Milenge Milenge is a poor copy of John Cussack – Kate Beckinsale starrer romantic comedy Serendipity (2001) that was about destiny bringing two lovers back together. But perhaps makers Boney Kapoor and Satish Kaushik were not as lucky to quickly encash on its success as their copy took a good seven years to come on screen. Writer-director Satish Kaushik is predictable as usual with his lead characters – love-crazy girl and a naughty but noble boy.

Milenge Milenge is not only badly written and looks like an amateurish attempt but is completely dated in its approach by Satish Kaushik. The way Kareena’s character is established in the opening credits is quite irritating and the subsequent series of events completely bore you. The film is full of stereotyped characters and monotonous dialogues which would have not worked even back in 2005 had it been released then. Himesh Reshammiya’s music also does not click. The film is shot and edited very inconsistently as well.

If one expects at least the acting to be a good thing about the film then there is disappointment in this department too. Shahid carries a huge Shah Rukh Khan hangover and irritates while Kareena is just about passable. Aarti Chabbria hardly gets any scope. Rest all are plain average.

Even if the film had released six years back, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference. Supporting actors like Kirron Kher and Satish Shah are reduced to playing caricatures out of Comedy Circus. Watching the size zero queen with plump cheeks and an oddly bulked up Shahid dressed up in singlets is too disturbing a visual to deal with. Songs pop out of nowhere. Performance-wise while Shahid and Kareena are earnest, they just remind us how far they’ve come from their bad dialogue delivery to the Kaminey and Kurbaan days.

The problem with this film is that it’s lacking in basic logic, and that its characters are complete stereotypes. Add to that the fact that Kaushik’s treatment is extremely outdated even for a film that was meant to be released five years ago.

I’m going with two out of five for director Satish Kaushik’s Milenge Milenge. If you’re thinking of checking it out for Shahid and Kareena’s chemistry after Jab We Met, I have a advice for you – DON’T!

If you’re young at heart or a diehard and hopeless romantic, you’d lap up I Hate Luv Storys like a kid laps up his favorite candy. I Hate Luv Storys is a young and vibrant love story with tremendous appeal for the yuppies.
It is titled ‘I Hate Luv Storys’, but the soundtrack of Karan Johar’s production venture is all about love. Composed by the musical duo of Vishal and Shekhar, the film’s music is mushy and melodious.
The I Hate Luv Storys movie stars the chocolate hero, Imran Khan and the perhaps flop actress desperate to get a hit Sonam Kapoor. This movie is an absolute entertainment piece. This film is a fresh attempt by the debutant Punit malhotra though Karan Johar has written scripts for the film. Though the star cast is not commendable yet it can be said for sure that even with mediocre star cast the movie has lived up to the expectation of its audience.

However, if you watch the I Hate Luv Storys movie, you would find that Karan Johar has himself directed the film. The dialogues are filled with fun and are absolutely entertaining. You would also find scenes which gives you splits.

In some parts, Imran is given innumerable signs to move into the direction of love. However, lot of scenes have been borrowed from the other popular Hindi films.
The actor in I Hate Luv Storys movie is shown to be pretty decent. In the title song of the movie, he not only dances well but also looks hot which just makes his fans go crazy. On the other hand, Sonam Kapoor in this film is average but still she tries her best to prove her acting skills. She is improving her acting skills.
Critics are all praise for I Hate Luv Storys produced by Karan Johar and directed by Punit Malhotra. They are of the opinion that youth will enjoy this romantic comedy. The electrifying chemistry of the lead pair Imran Khan and Sonam Kapoor, the soothing music and twist and turns of the film are what the audience can look forward to in the film.
On the whole, the movies do have appeal for Youth, who loves candyfloss popcorn movies.
I will give I hate Love Storys 3 star out of 5.

Ravana, this year’s most awaited movie finally make it to cinemas this Friday and it  managed to earn mixed response from the audience. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan reunite to star alongside Tamil superstar Vikram.  Mani this time has written a story line culminating the characters of Robin Hood,  Veerappan and of course our very own Ramayana. The film’s characters have strong shades of grey where the hero is not necessarily a good man and the villain, a bad man.  Director Mani Ratnam is back with undoubtedly his most ambitious project ever, and with Raavan he triumphs. Raavan movie rating has been good overall, though movie review has been varying among viewers.

Academy Award Winner A R Rahman delivers a haunting soundtrack, with lyrics of Gulzar. The picturisation of ‘Beera Beera’ combines Bollywood funk and boy band moves with tribal dance and demonic images.

