Ishaqzaade

*ing : Parineeti Chopra, Arjun Kapoor
Director : Habib Faisal

Tagline : ishaqzaade hai jitne fasaano mai Milte hai ab kaha jaahano mai

The film is directed by habib faisal who really had made some good films recently. Directed do dooni chaar and wrote film like band baaja baraat. Also have seen his interviews and he came across very smart and articulate man with clear thoughts. Was expecting a lot from ishaqzaade as the girl also had impressed in her debut film. Bt the film really disappointed me. The setting is good and the first half hour is also fun but then some stupid things keep happening. Like the girl suddenly having feeling for the boy,, getting married and making love. Not in mood of writing much..just dint like movie.

Rating :
* *

Trishna

*ing : Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed
Director : Michael Winerbotton

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This trishna movie is such a disappointment. I had seen trailer earlier and was blown away by it.. specially the music. However the film,, I like nothing. And I mean nothing. There a rich nri who comes to rajasthan to take care of a hotel of his father.. he is not interested in it much.. suddenly he falls in love with a village girl played by freida pinto.. he helps her get a job in hotel. Sleeps with her.. takes her to Mumbai.. becomes nymphomaniac.. the girl kills him and then kills herself.. I found it a stupid film. Most of the time nothing really happens. I did not udnerstnd why he had to kill him .. and then kill herself. Why this smart rich guy had to be around with this village yokel. He cud hv got soo many pretty girls. Having been nice in most of the film he suddenly becomes dark. Music has been used well at some places but overall it doesn’t match the expectations.. only music I am talking abt.. the film anyway is a disaster. Tested my patience and wat not.

Rating :
* *

Batman Begins

*ing : Christian Bale, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman
Director : Christopher Nolan

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Well it feels awkward saying this but I had never seen batman begins. Yes. Its true. The most important reason that I had seen the dark knight by the time I got chance to see batman begins. And I always thought, since I have seen such a great movie,, I dnt think batman begins will b able to match the dark knight. Bt then I recently saw the dark knight rises and it had some plots taken from the batman begins and I was kicking myself for not having seen the first one. So ya,, saw batman begins and it may not be as good as the next two but still a good movie. This is more about how the batman came into picture. How he fought his demons and became the man. The film is darker in tone which other movies have also been and bruce does make some sacrifices. Also in order to complete the trilogy, I had to watch this film. And I did not regret.

Rating :
* * * *

Trilogy Rating :
* * * * *

Prison Break (Season 4 )

*ing : Dominic Purcell, Winworth Miller, Sarah Wayne Callies, William Fitchner

Tagline : the revenge begins now.

Having watched the first 3 season with great interest I wanted to finish the entire show by watching the last season made. And prison break season 4 did not disappoint. Still as smart as previous ones.. still as racy and edge of the seat type thriller. Season 4 is more abt Michael and his team fighting against THE COMPANY to take it down so that they can get exonerated for all the things that they hv done in past. They end up losing more than they bargained. They also find out that their mother Is alive and still working for the company. In the end, Michael looses his life saving others and that was really touching. Michael has been the central character in all the seasons and see him go down was sad. The first Hollywood series that I completed and loved it immensely. I have been watching frends on n off. Next on my radar is Lost which I hv heard a lot about.

Rating :
* * * *

Shrek

*ing (Voices of ) : Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Director : Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson

Tagline : the greatest fairy tale ever told.

Shrek is a very popular and successful animation franchise. The first movie is about the an ogre who goes on a journey to find and save a princess. He bravely gets over all the hurdle and is successful in saving the princess and he has to return her to the king. But on the way he falls in love with her and princess also falls in love with her. But there is a secret princess is carrying. It’s a good film but noting in comparison to other animations films I have lately. May be it was not as funny but still I liked the film

Rating :
* * *

The Dark Knight Rises

*ing : Christian Bale, Anne Hathway, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Marion Cottilard, Joseph Gordon Levitt
Director : Christopher Nolan


Tagline : the legend ends.

TDKR is one of the most anticipated movie of the year.. may be of the decade. ! there were many reasons for it. First and foremost it is the last movie in the brilliant trilogy of batman story which started with batman begins and reached a cult with the dark knight. It is helmed by one of the greatest and most genius director of this generation, Christopher Nolan. I myself is a huge fan of Christopher Nolan and his batman saga and then the hype around it.. it just made me desperate to watch it. And then I saw the film and I was awestruck. What an outstanding finale to this loved series. TDKR Is every you wud expect from such film. It is epic in vision and executed just with perfection. There is right doses of darkness, action and drama. People may say that TDKR doesn’t hv a great villain like we had in joker in TDK but I think that’s an unfair comparison. I know its inevitable to compare however I personally found nothing wrong in this movie either. Infact batman is tested even more in this movie, both mentally and physically. And then there is trademark classic climax twist by the director which will make you emotional. its soo good a film I wanted to see it back to back. Haven’t seen it yet but I wud for sure.

