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Ishqiya - Making Headlines with Bold Dialogues
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Movie: Ishqiya (love)
Director: Abhishek Chaubey
Year: 2010
Stars: Naseeruddin Shah, Arshad Warsi, Vidya Balan and Salman Shahid
Snapshot of the Story
Ishqiya is about two thieves Khalujaan (Naseeruddin Shah) and Babban (Arshad Warsi) running away with money from their boss. In this situation they feel that the only secure place to hide is their friend’s home, but finds out that he is dead. Krishan (Vidya Balan) playing the role of widow takes not time and gives them a place to hide. Story flows with a lot of convolutions and engage audience until the very last minute. Debutant director Abhishek Chaubey did a fantastic job as director of this movie.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Ishqiya
Storyline
Story of the flick starts with Krishna (played by Vidya Balan) convincing her hubby Vidyadhar, who is a local gang-leader to surrender to police. He pretends to agree, but dramatically dies in a gas explosion. Now Krishna is living a life of a widow, then enters in the movie a team of two criminals Iftikhar aka Khalujan (played by Naseeruddin Shah) and Razzak Hussain aka Babban (played by Arshad Warsi). Both of them ditch their job and try to escape from their boss who wants to catch them and bury them alive.
The duo land up in Vidyadhar’s house to seek refuge from there, the boss comes to learn that Vidyadhar is dead, Krishna gives them shelter and starts seducing both of them and pretends to be in love with both of them to achieve her secret goal. Khalujan and Babban also fall to her trap, but don’t express their feelings either to Krishna or each other. The intimate scene between Vidya Balan and Arshad Warsi made a lot of controversies before the release. Krishna proposes both of them to kidnap Kamalkant Kakkar aka KK, partner of Vidyadhar in his illegal job. Story takes an interesting twist and turn when all of them come to know that Vidyadhar is still alive.
Last one hour of the movie is full of drama. Babban and Khalujan were blindfolded by the Vidyadhar’s men and taken to get killed, they manage to escape from there, and this fight sequence is ordinary and reminds us of the 90’s era. Finally, Vidyadhar gets killed and the trio has the last laugh.
Final Thoughts
Ishqiya is one time watch movie and does not have enough fire power to attract the audience for a second showing. It has an average story and except for some of the scene are very funny and has some vulgar dialogs. Highlight of the movie is Vidya Balan and her abusive dialogs which she does with ease and perfection. Naseeruddin Shah was fantastic as Khalujan and so did Arshan Warsi. Director Abhishek Chaubey did a fantastic job and made a fantastic first movie as debutant. Lyricist Gulzar good song and “Dil to Baccha Hai ji” and “Ibn-E-Batuta” were both chart toppers for months.
Rating
Ishqiya scores 6 out of 10 for its dialogs and Vidya Balan’s performance that many leading actress would not think of doing onscreen. Songs written by Gulzar and sung by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan gave it extra mileage.
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Ayasha Takia and Abhay Deol in Young Love Story - Socha Na Tha
Friday, December 9th, 2011
Movie: Socha Na Tha (Unexpected)
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Year: 2005
Stars: Abhay Deol, Ayesha Takia and Apoorva Jha
Snapshot of the story
Socha Na Tha is a story of a guy who is going to marry a girl selected by his parents but rejects her and wants to marry his Catholic girlfriend which is unacceptable to his parents. While he is trying to convince his parents to let him marry her, he finds himself in love with the girl his parents chose for him. Story takes a sweet and funny twist as it finally reaches it’s climax.
Movie Reviews and Ratings of Socha Na Tha
Storyline
Viren (played by Abhay Deol) is going to marry Aditi (played by Ayesha Takia), a girl selected by his parents being their friends daughter. But Viren is in love with a Catholic girl named Karen (played by Apoorva Jha) and wants to marry her. He confides with Aditi and both of them arrive at a pact that Viren would refuse the marriage proposal with Aditi.
The rejection by Viren creates a rift between the two families which triggers a war of words. At the same time Viren continues to date Karen and proposes her for marriage, the response of which is positive. Then he meets Karen’s parents and they also agree, but when they go for the permission from his parents they disapprove the match.
In the ensuing chaos, Viren also continues to meet Aditi, even though there are no strings attached. Both of them feel free to talk and share their feelings with each other. Then there’s a dramatic turnaround in the story when Viren realizes that his heart is now beating for Aditi. On the other side another dramatic turnaround takes place and his parents agree to make Karen their daughter–in–law. Now Viren is in another mess, for now he wants to marry Aditi and not Karen.
