movie is a BORE. And that is the start of my review. We have a new boy, Hrithik Roshan oops Harman Baweja who walks, talks, dances, tries to act like Hrithik - so let's just forget him.
Everything else in the movie is so OTT and loud that I almost walked out.
The special effects are really good for a bollywood movie. The music is bad.
Ultimately it's a movie that is a show vehicle for Harman. he gets to cycle, drive a MG, romance , fight and his dad wants him to act but he fails where it matters. He cannot handle the emotional scenes and people were laughing in the hall when he cried and acted at the same time.
Verdict - 1/5. Avoid.
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THODA PYAR THODA MAGIC
Saif plays a rich tycoon who in a car accident is responsible for the death of a couple. So the judge orders the 4 orphaned kids to go and live with Saif. Obviously the kids and Saif do not get along and the kids pray to God. God hears their prayers and sends an angel Rani to help them.
Then the predictable happens - she helps Saif and the kids to love each other and falls in love with Saif.
Performances range from the average to bad. Kids are ok and Rishi Kapoor plays God like in Bruce Almighty
Ameesha plays Saif's love interest and is SMOKIN' HOT in that song and in a few scenes where she is in the tiniest of clothes possible.
Rating - 1.5 / 5. YAWN.
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DE TAALI
Another comedy ! It's about 3 friends (2 guys and 1 girl) and what happens when one of the guys falls in love with a girl.
Well how is the movie ? It's got a thin story line and is senseless most of the time. A series of gags is what keeps the proceedings going. And it's here the cast lifts the movie.
Ritesh, Aftab, Rimi and Ayesha are very good. A few gags will have you rolling with laughter but over all the movie is mediocre. And it is extended - with stories on Rimi's family (the most weird family to date) and some nutty professors and lovers. Also the track of Ritesh's landlord could have been edited.
ps - a couple of scenes to watch out for are - the scene where Ritesh fights with an imaginary guy and the scene in which Aftab goes " tum mere liye roti thiii" after the boardroom meeting.
Verdict - 2/5. Watch it only if want to enjoy a few laughs.
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SARKAR RAJ
If you liked Sarkar - you will like this too. The movie is shot the same way - tight close ups and facial expressions. There is a thin story line (resembling Enron saga) on which the movie hangs but it is the performances that lift this ordinary movie.
Ab Sr is the best of the lot followed by his son. Abhsihek has to look sullen and mouth the clinching lines and he does it very nicely. Ashwairya is there in the movie but she has a subdued role and is competent. The rest of the cast is fine too.
There are a couple of twists and turns in the movie and the end is apt for part-3.
Verdict - 2.5/5. Watch it for the performances and RGV finally seems to have found a movie that should do well.
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JANNAT
The leading lady makes the worst debut ever I have seen in an hindi movie. Emraan Hashmi is very ordinary. Music is just average. A couple of cars are eye candy like the LR stretch.
Verdict 1/5. Utter crap and absolutely avoidable.
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BHOOTHNATH
A must watch !! I went in with no expectations and the movie simply surprised me.
It's a formula film with a formula story. Kids will have great fun in the 1st half and the movie veers towards relationships in the 2nd half.
Amitabh is in fine form playing the ghost and he is supported well by Juhi, Satish Shah and the small kid. Shahrukh is there in a guest appearance.
At least 3 songs are not required and they slow down the movie. The movie is well shot and special effects are very good.
Verdict - 3/5. A movie for kids and adults alike. Go watch it.
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U, ME AND HUM
I really did not want to watch this movie but saw it back to back with Krazzy4.
and I am glad I watched this.
Ajay Devgan makes a very very good debut as a director. The movie is about Alzeihmer's disease and what happens when to the family and the loved ones when there is a person with the disease in the family.
The movie is all about how Ajay woos Kajol on a cruise liner by lying to her. he is on vacation with 2 couple friends of his. Kajol finds out he had lied to her and leaves him - only to come back later. Both get married and everything is great but then Alzheimer's strikes.
Beautifully and sensitively directed - this one will tug at your hearts. The movie gets into the groove in the 2nd half and grips you.
Strong performances by Ajay and Kajol (I really don't like her) and the supporting cast make this a very good watch. Women are advised to carry kerchiefs.
I loved it - an absolutely unexpected surprise.
Verdict - 3.75/5 - Go catch it.
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KRAZZY 4
This is one movie I was waiting for and after I finished watching it - I feel cheated. The movie is a bore.
It has a talented cast - Arshad , Irfan, Juhi Chawla, Rajpal Yadav etc and still fails to hold your attention. Suresh Menon is one actor who makes people laugh when he speaks and he has exactly 3 lines in the movie with a common word.
4 people with different dis-orders go to town with their doctor (who feels this will help improve their condition) who promptly dissapears leaving the 4 alone. And what happens next is what Krazzy 4 is all about.
It tries to be comedy - feels incomplete
It tries to give social messages - feels incomplete
It tries to be a thriller - feels incomplete
The only positives are the 2 item numbers by SRK and Hrithik.
Verdict - 2/5 - Avoidable.
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RACE
Typical Abbas-Mustan movie. Twists and turns in the plot keep it going.
In short - it's about 2 super rich brothers who own a race horses breeding farm. Then a girl and jealousy - a double cross and one brother dies....then starts the fun.
Nice popcorn entertainer I say. Entertaining and stylishly shot, a few good songs, nice cars (orange Ferrari, a skyline and some drifts) , hot heroines.
Verdict - 2.75/5.
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AAMIR
I had some good expectations from this movie on watching their promos and I am so glad the movie surpassed the expectations.
A doctor comes back from London to India, only to find the immigration officer harass him because his name is Aamir. He then walks out of the airport and finds no one has come to receive him and when he calls home, no one answers the phone.
Suddenly a couple of bikers come to him and throw him a mobile phone - he gets a call that turns his world upside down.
Rajeev Khandelwal debuts as Aamir and does well. He starts off nervously but picks up steam later on. The supporting cast is fine too.
Brilliantly directed and absolutely fantastic camera work on real loactions is Mumbai enhance the reality factor of the movie. The director and camera man deserve a round of applause here.
Verdict - 3.75/5. Must watch - if you have a choice between Sarkar Raj and this - go for Aamir. You won't regret it at all.
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