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Ek Vivah aisa bhi – movie review

Chandni (Eesha Koppikhar) belongs to a middle-class family, living in one of the tiny by lanes of old Bhopal. Her little world consists of her doting father, her two younger siblings Anuj and Sandhya and her music. Chandni, who is deeply attached to her school going brother and sister, is trained in classical and folk music. Ek Vivah aisa bhi review... She falls in love with Prem (Sonu Sood) while practicing for a stage performance and is happily looking forward to their engagement. Her father's death comes as a big blow and suddenly from being a naive 'bride-to-be' she dons the mantle of being the bread winner of her family. Prem hails from a rich business family. He is an unconventional ghazal singer full of mischief and pranks... He annoys his mother no end by focus on his music rather than the family business. The minute he sets eyes on Chandni, he falls head over heels in love ....
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EMI – movie review

Sattar (Sanjay Dutt) owner of Good Luck Recovery Agency is the saviour and the solution for all those ever caught in the debt trap in the movie EMI. From bhaigiri to business to politics to social work - that's how Sattar wants to progress in life. He has already graduated from bhaigiri to business and is now eager to jump into politics. Most sought after by banks, telecom companies and various multinationals, today his Good Luck Recovery Agency is Number 1 in India. Sattar follows a simple rule when it comes to his business - Loan liya hai to chukao, shaadi kiya hai to nibhao... EMI is a pick on the easy-to-get but taxing-to-hold loans and credits. It’s a narrative of interconnecting characters coming from different strata and style. Anil and Shilpa (Ashish Choudhary and Neha Uberoi) want to begin their lives together. They look at everything as a couple. They have along and fru ....
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Fashion – movie review

Fashion is a story of the rise and fall of an aspiring supermodel Meghna Mathur (Priyanka Chopra). Priyanka has come out with a strong performance finding her own standing in an industry known for ruthlessness and fickleness. A smart aspiring model from Chandigarh, Meghna comes to Mumbai to pursue her dream of becoming a supermodel, against her dad's wishes. She leaves her house with dreams to strike it big in the modeling world. However she experiences some major difficulties in her initial days in Mumbai, auditioning several times and getting rejected. Luckily, she gets a good helping hand from an old acquaintance, Rohit (Ashwin Mushran) an aspiring gay designer who assists big shot designer Vinay Khosla (Harsh Chhaya). She keeps coming across another struggling male model, Maanav (Arjan Bajwa) who even helps her to share his accommodation. Rohit takes Meghna to a top designer� ....
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Golmaal Returns – movie review

Golmaal Returns is a sequel to the 2006 film Golmaal. Gopal (Ajay Devgan) is a loving husband whose most innocent actions are misunderstood by his suspicious wife Ekta (Kareena Kapoor). Ekta is a great homemaker but a very suspicious wife who watches Saas Bahu serials 24/7. She loves her husband but doesn't trust him. Even when he hasn't done anything, her overactive imagination makes her believe the worst of him. And then he's accused of murder. And the only person who can save him is a beautiful girl he spent the night with. And this is the last thing he wants to tell his wife! Ekta's brother Lucky (Tusshar Kapoor) cannot speak and is stuck between his sister and brother-in-law. He loves both of them very much. Trying to help them gets him into more trouble than he ever bargained for. He loves Daisy (Anjana Sukhani) who is a young and beautiful girl who likes the quirky, but stra ....
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Heroes – movie review

Heroes is about two students who decide to make a movie on why ‘you should not join Indian armed forces’. During this process they meet a war reporter who gives them a task to deliver the last letters of three Kargil martyrs. These two friends Sameer Suri aka Saand (Sohail Khan) and Ali Shah aka Nawab Sahab (Vatsal Sheth) embark on a fun tour on motorbike and their experiences in the journey change their outlook towards life. As part of their project they are filming their experiences on the way. There are three stories interwoven in the script. The first story is about a soft spoken yet tough - Balkar Singh (Salman Khan) of Atari in Amritsar. Like every man Balkar has beautiful dreams for his family but he knows he might not be able to fulfill them and he does not regret it as he has pledged his life for his country. Kuljeet Kaur (Preity Zinta) takes pride in being an army man’ ....
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Roadside Romeo – movie review