Final Thoughts
Socha Na Tha is small budget movie and show that it does not need to be the big budget movie to be a block buster hit. The movie gets its appeal just because of the unpredictable situations woven with a good story narrated by Imtiaz Ali. Socha Na Tha is good in the screenplay and all the actors give off their best. Credit goes to Imtiaz Ali for making a simple story very compelling. Climax of the movie was a bit predictable which can be ignored sijnce the movie overall was much fun to watch. Music is not the selling point for this movie and also not really needed because of the brilliant direction of Imtiaz Ali.
Rating
Socha Na Tha scores 7 out of 10 for its simple but engaging story. Both Ayesh Takia and Abhay Deol was a newcomer and did a fantastic job. We would like to add 1 more star just for their outstanding performance making the rating 8 out of 10.
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Young Love Story of Kareena and Shahid - Jab We Met
Thursday, December 8th, 2011
Movie: Jab We Met
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Year: 2007
Stars: Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor and Tarun Arora
Snapshot of the story
“Same recipe with new cover on it” but it tastes a bit different from others and is good. Director Imtiaz Ali is not afraid of experiment and touched new heights in direction with “Jab We Met”. The story revolves around the two persons who are in love with some other person but as the fate has something else in their lives they meet each other. As they start spending time together they fall in love with each other. Story is perfectly handled with perfection by Imtiaz Ali which makes it look sweet and peppy love story.
Review of Jab We Met
Storyline
Aditya (played by Shahid Kapoor) is an industrialist and in love with a girl, but unfortunately the girl gets married to another person and the heartbroken Aditya being unable to muster up the courage to return home aimlessly boards the train bounding away into night.
On the other hand, a beautiful and annoyingly talkative girl Geet (played by Kareena Kapoor) leaves Mumbai to return her hometown Bhatinda. Co-incidentally both of them cross one another’s path by boarding the same train. Geet with her talkative nature irritates Aditya to the point of getting him to leave the train. Another misfortune happens there and both of them find themselves stranded on a desolate station with no luggage or money. Then both of them travel through bus, taxies and even in bullock cart to reach Bhatinda. Ths part of the movie is full of fun and confusion as Geet’s family think that Aditya is the boy friend. Soon both go back to their normal life ending it no high note. Both Aditya and Geet after an month with different situation in life and has feeling for each other but now both has confused feeling where they like each other or not and this keeps momentum of the story. First half of the movie is filled with fun, humor and charismatic presence of Kareena.
“Jab We Met” is peppy love story and Imtiaz Ali has made it look fresh. Story gives you plenty of reasons to laugh and one can take get lost in sweet screen romance of Kareena and Shahid. This is the story when Shahid and Kareena were having and affair which helped them portraying romantic scenes with ease.
Final Thoughts
First half of the movie is the best part of the movie and makes the audiences glued to their seat. Fresh story, good screenplay, charisma of Kareena Kapoor and impressive Sahid Kapur made it hit and Music by Pritam was icing on the cake. Pritam has did a successfully experiment with music as the fusion of Indian and western and made popular within young crowd. All in all a good entertaining movie with few hick up there and there this can easily be ignored.
Rating
“Jab We Met” scores 8 out of 10 for good music, mature performance, good all round performance in music helped in wining National Award for “Yeh Ishq Hai”. Movie did good office collection of $30 million.
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Aziz Mirza and Shahrukh Khan made an average love story - Chalte Chalte
Tuesday, December 6th, 2011
Movie: Chalte Chalte
Director: Aziz Mirza
Year: 2003
Genre: Romance, Emotion, Drama
Stars: Shahrukh Khan, Rani Mukherjee and Satish Shah
Snapshot of the story
Movie portraits the love story of Raj (played by SRK) and Priya (played by Rani) coming from different background and fall in love with each other but slowly their relationship started to show cracks in the seams. Movie takes an unusual twist and turns as their relationship starts with a fight, how Raj conveys Priya who is going to marry some other guy that he is the Mr. Perfect for him. Chalte Chalte is emotional love story made under Shahrukh Khan’s own production house Red Chillies Entertainment.
