[Movie Review] Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani: Life, Dreams and Kabiraa

By Vajrasar Goswami
Published: May 31, 2013 | Last Updated: 31 May 2013 7:10 PM
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Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Kalki Koechlin and Aditya Roy Kapoor
Director: Ayan Mukerji
Genre: Drama, Romance
Rating: 3.5/5
Movie Reviewed At: INOX Cinema, Lake City Mall

There are not many movies in Bollywood that make you pause a while and think on how you should live – should it be the usual way everybody lives or the way your close ones expect you to live or your very own personal way? ‘Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani’ asks you the same and impacts you, concluding with something to ponder upon.

Ayan Mukerji directed ‘Wake Up Sid’ where he used Ranbir Kapoor with wit to portray the youthful boy next door ‘Sid’ and this time, once again he used Ranbir with equal amazement to cater the role of wild and flirty ‘Bunny’ or Kabir Thappar if you may. [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Go Goa Gone: This Zombie flick is FUN!

By Vajrasar Goswami
Published: May 10, 2013 | Last Updated: 10 May 2013 4:25 PM
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Cast: Kunal Khemu, Vir Das, Anand Tiwari, Saif Ali Khan, Pooja Gupta
Genre: Comedy
Director: Krishna D.K., Raj Nidimoru
Rating: 3/5
Movie Reviewed At: PVR Cinemas, Udaipur

“Yaar ye zombies India mai kahan se aa gaye. Oh, globalization” as they quote in one of the dialogues, and believe me – this ‘globalization’ effect will have you laugh your guts out throughout the entire span of the movie. ‘Go Goa Gone’ is one of those movies that serves no substance, but is still worth every penny that you spend on it.

First things first, Saif Ali Khan is not the main lead and respect to casting crew to present him that way. The casting for this movie is apt and you’ll appreciate it when you head out to grab popcorn in the interval, but your stomach would be hurting with the laughter bursts and you’ll still be smiling remembering the dialogues. [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Bombay Talkies: Amazing, but not meant for Masses

By Gaurav Bhandari
Published: May 4, 2013 | Last Updated: 04 May 2013 8:37 PM
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Cast: Rani Mukerji, Randeep Hooda, Saqib Saleem, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Naman Jain, Ranvir Shorey, Vineet Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan (cameo), Katrina Kaif (cameo)
Director: Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap
Genre: Short Stories, Drama
Rating: 3.5/5

When some of the best directors come together and take a challenge to make a movie with 4 short stories in a budget of just Rs. 1.5 crore each, what do you get? An unusual Hindi movie with some of the finest displays of acting and an amazing way of storytelling. That’s what Bombay Talkies is.

The movie starts with a story unexpected from Karan Johar, and moves on with the artistry by Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap. Each director did justice to his work, story and actors. [Read more...]

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Ek Thi Dayan: With creepy first half, it misses to be a great Horror flick

By Gaurav Bhandari
Published: April 22, 2013 | Last Updated: 22 April 2013 7:07 PM
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Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Konkana Sen Sharma, Kalki Koechlin and Huma Qureshi
Director: Kannan Iyer
Genre: Horror
Rating: 3/5

After a long time, an original Bhoot ki Picture, devoid of almost all the old tricks, such as havelis, khandars, tantriks, haunting statues, revenge by atma, jungles, ghostly flat and other run of the mill stuffs that have been used by our horror film makers since times unknown, is in the theaters.

Even without the tried and tested horror formula, Ek Thi Dayan had an eerie feeling about it. But the creepiness ends and that too very ridiculously in the climax which leaves you wondering why so silly end to this refreshingly novel scary story? [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Himmatwala: Even MaaSherawaali’s Tiger Can’t Save the Day!

By Kalpit Tandon
Published: March 29, 2013 | Last Updated: 29 March 2013 6:44 PM
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Cast: Ajay Devgan, Tamanna, Paresh Rawal, Mahesh Manjrekar, Zarina Wahab
Director: Sajid Khan
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 1/5

There lies a word in dictionary, ‘Dreadful’. The word is usually referred for something that is the cause of suffering and sorrow. Sajid Khan’s Himmatwala can be easily quoted in the dictionary beside that word, as an example, for better comprehension to the readers. Or eventually, not many people will catch it, so it cannot even attain that feat. Sad for Sajid Khan!

When a movie starts with Sonakshi Sinha moon-walking on an appalling dance number, one ought to expect what lies in the hold of the remaining two and a half hours. The smarter ones will simply leave the theaters while the others will sit back so as to see the heights of clumsiness that can be achieved by the remake, oops, parody of 80’s Himmatwala. [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Aatma: This Daddy is Pure Evil!

