first things first, this movie makes my start of 2008 :-)... overall very much enjoyable and mast timepass... the story is reasonably connected although has elements of (enjoyable) skits... awesome performance by arshad, that guy is one man army... give him good script and crisp dialogues and he can steal the show... very well complimented by irfan khan, with his typical ishtyle of dialogue delivery they make a terrific pair... ajay devgan has done pretty good and so has his assistant... ayesha has done decent job...  overall movie is comic thriller, very good comedy, decent thrill as the pieces connect but a bit okayish end... songs and music is okay... dialogues are crisp, fresh and funny...

the story is abt ayesha who works as a dubbing artist and one fine weekend her sunday goes missing... she does not remember what she did... ajay is a acp and starts investigating the case... as the pieces connect its fun... with laugh riot by arshad and irrfan coming on and off... the thrill factor is also okayish but take the movie more as comedy with some thrill...

if you like skittish comedies, this one is for u...

first things first, return of hanuman makes a decent watch, overall rating would be 3.5... the final product has simple aim, lets keep it entertaining by all means... so if you see a narad peeping in to see what indra and maneka are upto, its okay... u might see a rajni monkey, jai-veeru pair of monkeys, a daaku who can imitate in voices of gabbar, thakur, loin etc etc...

story goes like this, hanuman decides to take birth on earth and gets brahma to agree... after a contract he is born as maruti to a brahmin pandit family... in the village there is some mysterious place where people keep disappearing, then in his school there are some mischevous kids, then you have some imaginary extension of mythology with rahu-ketu and a curse by shukracharya (guru of asura and daanavs) and finally you have humans who are polluting earth like anything and killing nature... combine all these and you have a decent enough khichdi ready as the movie... 

overall movie has okayish story, decent dialogues and situations to keep it funny and entertaining and some messages here and there for kids and humans in general... animation is fine, hanuman as young kid looks cute... i think the movie is watchable once...

the movie is pretty good romantic comedy and enjoyable...

the story goes like this, mithun is a big businessman and rati is a small time artist in a drama group... now one day she gets dropped to her place in mithun's car and somehow mithun and rati are linked up... she also lies about this and becomes heroine of her drama group... mithun gets a bill from a tailor shop which made clothes for rati and tries to investigate it... impersonating as an employee of his own company... he starts liking her as she is simple and kind of GK... they spend time with each other and rati also likes him... eventually the truth is revealed and after some hiccups they come together...

decent acting by everyone, rati looks good :-)... 

comedy of 2009 is here and definitely not the one to be missed, if you have seen the likes of golmaal and dhamaal and liked them then this is the continuation of the madness, masti and mazza, go for it and have fun...

story is simple, with a friend like ajay devgun, fardeen does not need any enemies, he would encourage him to do all wrong things, tell all kind of lies... and the fun continues... 

first things first, the movie really does not offer anything new that one should feel good about, i find that it was mili-bhagat of KJo and his gang along with some of the movie critics, to give a positive spin about the movie and then the ball keeps rolling... i mean movie is okay, strictly okay, nothing great that everyone is going ga-ga about (though sufficient feel-good factors in movie, that one feels happy after watching the movie)...

here are some points from my side

1. we have seen lakshya, that was much better

2. why does konkana fall in love with ranbir, we have one scene where kashmira shah is suggesting to hit on ranbir and so she starts getting attracted, i thought the intent was purely sexual when kashmira suggested it! or was it one outing with rahul khanna that made the choice by rejection (of rahul)... same way why does ranbir fall in love with konkana, was it the ohh-so-frank rejection in first placeby konkaka?

3. supriya pathak kapoor can surely do better than that, her character was just over the board, just not real to feel for, and we have seen enough of characters who cannot speak english, it was not funny at all!

4. the scene where ranbir is clicking pics of his neighbour and her son, that was supposed to realization point for ranbir, but it just lacked the depth to feel for...

5. the movie was predictable, you could make out whats going to happen

overall, save your money if you havent wasted it yet! i am sure there are better movies to come this year...

dinrat

here are some reasons my side why you should watch ghajini

1. aamir khan, if anyone 'khan' do it, i 'khan' do it better :-). srk came up with 6 pack abs, sallu had them for long time so aamir goes 2 steps ahead and we have 8 pack abs now. the bod is joy to watch

2. aamir khan, fall for him yet again, he is looking so handsome in the jacket attire that its almost a fashion rage now, he is looking younger and really smart, he is just raising the bar for everyone :-).

