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A Classic Love Story - Silsila
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Movie: Silsila
Director: Yash Chopra
Year: 1981
Stars: Amitabh Bachchan, Shashi Kapoor, Rekha and Jaya Bachchan
Snapshot of the Story
Silsila is a classical romantic story that made the history with love stories and extramarital relationship which created plenty of controversies. Shekhar (Rishi Kapoor) is a squadron leader in Indian Air Force and in love with Shobha (Jaya Bhaduri). Amit (Amitabh Bachchan) is a romantic poet and loves Chandni (Rekha). Silsila is story of love, scarifies and extra marital affairs and released under Yash Chopra studio who created history for generations to come.
Movie reviews and ratings of Silsila
Storyline
Amit (played by Amitabh Bachhan) and Shekhar (played by Rishi Kapoor) both are orphaned at a very young ages, they grew up independent as Shekhar being a squadron leader in IAF and Amit being a struggling writer. Shekhar fallas in love with Shobha and wants to marry her, but story takes an unpredictable twist as Shekhar dies in a plane crash leaving behind a pregnant and helpless Shobha. Now Amit takes the responsibility of his friend and gets married to Shobha and tells Chandni to forget him. Heartbroken Chandni believes that this is in their fate and marries her childhood friend Dr. Anand (Sanjeev Kumar). Even if Amit and Chandni have accepted what is written in their destiny, but they still love each other.
Their love turns to be an extra marital affair and Amit happens to meet Chandni and their romance is rekindled once again. This on screen romantic couple was part of the controversies as there were lots of rumors about their love affair of Amitabh Bachchan and Rekha that gave this movie an extra mileage. This affair was never proven true which gives the impression that the controversies were created to get publicity for this movie.
Story take lots of roller coaster ride and have lots of convolutions before reaching to the climax. Story becomes unpredictable as both Chandni and Amit realize that what they are doing and will lead them nowhere and they should stick to their partners which happens to be the happy ending of the movie.
Final Thoughts
Excellent performance made it a classical romantic movie to watch, Amitabh Bachchan is exceptional and director Yash Chopra proved again why he is the king of Romance in Bollywood. The pace of the movie was perfect and engages the audience during the movie. Jaya Bachchan touched the audience with her sensitive performance that touches everyone’s heart and Rekha looked very gorgeous. She has very short role and one should give full credit to her mature performance. Sanjeev Kumar was in a simple character and justified his role with some grace. Yash Chopra was excellent with his screenplay and cinematography.
Rating
Silsila bags 8.5 out of 10. This classical romantic story deserve this and credit to everyone who is part the bigger crew and worked like a team effort rather than an individual’s effort.
Romantic Hits of Yash Raj Studio
Tags: A Classic Love Story - Silsila, Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Rekha, Review of love story silsila, Rishi Kapoor, Yash Chopra
Singles Don’t Want Commitment - Love ke Side Effects
Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Movie: Pyaar Ke Side Effects
Director: Saket Choudhary
Year: 2006
Stars: Rahul Bose, Mallika Sherawat, Ranvir Shorey and Taraana Raja
Snapshot of the Story
The movie shows the intricacies of the modern age relationships. It is the story of Trish (Mallika Sherawat) who doesn’t want a commitment, but her parents force her to get married which she avoids by running away on the wedding day and meets a DJ in the party Sid (Rahul Bose). Three years down the line both Trisha and Sid are in a deep relationship, but still not able to make up her mind for a commitment. Their relationship suffers cracks and now Trisha goes back to her old fiancee. The story goes through interesting twist and turns blended with comedy.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Pyaar Ke Side Effects
Storyline
Debutant director Saket Choudhary made a good movie that portrays the commitment phobia of the young generation. Trish (Mallika Sherawat) is a young girl and daughter of a retired major from the Indian Army who believe that this is the right time and she should get married to his friend’s son Vivek (Jas Arora) who is a successful business man. Trisha thinks otherwise and not ready for any kind of commitment runs away from home on the wedding day. Sid (Rahul Bose) is a Delhi based youngster living with his mother. He works part-time with his friend as DJ at night club and private parties. Sid and Trisha meet each other when Trisha runs away from her wedding and movie take a jump forwards of three years, now they are dating and in a relationship.
Three years down the line Sid is still struggling to establish himself as a professional DJ and looking for an opportunity, but Trisha is a famous fashion model and looking for a commitment. Trisha proposes Sid, but he is still in two minds and not able to take any decision. Sid finally agrees to marriage as he doesn’t want to lose Trisha, but Trisha’s father comes in their way as he thinks Sid cannot give her a better future and rejects Sid.
Now both of them are single again and Vivek approaches Trisha again and this time she agrees to marry him. On the other hand Sid gets attached towards Tanya (Sophiya Chaudhary) who is a famous pop start. Both Trisha and Sid are busy with their life and trying to get it on the track, but Sid realizes that he is still in love with Trisha and ready for a commitment.
