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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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Vidya Balan Makes Her Debut with Parineeta
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
Movie: Parineeta
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Year: 2005
Stars: Vidya Balan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Dia Mirza and others.
Snapshot of the story
Parineeta is a story of simple human emotions consists of love, happiness, ego, jealous, etc. Lolita (Played by Vidya Balan) is the lead characters of the story, an orphan who grew up in her uncle’s house, Shekhar (Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend and Girish (Sanjay Dutt) a London return business-man loves Lotita.
Movie reviews and ratings of Parineeta
Storyline
Parineeta is basically a story of a girl named Lolita (played Vidya Balan), who is an orphan and grew up in her uncle’s house. She is a born beauty, with awesome looks and is very attractive. Shekhar (played by Saif Ali Khan) is her neighbor and childhood friend. Both of them loved each other since childhood but their love is unspoken and often expressed in metaphors.
But unfortunately Shekhar’s father is a scheming man and has plans to usurp the property of Lolita’s uncle. His plans seems to be succeeding but here comes Girish (played by Sanjay Dutt), a businessman who helps Lolita’s uncle bail out of the financial crisis. He is a self-assured man of pragmatism and calm composure. Slowly with his jolly nature he begins to make place in Lolita’s heart. Shekhar start feeling jealous, rifts between the lovers goes on increasing day by day due to the aggressiveness of Shekhar.
Finally Shekhar gets married to his father’s business partner’s daughter Gayatri (played by Dia Mirza) and as a result of this heart break Lolita too, accepts a different destiny for herself and settles down. But the emotions that have been stifled keep simmering until they boil out in the climax of this story.
Director Pradeep Sarkar has made good movie inspired by the story of Saratchandra’s novel. It is well written and directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar as expected. Every character in the movie has done the perfect job.
Final Thoughts
Parineeta is a well directed movie by Pradeep Sarkar, manages to get the best out of all the characters. Best on the novel of Saratchandra’s Chatterjee written in mid 90’d but looks a fresh story. Vidya Balan has shows that she has talent and she can portray different style of characters. She has shows lots of grace in the movie, Saif Ali Khan was first time look very natural in Parineeta that show that he is improving. Sanjay Dutt shows flow less in his royal touch. Music is the soul of the movie with the song like “Piyu Bole” and “kasto mazza” are the pick of the songs. Shantanu Moitra did a fantastic job as Parineeta becomes his first hit movie.
Rating
Parieeta scores 7.5 out of 10 for it good movie to watch with good story, top class narration and finest screenplay. Parineeta again proves all you need a good story to make a hit.
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