3.  off course aamir khan for his acting, some of the expressions on his face are just too good for the moment.

4. innocent effervescense of asin, you might actually fall for her

5. songs and music, behka has aamir in 6 shades of spectrum, bachhu has 4 shades of asin and lattu has black and white look of jiah. guzarish is amazing, and other songs are beautiful as well, rahman rocks yet again!

6. story is reasonably exciting and hooking, though it has number of "bollywoodish" movie moments, e.g. the way aamir sees asin for first time, some others are spoilers so go watch them yourself.

7. jiah khan does a decent role

8. overall story is strong mix of a love story which is very cute and action thriller

9. the love story is partly inspired by an old hindi movie though, that was also cute.

10. in a shameless display of narcissism, watch it coz i am saying it :-).

i think it will be the biggest blockbuster of the year 2008, so 2008 ends with a bang, i think chandini chowk to china might open the year 2009 with a bang

the movie is a khichdi of nri cliches and many of them you might have already seen but still it tastes yummy... the backdrop is different but the characters seem familiar... the overall product works!

the movie is about a singing competition being organized for desis in US of A, desi idol... you have a young and sweet patel girl with all the patel clan and their mannerisms, shabana as a cunning socialite who wants to do charity for fame, a bhangra rapper who is all about f***, a gora who is all senti over des, a budding actress, a finance analyst etc etc... some jokes about amricans and some about desis... some singing here and there and you have your desi idol ready...

overall movie makes for a good watch, end is very beautiful (yet cliche though)... decent performances by everyone... 

and in this movie nagging takes suchitra nearer to god... the movie is about an editor anil who has a nagging wife but in general good family with kids and all... she has nandana as assistant... suchitra suspects some affair between the two and one fine day a fight between the two causes accidental death of suchitra... anil tries to play the accident casual and files a police report that his wife is missing, boman is the inspector and he suspects some foul play... he keeps on unearthing evidence and what follows is a butterflies in stomach story... eventually anil is caught and has to confess...

overall the movie has good performance by anil and boman... rest of the cast is okay... story line is also okay... watchable once perhaps... 

the movie was genuine comedy of recent times (actually late 90s)... david dhawan used to rule with his no-brainer comedies when this movie came... and it was awesome! :)...

the movie is about a dance director kamal and tabu who is daughter of rich business man amrish puri... kamal and tabu fall for each other and marry against amrish puri's wish... some minor differences lead to divorce between them but by then they have a daughter... court gives custody of daughter to tabu and kamal has to disguise as a female helper in the house... the movie is a laugh riot with very subtle dialogues... u blink and miss the fun... the situations had the comedy and you could just relish them... a very very genuine comedy which reminded me of the chupke-chupke and golmaal era... and the bigwigs who acted in this movie include kamal hasan, johhy walker, paresh rawal, amrish puri, om puri... everyone complimented each other perfectly...

must watch for any bollywood fan... songs were also okayish, i like the "raat yeh bhi gujar jayegi" one... 

first things first, if you miss on TZP you are indeed missing something... its among the finest films of 2007, touches your heart, leaves you emotional, makes you cry (I think I cried 2-3 times and my throat choked at other instances :-)... exceptional performance by the kid darsheel, amply supported by aamir, tisca chopra, the guy who played darsheel's father and others... and yes the casting lists darsheel's name at the top!... music is very good, and i had not heard the "Ma" song till I saw the movie... the song is just too much with its lyrics and picturization... you could almost feel yourself crying... i could get the same feeling as with "luka chupi" from RDB... besides the movie scores in screen play/ dialogues as well, some of the scenes have amazing dialogues to match the intensity required at all fronts... watch out for the "khyaal" sequence between aamir and kid's father...

i wont go into details of the stories, i think you know it all... i would highly recommend this movie to all... its a very sensitive story about young children, although it talks about kids with dyslexia but i think the subject is very much applicable to all kids these days... its not uncommon to hear about suicides due to poor performance in studies these days... its too much pressure to perform from parents/ teachers/ peers these days... hopefully it can be our entry for oscars next year! and i want it to sweep all awards of 2007! :-)...

golden were the days when rgv ki factory could release films like company, now it seems that the factory is all up in flames due to "rgv ki aag" (pun intended :-)...

