Kahaani

*ing : Vidya Balan
Director : Sujoy Ghosh

Tagline : a mother of a story

Vidya Balan is the new Khan. she literally is. She has single handedly changed the industry for actress. films after films she has given performance which is not just exceptional but also lifts the film like any male star actor.
Paa, Ishqiya, No one killed Jessica, the dirty picture and now kahaani. she's just brilliant. if the film is as good, that is a different question all together.

kahani, directed by sujoy ghosh who started out with semi-cult jhankar beats but then gave two ridiculous films like home deliver and aladin, is more assured here.
the film does have gape-holes but if u overlook them, u ll enjoy the film. the climax actually can be a big WTF kinda experience however the explanation is rather justifying. still i would say u watch it for vidya and vidya alone.

Rating :
* * *

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

*ing : Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Emma Watson
Director : Alfonso Cuaron

Tagline : Darkness will descend

another year for harry potter in hogwards and another set of problems for him. this time a prisoner for azbakan has escaped and is apparently coming to kill him. bt there are many many many secrets to unfold and reveal.
better you watch it and enjoy it.


Rating :
* * * *

Harry Potter and Chamber of Secrets

*ing : Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Emma Watson
Director : Chris Columbus

Tagline : the chamber of secrets have opened.

in continuation with previous review, harry potter and his second year in school is even more dangerous as he starts hearing some strange sounds and some deadly chamber of secret is opened in the school. everything i said is much improved here.
word about casing, harry, ron and hermoine are perfectly cast in 3 lead characters. they look and feel the part.

Rating :
* * * *

Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone

*ing : Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Richard Harris, Emma Watson
Director : Chris Columbus

Tagline : Let the magic begin

I have always been fascinated by harry potter series however i have not been able to follow the series closely in past. I saw few movies here and there and have not read a single book. Coz when the books released first, i was staying in far off world which never heard about books at all. when i started hearing about books, i did not want to start reading in between and figuring around what who and where. I had always thought that i d rather watch all the movies to understand the series better. the coming few weeks are dedicated to watch only harry potter films..
harry potter is immensely popular character and is highest selling books in history and one of the highest money grossing franchise ever. all this, and is also a story about a magician boy and world of magic.

first movie is where it all starts. harry potter is a special kid staying with his very ungrateful ordinary uncles and living a miserable life. one day he receives an invitation to join Hogwards, the school of magic and that's where his life changes. he realizes that he is more than an ordinary boy and possesses some special skills. his parents were extremely famous wizards of their time and were killed by an evil who-shall-not-be-named.
he gets good friends in Ron and hermoine who becomes their best buddies in his adventures of life. no review in the world can make you feel the magic of the story telling. every single details has been given a exemplary finishing and you actually feel everything is for real.
Also, it has a riveting story which ll keep you glued in the movie and make you want more n more n more.
get addicted.

Rating :
* * * *

Tere Naal Love ho gaya

*ing : Riteish Deshmukh, Genlia D'souza Deshmukh
Director : Mandeep Kaur


Tagline :

a sleeper hit of this season starring newly wed couple genelia and ritesh.
the film is set in north india and has all trappings of a bollywood masala film. it may hv worked coz some decent music and good chemistry between the leads.. i found it average though. couple of scenes were funny indeed.


Rating :
* * & 1/2

Good Night | Good Morning

*ing : Manu Naraynan, Seema Rahmani
Director : Sudhish Kamath

Tagline :

I have always enjoyed talky films. Specially which has romance as central plot. for exp before sunrise (which does get mentioned in the film along with others like matrix).
Here, after a brief encounter in a bar on a new year's eve the boy calls girl on the way to his home. the one call becomes long night conversation about two interesting funny individual. It actually goes beyond being funny, it touches each others lives and makes them talk abt their secrets. Its a good film made better by interesting conversation and supported by those goofy scenes here and there.

Rating :
* * *

Hugo

*ing : Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee
Director : Martin Scoresese


Tagline :


Hugo is an uncharacteristic movie by great director Martin Scorsese. Uncharacteristic coz Martin is known to make violence based gangster kinda movies. And the same man making a children film Hugo is no small achievement.
But personally, exactly is the problem. I did not like Hugo much.. i thought its over rated. If only, I could have seen the movie alienating Martin's name from the film, I perhaps may have liked it a lil more but i could not.

Hugo was even nominated for best picture category and was a strong contender until it lost to "The Artist". Frankly I did not think Hugo worthy of winning best picture. Unlike last year, where "the social network" was my most favorite film, there was no such film i could root for. ( i m yet to see the artist ) !

Hugo though is story of a orphan kid staying a railway station trying to discover mystery behind his father's death. In process, he also makes few family happy and establishes faith in art of cinema.

The visual of films are good and I may hv enjoyed film had i seen in Theater in 3D. Watch it with kids and you may like it more..


Rating :
* * *