All three leads (no, Bobby Deol aint a lead) ooze sexiness. And more sexiness. And boy, do Priyanka and John show of their well-toned/muscled bodies. In one of the scenes when Abhishek goes “bum?” look at Pri’s derriere, one reckons that he could have done it over and over and still meant it for Priyanka’s derriere looks that fabulous (and who’s the costume designer for such fab clothes?). John of course, wears the least clothes, and displays oodles of musckle (note: if going with your lover, make sure you both get seats at different ends – you’d both wanna enjoy the display of all that opposite sex rather exclusively)

Now that I have finished with the sexiness bit, lets talk about the other bits that I did like – moojik. And forget the current chartbusters – look at Maa ka ladla – if that aint a situational song, nothing is. And boy are the lyrics great! Loved the way all the songs are written, pictured – acted/directed, of course. Talking of cinematography – lovely. Camera just hugs the skin (tones) although in someplaces I felt it could have been better – but top notch.

The movie moves fast – and doesn’t bore one at all – not even the faux gay bits – in fact the entire movie pretty much moves without a blip and boredom – with the faux gay bits being very funny cos of the inside joke ‘tween John and Abhishek’s characters.

The only flaws? Bobby Deol, and the ending.

Everything else rocks – especially the ideas of including some Hindi film superhits in the dialogues – whodathunk! (wont give away too much though – except that I found Jhumma Chumma the funniest of ‘em)

Enjoi the movie!

The movie is a must watch for every mom, every dad, every teacher, every kid and everyone who has ever been a kid.. It will mostly make you cry at moments when the characters are sad or even happy.. You most probably will identify with the kid “Ishaan Awasthi” played by Darsheel Safary in the movie in some way or the other.. The kid has acted really well and will mostly win a few awards this year for this performance..

This movie breaks away from the usual singing and dancing around trees sequences of bollywood.. This movie will definitely increase the awareness of dyslexia in India.. But I suspect it will definitely change the outlook of parents towards their misunderstood (so called academically weak) kids in this unforgiving materialistic competitive world..

The music and songs for the film are just brilliant and very moving.. Especially the song “Maa” will have your tears rolling down your cheeks.. Super stuff “Ehsaan Ehsaan Loy” !! I was crying and foot-tapping while seeing the songs

Debut director & Actor Aamir Khan and all the members of the crew.. hats-off to you guys !!

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Source: wikipedia

Recommendations to parents/teachers: http://www.ldonline.org/article/14907

Watched movie at Fun Cinemas, Cunningham Road, Bangalore

Official movie site: http://www.taarezameenpar.com/

Updates:

Found this good review on the reviews of this movie by the GreatIndianMutiny guys !!

Also read Review Rip Off – II by Sanjukta

Spiderman’s bestfriend becomes enemy.Spiderman loses girlfriend.
Spiderman goes bad, er. black. Spidey’s girl gets ‘napped.
Spidey fights 2 enemies at once – and gets the arse kicked all over the place.
Ex-Best Friend turned enemy comes to the rescue, dies saving Spidey. (Friends again?)
Spidey’s Enemy says “sorry!”. Spidey gets girl back.

like the movie? hate it?
cant decide – it was interesting all right, but walking out of the theatre, those lines above were my reaction. The start has some of the haziest graphics I have seen. I could hardly make out what happened – just goblin and spidey flying thick and fast, in blurs. Spidey black, I like – entertaining, uncool-ly cool, and quite funny. If Spidey is supposed to project innocence, then Goblin Junior beats him hands down. He looks like an innocent lost puppy thru’out. Heck, even dies for the best friend!
Sandman, Sandman, Sandman – what do I say about such a boring character? I said too much already.
And Venom is fun – before, he becomes venom.
In fact, the best, most interesting “villian” of the piece is Spidey himself, in black.
CG aint to spectacular, the score’s okay. There’s some doses of being “good” in the movie, which are okey-dokey. But, Bollywood handles it better anyday!
If you havent watched it, maybe watch it wid yer pardner… if you’re out with friends, watch it for the smartass comments u gonna get/make!

Is almost typical in the kind of BULL CRAP movies one used to get in the late 80s/ early 90s.
Reality is an illusion caused by lack of alcohol – or so some wise soul said. The movie lives it up, aptly. And apparently everyone was totally floating in alcohol there.

Well, we werent on alcohol, so we had to deal with reality. And in reality, its a nice premise but utterly butterly bad execution.

A Posh restaurant is next door to a slimy residential area. Racers race on 800bhp cars that can do 200mph and try to win by taking each other out. “I dont like you. I am gonna slam you into the next barrier, and NOT be penalised for it – so am gonna win!” And from eating a burger that was just then thrown into the garbage bin, the kid gets a piece of glass into the stomach. (Of course they only use styrofoam in that canteen is a different detail altogether)

Is there anything gud about the movie? Hmm, Saif looks like he could really use some “toning down”. DUDE! You’re short, that kinda beefcake on you aint good!! Rani looks dead for a few scenes, then smiles, then looks dead.

right, we were trying to see if there’s anything gud about the movie. Its the premise. Its that you have to have masti all the time – you have to be cheerful even when things are going down. That is the only saving grace of the movie. Pity, it cant save it much though.

