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Naqaab (2007)
Self styled thriller that failed to thrill the audience
Alright, the movie was pathetic and I would suggest a "Skip It" option and wait for their CD (yes, not even worth a DVD) version or better yet wait for the TV version.
Of course, it is the Bollywood version of another not-so-good Hollywood flick dot the i; no surprise there! "dot the i" took place in London whereas Naqaab took place in Dubai. Your memories may also give you flashbacks of The Truman Show and The Graduate.
The story involves a Love Triangle amongst multi-millionaire Karan Khanna aka Rohit Shroff (Bobby Deol), Vicky Malhotra (Akshaye Khanna) and Sophia (Urvashi Sharma). Sophia is a jolly girl who have changed more jobs than she changed her clothes worked for a construction firm, beauty parlor and finally we saw her as a Burger King girl during the course of the Movie Storyline. She is a casual but self-respecting girl, pays her rent to Karan while she continues a live-in relationship with him in his big Mansion.
Anyway, it is funny that such big Mansion of Karan is home to just three person Sophia, Mrs. Gomes and Karan with no security for such a multi-millionaire Home. Anybody can come in anytime from the main gate either at day (The private detective/photographer coming in to meet Karan) or night (remember Sophia coming home date that day from a date with Vicky).
Finally, when Sophia got engaged to Karan after 6 months of living together; she met Vicky Malhotra on her Engagement Party at a Posh Hotel in Dubai. Much to the delight of everybody, she was supposed to dance her last pre-marriage dance with a man of her choice. She chose Vicky and they fell in some sorta Love. I never knew love is always that simple in Bollywood. What did she saw in Vicky that she missed in Karan? Those crudely cut Salsa-type dance done in multi-multiple takes? This is one self-claimed Thriller that will not thrill you at all. The first half of movie moved at snail's pace and stayed with building the characters. The encounters of Sophia and Vicky was exceptionally slow and unnecessarily long. The movie tends to move to the comic side at the end or where the Movie makers assuming that the audience will need some comic relief from the thriller that failed to thrilled? And what with the 2 camcorder flinging self-styled producers Vikas Kalantri and Vishal Malhotra? Why do Bollywood always take mediocre and sub-standard actors for the non-lead roles in movies. They could have been replaced by some better actors and could have done a little justice to the movie. They are supposed to be supporting characters to the actual plot of the movie.
I won't really discuss the funny plot and be a spoiler for you who wish to see the movie. But gain, that's a stupid movie according to me. Btw, for those looking out for Urvashi Sharma, well then she has the body and there was enough of her flesh in the movie to quench your thirst. However, she is neither beautiful nor pretty and her acting ain't that good at all.
Cheeni Kum (2007)
Awesome, arrogantly sarcastic romantic comedy
An awesome movie; Amitabh and Tabu were just fantastic. I laughed almost throughout the movie and I loved the flawlessly spiced dialogue between Amitabh and Tabu. Cheeni Kum is about the unadulterated but sweetened love-story of a 64 year old man (I'm pretty sure Amitabh Bachchan is at that age right now in his real life) and a 34 year old woman.
An arrogantly sarcastic Buddhadev Gupta (Amitabh Bachchan), who is still a bachelor at 64 meets a 34 years old spinster, simple and sweet Nina Verma (Tabu) at his restaurant, one of London's top authentic Indian Restaurant. The similarities in their difference brings them together which culminated into a romance of a funnier genre.
There were many ingredients of spices, little more than a typical romantic Hindi Movie; besides Amitabh and Tabu, the sizzler of curly straight dialogue from the 9 year old Sexy (Swini Khara) is refreshing to make you laugh all along. The kiddish delight of the 58 year old Omprakash Verma's (Paresh Rawal) Gandhism as Nina's father was the ultimate dessert to the main course romance. Of course, Amitabh's 85 year old mother (Zohra Sehgal) who loves TV shows with muscle man and "Sex and the City" added enough flavor to make you reach out for the side dish that she flaunts.
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
Based on True Tumors
Directed by Apporva Lakhia, Shootout at Lokhandwala is another of those movies where the bad guys look good, and glorification of the villains are in bright limelight. The movie was fast paced and will keep you seated throughout the gun fires, blood baths and murderous killings. The only thing that dragged was the song sequences. The songs in themselves are good but I would have really wished they were not there at all. They should have done an Extended or Director's Uncut or Song Enhanced versions of DVDs. That way, people will still watch the movie and many will buy the DVDs, thus making more money for the film.
On that fateful day of 1991, at one of the Mumbai's sprawling sub-urban place (Lokhandwala), 5 gangsters were relaxing and counting their extortion money. The gangsters were led by Maya Dolas who had begun to rebel against Dawood Ibahim. Informations of their hide-out reached the then ACP Aftab Ahmed Khan, who brought in a platoon of about 300 odd Mumbai Police force to squash them. What followed is one of the most memorable shootout that every happened in Mumbai. The police fired uncountable rounds of bullets and the Maya led gangsters retaliated too. Eventually, all the 5 gangsters were killed and few policemen were hurt.
