Wake Up Sid::::movie review

Yes, I’m back to blogging..............Just thot it would be easier to start with a movie review

And what better than the advent of last and most anticipated quarter of bollywood on which almost 700 crores are riding.

This weekend saw the release of two movies, Wake up SID! And Do Knot Disturb with Ranbir kapoor and Govinda as the leads in the movies respectively.

I trusted Nikita Kazmi’s 4 star rating for the Ranbir kapoor starrer and decided to watch that first.

Director Ayan Mukerji’s debut venture starring Ranbir kapoor and Konkona Sen in the lead role proves to be a disappointment for me as well as to the hype it created (of course along with the hype created by KJo and Mr. Raj Thackrey). I’m sorry to say but it somehow underperforms in areas it had the potential to.

As usual the story first. Sidharth (Ranbir kapoor) is a son of Ram Mehra (Anupam Kher), a rich industrialist and Savita Mehra (Supriya Pathak).Sid (As everyone calls him) is like any other rich brat. He bunks college classes, goes for unlimited shopping, late night disc parties and is least interested in his studies. He wakes up late (obviously), keeps playing video games and doesn’t want his parents to interfere in his life. So when he strikes a deal with his dad to come to his office for 30 days in return for a brand new Porsche, all he ends up doing is chatting and mailing his new friend Aisha(Konkona Sen), who he meets outside his farewell party when he is on his photography spree. Aisha has come from Kolkata to Mumbai (the movie uses the word Bombay but I fear Mr. Thackrey fr obvious reasons) to become independent. She applies to Mumbai beat (a Magazine) for the post of Assistant to the editor in the hope of becoming a writer one day. Meanwhile Sid decides to leave his dad’s office to help Aisha help set her new home. Sid fails in his final exams and as a result of an argument with his dad has to leave his home with no money. He decides to stay with Aisha. Aisha, who is very sporty at first, slowly starts getting irritated coz of messy Sid. She decides to find him a job and is able to get him as an intern of Photography at Mumbai beat, which is by the way led by Rahul khanna, who tries to win the heart of Aisha by taking her to Jazz music. Sid starts working hard, becomes responsible but still unable to realize that Aisha has fallen in love with him. He works things out with his Dad and moves back to his house . But what then???

Now the analysis. The most stress in this movie has been given to Ranbir Kapoor’s T shirts, some of which are too cool. He changes too many T shirts in the movie and still manages to repeat some of them. Ranbir Kapoor looks good as Sid, the rich, casual arrogant type similar to the role he played in BAH. Konkona Sen looks off the track, tying too hard to do commercial cinema and ending up losing her magic touch. She needed to do much better. Rest of the characters get too li’l screen time to show talent .That’s a big problem in this too clichéd storyline which actually has some highs. Rahul khanna promises but is taken off the screen as soon as people start liking him. As a debutant director Ayan Mukerji does a fair job. Nothing outstanding as you would imagine for KJo to have found. He is not able to carry the highs of the movie for too long to enjoy. Music seems good, as it has already proved in the charts. Some of the background tracks are un-necessary and irritating. Cinematography is excellent at some points and useless sometimes, making you wonder “what r they trying to show”. the depiction of the characters is obvious right from Supriya Pathak, trying to impress her son with her tooti footi English, to, Anupam Kher trying to get his son on right path, to Rahul Khanna trying to impress his assistant and finally to sleeping SID who, guess what Finally WAKES UP making us sleep.

My Take- Watch it if you like Ranbir kapoor or wanna watch some nice T-shirts. I still would’ve preferred Govinda’s comedy instead.

My Rating – 2.5/5

Review : Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

May be I was just waiting for some megastar struck Movie to arrive at Box-Office to prolong my journey of movie reviews.

Though there hasn’t been any review written since Kidnap , I’ve had my share of experiences with movies like Heroes( a clichéd subject with a unique screenplay), Fashion( a well researched and well portrayed  treat for the audience),Quantum Of Solace(The worst Bond movie I’ve seen till date), Dasvidaniya( a simple message combined with an exceptional performance),  Dostana( wonderful comic timings followed by a weak emotional second half)and Oye Lucky Lucky Oye( a simple movie aimed at middle class genre).

And this week saw the release of the third Movie from the hit Jodi of Aditya Chopra and Sharukh Khan- Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi. The expectations were high taking into the consideration that Sharukh Khan had not been seen on the silver screen for a long time and so did Aditya Chopra behind the cameras. It didn’t prove to be a treat but King Khan definitely proved what it takes to win the heart of the audience with a splendid role as Mr. Surinder Sahini.