By Kalpit Tandon
Published: March 24, 2013 | Last Updated: 25 March 2013 6:53 PM
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Cast: BipashaBasu, NawazuddinSiddiqui, Shernaz Patel
Director: SuparnVerma
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Rating: 2/5

Another wooden chair rollicks, another worn-out creepy woman gives abysmal warnings that are meant to be disregarded and yet another time, a spirit enters another body and we find some lateral shifting in eyeballs accompanied with some grumpiness in voice. So, again, riding high on banalities arrive another horror movie, Aatma. Cartoonish, eh?

A sensitive girl Nia (DoyelDhawan); a loving mother Maya (BipashaBasu) and a malicious father, Abhay (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), who is all set to expurgate the throat of his spouse if only he gets an occasion to do so, live together in a flat. But there lies a timid twist in this story; father and the daughter are all in chubby-chubby love with one another. So much the love is that even death of the daddy can’t separate the duo. So he decides to chip back in this mortal world, only to take away the daughter once and for all! [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Django Unchained: Good old Spaghetti Western!

By Kalpit Tandon
Published: March 23, 2013 | Last Updated: 23 March 2013 11:25 AM
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Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo Dicaprio
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Western, Drama
Rating: 4/5
Movie Reviewed at: PVR Cinemas, Udaipur
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You muse endlessly to have a faith in this world, where ‘being bad’ is the only route to rise against the evil. You come close to it and sniff the staple nature of violence and vengeance. This is one big bad world, a world of suppression and blood, in which you are either a demigod or a fiendish devil. You settle down to the tone of it, to the saccharine goriness of the miniscule idiosyncrasies spilled across the barren landscape and then you gape open mouthed as the shock-waves of awe run all over you after witnessing this fiery masterwork of Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained.

The undercurrent themes of Blaxploitation, dominance of whites and slavery lies heavily besides the baritones of wit and wry humor that Django Unchained offers. The result is an immensely satisfying outing from the veteran director who just doesn’t know how to miss the bull’s eye. [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Mere Dad ki Maruti: Fun Bomb dropped, many injured

By Vajrasar Goswami
Published: March 20, 2013 | Last Updated: 20 March 2013 1:47 PM
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Cast: Saqib Saleem, Prabal Panjabi, Rhea Chakraborty, Ram Kapoor
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 3/5
Movie Reviewed at: PVR Cinemas, Udaipur

Ashima Chibber is not a new name in the film industry. After acting as an Assistant Director in movies such as “Chak De”, “Pyaar Ke Side Effects” and “Rockstar”, she has come up with her own fun filled, fultoo comedy flick – Mere Dad Ki Maruti.

‘Mere Dad Ki Maruti’ in the backdrop of Chandigarh, centers on a brand new Maruti Ertiga, a family of ‘Khullers’ amidst a Punjabi wedding and the one who loses that Maruti – Sameer (Saqib Saleem).

The twists and dialogues of the movie make you giggle throughout its span. [Read more...]

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Jolly LLB: Light Comedy, Satire with a Strong but Predictable End

By Gaurav Bhandari
Published: March 16, 2013 | Last Updated: 16 March 2013 7:39 PM
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Cast: Arshad Warsi, Amrita Rao, Boman Irani, Saurabh Shukla

Director: Subhash Kapoor

Genre: Drama, Satire, Comedy

Rating: 3.5/5

Movie Reviewed At: Inox, Udaipur

Courtroom dramas are always interesting with lot of twists and turns and witty advocacies, but how many times do we see genuine satire and situational comedy as a part of story focusing on a serious issue? Jolly LLB has exactly that. It successfully entertains and engages with a nice story, excellent performances and of course satisfying Bollywood style happy ending.

As the promos suggest, it is a story of a ‘wannabe star’ lawyer Jagdish Tyagi ‘Jolly’ (Arshad Warsi) from Meerut who struggles to find clients and money. Situations make him stand up and fight against one of the most famous and toughest of lawyers Rajpal (Boman Irani). [Read more...]

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[Movie Review] Oz the Great and Powerful: Enough of Desserts, where is the Main Course?

By Kalpit Tandon
Published: March 10, 2013 | Last Updated: 11 March 2013 9:17 AM
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ozCast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz 

Director: Sam Raimi 

Genre: Fantasy and Fiction 

Runtime: 2 hours and 7 minutes

Rating: 2.5/5 

Movie Reviewed at: PVR, Udaipur.

Look, we have three hot-shot sorceresses, a con man illusionist from a carnival, a winged monkey, some dwarves and an utterly adorable china doll. Please, also allow this crew to chip in some jaw dropping CGI and a world so surreal that it carries the stamp of stuff dreams are essentially made of.

Err, is something missing? Wait, I get it; a sense of storytelling.

It takes a considerable time to shake the aura of the visual splendor and the smoldering appeal that Oz the Great and Powerful casts around you. But, once you see past this curtain, you realize the potholes lying in the pavements of this kingdom. It is not that the potholes are frequent; it is just that, you expect more from such a wildly famous fable. [Read more...]

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