Vivek Oberoi in the role of Maya Dolas was frighteningly awesome. I don't really felt any importance given to the other 4 members of the gang. They seem to have been randomly picked to fill in the spots. Of course, Tushar Kapoor (who played the role of Dilip Buva) was there with the next important role after Vivek, thanks to his sister Ektaa Kapoor (the K lady of the idiot box). He tried his best, I guess, but his acting sucks like a monkey who just found some zoo visitors to entertain with its banana tricks. Why don't he moved in to his sister's serial, he can do much better job there and we don't have to really bear him in movies (at least for us who detest the TV serials). Tushar had never been good in any roles not only in his first negative role in this movie. His only slightly commendable role is playing the dumb guy in Golmaal: Fun Unlimited.
The remaining 3 don't really remind you of anything unless you've been glued and try to remember each and every scenes. Yes, yes, the ghost-seeing thingy of Rc (Shabbir Ahluwalia) after he shot a family by mistake. The shooting incident of Fattu (Rohit Roy), the day he earned the named Fattu when he finally was able to do a bang-bang-kill-kill. And the others, I don't remember them to link to any typical characteristics.
Seasoned Cop and counter terrorists specialist, Aftab Ahmed Khan (Sanjay Dutt) chased and encounter Khalistani extremists, handpicked cops Inspector Kaviraj Patil (Sunil Shetty) and Constable Javed Shaikh (Arbaaz Khan) to fight against the girth of many terrorists in Mumbai during his hay days. Khan and his team took care of the Maya gang when the gangsters made extortions a buzzword in the early 90's. The movies shows Khan and his trusted Anti Terrorists Squad (ATS) doing many daring encounters; so much involved in their activities that they jeopardise their personal and private life.
Btw, the real Aftab Ahmed Khan appeared in a cameo in the movie, playing the role of S. Ramamurthy, his former boss and the then Police Commissioner.
Ilayum Mullum (1994)
About Women Empowerement
The Story Four friends Shanta, Parvathy, Sri Devi and Lakshmi spend their days together and work as weavers at the same workshop. They are independent and intrepid, which makes them admired by some (mostly the few downtrodden, but still spirited women of the still patriarchal society of the village in Kerala's interiors), but hated by many more in the male- dominated village. Constantly harassed, the women can only turn to Krishnan, the ferryman, for support and can only find peace together, immersed in the beauty of Kerala's backwaters. Shanta drives away a suitor, enraged by his behaviour, Parvathy gets married and her real misery begins, the town leader harasses Lakshmi on a bus. The women do most of the work in the village, and the drunken gamblers who form the majority of the male population have their own ways of punishing those women who dare to voice their opinion. Toddy is splashed on the girls as they walk past, and rumors are spread about their supposed drinking habits and their loose morals. When the town lashes out against the friends, deserted by their families and Krishnan, there seems only one way out suicide.
The movie has various lines incorporated in it which clearly bring out the extent to which the women were, and, in some parts of rural India, still are, forced to curb behaviour that came naturally to them in order to show their inferiority to the men they interacted with in the course of their daily routines, such as "Women mustn't hold their heads up and walk, they must look down when they walk", "Girls must lower themselves to the earth and mutely accept what is meted out to them by their husbands" and "Girls mustn't laugh loudly". Overall, the pathos of their situation is brought out in a very realistic manner that would invoke sympathy in the most hardhearted of souls.
Some thoughts Its really in the hands of the women to end the evils of this system, isn't it? A woman who inculcates a healthy respect for women in her son at an early age, can help alleviate the consequences of the system to some extent somewhere along the way, it'll improve the way he behaves towards women and his treatment of them. And despite feministic claims of equality, most women still tend to prevent their sons from doing household chores, and think of their daughters as those who must learn to bear this burden.
Ultimately, the struggle for women's human rights must be about making women's lives matter everywhere all the time. In practice, this means taking action to stop discrimination and violence against women by women. Initiatives world over have been put into motion to bring about a change. It is now upto the women to accelerate this phenomenon by shedding all forms of stereotypes and starting on a clean slate convinced and armed with their right to equality.
Bheja Fry (2007)
Good, Funny Movie
Bheja Fry is a movie that will irritate you to laugh; perhaps a Sunday evening well spent for me laughing out to the irritant of Bharat Bhushan (Vinay Pathak). This 95 minute movie is enough to entertain you whilst you're at the Movie Hall and should not be pondered beyond that. For those looking for some serious humor, forget it and definitely not for those who always wanted an action flick nor for those who wants those French-Speaking-English-Subtitle Oscar worthy movies.
The movie is about Bharat Bhushan, who was supposedly one of the scapegoats for Ranjeet Thadani's (Rajat Kapoor) Friday IDIOT' Dinner Party. Well, that is what he does, he invite budding talents to dinner on Fridays and let them sing, dance and he enjoys the fun. The table was turned and he had to bear the beyond-control-idiocy of Bharat Bhusan on a particular Friday. The situation is that of trying to make an extreme simpleton an idiot thus ruining the fun when the idiot never realizes the game. On top of that, what if he never gets angry? That is the peak of irritation mount. That's what Ranjeet faces with Bharat!
It was fun to watch Bharat Bhushan right from the moment we saw him in a bus bound for Pune from Mumbai. He was good all along his stay with Rajat at his house on that day, TGIF (Thanks God its Friday). His phone calls it is ringing to redial are funny even when you know it was coming the next time. You should watch for his phone calls to people that mess up the whole thing and in fact which is the backbone of this movie. I will keep the details of the story line for those willing to enjoy this movie.