Roadside Romeo is the story of Romeo (voice of Saif Ali Khan) the small cute looking lover dog - pet of a super rich human family. He lives the good life. He’s got a butler waiting on him, the best food to eat, a grand car to go out in, loads of super rich guy friends. He is extremely popular with the ladies, he’s a big flirt! He is very savvy and smart. A guy with loads of intelligence and he knows how to get what he wants. A smooth talker and a smooth dancer. Until one day, the family where he was the favourite pet, decided to move and left him back, abandoned on the mean streets of Mumbai. Fate lands him in a slum, after his initial disappointment, he manages his way out of trouble. He encounters four strays, who scare the daylights out of him. But soon, he smooth talks his way into their hearts and he makes friends. He finds himself to be more intelligent than the average str ....
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Karzzzz – movie review

Set amidst the majestic and breathtaking locales of South Africa, Karzzzz is a remake of the 1980 Subhash Ghai hit Karz. Rock Star Monty (Himesh Reshammiya) is based in Cape Town, South Africa, but is phenomenally popular all over the world. Monty is an orphan, but the shrewd businessman Oberoi (Raj Babbar) and his wife (Himani Shivpuri) have taken him under their wing. Not out of any altruistic intentions, but to exploit Monty's talents for their own selfish gain. At a party, he meets Tina (Shweta Kumar) and its love at first sight for both of them, but Tina has to return to Kenya, where she lives. During one of his rehearsals, Monty starts playing a tune and suddenly goes into a trance as he gets intense visual flashes - a mansion, a temple, a beautiful girl... Monty falls down unconscious. His doctor friend Dayal (Bakhtyr Irani) is worried and gets a psychiatrist to examine h ....
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Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang – movie review

It’s a great time for some Indians film makers now on a making spree of animation movies. We had Hanuman, Return of Hanuman, Bal Ganesh and then My friend Ganesha 2 which were superior as per Indian standards from the point of view of their technical advancement. Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang movie review... Cheenti Cheenti Bang Bang is the latest Indian 2 dimensional animation film with some great voice-overs. Anjan Srivastava and Mahesh Manjrekar create enticing characters in the form of the two rival ant kings, and there is Ashish Vidyarthi’s voice which is absolutely engaging as Ghunn, the evil termite who creates mayhem with the two kingdoms for his personal gain. The 80 minutes long film directed by RD Mallik with Shantanu Pal as animation director works on the premise that 'war never pays'. It puts forth the point that unity and peace are the driving factors for a nation's h ....
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Shoot On Sight – movie review

Shoot On Sight is a political thriller which deals with the difficult dilemma of mostly peace loving Muslims. The story is about these turbulent times, when a cosmopolitan society, especially London, is gripped by fear of Islamic extremism. There is rampant racial profiling and Islamophobia during the aftermath of underground bombings in July 2005. This is a fictional story based on Operation Kratos, the police "Shoot-on- sight" policy applied to suspected suicide-bombers after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The film unfolds the turmoil in the life of Tariq Ali (Naseeruddin Shah), a Muslim police officer at Scotland Yard. Commander Ali, born in Lahore and married to an English woman, is tasked to investigate the police shooting of a suspected Muslim terrorist in the London Underground. Distrusted by both his superiors in the police, and his fellow Muslims, he finds his inquiry ha ....
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Hello – movie review

The film is based on the novel 'One Night at the Call Center" by Chetan Bhagat. Hello is the story of 3 Men and 3 Women working at a call center - Connexions, their lives, their work and above all their relationships. The story is told to a protagonist rock star (Salman Khan) by an unknown woman (Katrina Kaif) who narrates this story to him: The story of 'Hello' is a tale of a call center on a particular night. There are six characters: We have Shyam (Sharman Joshi) who finds that his girlfriend Priyanka (Gul Panag) is dissatisfied with his job that she might drop him as desired by her mother (Bharti Achrekar) and get her married to a rich NRI. Esha (Isha Koppikar) is an aspiring model who is a focused carrier minded girl, and there is Varun aka Vroom (Sohail Khan) who loves her immensely. The glamorous Radhika (Amrita Arora) lives at the mercy of her mother-in-law while her husba ....
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