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Kashmakash – movie review

A period film set in the 1920s, Kashmakash is based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore. The film is essentially a Hindi version of the original Bengali film, Naukadubi. Kashmakash movie review... A tender romance blossoming in Kolkata between law student Ramesh (Jishu Sengupta) and his friend?s sister Hemnalini, is nipped suddenly when his father sends an urgent and mysterious summons from his village home. There, the dutiful son is peremptorily ordered to marry Susheela, daughter of a hapless widow. Ramesh refuses. Confesses that his heart belongs to another. But the widow's fervent plea softens him ultimately. And he concedes, albeit with a heavy heart. The wedding takes place with due ceremony; and Ramesh sets out with his bride on a river boat journey back to Kolkata. Soon a fierce storm arises; the boat tosses helplessly and finally capsizes in the churning waters. Later ....
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Pyaar ka Punchnama – movie review

A sarcastic take on Love, Pyaar ka Punchnama explores the shift of power between genders in today’s society, and its effect on modern relationships. The film presents a point of view that for years men have patiently fulfilled the atrocious demands, submitted at the hint of a tear and bore the brunt of vicious mood swings of women in the name of Love. Pyaar ka Punchnama movie review... The females in the movie are shown to be too clever, shrewd, self-centered, manipulative and playful when it comes to their love affairs. Pyaar Ka Punchnama is the story that revolves around three friends – Rajat (Kartik Tiwari), Vikrant (Raayo S. Bakhirta) and Nishant (Divyendu Sharma) who live in Noida, working for different IT firms. The movie deals with their lives after each of them get involved with girls. Nishant’s pet name is Liquid and he is a short-tempered guy who is frustrated wi ....
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Luv ka The End – movie review

Here is a film backed by Aditya Chopra with a debutant director Bumpy who has modeled Luv ka The End on the lines of those American teen love comedies. The concept is quite similar to the English flick 'John Tucker Must Die'. This romantic comedy is aimed to a generation that's into chatrooms and social networking sites. Luv ka The End movie review... Rhea Dialdas (Shraddha Kapoor) has just finished her Junior College and she has a fancy for Luv Nanda (Taaha Shah), the richest, most popular boy in college. The cute, lively girl frequently lets her emotions rule her actions and is already dreaming about herself getting married with him. She turns 18 in a day and has big plans to take their relationship to the “next level”. Luv Nanda is the coolest, hottest, richest and most popular guy in school and every girl’s fantasy boyfriend. Belonging to the powerful and rich Nanda famil ....
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FALTU – movie review

F.A.L.T.U. - movie review A question to begin with. Consider life as a building where you have been stranded on the ground floor while all the lift doors leading to the floors of success have been shut on your face, what would you do? Well, our Faltus would create such a basement that the floors above look cheerless and dreary. Faltu is a story of coming of age of today’s youth. They don’t choose a different path but create one. Inspired by Mr. Nek Chand the creator of the famous Rock Garden in Chandigarh the film exhibits how the discarded waste of the society when channelized smartly can create a Rock Garden and become the pride of the nation. Faltu is a story about a group of friends that are considered a total waste. The cherry on the cake being that they take pride in the fact. These hard-working back-benchers are hardly seen working. They crowd up the clubs of the town ....
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Angel – movie review

Ganesh Acharya who has choreographed the title tracks of Dabangg and Golmaal 3 and the Zor ka jhatka number in Action Replayy and directed films like Swami and Money Hai to Honey Hai has come up with this third bollywood movie Angel. Angel has two debutant actors - Nilesh Sahay (Sanjay Dutt's nephew). Nilesh is the son of yesteryear's actress Zaheeda who was seen in the song Choodi Nahi Ye Mera Dil haai with Dev Anand. The other debutant is Maddalsa sharma (Television actress Sheela Sharma's daughter). Angel movie review... Nilesh and Maddalsa are in lead roles. The story is about two people, a girl Sonal who cannot speak and a boy Abhay who speaks a lot. Its about how Abhay meets Sonal who he fondly calls 'Angel' and becomes her friend helping her overcome her disability. Angel begins with a Abhay (Nilesh Sahay) being beaten by the police and who has just served a two year jail ....
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Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji – movie review

Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji is a slice of life film about three men - Naren, Milind and Abhay and their encounters with love! There is an apparent resemblance to the much-acclaimed Basu Chatterjee’s 1981 romantic comedy Shaukeen which had three older men trying to get naughty in their elderly age. Here we have three middle-aged men in a real life day to day situation, trying to explore the love and lust aspect of their lives. Dil Toh Baccha Hai Ji movie review... A listless Naren Ahuja (Ajay Devgn), 38, working as a bank manager, is going through a divorce. He is going through a 'mid-life crisis". He has a job that he hates and a marriage that's falling apart. All he needs is some love to infuse freshness into his boring, listless life. Naren falls in love with a vibrant and bubbly June Pinto (Shazahn Padamsee) who has just stepped out of her teens. June is a vivacious and impulsive ....
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Aashayein – movie review

Aashayein is a story of a compulsive gambler who discovers new meanings of fortune and life through a dramatic turn of events. It is a tale of Rahul's journey from darkness to light. A journey about love, hate, life, death and above all hope. Aashayein movie review... Rahul Sharma (John Abraham) is an angry, confused, compulsive gambler. Wishes to live the life he has been dreaming of. Rahul proposes to his girlfriend Nafisa (Sonal Sehgal) who is a doting, loving and a loyal friend. She wishes that love always wins. She agrees and incidentally the next moment Rahul just collapses on the floor. It is diagnosed that Rahul has lung cancer and only a few months to live. That night without informing his girlfriend Nafisa, he leaves for a rehabilitation centre for persons with such incurable diseases. At this sick home, he meets a number of people, who, like him have a sliding health, ....
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Mr Singh Mrs Mehta – movie review

Extramarital affairs are like accidents that you keep reading in the newspapers. You only get a jolt when it actually happens to you. A lot of people are of the opinion that just because they are married does not mean they are dead. A lot of people think that if you have a married woman you love, you are really safe...A lot of people think that having an affair with a married man is cool… A lot of people think a whole lot of things.. Mr Singh Mrs Mehta is for all of them. Set in London, Mr Singh Mrs Mehta is a story of two people – Ashwin and Neera who find their spouses are having an affair. Drawn together by shame and anger, they find comfort in their growing friendship even as they resolve not to be like their unfaithful mates. Prashant Narayanan is Mr Ashwin Mehta, Lucy Hasan is Mrs Sakhi Mehta and the other ‘officially wed’ couple is Naved Aslam as Mr Karan Singh and A ....
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Raavan – movie review

Was Raavan just a myth… the line that divides Good from Evil...? Dev Pratap Sharma (Vikram) is a DSP who falls in love with Ragini (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan), a spunky classical dancer. The cop and the dancer girl get married and the DSP is posted in a small town Lal Maati in northern India. Raavan movie review... Beera (Abhishekh Bachchan), is the law in this a tribal town, who is feared somewhat yet respected and loved by most of the tribals. It is only when the DSP Dev who tries to bring order in this area, and when he metes out inhuman treatment to Beera, it sets a chain of unexpected events which claim lives. Hurt and enraged, Beera, hits back at the Police force, which results in classes which draw Beera, Ragini and Dev which takes them into the deep, dense jungles. The tension between opposites often seems so electric, that it isolates them from the rest of the world, ....
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London Dreams – movie review

They were childhood friends with little in common except for the musical background of their respective families. While Arjun was consumed by a passionate drive to get on stage and realize his grandfather's unfulfilled dream, Mannu had little interest in his music tutor father's instruments and was content with remaining a child at heart with no higher ambition than enjoying the good things in life. London Dreams movie review... But little did they know as they grew up that someday it would be music that will bring them together - and drive them apart. Arjun (Ajay Devgan) is an intense and darkly brooding. He is a complex man burdened by guilt, jealousy and the belief that God has abandoned him. But he's also deeply committed to making the dream that has haunted him since childhood into reality. Such is his obsessive compulsion to fulfill his dream that he won't hesitate to manipul ....
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