Review of Movie Chalte Chalte
Storyline
Raj (Shahrukh Khan) is an entrepreneur and one day while being on his way to hill station he meets by accident Priya (Rani Mukherjee). There starts the Mars vs. Venus relationship and fights blaming each other but soon they realize that accidents happened because they both ignored the basic rules of love. Raj and Priya become friends. As they start meeting each other Raj has feeling for Priya, however on the other hand Priya is about to leave to Athens for her wedding to be.
Raj (Shahrukh Khan) has some other plan in his mind and boards the same flight to win back Priya’s (Rani Mukherjee) heart and make her believe that he is the Mr. Right for her. This small section is funny and also the most romantic part of the movie. Raj (Shahrukh Khan) makes all the funny and crazy attempts to rethink Priya (Rani Mukherjee) about her decision. Failing to change her mind as they both reach Athens where Priya (Rani Mukherjee) tells the entire episode to her father. Her father makes Priya understood and realize that how much Raj loves her and wants Priya (Rani Mukherjee) to get married with Raj.
Chalte Chalte becomes the emotional drama and often slow and boring drama as the relationship between Raj and Priya starts showing problems. Priya being grown up in a rich family and loves cleanliness, punctuality and other good habits but Raj being of middle class, hard working man is not able to follow all these systematic habits and the financial crisis makes the situation worst. Unable to handle this situation Priya goes back to her parents leaving Raj alone. Emotional drama continues as how Raj handles this situation and brings himself back to normal life from this situation and also wins Priya’s heart.
Final Thoughts
Director Aziz Mirza gave his 100% to make this hit but it does have a weak storyline, unconvincing drama and sad screen play which did not lift the movie. Chalte Chalte impresses audience in patches which is the sad part of story. Shahrukh Khan and Rani Mukherjee were good and gave their solid performance. Music of the movie was good which is evident as Jatin-Lalit made award wining compositions. Chalte Chalte did an average business of $16 million but was in the top ten when it comes to the gross collections.
Rating
Chalte Chalte scores 7 out of 10 for strong performance by Shahrukh Khan. Aziz Mirza made a good effort to make an average story where it can not be called as flop.
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Movie Reviews and ratings of Sci-Fi - Predator
Sunday, December 4th, 2011
Movie: Predator
Year: 1987
Genre: Sci-Fi/Action
Director: John McTiernan
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers and Kevin Peter Hall
Snapshot of Story:
Predator is a fast action packed sci-fi that finds a group of commandos battling with a superior alien in the heart of a South American jungle.
Movie Reviews and Rating
Storyline:
Top hit movies of today leave a lasting impression with viewers long after they have watched the movie. This would apply to Predator where it is not so much the subject that is appealing but the fact that the director manages to create an overall atmosphere that keeps viewers engaged in the showing. The same applies to great entertainers such as Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley where they have superb inner talent to keep the audience engaged.
The commandos led by Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) are immediately dropped off by a helicopter in the heart of an unknown South American jungle and assigned to a mission that is not all that clear. There is no waiting about for the action to start and they soon find themselves battling with an unknown enemy who seemed to know their every move.
In one scene Dillon (Carl Weathers) finds himself in an opening in the jungle and rapidly fires his machine gun which is torn away along with his arm by the enemy’s blasts. The director does an excellent job of using the jungle to show off the enormous firepower of the commandos to give an heightened sense of realism.
The rest of the cast in the movie were well chosen with each offering a different perspective on the enemy and in particular when one of them started meditating as to assume an evil force that is hunting them. This was an excellent touch to the movie as it slowly brought the commandos to the realization that the enemy was not of this planet.
In true ‘Arnie’ style, the commando Dutch has to battle with the alien single-handedly after the demise of all his comrades. Using his wits and great improvisation Dutch is able to finally defeat the alien.
In one scene Dutch realizes some of the limitations of the alien when he finds himself in a mudslide and covered in mud where the alien is unable to detect him.
Final Thoughts:
The movie Predator was another barometer of its time in creating an atmosphere that fixated the audience and kept the pace right through to the end. One has to ask questions as to the motivation of the thrill of hunting and killing on the part of the alien. In most cases when we refer to aliens, we see them as invaders or as friends but the twist here is that we have aliens that are neither and their only objective is to hunt and kill. This movie spawned off many other offshoots using this primary theme including Predator 2 (1990), Alien vs Predator (2004) and more.
Ratings:
8/10
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