Rating :

****

Cocktail

*ing : Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Diana Penty
Director : Homi Adjania

Tagline : sometimes good friend may be too good to share

I have more or less quite liked imtiaz ali films. Socha na tha, jab we met, love aaj kal (dint like rockstar much ) .. cocktail is written by ali so I kinda was expecting more from the film. Also, homi adjania who is director has made “being cyrus” which was kinda dark film. When I saw the trailer, I liked it but not much. Dunno but something dint click. When I saw the film, I liked but not much. Dunno but something dint click much. It’s a love triangle between saif , deepika and Diana (boy she looks sooo good). well cocktail is different in many ways and also regressive in someway. the women are shown open-minded but in thoughts they still seem traditional and same with boys. they may sleep with spunky deepika but need homely Diana to take her home. Film is much more deeper than this particular that buts its just not blended well. Saif seemed old and his coolness was forced. Also we hv seen doing same stuff better in other films. Deepika really carried some scenes well but its Diana who stole my heart.

Rating :
* * *

The Full Monty

*ing : Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Director : Peter Cattaneo

Tagline : The Year's most revealing comedy


The full monty, which literally means being completely naked, is story of a 6 unemployed youth in Britain who plans to become stripper and go full monty.
It’s a very successful british film also nominated for academy awards but I dint find anything soo good about it. It was kinda boring to say the least.
More so, to become a stripper you need to hv a good body and gotta be a good dancer. The group is made up of fat n old ppl who I dnt think any lady would spend money on.

Rating :
* *

This Means War

*ing : Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon, Chris Pine
Director : McG

Tagline : Its a SPY against a SPY

This one is also an usual action romantic comedy from Hollywood but this film is much watchable and likeable coz of the leads.. specially tom hardy. Who’s I have grown on to become a huge fan.
After playing a raging bull kinda serious brooding hero in “warrior” hardy lets loose and seems to be totally enjoying himself.
Story is about to highly trained cia agents who falls in love with same girl and how they fight each other to win her love. The girl here , reese witherspoon , is a charming lady who cant decide who is a better guy for her..
The film truly delivers few good laughs.


Ratng :
* * *

21 Jump Street

*ing : Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Ice Cube
Director : Phil Lord, Chris Miller

Tagline : They are too old for this shift

It’s a usual action comedy which comes out every now n then from Hollywood. Saw it only for johan hill whom I find quite funny and here also he is the funny thing about the movie. Not much to say, not much to recommend. Just about OK types.

Rating :
* *

The Raid Redemption

*ing : Iko Uwais, Ananda George, Ray Sahetapy
Director : Gareth Evans

Tagline : 1 Ruthless crime lord, 20 Elite Cops, 30 Floors of Hell.


The posters of raid redemption screams.. the best action movie in decades,, it cant be more true than that. ! this truly is one of the best action film I have seen,, and I bet, one of the best action film you wud have seen.
It’s a simple premise, 20 cops raids building full of gangsters. But is it that simple, ?
The film has most awesome fight sequences and some brilliant soundtrack to elevate the impact. From start to finish, you will forget to take the breath and will just enjoy the pure action. Dnt read anything further and go watch this film. Now.

Rating :
* * * *

Bol Bachchan

*ing : Ajay Devgn, Abhishek Bachchan, Asin
Director : Rohit Shetty

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May be the formula faded away, may be rohit shetty was not much in form, may be it was abhishek bacchhan or combination of all 3 .. I hated bol bachhan. Film was a headache and I wanted to slap someone after watching the film. It was loud, crass and not funny at all.
It mean for first half hour.. it was not bad.. bt since abhishek turns into gay.. the film goes downhill and never comes back. The really loud background score doesn’t help either. And what were girls there for.. huh.

Rating :

* & 1/2

Spirited Away

*ing : Daviegh Chase, Suzzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino
Director : Hayao Miyazaki


Tagline : (The tunnel led Chihiro to a mysterious town...)

