Saturday, June 27, 2009
RA 1 reviews
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Arjun Rampal, Armaan Verma, Shahana Goswami, Tom Wu
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Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn, Kangna Ranaut, Arjun Rampal, Chunky Pandey, Satish Kaushik
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"Aa Dekhen Zara" Movie Review
Aa Dekhen Zara:
Cast:
Neil Nitin Mukesh,
Bipasha Basu,
Rahul Dev,
Bobby Vats
Director: Jehangir Surti
Neil Nitin Mukesh,
Bipasha Basu,
Rahul Dev,
Bobby Vats
Director: Jehangir Surti
The film, directed by first-time director Jehangir Surti, starts out well. Out-of-work photographer Ray inherits a camera from his grandfather which predicts the future through photographs. Well, we know it sounds quite silly to have such cameras in the first place, but then, why doubt the power of science. After all, we believed in Matrix, didn’t we? Soon Ray earns enough money to buy his girlfriend expensive wine and a bungalow for himself. But then, he gets noticed too - both by Indian intelligence and a gangster. And now he has three enemies to run away from - the crook, a dishonest intelligence officer and his own impending death. What’s interesting is that the hero, for a change, is terrible at kicking butts. He can’t match up to the villain if it’s a fist fight. Good departure from old days, now we have more human protagonists, who are both grey in character and weak in strength.
The first half sees the story build up with good pace. A stylish editing helps. But the second half slacks because of scripting issues. The cinematography is consistent. Music – both background and playback - is quite a highlight and peps up the mood. Dialogues could have been better if not memorable. Neil Nitin Mukesh yet again comes up with a winning performance. He is especially good with scenes when he does the ‘scared look’. Agreed you don’t get a Johnny Gaddaar everyday in your career, nevertheless, he makes good of this opportunity too. Bipasha looks awesome throughout and does well too. Rahul Dev deserves praise for underplaying his character so well and staying away from typical, exaggerated villains. Sophie Chaudhary, however, is a huge weak link.
Overall, Aa Dekhen Zara is a masala entertainer despite its scientific background. Director Jehangir Surti does well in directing a film which needs to be shot completely backwards because of the photographs which are supposed to reveal the future.
"8x10 Tasveer" Movie Review
8x10 Tasveer:
Cast:
Akshay Kumar,
Ayesha Takia,
Javed Jaafery,
Sharmila Tagore,
Girish Karnad,
Anant Mahadevan,
Benjamin Gilani
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Music: Salim-Sulaiman, Bohemia
Akshay Kumar,
Ayesha Takia,
Javed Jaafery,
Sharmila Tagore,
Girish Karnad,
Anant Mahadevan,
Benjamin Gilani
Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Music: Salim-Sulaiman, Bohemia
"8x10 Tasveer" Movie Review:
Indian directors would make something like that. Well, Nagesh Kukunoor just did that! 8X10 Tasveer is what you wished for. But then, that could also be the weak link of the movie.
To start with, this is a story of Jai Puri (Akshay Kumar) who works for wildlife conservation and wants to stay away from his dad’s capitalist business. He is gifted with a psychic ability to look into the past of a person’s life through any photograph of that person. However, there is a catch – doing that endangers his own life. Jai’s father dies of heart attack and he suspects foul play. Hence, he undertakes a journey to find out how his father was killed. To his help he has a photograph, which was taken minutes before his father’s death, and he has a private detective Happi (Javed Jaafery).
Nagesh weaves in chilling suspense into the circumstances with a great screenplay. He is helped by good background music and excellent cinematography. The dialogues are just about human and very day to day, making the film real even during unreal situations. He also uses special effects well in the narration.
There is a problem though. No convincing explanation is given as to why the murderer kills so many people. There is some background shown, but that does not seem ground enough to kill people.
The film completely belongs to Akshay Kumar. He delivers something unseen from him before. When the actor had told in a recent interview that Nagesh didn’t allow him to do what he usually does, we should have got the hint. 8X10 Tasveer is a rare occasion when Akshay underplays his character. And while you think Ayesha Takia would have nothing to do, she delivers a punch too with a solid role. The scene stealer here is, however, Javed Jaafery who perfects his Hyderabadi accent and OCD to clean anything on sight. The rest of the cast fall in well.
Overall, 8X10 Tasveer is simple, subtle, smart and sleek. Nagesh Kukunoor does well in restricting any kind of melodrama that usually creeps into regular Indian movies. The movie easily shows his capability to handle the genre after handling emotional dramas well in his previous movies. But as pointed out in the very first paragraph, this could very well be the pitfall of the movie. Extremely non-Bollywood treatment may alienate this film from the masses. But people who are exposed to Hollywood at a greater level will lap this as one good suspense thriller.
Two talented actresses Kajol & Kareena again in forthcoming venture
Karan Johar has done it again. After casting Kajol and Kareena Kapoor for Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, way back in 2001, he’s got the two talented actresses Kajol & Kareena again for his forthcoming venture.
The film will be directed by debutante Siddharth Malhotra, the grandson of the late Prem Nath. Siddharth was the creative producer of the hit TV serial Sanjivani and was responsible for conceptualising and shaping it.
Our source revealed, “Kajol and Kareena have been finalised for Karan Johar’s forthcoming film, which will start once the actors are free from their on-going films.”
The film, which is yet untitled is based on the Hollywood film, Stepmom (1998), starring Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts. The shooting of the film will begin as soon as Kajol wraps up the shoot of Karan’s My Name Is Khan, opposite Shah Rukh Khan.
So how did the casting come about? “Karan, who is directing Kajol in My Name Is Khan is very happy with her work. The same holds true for Kareena, who is working opposite Saif Ali Khan in a project directed by Rensil D’Silva,” said the source.