Final Thoughts
“Pyaar Ke Side Effect” is made for only youth audience and able to entertain them in all possible way, but this seems to be the worst part of the movie. Story of the movie is a fresh experiment on the Bollywood mainstream. Music of Pritam compliments the story very well. Mallika Sherawat looks gorgeous and sensual. Rahul Bose justifies his role as Sid and perfectly represents the current Indian youth of today. This is good romantic/comedy movie to watch.
Rating
7/10
Tags: Mallika Sherawat, Movie review of Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Rahul Bose, Ranvir Shorey, Saket Choudhary, Singles Don't Want Commitment - Love ke Side Effects, Taraana Raja
The Royal Love of Mughal-e-Azam
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Movie: Mughal-e-Azam
Director: K. Asif
Year: 1960
Stars: Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar, Madhubala and Durga Khote
Snapshot of the Story
Movie is historical love story of Prince Salim (Dilip Kumar) and court dancer Anarkali (Madhubala). The highlight of the movie was it was half shot in black and white and half shot in Eastman color. The story of this movie has been modified a bit to give it an optimistic end. The movie shows how the Mughal prince Salim falls for the dancer of his father’s royal court Anarkali and how his father brutally gives Anarkali the punishment of being buried alive for loving his son.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Mughal-e-Azam
Storyline
Mughal-e-Azam was the most successful movie of the 60’s with the towering performances from Dilip Kumar, Prithviraj Kapoor and beautiful Madhubala. Mughal-e-Azam is about Price Salim who is in love with court dancer Anarkali and wants to marry her. She is just a court dancer and she does not have status to marry a prince of the Mughal empire and is severley opposed by Akbar.
But on the other hand Salim was in deep love with Anarkali and wants to marry her at any cost and for this he accepts her father’s challenge to fight with the Mughal troops. Akbar who is right on his part as how a prince of the Mughal empire marry a so call court dancer and Salim thinks from his heart and sees nothing wrong following his heart beating for Anarkali. The rift between Akbar and Salim was fascinating to watch. Every dialog was well written and more than anything else beautifully delivered by Prithviraj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar. Dilip Kumar is also known as “Tragedy King” of Indian cinema.
Madhubala was the queen on grace and beauty; she was one of the most beautiful actresses of Indian cinema. Madhubala was perfect for Anarkali’s role as it needed someone with simplicity and grace to justify court dancers that do not have status make Mughal prince mad about her beauty. Unfortunately Madhubala died at a very early age with a complicated heart disease in London.
Final Thoughts
Mughal-e-Azam was one of the most expensive movies of 60’s era and half shot in Eastman color. Mughal-e-Azam was one of the best classical movie of all time and this was also listed in the top 50 must watch Indian movies by www.imdb.com. Movie has given some unforgettable moments to Indian cinema and still inspires new directors and actors of our time. Director K. Asif was amongst very few directors in free India creating on screen magic with his excellent screenplay.
Rating
9/10
Kapoor family’s film legacy
Tags: Dilip Kumar, Durga Khote, Enternal Love story of Salim and Anarkali, Madhubala, Movie reviews and Ratings of Mughal-e-Azam, Prithviraj Kapoor, The Royal Love of Mughal-e-Azam
The Rise of Superstar Nargis with Shree 420 - Directed by Raj Kapoor
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Movie: Shree 420 (Mr. Cheat)
Director: Raj Kapoor
Year: 1955
Stars: Raj Kapoor, Nargis, Nadira, Nemo and Lalita Pawar
Snapshot of the Story
Raj Kapoor was the biggest and probably the first big show man of Indian cinema. He tried his luck in acting, direction and as producer. He was the man with special charisma that increased as his career grew.
Shree 420 was the super hit movie of the 50’s era with towering performances from Raj Kapoor and Nargis. Shree 420 is known for its classical romance and unforgettable romantic scenes in the rain where Raj Kapoor and Nargis share the same umbrella that gave it an exquisite feel. Raj Kapoor was the master in his art and was amongst the very few who knew what audience wanted and whatever he did created magic on the silver screen.
Raj Kapoor's Charisma in Shree 420
Storyline
The story of Shree 420 is of Raj (played by Raj Kapoor) a humble guy coming from a small town to the city of dreams in Bombay in search of a job. Shree 420 beautifully portrays how difficult is to survive in Bombay at that time and how Raj finds his way and does not hesitate to choose the right path when realized that he is in the wrong company.
Raj is full of enthusiasm, self belief and has an innocent charm about him. But he takes no time to learn that living in Bombay he needs to be a sharp and cunning man. Bombay is the place he finds his true love. Vidya (Nargis) is a poor girl and takes care of her parents by earning her bread and butter as a school teacher.