As I said earlier the Raavan movie earned mixed response from the audience. First to tell you about the weaknesses that it suffered. The story written by Mani had many glitches, though he managed to present a modern adaptation of epic Ramayana with a twist in characters, still it had lot to be asked.

The promos of Raavan may set you thinking about some of the great action sequences in the film but sadly there weren’t any worth talking about. The scenes between Ash and Abhi in the jungle are repeated most of the time. One more thing that the film seriously suffered was the bad dialogue writing. I am amazed how a Mani Ratnam movie can suffer on such a ground. The dialogues were not at all impressive and could not lend any depth to the characters. But all thanks to the beautiful camera handling by Santosh Sivan and V Manikanandan.  The jungle never has looked so beautiful before in any other Indian movie like the way it looked in Raavan. Santosh has nicely used rain, water and natural beauty of woods to give the audience a much needed freshness.

With a running time of just 130 minutes, the film is significantly shorter than most Indian cinema. The interval arrives before you know it, although certain scenes in the final reels fail to maintain the earlier momentum. Since the advent of Indian cinema, the mythological genre has been seen on screen.

Overall, you can watch Raavan but don’t expect high. If you do not expect too high from the film, you will not return disappointed. Watch it for its cinematography and amazing work from Abhishek Bachchan who has delivered very good role of character Raavan.

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Renzil D’Silva

Producer: Karan Johar

Banner: Dharma Productions

Star Cast: Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Vivek Oberoi, Om Puri, Rupinder Nagra, Diya Mirza

Storyline:

Debutant director Rensil D’Silva’s ability to maintain the intense graph of Kurbaan is the biggest highlight of this film.

Avantika played by Kareena comes to Delhi from USA. In Delhi she meets with Ehsaan played by Saif Ali Khan who is a lecturer of Islamic Studies in Delhi University. Avantika also starts working as a professor of Psychology in Delhi University.

They move to US after getting married in Delhi. But later Kareena Kapoor aka Avantika comes to know that Ehsaan was playing a game with her and he is a terrorist and married her to hide his identity from the world. Ehsaan kept her inside the house. Soon Avantika comes to know about the plans of Ehsaan to hijack an airplane……

After an arresting start, the film gets a little shaky. Post interval the pace slackens and the tension between the lead characters becomes monotonous. In the second hour you often find yourself wanting some more action to give some respite from the talk heaviness. The writers run out of surprises in this part of thefilm. Given its grim plot, two hours and forty minutes is way too long for an average cinegoer. A taut, complex film starts culminating into a routine FBI chase. Things however pick up in a lengthy but well-executed climax shot on a subway station.

The movie seems to be any other movie but it has something that will keep you get engaged till the last moment. Salim-Sulaiman and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy have given again their best. Some songs comes up really melodious. Saif has done a very good job. Kareena looks ok. Kareena backless/topless scene just looks in the poster outside of the theater. But in the movie there is nothing too much to watch about the Kareena’s hot scene. The movie’s cost was around 50 crores and that will come back in the producer’s hands easily. No doubt in that. Even the movie is a directorial debut for Rensil D’Silva, he has done very nice job. Surely Karan Johar shared his experiences with him that also looks on screen. The movie is a mixture of love and terrorism.

Kurbaan works in most parts because the director keeps the cinematic coincidences and liberties to the minimum. And wherever you do sense a leap of faith it is not jarring. Secondly, despite knowing how the characters will react, Rensil manages to shock you with his scenes. Note the moment where Saif reveals his identity. You know what it is all about, yet it hits you hard. Rensil doesn’t digress from his core plot right up to the climax – which might meet with mixed reactions.

However it is Vivek Oberoi who delivers a spontaneous performance. His character gives the film some much-needed energy. Vivek’s part has more range than the lead pair’s. Dia Mirza and Nauheed Cyrusi get the most significant guest appearances of their lives. Om Puri and Kirron Kher are clichéd but deliver some brilliant dialogues.

Salim-Suleiman’s haunting tunes add to the stark premise of the film – especially Ali Maula. Technically the production values are top-notch even though cleverly inspired by Hollywood. Inconsistencies aside, Kurbaan is undoubtedly among the most watchable films of the season.

Kurbaan could have been a tighter and perhaps slightly more engrossing film. But considering it is the director’s maiden effort – full marks to Rensil D’Silva. He does well to stay away from any frothy elements at the cost of sacrificing the mass entertainment value. It’s mostly a gripping thriller with several shock moments.

Starring: Akshay Kumar, Sanjay Dutt, Lara Dutt, Zayed Khan, Katrina Kaif

Director : Anthony D’Souza

Musician : A R Rahman

Review:

A treasure lays buried deep at the bottom of an ocean. There are many people who want to get there by risking life, be it theirs or someone else’s.