The story first. Surinder Sahini (Sharukh) is a typical govt. Employee working in Punjab power and gets married to Tanii (Anushka) in unusual circumstances following the death of anuska’s fiancée. Tanii tries hard to settle down into new environment as Mr. Sahini is ready to give all the space she needs and is happy carrying the tiffin and dancing on the streets. Tanii one day decides to take part in a Dancing Jodi competition  and Mr. Sahini on the other hand converts into his alter ego RAJ(with the help of his best friend Bobby(Vinay Pathak)) to see her dancing and to make her fall in love with him.Mr. Sahini keeps altering b/w Raj and himself with Tanii not aware of this and she starts falling in love with Raj.Mr. Sahini instead wants her to be in love with the original Mr.Sahini and the final turn of events is what to watch out for!!

The Verdict-It’s a not so well written plot carried beautifully by Sharukh Khan. He gels into the character of Surinder Sahini that people can’t stop laughing on every of his acts and start identifying with Him. On the other hand his alter ego Raj just lets him down. It’s not a well written Jat character which actually puts doubts in the mind of audience of how unrealistic this movie goes on to be. Anushka has done a fair job suiting the role of a desi house wife girl but probably she would’ve needed an alter ego too for the hip-hop part. You just don’t seem to cry with her or even sympathize with her. Vinay Pathak does a splendid work as always and provides an extra ordinary chemistry with Sharukh (better than Sharukh- Anushka).The movie doesn’t taste romantic due to the thanda chemistry between Anushka and Sharukh. The direction is not as special as expected and falls flat on the story. The movie has a boring first half with only some hilarious experiences with Mr. Sahini and picks up the momentum in second half with the story moving in some direction but the highs and lows keep altering as does Mr. Khan with his original and alter ego. The end of the movie (literally, the time of casting) is one of the funniest I’ve seen in years and proves yet again why the King Khan is the King of bollywood.Mr. Chopra seems to realise too late that the only thing holding this movie is Mr. Surinder Sahini’s character but it might not prove too late since the audience comes out of the halls smiling the way through that character. The music is good (which seems to be now characteristic of Salim-Suleiman duo) supported by some good dance choreographed by Shiamik dawar.The screenplay, cinematography and other technical aspects are just fine with plenty of mistakes.

To Go or Not- A onetime watch especially for Sharukh Khan’s wonderful portrayal as Surinder Sahini. Ignore the emotional melodrama and watch out for the hilarious moments.

Rating- 2.5/5.0 

Movie Review: Kidnap

WOW! it's been long since an activity last occurred on this blog.No reasons in particular though....seriously yaar even i don't know what happened..... it's just that sometimes the number of unsorted things keep piling up and u keep ignoring them until u realize that u can't proceed until u sort them out.....fundas!!!

Nyways even on the movie front- I've been watching some great movies... a treat to watch movies like ROCK ON!!( an exuberant movie), A WEDNESDAY(sensational stuff),TAHAAN( a cinematographic treat) and 1920( A good horror attempt).

I hoped the brilliant movie streak would follow but ALAS! Imran Khan who impressed us all with a brilliant performance in Jaane Tu... decided to change his chocolate boy image and land in a brave villainous role in the dhoom series director Sanjay Gadhvi's latest directorial venture KIDNAP, a movie which was rumoured to be a copy of Mel Gibson starrer Ransom(1996). The movie also features Sanjay Dutt, Minisha Lamba and Vidya Malvade (Chak De Goalie).The movie was expected to have a strong competition from the Junior B starrer DRONA but the latter falling on its head made the task easier for this not so exceptional thriller flick.

The story first."First things first- Nothing at all similar to Ransom" . The movie starts with a cartoonic flashback of a boy in jail and his hard life and as the movie starts we can see manisha lamba singing a song on streets of bombay wearing something( seriously just something....) . All she asks for her 18th b'day , due in 18 days is to see her father , Mr. Vikrant Raina (Sanjay Dutt), who divorced her mother Mallika Raina (Vidya Malvade), which in turn leads to an argument with her mother and sonia leaves for a swimming like activity in an open sea. She gets Kidnapped by Kabir Choudhary (Imraan) and he asks Vikrant Raina to play a game with him to win her daughter back.And thus begins a thrilling journey of an Arrogant selfish man Vikrant Raina who still cant figure out who is behind this kidnapping and a villainous Kabir who is in full flow to take a revenge for something that changed his life a decade ago.He tells Raina what to do and Raina has no other option but to oblige him. If Raina completes every task successfully his daughter lives, if he leaves even one task incomplete...... And Kabir is watching his every move.... Kabir masterminds a series of events and circumstances that force Raina to commit crimes.But will he be able to save his daughter and make himself a criminal , a tag he put on Kabir certain years ago or will he eventually tell Police and follow a safe path.These all events lead to an end very few could think of and a story line which is bound to keep u on the edge.