the story is simple and bit inspired from real life gangsters D and chota rajan, mallik (ajay) is an underworld don and chandu (vivek) is a small time goon who aspires to make it big in darker side of world... he joins mallik's gang and impresses all with his efficiency and becomes blue eyed boy of mallik... now circumstances force mallik and chandu to take head on with other gangs in mumbai and wipe them off... after that their gang is the only face of underworld and terror in mumbai... mumbai police is trying to nab them and leading the charge is mohanlal, who excels in his role... however the gang escapes to hong kong and starts operating remotely... later some confusion splits mallik and chandu and they are now after each other... the gangs split and what follows is an interesting story...

overall ajay, vivek and mohanlal excel in their roles... vivek debuted with this movie and i dont think a fresher could have asked for anything better... the story is gripping one and one gets hooked to it... narration in the backdrop makes it even more interesting... good direction... khallas girl isha koppikar debuted as item girl in this movie... overall a must watch from my side...

i watched manorama last week and that was good... i watched johnny gaddar this week and dude, i conclude that bollywood is going places! :-)... thrillers are back in action and action is back in thrillers :-)...

i liked the movie, its fast paced, story is gripping and causes you to have butterflies in stomach, you wonder whats going to happen next and well i am sure you cant guess :-)... its not a suspense thriller though but the way events happen and story takes turns, it keeps you hooked... music is pretty good,  acting wise neil has scope for improvement, everyone else is pretty fine... enjoy the niche class of bollywood if you have appetite for it...

first things first, i could not decide if i liked the movie and recommend it to others :-), so perhaps go watch it for yourself and decide :-)... its a story of characters and they are humans who are bound to make some mistakes... they have desires, aspirations, greed and they can lose their integrity at times... they are down at times and need help...

the movie is set in bollywood industry of 70s, perhaps trying to showcase how it used to work but i am not sure if the focus of the movie was that... to me it appeared its trying to show lives of some people and how their relation keeps changing and story evolves... soha is a upcoming actress who is trying to get into bollywood, rajat kapur is the superstar premkumar and notices her, she gets work on his recommendation but in return she has to get physical with him and she herself is pretty aware of such practices... shiney is a writer who gets to meet rajat on recommendation of vinay pathak... things take off for shiney and he also starts getting work... now rajat's marriage is fixed with dipanita and for some strange enough reasons soha is upset (though there was never love between the two)... she finds comfort with shiney... they get physical and fall in love... now when this news is out rajat tries to show his muscle but they manage to hold their ground... soha becomes a big star herself... shiney and soha plan to marry but some family issues makes soha work more and meanwhile shiney also decides to turn director... then trouble between the two starts when shiney is not able to get dates of soha for his movie... they have clashes... shiney's film goes flop and for her next film he almost asks soha to give favor to the producer... things dont work out between the two and shiney leaves... when he comes back after some time, soha has taken to drinking, doing b-grade films, is down wrt health... soha is staying with vinay pathak... shiney has a movie script which is based on his own life and soha and rajat work in that (incidentally that movie is called khoya khoya chand and the setting is in dance industry and not bollywood, kind of confirming my belief that the movie is more about humans and power than bollywood in 70s :-)... 

overall the movie is largely heavy except some dialogues here and there which manage laughs... there are couple of things which i just could not get though... shiney's father had 4 wives and had rather "rangeen" personality, shiney is upset with him and when he was about to die, he asked for forgiveness, shiney did not forgive him... apparently that thing hounds him but somehow i fail to see the connection missing from rest of the story... if the message from that episode was that shiney should have said yes and told him that he loved his father, then when he returns back even then he does not express this to soha, i.e. whatever happened is gone and i still love you and want you... its soha who says that... secondly soha expecting rajat to marry her was also not clear.. there was no love... then she herself was into such situations since she was 14... 

acting wise decent performances by everyone... songs are okay, title track is good... 

first things first, the movie is a piece of trash and strictly avoidable... my take, save your 100-250 bucks on this one, u have better ways to spend it for sure...

i wont go into details of the story, would just dissect the movie...

the movie is supposed to be a thriller but it fails to deliver, at times sequences are childish and at times you just cant make out why is this happening... too many disturbances in between in form of songs and random action sequences and some emotional melodrama here and there... the movie just falls flat...

acting wise, imraan just fails big time... he has no expression on his face, no variation in his dialogue delivery... just keeps one frying pan expression and all dialogues in a straight same pitch sound, you just cant appreciate him or symphatize with the character... even the premise of why he is doing all this is so bad that you just dont see yourself with him... dude, you have a long way to go...

