Cast: Ajay Devgan, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade, Arshad Warsi, Celina Jaitley, Amrita Arora
Director: Rohit Shetty
Rating: *
There are some golden rules if you want to watch this movie:
1) Leave your brains behind at home
2) Dont even try to understand the story or logic because there is isnt one
The entire movie has senseless comedy thrown in at regular intervals. Lucky (Tushar Kapoor) is the scene stealer who evokes a few laughs. He is the brother-in-law of Gopal(Ajay Devgan) whose wife Ekta(Kareena Kapoor) is a big fan of TV seriels. She suspects her husband Ajay Devgan of being unfaitful to her as it appears on seriels.
Ajay Devgan saves Meera (Celina Jaitley) from rogues one night and takes her to the company yatch for the night because their cars dont start. Only in Hindi movies can you expect this scene, cant she take a cab or auto home? Ajay tells his wife he was at his friends and gives an imaginary address and name which turns out to be true. Meanwhile Ajay's team mate in office is killed and the cop Madhav (Arshad Warsi) who is seeing Ajay Devgan's sister Esha (Amrita Arora) suspects Ajay of murdering him. To clear his name and get an alibi Ajay should find the girl who spent the night with him without his wife Kareena knowing about it. Enter Shreyas Talpadi as Ajay's assistant who adds to the confusion. He tries to help Ajay find the girl Meera who happens to be his very own girl friend !!!
You will start pulling your hair with frustration at so many characters and sub-plots in the movie. Its also taking a dig at seriel director Ekta Kapoor and movies like "tashan".
Every hindi movie has a character speaking in tamil these days. This time it is Celina Jaitley and her south indian family. Wish they can get the diction right or have someone else dub the tamil dialogues.
If you follow the set of rules mentioned at the begining of this review, you can sit through this movie. You will do yourself a favour by keeping off the theater.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
Fashion - Review
Cast: Mugdha Godse, Priyanka Chopra, Kangna Ranaut, Arbaaz Khan
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Rating: ***
Director Madhur Bhandarkar has made some memorable movies like Page 3 and Chandni Bar and the expectations were quite high for his take on the Fashion industry in India. Sadly he dosent totally live up to the high expectations of the audiences.
Meghna (Priyanka Chopra) the lead star defies her parents and moves to Mumbai from Chandigarh to pursue her dream of becoming a model. She meets a gay friend who is an assistant designer who helps her. How she makes the right contacts at the right time remains a puzzle.. she just meets them!!
Shonali (Kangana Ranaut) a top model is in shambles with her cocaine and drinking habit. She is replaced by Priyanka who catches the attention of Abhijeet Sareen (Arbaaz Khan) the fashion mogul who runs fashion magazines, ad agencies etc. Priyanka soon becomes a top model but looses her boy friend and friends because of work pressure and her attitude. She also allows herself to be used by Arbaaz Khan to gain stardom but throws tantrum after she gets pregnant by him.
The movie depicts all girl models as victims in the fashion industry. Most fashion designers are gay men, do they get tired of seeing girls all the time?? Some of the scenes like Kangana on the streets and wardrobe malfunction are inspired from real life. The fashion industry is a dirty world behind all the glitz and glamour. This is the message Madhur liked to show in this movie. Sadly he dosent show how the designs are made and brought out to the industry.
Good performances by all the stars especially Priyanka. The director would have done much better had he trimmed the movie to 90 mins. At 3 hours it drags way too much in the second half. Go without any expectations, you will not be too disappointed with this movie.
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Rating: ***
Director Madhur Bhandarkar has made some memorable movies like Page 3 and Chandni Bar and the expectations were quite high for his take on the Fashion industry in India. Sadly he dosent totally live up to the high expectations of the audiences.
Meghna (Priyanka Chopra) the lead star defies her parents and moves to Mumbai from Chandigarh to pursue her dream of becoming a model. She meets a gay friend who is an assistant designer who helps her. How she makes the right contacts at the right time remains a puzzle.. she just meets them!!
Shonali (Kangana Ranaut) a top model is in shambles with her cocaine and drinking habit. She is replaced by Priyanka who catches the attention of Abhijeet Sareen (Arbaaz Khan) the fashion mogul who runs fashion magazines, ad agencies etc. Priyanka soon becomes a top model but looses her boy friend and friends because of work pressure and her attitude. She also allows herself to be used by Arbaaz Khan to gain stardom but throws tantrum after she gets pregnant by him.
The movie depicts all girl models as victims in the fashion industry. Most fashion designers are gay men, do they get tired of seeing girls all the time?? Some of the scenes like Kangana on the streets and wardrobe malfunction are inspired from real life. The fashion industry is a dirty world behind all the glitz and glamour. This is the message Madhur liked to show in this movie. Sadly he dosent show how the designs are made and brought out to the industry.
Good performances by all the stars especially Priyanka. The director would have done much better had he trimmed the movie to 90 mins. At 3 hours it drags way too much in the second half. Go without any expectations, you will not be too disappointed with this movie.
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