Stay away from this one, go listen to some pep talk, or something like that.

A war – 300 men versus a million. No hoper, right?

But then, that would be under normal circumstances, in a normal movie. And in this movie isn’t by any stretch of imagination, normal. Cliched at times, maybe. Biased, yes. Political, yes. But in the end, good entertainment.

This is a movie where the Victor goes back home to lick his wounds – and quite thankful that he didn’t have to take more mauling.

That, is just one aspect to it. There are others – by which I do not refer to somewhat graphic references to sex (without the actual act being shown). There’s, for example the computer generated imagery, where at one point I wondered if I was actually playing Age of Empires, on the big screen. It was real, yet unreal.

The movie tries to cover many bases but for the most part delivers on two facets – sound & visual effects and well crafted fight sequences.

There’s a cursory homage paid to storytelling – and, a now usual homage to the concept of “freedom”. Our hero is apparently fighting for freedom. Immense glorification of the Spartans is one of the main themes – along with vilification of the Persians. It seems to be in the 9/11 mould – “You’re either with us or against us!”

The Spartan king is an idealist, stands for freedom, but yet pays homage to corrupt, almost paedophilic priests – and, as per the movie, “more creature and less man”. A reference to the way of the present day Church, perhaps? or Maybe not. The King shocks and awes his way into the Persian camp, with Xerxes being shown as gay (and hence the worse for it).

If George Bush Jr. were to make a movie, this should fit in well with his constituency. And his politics – except for perhaps the dig at the priestdom.

Without the politics, its mostly raw- and appealing – action. With it, is a sad, bad gimmick. The movie is a mish-mash of many things good, but doesnt make a fist of it.

Ignore the politics to enjoy the movie!

Movies these days don’t want to let you get settled into the Cinema hall before they start on you, apparently. Casino royale starts with a brilliant action sequence – a snake fighting orgy that quickly goes onto be a cat n mouse chase, with Bond ending up more than ruffling diplomatic feathers(no, not of birds).

If the makers wanted to take the focus away from the way the new Bond looks to the movie itself, then they succeed very well.

This follows with Bond breaking in, to M’s office! And getting it good for being “reckless, and letting his ego rule”. For a movie that supposedly sets the tone for the rest of the Bond movies, this one’s certainly a very good attempt at it – and succeeds most of the time.

Bond as a reckless, but suave, arrogant spy is great characterisation, if you look at the series as a whole (thanks to Star Movies for that!!). Among the best things Daniel Craig brings into the Bond franchise is the way he carries his chip on the shoulder. The makers have brought out Bond’s character fantastically well – the chip on the shoulder, his falling in love, the eventual betrayal and how that shapes his character. The unpolished arrogance that Bond as a newbie spy carries – the list goes on.

The movie is engaging no doubt. It flows seamlessly scene to scene, and keeps you rooted to the seat most of the time. The action sequences are very well choreographed and shot (although one hopes next time the camera work will be better, much better) . The only Bond girl looks rather fetchin – the eyes, oh the eyes! Oh the sounds, the cars. One gets more than their money’s worth, with all the aural pleasures of vee-12s in full throated glory.

On the whole, the best Bond movie in a decade, certainly. But one hopes that the makers wont take that as a affirmation for Daniel Craig as the new bond - or their way of dismissing previous Bond movies. Bond’s grisly, and grimy – get in the dirt – phase is nice, entertaining and is good when he’s protrayed as a new “00″ recruit, but if the makers want to go the same route later on too, it would probably not come off as well.

If you are still reading, and havent got your tickets, I’d say RUN and grab yourself tickets -this is certainly aint a bond movie one should miss! (And that is from someone who thought he’d not watch this movie because of Daniel Craig, well he stands corrected)

“Little vice, even less spice.”

That should be the tag-line for the movie. Colin Farell and Jamie Foxx are the lead stars. and Gong li is the female lead. The story is apparently based on a 1980′s TV series, of the same name. With farell and foxx playing two cops who go undercover.

The plot is very thin, and intended to be racy, which it isnt. Cops get killed. Undercover cops deployed. Cop gets involved with Gangsta’s chick, gets double-crossed. Doesnt get killed in shoot-out.

Ok, typical 1980s Hindi movie, right? Well, almost. Except the chick’s let go.

The action. A Motorboat cruise to Havana – very, very picturesque. Great cinematography. A chase in a Ferrari 360 (I think) – just about okay. Hmm, nothing much else. Unless you wanna count random acts of shooting. Some acts of playing hard-ball.

A Note to Colin Farell – changing hairstyles doesnt constituting ‘acting’ or of picking up new roles. Maybe you should get back to acting and forget about the changing style.

And Foxx to Farell “I’ll never doubt you!” Oh yea? Who’re you kidding?

Should you watch it? Yes. If you’re a jobless uncouth idiot with nothin else to do, and some cash to spare, or friends who have some cash to spare, rush to it.

