‘All The Best’ is a Bollywood film starring Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan, Fardeen Khan, Bipasha Basu and Mugdha Godse. The movie is produced by Ajay Devgan and directed by Rohit Shetty. Pritam scores the music. Like all Rohit Shetty films, Att The Best also has over the top songs, great music, fantastic action sequences and loads of comedy. Coming from the success of Golmaal Returns, Rohit Shetty presents a feast of action and comedy. The movie is set to release this Diwali.
The trailer itself is very exciting and colorfull. Hope this movie does well at the box office.
Kambakkht Ishq is a mega budgeted comedy flick starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor with some Hollywood stars doing cameos. The movie is produced by Sajid Nadiadwala and is directed by first timer Sabbir Khan. The movie is a remake of a hugely succesfull tamil film, PammalK Sambandam, which starred Kamal Hassan.
Synopsis
Viraj Shergil (Akshay Kumar) is a leading stuntman in Hollywood. He doesn’t believe in marraige. When his brother Lucky (Aftab Shivdasani) gets married to his girlfriend Kamini (Amrita Arora), he advices Lucky against marraige. Enter Simrita (Kareena Kapoor) who is a sworn spinster. She too chides Kamini for getting married and tell her men are only interested in women for ‘sex‘. Thus begins the battle of sexes between Simrita and Viraj.
Analysis
The movie’s main USP is its lead stars Akshay and Kareena. The battle of their ideologies form the crux of the script, but the catfight between them is vulgar and offensive. The scene in which Akshay kisses Kareena to stop her bickering or calling each other ‘dog’ and ‘bitch’ or the scene in which Akshay tries to hook Kareena up with a girl since she hates men is simply lousy and cheap.
Like his previous string of comedy movies, Kambakkht Ishq relies heavily on gimmicks to engage the audience. But unlike his previous films, this film is filled with cheap gimmicks which don’t even make you smile. Like the Kareena’s watch ending in Akshay’s stomach after operation or the women flashing at men during the wedding or the fight at the wedding party. The hero bedding numerous women and the following comedies seems repetitive from Heyy Babby. The scene in which Akshay teasing Kareena to be a ‘Virgin‘ when she says she is not interested in men or women is amateurish.
There are some good scenes in the movie but they are few and far apart. The scene in the operation theatre when Akshay realises that Kareena is going to be his surgeon or the introduction scene of Akshay or the awards ceremony scene are some of the better scenes in the movie.
Performance Of The Cast
Akshay Kumar brings nothing new to this role which is just an extension of his playboy roles in Garam Masala and Heyy Babyy. He tries to be dedicatd to his character and the script, but the character is so shodily developed all his efforts goes down the drain. Kareena Kapoor is good in the role of Simrita. She looks hot and beautiful and carries her role with panache. Aftab Shivdasani is alright in his role and Amrita Arora is mediocre. Its high time she realises acting is not all about wearing bikinis. The hollywood actors Brandan Routh, Sylvester Stallone and Denise Richards are just there to add a bit of spice. Excellent actors like Boman Irani and Javed Jaffery are wasted.
Technical Analysis
Director Sabbir Khan has resorted to tried and tested gimmicks to reach to the audience. Apart from a few scenes, he fails big time to keep the movie running. Baring a thousand loopholes in the script, the script is still weak and vulnerable and especially in the post interval part, the movie loses steam once it makes the transition to a romantic track. The dialogues of the movie are not funny and are offensive.
Akshay Kumar in a stuntman role. One would certainly expect some good action scenes but has to return dissapointed. The cinematography is excellent. The viewer is treated to some good shots of the Universal Studios and Kodak Theater. The Om Mangalam teack by RDB is excellent and Anu Malik’s music is good which have been choreographed well.
Verdict
The movie is held together by the sheer screen presence of its main leads and nothing else. Leave your brains at home and watch the movie and there is a small chance that you liked it. As for me, I would call this movie ‘unbearable’.
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Ghajini is Aamir Khan’s release for 2008 directed by Murugadoss. It is loosely based on the Hollywood flick Memento and the remake of the Tamil film of the same name. The film marks the debut of Asin in Bollywood. It also stars Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat and Tinu Anand. Telugu producer Allu Aravind produces this movie under the banner of Geetha Arts.
Synopsis
Sanjay Singhania (Aamir) is a patient suffering from short term memory loss who can’t remember anything for more than fifteen minutes. Every morning he wakes up blank in mind. With some strategically stuck notes on the wall and tattoos on his body, Sanjay reminds himself of the only thing he wants to remember – His girlfriend Kalpana’s (Asin) murder. The only clue he has to find the murderer is the name Ghajini. How he tracks down Ghajini and gets his revenge is the story of the movie.
Analysis
Ghajini is back again, this time bigger, better and sharper than before. The movie is well paced, edge of the seat thriller with twists and turns thrown at you every other moment. Though I have watched the Tamil version, watching Aamir Khan’s Ghajini is a different experience.
The movie comes with a fair share of violent action, but the violence is justified. Peppy music, eye catching scenery and sets and good choreography make the songs memorable. With exceptional performances from Aamir Khan and Asin and excellent direction of Murugadoss, Ghajini is a powerful film. It is 3 hours long but you never notice the time flow by.
Performance Of The Cast
Aamir Khan steals the show and how. Aamir breathes life into the character of Sanjay Singhania. He is in great shape and flaunts his hard earned 8 packs in almost all scenes. Be it the business tycoon Sanjay or the revenge seeking Sanjay, Aamir plays the role with such sincerity that you feel his every emotion – his love, his anger, his frustration, his sorrow. The scene in which Aamir wakes up in the morning and slowly realises his past or the scene in the hospital where Aamir cries on hearing Jiah’s tale are truly priceless. His body language and expressions speaks more than his dialogues.
Asin is perfectly cast as bubbly, caring Kalpana, the same role she enacted in the Tamil version. She has delivered a strong performance and dialogue delivery is also good. Jiah Khan also plays her part well but her dialogue delivery has room to improve. Pradeep Rawat is good as the villain.
Technical Analysis
Murugadoss has made a powerful foray into Bollywood. To present the movie with such level of intensity is no mean feet. He succeeds in keeping you engaged. Each card is revealed as the movie goes on, never too late or never too early.
Story is good with a gripping screenplay. Characterisations are done very well with fitting dialogues for each character. The screenplay is a little bit different from the Tamil version. It comes with an entirely different but improved climax. The one thing which left us wondering in the Tamil version was what would happen to Sanjay after he has had got his revenge. That is explained briefly in this movie.
The cinematographer, editor and art director have done their parts well. The strength of the movie is the music and background score by AR Rahman. The songs Guzarish and Behka are surely going to be etched in memory for a long time.
Verdict Ghajini is the example for what a movie with sensible story, sound screenplay and good cast could do. In the end, the movie belongs to three people Aamir, Asin and Murugadoss. It is top notch commercial movie with excellent performances and beautiful songs. Don’t miss it for anything.
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