minissha and vidya are there for glamour, barely managing their roles... most of their role is actually skin show...

sanjay dutt is okay kinds, he is the guy who can do much better but stuck with a grade c director in a grade d plot executed with a grade f...

songs pop up anywhere and everywhere... mostly out of place... only one song is good but even for that the timing and sequence is so wierd that you wonder what is happening...

overall bad product and waste of time...

dinrat

those were the days when srk was not king khan, he could play a character normally in a movie (unlike today where the character plays srk aka self-proclaimed king khan)... THE best performance of srk, pure, unadulterated and very much enjoyable... songs are awesome, great performances by srk, naseer, anjan shrivastav, suchitra... 

story goes like this, sunil (srk) is a happy go lucky guy who is not so good at studies, very good at music... good at heart but does not mind lying a bit here and there... and when he lies there is no stopping him... he is part of a music band and loves ana (suchitra krishnamurthy) but oops she loves chris (deepak tijori)... story moves with sunil goofing up big time but doing fine later... 

overall movie is a must watch for any bollywood lover...

after watching it twice (rather late) i thought this movie deserves a review for sure... so first things first, its THE romantic comedy of 2007 and must watch from my side... and i never imagined that i would say that but i loved kareena in this movie... first movie for her which is more like her solo hit...

i guess by this time most of you have seen it so no need to tell the story again... overall exceptional characterization by the director, and carried very well by kareena, shahid, pawan malhotra, dara singh and rest of the clan... especially kareena, going by what she has done to over-enthu characters in past (remember pooh in k3g or mujhse dosti karoge) i was really not sure if she would be able to manage but director has made sure that he gets just what he needs from her.... very good music, with all kinds of numbers, a bit senti to foot tapping to much in love numbers... the story does not have a lot new to offer, you would have seen it in parts, even the lively spirit of kareena's character you have seen it before... but still the fresh treatment makes everything work... director has kept the story light and entertaining much of the time... so here is one more mushy romantic comedy from imtiaz ali after socha na tha... watch it to enjoy it!...

first things first, the movie is 3.5 stars worth, its another case of short skits (which are continuous at times and discontinued at other) weaved together to make a movie, chaos in between and at the end (priyadarshan ishtyle) to have some fun... though the basic story line is good enough to have a better story... so if you liked partner, dhamaal, golmaal (2006) etc etc, you might as well like this one...

the story is abt a don uday shetty (nana) who wants to get her sister (katrina) married to a nice guy and trying hard to find it... munna bhai (anil) is his right hand... on the other hand we have dr ghungroo (paresh rawal) who has a nephew (akshay) and paresh wants a match for akshay from a very neat and clean family... there is some initial match and mis-match, followed by akshay and katrina falling in love... the condition for them to get married is to make sure uday and munna leave bhaigiri... then there is big brother of both of them RDX (feroze khan)... the story moves with some fooling around and lots of fun and chaos... and has a cameo by mallika also (she looks hot and could act too!)... it has happy ending finally!

overall pretty good performances by nana, anil and feroze, they pretty much steal the show... akshay is wasted big time, he is a nice guy and does not get to display his comic skills to the fullest (man, i missed that!)... paresh is okay, katrina looks good, mallika looks hot...  the movie is a bit long so you get ample chance to laugh... music is very okayish, pops up anywhere kinds...

the movie is pretty decent one...

its about a man (rajpal yadav) who is a bit short in height but otherwise very good in his work and  behavior and respected by all... now his mother/ uncle is looking for a match for him but due to low height he has seen rejects and kind of has inferiority complex... one girl eventually says yes to him but she is taller than him and he somehow feels that he did not deserve her... post marriage much of his actions are based on this feeling and eventually due to some misunderstanding they separate... the film has happy ending finally...

pretty good acting by rajpal yadav, decent story... movie is watchable once...

yet again vishal bharadwaj tries to capture pitfalls of being human by a simple story... he does it pretty well this time also... the story is very simple

pankaj kapoor is a tea stall owner in some interior village of himachal and it does very good business during tourist season, he is well off compared to other villagers... the village is very small and pretty much everyone knows everyone... there is a small girl biniya who manages to get hold of a japanese blue umbrella which is very beautiful, she roams around with that all over the village and soon the blue umbrella becomes talk of the village and reason to be jealous about and an object of desire... pankaj kapoor is very much interested in getting that umbrella but she does not budge... then one fine evening the umbrella is lost and biniya is heart broken... she suspects that pankaj kapoor has stolen it but he manages to come out clean and gets an exactly same one to prove his point... some detective skills from biniya manage to prove otherwise... and the whole village comes to know that pankaj kapoor is a thief and liar... he is boycotted big time and ppl make fun of him... biniya feels bad for him and eventually forgives him... 