Struggling to find a decent job for himself, Raj meets a businessman Sonchand (Nemo) and gets attracted by his luxurious lifestyle. Raj starts to believe that he also can become rich, but he is not aware about the Sonchand’s evil intentions. On the other hand, Sonchand offers Raj to work on his new project. Sonchand is working on the project where we would be building homes for poor people available at very cheap rates. Raj soon finds himself as a victim of dirty tricks by Sonchand and there are no real intentions by Sonchand who only wants to make money and run away with it. Raj feels sorry for what he did and goes to those poor people and hands over the bond papers to them preventing them from becoming homeless.
When the story is revolving around the intense drama it also has the romantic angle to it as Raj and Vidya fall in love with each other, Nargis played the role of Vidya and looked stunning. Her femininity, expressions and her innocence only shouts the fact that she is born to act and with release of “Shree 420” Indian cinema has witnessed the birth of new superstar in the form of Nargis.
Sharkar-Jaikishan's romantic music
Final Thoughts
“Shree 420” did turn out to be the super hit movie with a simple story and towering performances of Raj Kapoor who looked very much a small town guy and has that innocent charm about him. Nargis was excellent and her beauty and eyes did much coupled with her dialogs. Shree 420 is directed by non other than Raj Kapoor himself, which is quite an achievement to be in the shoes of both an actor and director. Raj Kapoor was the only other actor in the Indian cinema and probably in the world who played this dual role in his career. Legendary Shankar – Jaikishan created the vibrant and romantic music of the decade and the song “Pyaar Hua Iqraar Hua” still fresh in everyone’s memory and “Mera Joota hai Japani ye Patlun englistani Sar pe lal topi rusi par phir bhi dil hai Hindustani” became a trade mark of the movie aka “Wearing torn Japanese shoes, English trousers, a red Russian cap but with an Indian heart”
Rating
9/10
Tags: Lalita Pawar, Movie reviews and Ratings of Shree 420, Nadira, Nargis, Nemo, The Rise of Superstar Nargis with Shree 420 - Directed by Raj Kapoor
Bachna Ae Haseeno - Old Stuff in New Packet
Saturday, December 31st, 2011
Movie: Bachna Ae Haseeno (Be Aware of Me Girls)
Director: Siddharth Anand
Year: 2008
Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Minisha Lamba, Bipasha Basu and Deepika Padukone
Snapshot of the story
“Bachna Ae Haseeno” is a story of young guys Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor) who does not believe in true love and flirts with many girls and plays on their emotions. One day he falls in love with a girl, but she later dumps him. Director Siddharth Anand directed his third movie for YashRaj studio worked with a very weak story written by Aditya Chopra.
Movie Reviews and Ratings - Bachna Ae Haseeno
Storyline
Raj Sharma (played by Ranbir Kapoor) is a flirt and womanizer who loves to play with women’s feelings and then dumps them thinking he has enough out of the affair. Story goes through his different affairs starting in Europe where he meets Mahi (Minissha Lamba). She believes in true love, Raj impresses her with his poems he has written about his feelings for her and then shares a kiss. But Mahi soon comes to know that Raj is playing games with her.
Now Raj moves to Mumbai and there he gets the job as a game designer in Microsoft. In Mumbai Raj meets Radhika (Bipasha Basu), Raj forms the live-in relationship and keeps promising to get married. Raj gets an offer to move to Sydney for designing a new game and he accepts the proposal thinking that Radhika (Bipasha Basu) is a modern girl who won’t mind a breakup. But it was opposite of Raj’s expectation as Radhika (Bipasha Basu) becomes ready to sacrifice her career and move to Australia with him. Raj tries hard to avoid her, but she disagrees. Raj plays a dirty trick with Radhika (Bipasha Basu) and promise her for marriage and asks her to wait at marriage registrars office on given date, but he never turns up.
In Sydney Raj meets Gayatri (Deepika Padukone), she is a student in a business school and drives a taxi in the night. Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) is an intelligent and independent girl who doesn’t believe in commitment. Raj befriends her and finds himself in love with her. On expressing his feelings he gets rejected by Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) and learns how it feels when someone hurts you. He decides to apologize to both Mahi and Radhika and flies back to India. In the meantime, Gayatri also realizes her love for him and comes to miss him a lot. On returning from India Raj founds his house full of Gayatri’s love letters and spends no time to meet her.
Final Thoughts
The Story of Bachna Ae Haseeno revolves around Raj and his flamboyance. Romance of Minisha Lamba and Ranbir Kapoor was the best of all as they both looked good onscreen. Sadly the story is quite monotonous and after the first affair it becomes predictable. Director Siddharth Anand tried his best but could not make it a hit mainly due to the weak storyline. Vishal – Shekar created the versatile music by creating the retro version of 70’s “Bachna Ae Haseeno” by Rishi Kapoor.
Rating
6/10
Tags: Bachna Ae Haseeno, Bachna Ae Haseeno - Old Stuff in New Packet, Bipasha Basu, Deepika Padukone, Minisha Lamba, Ranbir Kapoor