Spirited away is most popular and successful japanase film. This one also won Oscar awards I guess. saw the film with subtitles and that’s why may be I couldn’t feel the emotions well and did not like as much as world did. However film’s story Is really good. Its about a young girl who gets trapped in a world where spirits reside and how she uses her courage and valor to get away with the world. Watch it with ur kids. Will teach them a lesson or two about surviving in this bad bad world.

Rating :
* * * & 1/2

The Amazing Spiderman

*ing : Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhy Ifans
Director : Marc Webb

Tagline : His past was kept from him. His search for answers have just begun.

The amazing spiderman is a brand new film on the character. Well isn’t it too early to hv a reboot for the franchise which’s last film came only 5 years ago. You cant help bt feel lil nostalgic about the first few films of spiderman. For people of our generation, the first spiderman films are still fresh in mind we and loved those films. Spiderman for us is tobey Maguire and director is sam raimi. Even though mark webb and Andrew Garfield have done decent job.. I wish the film wasn’t made this early.
However for younger lot, who may not remember spiderman can have good fun.

Rating :
* * *

Taking Woodstock

*ing : Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert
Director : Ang Lee


Tagline : A generation began in his backyard

I have had this film in my laptop for over an year and I cud never watch it. Everytime I started watching this film, I couldn’t go beyond 10-15 mins. I was about to delete this film even without watching. Bt then Rajeev masand once tweeted something. He was asked which is one film he wud want to BE in. and he answered taking Woodstock. That hooked me. So finally I saw the film and learnt why he said it.
The film is a about a revolutionary concert that happened somewhere near NewYork and about the guy who organized it. The concent gave shelter and much needed momentum to the hippie movement at that point of time and was atteneded by lakhs and lakhs of hippies at that point of time. Well there is nothing much in the film I liked bt ya, just being there,, in that concert, among all those hippies wud hv been a good fun. 

Rating :
* * & 1/2

Hesher

*ing : Josheph - Gordon - Levitt, David Michod
Director : Spencer Susser


Tagline : Sometimes life gives you ther finger and sometimes ..

Saw this film only for the actor.. gordon hevitt whom I have loved in films like (500) days of summer and inception and to some extent in 50/50 . bt did not hasher will be such a crap film. Hewitt plays hasher who is good for nothing looser who helps reform a young bullied kid. I mean there is nothing good in film to talk about. Dnt waste ur time.

Rating :
*

Vicky Donor

*ing : Ayushman Khurana, Yami Gautam, Annu Kapoor
Director : Shoojit Sircar


Tagline : I am a sperm donor

A hindi film I saw very late but loved immensely that’s Vicky donor. Been ages I saw such good hindi film which I want to see again n again. I had heard good reviews but unfortunately could never watch it. For the first time, I saw this film completely on my moble phone streaming on youtube. But I just could never get it.. so I saw it again n again n again.
As the title suggests, the film is about Vicky, who despite initial reluctance, ends up becoming sperm donor. The film is hilarious has some great humour. Its based in delhi so the usual delhi twang and words are all there. Plus, most of the film is in Punjabi which I kinda have lived within last few years.
The casting is superb specially the ladies playing vicky’s mom n grand mom. They are riot. having lived in delhi-ncr for years,, u cant help but miss the city. delhi city is almost a character in the film. lovely music too.. outstanding humour and such great msg. ! the film so nicely handled. makers cud hv easily put in soo many double meaning jokes bt its clean..
The film has a great msg and a big big heart. Loved it.

Rating :
* * * *

The Pixar Story

*ing : Brad Bird, John Lasseter, Stacey Keach
Director : Leslie Iwerks

Tagline : Documentary about the history of Pixar Animation


Anyone in the world who has anything to do with animation films loves pixar. And is amazed by their formula and their success rate. Recently I saw their most successful movie franchise Toy Story I II & II. And I just wanted to find out what pixar people eat to make such groundbreaking films. And I found out that there is no formula really. These are just bunch of normal people working extra hard and giving value of story and human emotions above everything else. People who work at pixar not just work but enjoy their life at fullest and gives everything they have to their job. And that results in the kind of work they have done. People say that pixar was an overnight success.. bt u look at this documentary, you wud realize.. no success in world is overnight. Ppl just overlook the struggle and time team has put behind to get the success. As I write this, pixar is going thru their worst time since inception.. their last two films (cars 2 and brave) have severely been panned by critics and is no match to the success they hv had in past. Also the problem is Pixar has set its standard soo high, its difficult even for them to reach there. But I do not doubt at all that they will make a much better movie next. Amen.

Rating :
* * * & 1/2