the story is set in a village in himachal and captures the scenic beauty of it very well... the simplicity in life and hardships they face looks so different from the urban life... acting wise pankaj kapoor is excellent and the young girl has done pretty good acting... not a movie for children but it teaches a very basic lesson - "chori karna buri baat hai" :-)... watchable if you want an offbeat movie otherwise passable... 

the movie is pretty good, good performances by everyone, largely about team spirit, and a man's fight to get back his dignity and off course hockey :-)...

kabir khan (srk) had the worst nightmare of life when he missed the penalty shot against pakistan team in world cup finals of hockey, he was declared traitor and media just took his life from him... he leaves hockey and his home... now after 7 years of exile he is back and wants to be coach of women's hockey team, his dream is to get the world cup in women's hockey... he gets his team of 16 members who have come from different states and he has to train them for the tournament... these 16 characters are different so that gives a chance for entertainment... he firstly tries to get team spirit in all of them... after some initial resistance he manages to get the team going... then the story is about how the team does in the world cup...

overall a pretty good watch, srk has done justice to the role, most of the girls are new and they have done well, though I think the focus was on 4 of them only... not a lot of songs but music is good... good direction, director has kept the movie light and entertaining... though being a bollywood movie it has its own cliches... the movie in spirit is similar to apne also, with a sports kind of background, but apne had more scope to be emotional since family was involved, here that becomes the team spirit...

must watch from my side, with repeat value also, so I think will go for it again :-) 

a fun movie overall with pretty decent performances by everyone (including mallika!!), rahul bose is good with his weirdo expressions... ranveer shorey is cool... movie is a light comedy with a rocking first half and decent second half... story is about a guy who is not quite comfortable with idea of marriage (responsibilities/ committment)... leads to a breakup between the guy and gal until they realize they are soulmates (?!) and come together again... movie has its share of funny moments in between... worth a watch for sure!

dinrat

first things first, the storyline is bit cliched, you would have seen it in parts here and there... the treatment and some of the side-stories are diferent, which makes it light-hearted and more fun... overall a fun-filled film, bit romantic comedy, bit of frndship, some no-brainer stuff... can be watched once for sure... and if u fall for imraan then "baar, baar dekho" :-)...

the story is abt a grp of frnds and our leads are part of that... jai (imran) and aditi (genelia), they have been thickest of pals during college time for 5 yrs... they cant stay without each other but dont realize that its their love... they start off to find soul mate for each other and separate for a while but eventually realize their love... they have frnds like bombs, rotlu, jiggy etc for company in the story... the love interests they find for themselves initially are easy to dump kinds (another bollywood cliche)... you have sushant who you can dislike easily, you have meghna who does not want to see the reality... the interesting parts are some of the side stories... the "legends of ranjhod ke rathod", the three conditions to be part of the legend, naseer in an excellent cameo (partly inspired from hum-paanch), the lost brothers from rathore family, inspector waghmore... they all make film more fun and enjoyable and different from the regular cliche...

though one thing i felt was that more was "said" abt the jai and aditi's frndship that was shown on-screen...

talking abt the music, its awesome, rahman does exceptional job and all songs are good...

acting wise, imraan is good, he looks very chocolatee kinds... genelia is also good though i find trouble with her accent when she delivers dialogues in hindi, there is something missing... one guy who makes his mark is genelia's brother in the movie... he is soothingly cool whenever he speaks, i think he is smita patil and raj babbar's son and boy he is going to live upto the name... rest of the cast is good and does justice to their role...

u literally laugh ur heart and cheeks out in this one... by the time u r out u have laughed so much that ur cheeks are paining... total laugh riot...

the movie is about 4 good for nothing friends and all of them are unique characters, ritesh considers himself as a detective material, javed jaafri has mind of a child, arshad is still better and ashish is all tortured by his father asrani... they goof up each and every time they do anything... now they get to know of a hidden treasure and set out to get it, however sanjay dutt is a cop and is after them... what follows is a total laugh filled journey and how they lose it everytime... 

overall movie is no-brainer and a skit carefully directed... awesome movie overall and must watch from my side...