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Khoya Khoya Chand
Khoya Khoya Chand takes you to back to the golden era of 1950s and 1960s of Bollywood, among old-fashioned lights, theatrical sets, divas and vintage vehicles. The visual treatment is marvelous, which creates a splendid atmosphere of those golden old days. Remember the old classic song " Khoya Khoya Chaand …" of a in a 1950's movie "Kaala Bazaar" which showed our evergreen "boy" Dev Anand during his hey days? It is a sleek, neatly created romance set against the golden era of cinema. The movie is of a pretty young starlet Nikhat (Soha Ali Khan) and Zafar (Shiney Ahuja). How she becomes a big star with the help of superstar Prem Kumar (Rajat Kapoor). Nikhat is a daughter of a well known actress Sharda and is keen to join the Hindi films industry. A young, fledgling wannabe actress, she learns dancing, incidentally she catches the eye of the top actor Prem Kumar with whom she falls ....
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Aaja Nachle
Aaja Nachle is set in a small fictional town of Shamli. By way of flashback Dia (Madhuri Dixit) is a spirited young woman. She is brave, beautiful, life of the town who is born to middle-class parents. Dia is a graceful dancer and favourite of her guru Makarand at the local Ajanta Theatre. Then she falls in love with a foreigner photographer, who was in town to cover Indian art forms. After her marriage, she makes way to the USA. A divorce behind her, having a daughter and with 12 years work as a dance teacher, she must go back to India after she receives news that her guru is on his death bed. When she arrives she finds he is gone and has left her the responsibility of saving and reviving the Ajanta Theatre which is now in ruins, the same place where she used to dance. The problem is that the political officers want it torn down and turned into a shopping mall. The storyline fo ....
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Gauri The Unborn
The movie is a horror movie that tries to deliver a social message to its audience. Gauri - The Unborn associates abortion to killing of a living person that too, killing an unborn life, is a social crime. The subject of the movie seems outdated and may be unacceptable in this modern and a progressive world. Coming back to the earlier times, when Sudeep and Roshni were expecting their first child, they had named the unborn child as Gauri. Seven years later, the ghost of Gauri returns to haunt them, with her spirit entering the body of their daughter Shivani while they are holidaying in their ancestral home. It was here that the unborn child Gauri was conceived. Now the unseen force threatens to take their daughter Shivani away from them. The aatma of the unborn kid swears revenge, and then the sequence of events that unfold follow are really scary at times. And then what unfolds is ....
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Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal
John Abraham rocks in Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal! John surely can and very naturally can juggle a football well. He is simply the star of this movie and plays the sport like a professional footballer. The current bunch of movies on sports like Iqbal, then we had Chak De India and now Goal is definitely fresh and nice, breaking away from the stale - lost and found brothers and lately the 3 to 4 dosts on an outing: Dhol, Dhamaal, Golmaal… sort of trends. Though a football movie, it also dips into issues like racism and fanaticism linked with this sport. The film achieves in arousing patriotic feelings and also has its share of highs and lows. Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is a story of Southall United Football Club in the United Kingdom which is facing its deepest crisis ever. In spite of having a sprawling ground and the stadium, this club has no stars, no coach, no sponsors, no takers and ....
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Om Shanti Om
Om Shanti Om is a Manmohan Desai type of a masala film of the 1970s. It has the premise of reincarnation as was in Subhash Ghai's "Karz". Okay, it is a joyous film which has its silly giggling and overacting in parts, especially the typical mother (Kirron Kher) of a struggler son, who lives, thinks that one day her son would definitely become a super star of Bollywood, since her husband could not fulfill his dream. A typical filmy mother. Its here and a few other scenes where the film appears unrealistic. Debutante Deepika Padukone is the hasina in this case. Shanti has a pretty face, charming smile and an old-world charm… She is the reigning superstar of 70s. Shah Rukh Khan is the deewana, he is in love with her. Om, who is a struggling actor - a junior artist and her biggest fan. He dies in a mishap while watching Shanti in danger on an opulent film set which is on fire. Thi ....