Now the  verdict.Bad Job director.After making the bikes look sexier than Uday chopra in Dhoom , Sanjay Gadhvi fails to lend his magic touch to this thriller which could have been an exceptional one had not its script faulted. The script seems going down every time there's a peak and that's the difference between good and bad. Editing not at all good, though screenplay is able to lift the movie at intervals. Imraan Khan impresses with his performance and is well assisted by Sanjay Dutt who sometimes over do his attitude(not sure whether that's in the script or not).Vidya disappoints large time... No expression...Bad dialogue delivery...not at all suited.Biggest disappointment Minisha Lamba- Her Job- OOmph factor.She wears minimal clothes in the movie.Awful dialogue delivery . Every scene seems her having a seductive motive. Not at all suited for the character. Bad character portrayal - the casting crew cud have done better !! The story line is good with loads of uncertainty and surely has some potential.The music is OK....Pritam da seems losing touch (ki holo pritam dada?) . Most of the songs not required. Do stay in the hall for the Mit Jaayein no. in the end. Overall it is a nice flick let down by bad editing and chracter portrayal.

To Go Or Not To Go- A good time pass and even more coz Drona is pathetic in all terms.All the satyromaniacs , go watch minisha lamba. Don't expect wonders and don't compare it with Hollywood flicks and u might enjoy!

My Rating - 2/5

Ps- 1) finally after much hard work I've been able to keep my blog alive

       2) Now hopefully posts will be regular and a genuine (not movie related) post will be coming              soon . Hopefully next week.

       3) I like this Ps thing very much.........lol

Movie Review: Singh Is Kinng

It’s been a long time since something happened on my blog so I decided to give u all the review for the much anticipated movie “Singh Is Kinng” which I truly expected would enhance my weekend but the tables always seem to turn around when u expect them to stay standstill. The movie which is expected to become the biggest comical blockbuster and whose music was already topping the charts carried (and still does for someone) a lot of weight of the self created hyper-hype (nice word na?).

More than the dissapointment from the director what struck was the fact that the certain parts of movie turned out to be pakau despite having Akshay kumar.

The story first. Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood) is a king of a criminal gang, heading a team of other sardar criminals and Julie(Neha Dhupia).The gang is based in Australia. Happy Singh is a pure-at-heart sikh living in a village in India and always does something that results in chaos or loss of property in the village. The other residents of village have an idea and send Happy and Rangeela (Om Puri) to Australia to bring Lucky back. They both eventually reach Australia after some misunderstandings but are unable to convince lucky to go back. The story takes a turn when Lucky gets paralysed and happy is made the king. Also Happy who has fallen in love with Katrina (screen name forgotten...) wants her to be happy and has to organize Katrina’s and her boyfriend Ranvir Shorey’s marriage. Whether the marriage takes place and is Happy able to bring the criminals to the right path is what to see for.

The movie is a brainless masala. It’s the SQ (silliness quotient) which scores the highest as the crowds still fiddle with the question of what’s going on. The humour lacks in parts where it could have been substantially been present.Akshay Kumar seems to have been given the responsibility of tickling the funny bone. The other characters too provide a couple a hilarious dialogues and scenes in both the halves but it is far below the expectations created by the hype of movie makers. The story is there and is good keeping in view the sentiments of sardars .The movie surely scores in giving sardars various valuable lessons. First half seems more interesting and the movie seems to be stretched in the second half thanks to the hopeless performance of Ranvir Shorey. Dude where’s ur comic timing??The veterans Om Puri and Kiron Kher do a commendable Job though Om Puri seems to overdo some dialogues in the film. Katrina Kaif looks as beautiful as ever and that’s what she’s there in the movie for. She obv. disappoints with her dialogue delivery. The rest including Javed Jaffery have done a fair job. The locations shot on are extremely beautiful and the cinematography seems cool. The screenplay and direction have their flaws and is highlighted by the BQ (boring quotient) that gets to ur limit sometimes. The music seems to be the saviour for the film (though the much hyped- 2 –crore Snoop Dog song disappoints big tym).The music is brilliant and is def. foot tapping but u have been hearing the songs for a month now and don’t need to spend hundred bucks just to catch a glimpse of them when they can be seen for free on YouTube as well as on our TV sets.

To Go Or Not- A must watch for the sardars who’ll surely enjoy this flick. For the rest go watch it for Akshay Kumar or Katrina Kaif (whoever is ur fav.).If none of them is Go and Watch if u r vela and ur family needs an outing

My Rating- 2.75/5