God Bless America

*ing : Joel Murray, Tara Lynne Barr and Mackenzie Brooke Smith
Director : Bobcat Goldthwait

Tagline : Taking out the trash, one jerk at a time.

To start with , I have to say that I love country America. Like any country, it has issues too. Obsessed with war, youth being addicted to drugs, adults living on anti depression drugs, failing economy etc etc. yet, this has been one of the greatest country in the world. They hv invented pretty much everything around us. Including the laptop I am working or the program on which this text is being typed. And hopefully also the device you are reading on it. Everything we consume, wear has been invented in US (now may be manufactured in china). Pizza, burgers, coke Pepsi, apple, facebook, dell, HP, Jeans, computers, Hollywood, laptops and many technological thing.
Country has amazing amount of liberty to its filmmakers and general public. You can make as brutal film criticizing and accusing government like Fahrenheit 9/11 and yet it ll get mainstream release. You can wear their flag as underwear or panties yet its acceptable. America has been the dream destination for entire world for most of the part of their life.
God bless America talk abt a man who is seeing the system and culture falling and he feels helpless. He is a good American lived life with dignity. He has issues like his wife has left him and now he has lost his job. In alone time he watches TV and that’s where he painfully sees where America is going. Every channel is filled with ridiculous reality TV making celebrities out of ordinary people mostly at the cost of their buffoony or talent. A fad which is fast catching up in India and other part of worlds too..! he wants to kill himself but instead thinks its better to kill people who are spoiling the society. So with an unlikely partner, an underage girl, he goes on killing spree wiping out every rash individual he sees around. Right from ppl using reality TV to ppl not parking their car right or making too much noise in cinema halls. His methods may be incorrect but his frustration leads him to this extent. Film is also mix of Natural Born Killers and Fight Club but surely not as well made as previous two. However you do admit the fact that there is lot of thing wrong with society.
Rating :
* **

Of course I love you till I find someone else ! (Book)

Written By : Durjoy Datta, Maanvi Ahuja

Chetan Bhagat did lot of things for Indian Publishing industry. He created a revolution of sorts with his phenomenal number of sales of book. Numbers ppl had never seen and imagined in Indian publishing history. while he did all by writing in easy day-to-day language with social msg. all his characters are youth facing some issues which are common today. What he also did was to bring array of different writers who exploited the genre. Writing about youth, similar language, novels set in college etc. few (very few) of them were good n rest were plain crap. Of course I love you is a crap novel. 5 years ago such novels cudnt hv reached table of the editor, let alone being published. Since these are low priced hence eliminates piracy (again trend started by chetan bhagat) these sell decent numbers and ppl tag them as best sellers. This book is crap with crap characters and nothing about it. the central character is fucking looser with nothing good abt him yet he scores on most beautiful girls. I dnt even want to write further. Burn the book if u you have it.
Rating :
*

The Newsroom

*ing : Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer and John Gallagher Jr.
Creator : Aaron Sorkin

Tagline : More on this story as it develops.


The newsroom is a riveting breathtaking show created entirely by Aaron Sorkin (the writer of The Social Network, my most favorite film in last few years). The Newsroom is a fictional account of backroom story of a major news channel in USA. the things go people go through to break a news and what kind of pressure they have to deal on a daily basis for accurate news and , to remain in competition. Your integrity, honesty, work ethics, everything is questioned in such a high voltage situation. And it is shown in best in this show “the newsroom”. The show literally never allows you to breathe and sucks in you the world of his own. There are many important news covered during the course of first season and highlights the facts behind it. like Mexican Gulf Oil Spill, Killing of Osama Bin Laden, the US governor elections. The footages which are used are quite real so the show gets a new kind of edge. Watch it, you will not regret it.
Rating :
* * * * *

Student of the Year

*ing : Varun Dhawan, Sidharth Malhotra, Aliya Bhatt
Director : Karan Johar

Tagline : The Championship of Life

SOTY is a film directed by karan johar, one of the biggest director of india who has only worked with big stars in past, mainly the biggest of all, shahrukh khan. So when he decides to make a movie with newcomers, you cant help but admire his guts at first. SOTY is story about frends in a posh highschool and a competition which will take them to dizzying heights in their carrer. So Rohan is a spoiled son a of a rich father who doesn’t take life seriously at first. Abhimanyu is a middle class boy with big ambitions and aspirations and has always had eye on the big trophy. Shanaya is a typical young girl wearing designer (and short) clothes and is confused between both the boys. all the leads are very good looking and does well to hold on to the characters. The film is good enough and the new leads deliver what is expected out of them. They all can have a bright future in industry. But still, I think Karan Johar could have done better..

Rating :
* * * & 1/2

Friends (Season 4)

*ing : Jennifer Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer

Director : David Crane, Marta Kauffman

Tagline : All you need is friends !


Wat shall I say that I hvnt said before.. it’s the best series ever got made. Shows u the mirror of ur own life and the fun u hv had (or can have) .. ! all the characters are ur friends and u know all of them. It becomes personal when Rachel loves Ross but he has to marry Emily. It becomes such tragic when ross takes Rachel’s name at wedding instead of Emily. You feel happy for chandler and Monika who starts dating. You know phoebe is not happy after letting go the triplets she delivered for his brother. its just best.

Rating :
* * * * *

Oh My God

*ing : Paresh Rawal, Mithun Chkravarty, Akshay Kumar
Director : Umesh Shukla

Tagline : Kanjibhai is taking God to court!

Oh my god is a film produced by Akshay Kumar who has been synonym with bad movies in last few years churning out pathetic movie one after another. Akshay kumar does have a smaller part to play in OMG bt the film cud have taken a more subtler tone and not used the ‘star’ status of the produced. Oh my God, officially based on gujrati play “Kanjibhai Vs God” and unofficially copied from Australian film “the man who sued god” has a very interesting and important premise. Film tells a story of man who doesn’t belive in god, and who shop is destroyed in an earthquake which insurance companies refuses to compensate saying its an “act of god”. Here he sues the God in court creating enough troubles for godmens and himself too. The film has some interesting conversation and brings out the blind faith people have in god and how they are looted in the name of it. the film is good but comes across as too preachy and loud at times. Wish the film was subtler , surely it wud have worked much better. Yet, I say u shud watch it.

Rating :
* * *

Makkhi

*ing : Sudeep, Nani and Samantha Ruth Prabhu
Director : S.S. Rajamouli, J.V.V. Sathyanarayana

Tagline :

Makhi is a dubbed version of Telgu Hit movie Eega. the film is huge hit in south and was dubbed in Hindi to capture bigger market. the film hasnt really done that well in dubbed version even after getting good reviews all over. about the film, its a simplistic story of a man murdered and reborn as a housefly to take revenge. there is also a sweet love story thrown in it to invest into emotions of the housefly. the film truly shows how the idea is the king. even after the plausible plot, the film is extremely entertaining. directors of the film have done real good job on the VFX part and it does seem that u r rooting for the small insect in-spite of impossible task. the film was made in Telgu so it has its cheesy moments but overall the film works. watch it.

Rating :
* * *