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Saawariya movie review
Saawariya means beloved. Only that lover who stands the test of time …who overcomes all obstacles… who doesn't care whether he gets the girl or not… as long as he's consumed by love… as long as he remains in a perpetual state of being in love… That man, that rare lover is saawariya. Ranbir Kapoor (Rishi Kapoor's son) is instantly likeable, and Sonam Kapoor (Anil Kapoor's daughter) is undeniably attractive. They are the newest and most promising stars ever offered by our Bollywood film industry. These young stars debut in director Sanjay Leela Bhansali's film Saawariya which is a stark, lovely story about romance born and rekindled over four nights apparently inspired by the classic Fyodor Dostoevsky's "White Nights". Saawariya's is a leisurely paced love story about two young star-crossed lovers. Raj (Ranbir Kapoor), a minstrel, full to the brim with can-do anything ....
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Jab We Met
Geet (Kareena Kapoor), a boisterous Sikh girl who is on her way from Mumbai to her hometown Bhatinda to tell her parents about her boyfriend on her way. Habitually, she talks nonstop, and on the way, she runs into Aditya Kashyap (Shahid Kapoor), a young, rich and handsome man who is disillusioned with life after being dumped by his girlfriend. Jab We Met... Unable to muster up the courage to return home, he drifts out of the gathering and aimlessly boards a train, bounding away into the night. To make matters worse, even his business is going nowhere. A loser in love and now a jilted entrepreneur. He's on the verge of ending his life trying to jump off a speeding train, when Geet comes and pulls him back. Half way, at Ratlam Station, Aditya decides to leave his ongoing journey to nowhere. Geet realizes that her fellow passenger is not in his seat. Looking around for him at the stat ....
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No smoking movie review
The movie begins with the hero K (John Abraham) having nightmares. He is a heavy smoker and an unapologetic one at that because he's a stubborn and obnoxious guy, who does exactly what he wants His disgruntled wife Anjali (Ayesha Takia) is fed up with his habit and is all set to leave him. The trouble begins and we have K, in his bathtub, having a surreal dream of being lost in Siberia without his cigarettes. No Smoking review read further... "What do you want for our anniversary?" asks the arrogant husband admiring himself smoking, while his wife looks though him and utters- "Divorce". Want a cure to divorce? The better quit smoking. The movie has parallels to "Kafka" and Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List". Hallucinogenic images are portrayed amidst a deluge of cryptic dialogues. The narrative plays a dismaying mind-game where the smoker-hero gets trapped in a sewage underbell ....
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Mumbai Salsa movie review
The movie shows a lounge bar in Mumbai by the name - Mumbai Salsa where the principal characters meet and their lives change forever. Mumbai Salsa attempts to portray the lives of eight friends in the metropolis in the most realistic manner. The 8 young guys n gals played by Vir Das, Amruta, Manjari Fadnis, Raymond Irani, Indraneil Sengupta, Dilip Thadeshwar, Neelam Chauhan and Linda Arsenio are also making their debut in the film. It is a film about dysfunctional relationships among young Indians, has given a great platform to eight upcoming actors who now see themselves in new light. Subject of this movie and the lingoes are targeted at the yuppie crowd which could restrict the film's appeal to select metros of India or those living abroad. Mumbai Salsa takes a look at the varied relationships that exists within the young corporate India. Not too long back, an average Indian w ....
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Bal Ganesh - movie review
A 3-D Toon Film on the adventures and deeds of Lord Ganesha's childhood. Read on Bal Ganesh review... Bal Ganesh, directed by Pankaj Sharma is a 3D animated film. The film begins with engrossing and fast-paced story of the child's transformation into Lord Ganesha. Brilliantly illustrated is the confrontation between the young Lord Ganesha and Lord Shiva, where, on his mother's (Goddess Parvati) orders, child Ganesha stands guard at the door as she goes for her bath. He lets no one in, not even his father Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva loses his temper, and even threatens him, but Ganesha doesn't budge. Lord Shiva unleashes Nandi and his other followers on Ganesha who single-handedly tackles them and even Lord Brahma. Lord Shiva then resorts to his dance of fury - Tandava. The beheading of Lord Ganesha was in presence of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Laxmi. Mother Parvati's upset, and then Lor ....
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