Well done Abba

Brilliant movie. Absolutely loved it. Its a movie for the masses though and less for the multiplex audience. Something as serious as an issue, so carefully blended with a touch of humour all through. Completely fell in love with all the characters of the movie. All were sooooo cute. :) A definite watch but with a correct mindset. No glamour, just a simple off beat flick.

Pluses:

• A low budget,but a very well made movie.
• Kudos to the scriptwriter, good story.
• Amazing acting by especially Boman Irani and Minisha Lamba.
• The essence of the story lies post interval, unlike most of the flicks which screws the story after a build up.

Minuses:

• First half drags quite a lot, where u keep wonderin where is the intermission gone missing.
• Music is so-so, not for mass appeal.
• Dont expect any eye candy.

My rating: 3.5/5

Shaapit

Not as bas as u might expect. Very much watchable. Less scary but entertainment guaranteed :D Aditya Narayan was so-so, and so was the lead actress, who goes for ghost huntin wearin mini skirts and high heels :D They have tried to add as much as events as possible in the flick so that people dont get bored.

Pluses:

• There are enough events to keep you glued till the end.
• Entertainment guaranteed. :D

Minuses:

• Poor storyline (as was expected), failed to justify the mystery created rightfully.
• Horrible music, most of which are sad ones, you sure can ignore them.
• Kiddish and unacceptable angles from Aditya in a few scenes, especially in the beginning which irritates u at times.
• Doesnt create much of any horror impact.

My Rating: 2.5/5

Love Sex aur Dhoka(LSD)

Go with the right expectations. Its not about SEX alone guys :D Sorry, to diasppoint u, not much of adult content :D 3 stories, shot with handicam. First 2 stories were good enough. Third story was quite sluggish, and having equally loud and irritating characters.Movie isnt for the masses. Selective multiplex audience.

Pluses:

• Length of the movie is short.
• Not much of time wastage on ridiculous songs.
• Not a single length story, so doesnt bore you continously.

Minuses:

• Not even a single hot chic to admire(Barring the choices of those who do not mind slutty looking ones :P)
• Not a movie for a mass appeal
• Music doesnt sound good to ears, though has a selective audience for the same.

My Rating: 2.5/5

Women's Day

Create new definitions of what it means to be a woman. If there is a box that society has created or one that you have created for yourself and you find that box confining, climb out of that box. If following the prescribed guidelines for femininity is the way to your bliss, then follow those! If you need to change those guidelines to suit your soul's need, change them! Let there be no rules except the ones you make for yourself. Allow yourself this freedom of self-definition and applaud its different versions in your fellow travellers. Be yourself and do us all proud!

My Name is Khan

Complete time pass flick.Highly over-rated. A pathetic script. I hate movies which are totally dedicated to one single star, just like MNIK built for Mr SRK. By the end of the movie, i almost felt like escaping out of the theatre. People will now throw eggs and tomatoes on me for such comments. But i cant help it if i find Karan Johar a waste director.

Plot:

This again goes back to 9/11. They have promised they wont let us get over that particular incident. No idea how many people died in this incident, but am v sure it cant be more than the victims of the recent eathquakes in Haiti or Chile or even any of such accidents in the history before 9/11 as well. But yet, we will always consider 9/11 as the biggest of all.

Anyway, Rizwaan Khan(SRK) is an autistic patient in the movie. Please dont mistake him for a brainless poor fellow :D He is actually v sharp. He can pick anythin up much quicker than any normal guy. Whatever he learns once, can never forget. He is almost an encylopedia of anythin and everythin. His family back in India consists of his poor mother and a younger brother, Zakir(Jimmy Shergil). Zakir always has a certain sense of insecurity from Rizwan, as Rizwan always gets more attention from his mom. They grow up, Rizwan turns out to be an early bread earner of the family. He can fix almost any machine. Zakir meanwhile flees out to US for highier studies in resentment.

Sometime later Zakir gets married, and calls his mom to US along with Rizwan. But before she could make her visit to US, she expires leavin Rizwan alone. Rizwan had promised his mother to be a happy man and make his own happy family. He sets out alone to US to his younger brother. Zakir is runnin a cosmetic company in US. He appoints Rizwan as one of the salesman there. Rizwaan is scared of 2 thins, viz yellow color and noise. One fine day, he faced both of his trauma causing reasons together in the middle of the road. That is where he first time comes across Mandira (Kajol). Looks like Karan just cudnt figure out how to introduce KAJOL. One stupid voice from behind and the person disappears instead of helpin the poor fellow, Rizwaan. :P Funny!! Thenafter he visits Mandira in a parlour, where she is a hair stylist. He endorses his bro's product and manages to sell it as well. Surprisingly Mandira was takin all the call to buy the products, herself being a mere employee :) Rizwan falls in love with her in the first sight itself. Now he is a regular visitor. Finds out all the details about Mandira. Mandira is a divorced mother of a teenager kid.