The biggest reason for these two remakes(ed: Sholay, Don) not going to work is that unlike Sanjay L Bhansali, or Vidhu Chopra(or whoever directed Parineeta), these folks have chosen stuff that is mostly fresh in the minds of people – and that is the biggest challenge – which was why, until small B found his niche, he just couldnt do things Big B was doing/had done!

Well, Farhan Akhtar has almost proved me right – going from the previews at least. The storyline, though set outside of India, apparently, retains the same characters, and remains mostly true to the original. And Farhan Akthar has made the crucial mistake of retaining the old songs, but in their own 2006 versions.

The result? Each of the old songs sounds like a badly remixed version more suited to be produced by someone like Instant Karma, or some silly DJ, than a major bollywood movie! Main hoon don , Yeh mera dil are bad, bad copies of the original, in pure musical terms. The videos are quite rotten too.

Kareena Kappor is so much like a lifeless doll in “Yeh Mera Dil” that you wonder if the folks making it, and then retaining it, also made the campaing for the CBZ Xtreme!

In SRK’s imagery of the Don dunking champagne onto himself, its not the Don we see, but SRK of Darr, Baazigar, DDLJ. The character has been sacrificed for the star – and what a bad sacrifice it has been. Coming after SRK’s performances in recent movies like Kal Ho Na Ho, Main Hoon Na, Veer Zaara, Swades, this one is regrettable.

Then, that song.

Khaike Paan Banaraswallah is amongst the best songs to come from the 70s. Everything from the Banarasiya lingo, to the dance, the music is spot on. What we get in this movie is a remixed version that will make Kishore Kumar, Anjaan(lyricist) and KalyanJi (of Kalyanji-Anandji) turn in their graves. And the video has SRK playing an idiot wannabe.

It is such an insult to fans of the movie, and the song to be foisted upon with such utter rubbish. I just hope(against hope) it puts an end to crappy remakes of cult classics.

This movie is second of the trilogy of the Police stories which he is directing. The first one being Kakka Kakka (An episode in a young police officer’s Life) and this (Vettaiyadu Vilaiyadu) one being the story of a Middle aged Police officer’s lifestory. And the last one yet to come is of a senior police officer’s life story.

This movie will easily win the best Villain award. Gautham (director) manages to bring out the best of the villains. Even for his previous movie, the actor won the best villain. Even though the villian comes in the second half of the movie, the scenes are scary, gruesome and gripping, all credit to the villain (he is just toooooo goood). His dialogues with Kamal and Jyothika in the climax is to be watched. Its very funny at the same time terrifying and scary.

Kamal should shed some weight and continue his world class acting. The matured romance between Kamal and Jyothika needs a special mention.

Would’nt want to reveal the movie details, just in a line, its a chase for two doctors/serial killers. The execution of each and every murder is very very gruesome and scary and haunting. Its a must watch for everyone, even for non-tamilians. Very solid technical details. The way new york is pictured is simple superb. Hats off to Ravi Varman for his cinematography. This movie is not inferior to any Hollywood one. Tamil movies are catching up with them. Great direction by Gautham

Prakash Raj is superb in the cameo which he comes. Its Kamal all the way. Too bad the other heroine Kamalini Mukherjee didn’t get much attention. Absolutely no comedy sequences at all in this thriller. Thats a great attempt by the director in these times when comedy is given lots of importance in Tamil movies. Background score by Harris Jayaraj is simply superb. Music is outstanding once again by Harris Jayaraj. World class. I wasnt a Kamal fan, but now after seeing it, certainly yes.

The serial killers are gays (homosexuals) but they rape all their victims? (All victims r women) ??? So just wondering???

An excellent movie. Worth a second watch. I am gonna drag my friends 4 this movie (kamu, nara and sumesh, be prepared)….I have already promised Raj & Sri for another watch..(My other set of frnds)..

KARAN JOHAR’S multi-starrer KANK grossed 72cr in its 1^st week of worldwide release.

Although having a storyline that’s not been appreciated by everyone, the movie now targets cracking all the overseas records (these days – the strategy of bombarding screens with a large number of prints).

(PVR Hyderabad has 2 screens running the show at the same)

Quick walk-through/summary of the movie:-

Story begins with Rani (Maya) getting married to her childhood friend Abhishek (Rishi). SRK (Dev) actually just hops in before the wedding and gives her a hint that its better to marry/live with someone whom you love, instead of someone whom you don’t love –

even if your already married. Well that’s what happens at the movie where Dev & Maya come out of their married life and stay together. But all this “liking-ness” between both of them starts off when they start sharing a friendship to help each other out in sorting out their unhappy married lives. On a lot of occasions its shown as though Karan Johar goes on to prove that its better (atleast hoping in the Indian context) to stay back with the person you’ve married, but the exactly opposite happens. Both Abhishek and Preity get together to unite the lovers (what crap!!!).

Few special moments of sheer class is seen, especially in Amitabh’s yearly party scene. However there’s absolutely nothing in Big B’s role in fixing the relationships (In which case I think the movie would have been an absolute cracker)

Movie plot is something that can get criticized a lot, but some are gonna say it’s pretty common these days for Indians settled there to get into extra-marital affair(s).

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