‘Blue’ is casted as Bollywood’s first underwater movie, Directed by Anthony D’Souza , the movie is inspired from Hollywood flicks like ‘The Deep’ or ‘Jaws’, but not a copy.

The film is about a lost treasure, which three friends try to find undersea. Akshay Kumar , Sanjay Dutt and Zayed Khan play the respective roles.

With a budget of almost 100 crores, making ‘Blue’ one of the most expensive movies made in the Indian cinema.’Blue’ kick starts with a song shot under water which almost gives you an experience of deep sea diving as you get a closer look into the marine life. Two minutes into the movie and there you go, a shark scene executed by James D Bomalick with Akshay and Sanjay, probably the first and last, which is quite disillusioning because that is the only stunt you get to see with sharks as in the remaining film they seemed to have depicted well fed sharks who quite surprisingly did not bother to attack any human beings around them. What happens next, throughout the movie is a phase of events, which leave you unfazed and get out of the theatres as quick as you can.

‘Blue’ is a story of Sagar (Sanjay Dutt) who works with Aarav (Akshay Kumar) for his fishing business in Bahamas and is also a deep sea diver who knows the Pacific Ocean like the back of his hand. The movie is for the treasure in a sunken ship lady in blue, which is the sole motive of Aarav’s existence and the reason behind that, is revealed only in the climax. All is going fine in the life of Sagar and his girlfriend Mona (Lara Dutta), when his younger brother Sam (Zayed Khan), who is a rebel and had run away from home five years back finds himself in a soup in Bangkok and runs back to big bro Sagar for help. Well, nothing new and novel about the story, but the crux is that whilst you are watching the movie you realize that the screen play is very weak and so is Anthony D’Souza direction. The story could have been made into a suspense leaving some space for the audience’s imagination, however a bad screenplay by Mayur Puri, breaks the backbone of ‘Blue’.

While Indians have liked Jaws and Titanic, National treasure was a big hit, no one questioned the logic behind the story or any of the scenes, but, when a desi director does international quality work, everyone sits up and puts in their two bits of opinion.

A bad story is further affected by bad dialogues, again by Mayur Puri. Akshay Kumar looks hot and his dressing sense is quite good too, while Zayed is at his usual best, the bad boy look, Sanjay disappoints as he looks haggard and completely unfit for an action movie, while the surprise in the movie is sizzling Lara sporting four to five different and colorful bikinis and looking hot and irresistible. While Rahul Dev (Gulshan) is average and Katrina Kaif(Nikki) who has just a cameo in the movie, looks wild with her looks and breaks out from her delicate image. It is not that the movie has no ups, of course! it is a visual treat as it has some excellent cinematography by Laxman Utekar who captures the beautiful city of Bahamas in a scenic manner and the underwater sequences are worth a watch. Especially, some awesome underwater stunts by all the four actors. In terms of action outside water, ‘Blue’ fails, with some draggy long bike chases and races. The bike chase between Akshay and Zayed is quite long. All underwater stunts and antiques are excellent and quite fresh for an Indian audience, all credits for the efforts taken by the actors performing them and by underwater cinematographer Pete Zuccarini.

The music of the film is average and does not sound like A.R. Rahman’s work.

What is commendable about the movie is the guts to attempt such a movie in Indian cinema, the execution of the under water sequences, the stunts by the actors and capturing the beautiful marine life on camera. But on second thoughts with no story and screenplay in place and unlively performances with no emotional connect with audience. Two stars for the efforts by everyone involved with ‘Blue’.

A smart decision by the Director- Producer of the film99, as they have released it at the time when no big movie is showing up in the theatres…

Definitely not an amazing film , but has come like a breather, when there are no new realeases!

Some good performances by Kunal Khemu, Cyrus Broacha, Boman Irani and Amit Mistry… The movie showcases the extraordinary comic timing of theses actors…

Film 99 is embellished with fine performances from an ensemble cast, but the one who stands out is Boman Irani. Here’s a master stroke from this accomplished actor, yet again. Kunal Khemu is only getting better and more confident.

The film99 is based on the religion of India that is, “CRICKET”… The satte bazi (betting) in the game, gambling, debts and how the protagonists come out of the mess they initially create for themselves…

Mahesh Manjrekar as AGM and Vinod Khanna as JC, have also done their parts, preety well.. Amit Mistry’s character, Kuber, has also left a mark in the film…

It is not a must watch movie, but if you need a change amidst the scarcity of movies then it may prove to be a one time watch…..

On the whole,film 99 appeals in parts, more towards the second half. The film holds appeal for the youth