Now this time on, Rizwaan is crazy after Mandira, fallin every now and then on his knees proposin to her for getting married to him. Mandira avoids him for obvious reasons. Until and unless Rizwaan wins over a bet with Mandira, and she finally agrees to marry him :D How simple is that to woe a matured woman to take responsibility of an already challenged man along with her own growing kid :D But people, there's another strong reason after all :) Her kid Sameer starts likin the guy. Same old story repeated, a mother's heart n all that. Moral
of the story is, if u want to patao-fy a divorced mother, patao her kid first. :P Now they get married and are a happy family together. Rizwan stood upon the promise he made to his mother. Then happens the tragedy of 9/11. Same old story, all Asians are harrassed. And Muslims are even bigger victims. Post weddin, a Hindu Mandira has now become Mandira Khan. Now do i need to tell u the repurcussions of the same?? i dont think so :)

All the firangi frens are no more allies. Even the best fren of Sameer has left him. Next tragedy is Sameer's deadth. Karan tries to gain a lot of sympathy on this ground, while i was fuming with anger on my decision to watch this movie. The brave heart Sameer, takes all the unncessary panga with the senior students.Not just once, thrice, even after being beaten up already twice. Wat else do u expect guys, he was accidently killed by the big boys. His firang fren Reese is a witness but he is asked to keep his mouth shut. Mandira in despair turns Rizwaan out of her house. And when Rizwaan asks her, when he can get back, Mandira asks her to go and tell it to the entire US citizens, and why not the president of US directly, that he is a Khan, and he isnt a terrorist. Yes folks, that exactly is the reaosn why i am bound to mention this stupid conversation between Mandira and Rizwaan, cos this is the reason behind our Rizwaan to set out on a journey of his own to catch upon the president of US :P This turn off factor is a reason enough for me to leave the theatre.

But i continued, brave heart myself. :) But i wudnt waste a lot of my time commentin on the rest of the movie. Its a complete waste here after. The worst part are the scenes related to Hurricane hit US region in Georgia. First our hero Rizwan, followed by media people, in turn to be followed by bhai-bhabhi...even Mandira, and also not to leave alone his enemies, all gathered one by one to get to help or to hurt our hero,in the worst of the places, Hurricane hit Georgia :P Where people are dyin, no medical aid or anythin provided to them even by the govt, due to inaccessibility. But our filmi guys make it there. :) Worst part of the movie. And please dont be disappointed guys. Our hero will meet the president you know!!! Election happens in US, now the president is our Barack Obama who is played by a black actor :D And our Rizwan, not alone but with his wife meets the president, and finally tells him that he is Khan and not a terrorist. :D Applauds!!!! Sigh!!! What a story, what a waste of time.

No sympathy at all on anyone's death or misery in the movie. No romance at all between Kajol and SRK except for a few places where they talk bout sex :P Dull story, dull music. Not even any special appearance :D How on earth do u think will u sell this flick. Cheers to Karan Johar, he is simply brilliant. He managed not only to sell the movie without even a single hot scene or chic in the entire flick, but he even managed to make huge bucks out of it. He very well knows how to make business.

My Rating: 2/5

Rann

More of a reality flick, just as the promos suggest. More on the lines of Madhur Bhandarkar. :) But yes, the subject of the movie is the need of the hour. The target this time is the media. :) A good flick, not for entertainment really, more of a serious stuff. But quite gripping.The best part of the movie is, the more you try to predict it, the more it tends to differ.After a long time, came somethin better from Ramu. :)

Plot:


This is a story of an honest TV Reporter, Vijay Mallik(Amitabh Bachchan). He is the god of the media industry. He is created his own niche, and built a company of his own which sells news. His channel covers only which is true and a relevant news, absolutely no bakwaas, nothin will this channel show just to earn more TRP in order to earn big bucks for themselves. The result being, other channels are more popular than him, and the owners more richer than him. The character of his son is played by Sudeep (Jai). He represents today's youth, who is more ambitious, and is more interested in earning money. He often disagrees with his father's flow of work and questions them to change them.

Now introducing Purab(Ritesh Deshmukh). He is a wannabe reporter. And his guru is none other than Vijay. He someday wishes to work with him and fortunately gets a job with him as well. His girl fren is played by Gul Panag. Enough of heroes, now comes the villain. :D (Mohan Pandey)Paresh Rawal is a politician from the opposition party, and aims to rule the country one day. He conspired with Jai's Brother in law, (Rajat Kapoor) ,and industrialist for a big game.Rajat's personal interest being, to be the top industrialist of the country. Vijay has some more competitors, such as Amrish Kakkar(Monish Behl), who once used to be an employee of Vijay, but now owns his own channel.

Here from the real story begins. The conspirators targets Jai, who is the weak thread of all. He is short tempered and hence easy to manipulate. They show him a way to earn more money and beat the competitors in the market. He easily falls for it, and make use of his own father in the plot. Entire nation considers Vijay as an honest reporter, none can questions the news comin from him. His son makes use of the father to telecast a false news. To which the nation reacts, and the govt falls, resultin in new campaigns, and extreme benefit for Mohan Panndey. Amidst all these, Jai is screwed up with a murder case.

Purab smells somethin fishy, and starts investigating himself without anybody else's notice. And he finds out the entire plot behind. He trusts none else but the COO of the company played by Suchitra. Suchitra turns out to be disloayal to her own company. She sells off the news to Kakkar for her own benefit. When Purab gets to know the depth of all the issues, he stops trustin everyone. Meawhile, Jai is reignin on his success, he plans to marry his long time gal fren played by Neetu Chandra.

In the end, Purab starts hating Vijay itself, since he was in a notion, that VIjay started it all. Having no other tunnel, he approaches Vijay directly, and tells him everythin with the proofs he has collected so far. Vijay now is in extreme state of shock. He just cudnt believe his own son has used him. He goes and confesses all this in front of the media live. The entire new govt is once again shaken with MOhan Pandey being the ruler this time. Failing to cope with the entire stress, Jai suicides. Vijay not able to gain the confidence back again, and also not having the courage to face the world anymore, hands over the charge of the company to Purab, someone who he can trust.

There is practically no songs in the movie, only background scores, which at times get irritating. The flick is very much watchable and leaves u with a good impact.Amitabh as usual is outstanding :)

My Rating: 3/5