Student Of The Year

GENRE: Romance/Comedy
Director: Karan Johar
Cast: Siddhart Malhotra (Abhi), Varun Dhawan (Rohan), Aliya Bhatt (Shanaya), Rishi Kapoor (Dean Yoginder Vasisht), Ronit Roy, Boman Irani, Sana Saeed (Tanya)

With this movie, film industry has achieved a new low of quality film making. Not only is this movie immature, but also loaded with, what our generation calls “CRAP”. I felt like throwing up in the first ten minutes and almost went unconscious after fifteen.

Story revolves around a STUPID student who forgets his so called ‘mission of life’ (:DDD) and flirts around with his best friend’s girl and beats him for the same.

Then there is this STUPID Friend who flirts around with every girl in the college and still fights the hero for his ‘one and only’.

And, finally there is this STUPID girl who is confused about what she wants and goes against both the friends.

All competing for the precious STUPID OF THE YEAR trophy by their very STUPID dean, who does this all for his personal soap entertainment.

C’MOOOOOOOONNNNN, seriously WTF….   :O

In terms of script, this movie tries to relive the spirit of JO JEETA WAHI SIKANDER, but fails miserably due to wrong timing. Director, Mr. Karan Johar, has been sleeping through the entire movie production else he might have not even taken up this project. The only thing he ended up contributing to this film were Gay Jokes and ICU death bed scenes (remember Kal Ho Naa Ho…??), Karan we are dead bored of the same screenplay and scenes, please grow up and offer something better.

Talking about acting in this film is like spilling Shit over Shit… :DDD. All that actors had to do in this film was to act over-smart ‘velle’, nothing else. All their performances have been below average. Even the biggies like Rishi Kapoor couldn’t offer much on their part.

My rating - 1/5, the only reason to enjoy this movie will be songs as tunes are catchy and girls will love the display of ABS and muscular Body Tones…  and please spare my language, I was just in the flavor of the movie…  :P

OMG... Oh My God !!

GENRE: Drama/Comedy
Director: Umesh Shukla
Cast: Paresh Rawal (Kanji Bhai), Akshay Kumar (Lord Krishna), Mithun Chakraborty, Om Puri, Mahesh Manjrekar, Govind Namdeo (Siddheshwar Maharaj)

SUPERB MOVIE…..  Incomparable concept and impeccable script. Excels in every department
of movie making.

Inspired by a very famous Gujarati play “Kanji Virudh Kanji” this movie not only should open eyes, but the lessons of this movie should be learnt by heart. God is not about practicing religious faiths, not about idols or giving money for such things. He is all about having strong belief, spreading optimism and working towards welfare for all. EACH LINE and by saying so I mean LITERALLY each line has something to teach, especially to those who are blind with worshipping idols and following religious practices.

The story is about Kanji bhai, a Guajrati businessman who is challenged by a natural disaster considered as act of God for which he is denied an insurance claim. He sues God and his worshippers for the same and the democratic judicial system keeping God equal to humans accepts the case. Story keeps on getting interesting thereafter.

Hats off to the script and screenplay, that the viewers wont even feel like moving an inch from their seats through the movie. Direction was very good (not excellent though) and was well supported by precise editing.

The best part of this movie is the performance by lead actors. Paresh Rawal delivers his best as a frustrated businessman and Akshay Kumar is witty and smart as our very own God. They both manage to transfer the message of this movie by their expert delivery of dialogues and expressions. Also, Mithun Da was enjoyable as a religious leader trying to save his side.

My Rating – 4/5, superb concept and an eye opener. People, God doesn’t teach you to spend crores of money on worshiping him but to spend small goodwill for happiness to all.

Heroine

GENRE: Drama
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Cast: Kareena Kapoor (Mahi Arora), Arjun Rampal (Aryan Khanna), Randeep Hooda, Divya Dutta, Ranvir Shorey.

2 pegs that people love about Bhandarkar Movies…

-                 - Realistic content. The way that he shows some hidden insights of the industry he covers.

-                 - Character development. How a person and his responses change with the situation.

This movie does justice to the first but fails in the second.

Story shoots directly from the point where an actress Mahi Arora, has made herself a big space In Indian Film Industry and is content with her success. On the contrast, her personal life is unbalanced where she has fallen for Aryan Khanna, a married superstar who himself is unsure of this relationship and ends up leaving her. This leads to breaking her insides and in search of her confidence, Mahi ends up committing one mistake after another. Story pretty much spins around this situation.

Bhandarkar’s direction has nothing revolutionary and also the acting has been very average. Some of the characters weren’t fermented well, leading to negligible impacts on the story. Also, the problem with the script is that audience knows a lot about celebrity lives already and hence, nothing to look up to in this movie.Over dramatic setup with extreme emotions seems kinda stupud at times.

My Rating – 2.25/5, the concept was itself weak to start with.

BARFI !

GENRE: Drama/Romance.
Director: Anurag Basu
Cast: Ranbir Kapoor (Murphy/Barfi), Priyanka Chopra (Jhilmil Chatterjee), Ileana D'Cruz (Shruti Sengupta), Roopali Ganguly (Shruti's Mother), Bhola Raja Sapkota (Ranbir's Friend), Saurabh Shukla (Inspector), Arun Bali (Jhilmil's Dadu)

Makes you LAUGH,

Makes you CRY,

Makes you SMILE,

Makes you FEEL,

Makes you FALL IN LOVE again…

No amount of appreciation I put up for this movie is gonna be enough. This film has a guy who is deaf and dumb but lives with his heart open and expresses more emotions than other, so called normal people. This film has a girl who can’t think and behave like a normal person, but is more honest and more human than any other. Then, yet it has another girl who can listen, can speak and can behave normal but ends up making the 

biggest mistake of her life by not being honest to her heart.

Makes you REALISE, never lie to yourself.

Impeccable direction and screenplay brings this movie to life even without significant dialogues. It can be noticed in the film that scenes, actions and reactions of actors have been tailored to develop characters without saying anything, literally. Some were even inspired from the styles of Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy (also to mention, their picturisation was perfect).
 

Story and editing are average and have nothing much to contribute in the movie’s excellence but that said it is over compensated by all the lead performances.
 

Ranbir Kapoor has given his best performance yet. If he doesn’t bag the National and Filmfare award for this role, then I doubt their credibility (unless superseded by something better..  :P ) . Not to forget Priyanka’s performance was remarkable as well. They really convince you of their innocence and emotions with nothing but their expressions and body language.
 

Well supported by the background scores, this movie becomes a delightful experience.

A very high quality drama and extremely enjoyable.

My rating- 4.5/5, something for our film-makers and movie viewers to learn from on how a film should be made, rather than some senseless movies which are big 300cr commercial hits but seriously deliver nothing in the name of quality intellectual cinema.

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Step Up 4 - Revolution

GENRE: Drama/Dance/Music/Romance
Director: Scott Speer
Cast: Ryan Guzman (Sean), Kathryn McCormick (Emily), Cleopatra Coleman (Penelope), Misha Gabriel Hamilton (Eddy)

I saw this one kinda late but found it so soooo amazing that I had to write this review.

Just when I thought that almost everything that can be done with dancing has been exhausted in the first three installments there comes this movie which takes dancing to a totally new level. No more PERFORMANCE ART, it’s all about PROTEST ART.
Mobs performing wildly beautiful pieces in public (especially the museum performance was breath taking…) leaves everybody wanting more. Some trampoline and cable stunts in the end are remarkable and entry of all time favorites MOOSE and MADD Chadd is just a cherry on the cake.

Putting it simply this movie remains honest to Step Up brand and delivers even better quality in terms of dance moves, ideas and locations. Story is plain and simple but fits in with the concept.

My Rating- 3.75/5… I never thought I would rate a dance movie so high evvver…. but this flick deserves it….

The Avengers

GENRE: Action/Sci-Fi/Superhero
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Robert Downey Jr.(Tony Stark/IronMan), Chris Evans (Steve Rogers/Captain America), Mark Ruffalo(Bruce Banner/Hulk), Chris Hemsworth(Thor), Scarlett Johnson(Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow), Jeremy Renner (Clint Barton/Hawkeye), Tom Hiddleton (Loki), Cobie Smulders (Agent Maria Hill), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury)


Just 2 words, FANTABULOUS experience….

Recommended ONLY for avid comic fans who know the characters or facts or for those who have strictly followed the movies and by strictly I mean each dialogue otherwise this might even bore u.

Anyways, its still worth ur money and time for all the legendary action scenes the movie packs and the buildup is strong too. The only one thing the movie lacks is the epic quotient, i.e., a few scenes could have been made more epic during the buildup as well, but they were handled very plain. Also, the storyline is kinda slow and complex in the start but characters have gelled well as a team.

Actors specially Robert Downey, Jr. have really acted well and Mark Ruffalo justifies his selection as the new HULK with a good performance.

Visual effects are something which must be experienced. This movie is a VFX extravaganza taking everything to the next level.
Amazing high definition animations and color and light effects are so realistic that one can hardly differentiate.

Action sequences are so so gooood that one is just left drooling for more and I must say that it was for the first time I actually likes seeing HULK and Captain America in action even though they don’t have much to offer.

Finally my rating- 3.5/5…. must watch for comic fans like me, U will love this movie for its effects, action jammed scenes, humorous punch lines and might dislike it for the slow buildup. The best part for me was the realization each SUPERHERO gets that what it takes to put one’s life on line to save others and become an actual hero. And ya, all the comic fans… please wait after the titles, u are gonna know about the buildup for avengers 2… don’t miss it…. :)

The Dark Knight Rises

GENRE: Action/Thriller/Crime/Drama
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne/The Batman), Tom Hardy (Bane), Anne Hathway (Selina/CatWoman), Gary Oldman (Commissioner Gordon), Joseph Gordon Levitt (Blake/Robin), Marion Cotillard (Miranda Tate), Michael Cane (Alfred), Morgan Freeman (Fox)


EPIC! EPIC! EPIC! The movie has this word EPIC written all over it.

My sincere request, DON’T COMPARE IT with Batman: The Dark Knight (it was an easy 4.75/5), both movies are very different. That showed the continuation and this shows the end which is legendary as the trilogy itself. Also, it has always been difficult to rework the magic once made, either its Titanic or Sholey.

This movie starts slow and steady but strong and till the time you reach the end all will be cheering “deshey basara” for Bruce Wayne to take hold and to do what he does best and that is Kick-Ass. Each scene from the re-entry of Batman to him being beaten to pulp by Bane as a very high epic quotient and the adrenaline blasts out when Bruce walks out of the cave with “deshey basara” chants behind him.

Characters have been scripted well (AGAIN NO comparisons with Joker, please) and each has their impact on the plot. Christian Bale is at his usual best and Tom Hardy conveys more through his eyes behind the mask. Direction has got no need for praise as we all know Christopher Nolan’s precision at that. Dialogues and storyline are OK but the show stealers are the VISUALS and STUNTS. Spectacular hand to hand combat scenes with amazing fight sequences with BatWing will make u drop your jaw and lose it. 1 hour of IMAX footage had its clear impact too.

Finally, I would say that wait patiently through the first half and just feel the awesome conclusion through the second…..

My Rating:- 4/5…. Ending to the legendary trilogy couldn’t have been better…. Please Please Nolan, ONCE MORE…….