15. Un prophète (French) (5.5/10)
19 year old French Arab guy comes in jail for 6 year jail sentence. He is hoping to serve that in peace. Due to logistics, the head of Corsican inmates, a sadistic mafioso named César Luciani, co-opts Malik as part of the Corsicans' activities, not only regarding what happens inside the prison, but also continued criminal activities outside. The film trails the guys journey from an innocent man to the leader of the whole arab gang and the hardships he has to go through and the transformation he has.
14. Kites (Hindi/English/Spanish) (2/10)
I didn't realize that this movie would be so bad and awful. The only saving grace was Hrithik Roshan. A modern day rehash of the film Koyla which itself was so bad in the first place, had absolutely no chemistry between the lead pair. Kangna Ranaut was completely wasted and the movie itself was soooo slow. A big yawn !
13. Do Dilon Ke Khel Mein (Hindi) (0.5/10)
Another pretty bad film. Kids of 2 long term friends meet and hate each other instantly. When they find that their parents are friends, they think they might force to get them married, so they start getting misunderstanding between the two. Another really bad film. What sucks is the fact that once a superstar Rajesh Khanna has to resort to such cheap misfit roles.
12. Dear John (1.5/10)
While John is on leave in his hometown, he finds Savannah, a college student visiting the town. Although love was unexpected, it doesn't mean they didn't find it. With the knowledge of John having to leave for the army, their love still lives, until his re-signs on due to the 9/11 attack. Troubles invade and their love put on hold. One cannot bear it anymore; can the other? The film just doesn't strike a chord with audience. In fact it tends to get boring after a while.
11. Trump Card (Hindi) (0/10)
A purely pathetic film. The story revolves around a huge transaction of property which leads to murders and sting operations and spying. A group of young people get involved in order to make quick money and using girls, love and friendship. Save your valuable time. Please dont watch this for your and my sake.
10. Fermat's Room (Spanish) (3.5/10)
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them. Interesting concept on paper but the film fails to hold your interest throughout. The drama is very little and the reasoning given is also pretty lame.
9. Sadiyaan (Hindi) (2/10)
Just about nothing works for this film. Set in 70s the film trails the story of a muslim boy who has been brought up in a hindu family. Twist happens when the real parents from Pakistan come for his wedding. Rekha, Hema Malini, Rishi Kapoor; great cast but so misused. Luv Sinha is just bad. I dont think he has a future in Bollywood and same goes for the actress (whoever she was)
Monday, June 21, 2010
Friday, June 04, 2010
June is slow. Need to catch up
8. Tandoori Love (German/Hindi/English) (2/10)
Tandoori Love is the story of an Indian cook, Vijay Raaz and his series of (mis)adventures in the Swiss mountains. These include leaving his Bollywood troupe to starve as he starts working for a Swiss restaurant, delighting people with his Indian delicacies, stabbing a man, singing, and perhaps most significantly, falling in love with his boss fiancée. This did not keep me interested at all specially why would all the girls keep falling for Vijay Raaz of all the people.
7. Apartment (Hindi) (4.5/10)
Neetu Chandra has moved to Mumbai and rents a room with Tanushree Dutta. After a good few days, Tanushree starts suspecting Neetu's actions because she would not want her to get close to her boyfriend. Next door neighbor Anupam Kher also gets involved and a mysterious past of Neetu's life is uncovered. But its too late. Interesting story but we know these things dont work in Bollywood.
6. Raajneeti (Hindi) (8/10)
A brilliant film in all counts. Story to acting to direction to all the characters fitting their role. Manoj Bajpai was awesome and the way Ranbir Kapoor turns into a shrewd manipulative politician was awesome. Story writer definitely needs applaud to make a modern political story which is so intertwined with Mahabharata. Ajay, Katrina, Arjun etc, everyone was superb.
5. Blue Oranges (Hindi) (7.5/10)
Surprise film. A very good thriller film with nice twists and turns. Performances by everyone was very good. It was good to see Rajat Kapur in form after a while. The film follows t he murder of a budding painter. Various members in the cast are introduced and their link to her with a very unexpected climax. Although climax reminded me a little bit of the recent film 'Right Yaa Wrong'. Its sad that no one probably has even heard that there is such a hindi film that came last year.
4. Vroom (Hindi) (2.5/10)
Reminded me of another hindi film 'Tarzan-The Wonder Car'. A scientist makes a chip that makes anything robotic. To save his life he puts that in a car which is purchased by our main characters. The film follows on how the young teenage kid using the car gets his love and fights evil. A very annoying negative cast characters.
3. It's Complicated (5/10)
Meryl Streep who is now divorced from Alec Baldwin starts having an affair with him after divorced for 10 years. In the meantime she also meets Steve martin, the architect working on her house. She is now confused in what's the best thing to do. Should she give a second chance to her ex or look for new real love. Decent movie but a very annoying Meryl Streep. All she did was kept laughing in the entire movie for no rhyme or reason.
2. The Great Indian Butterfly (Indian English) (4.5/10)
The film unlike its name was interesting primarily because of good cast in Sandhya Mridul and Aamir Bashir. They are a couple on a road trip to Goa. They have been dealing with work pressure which of course is affecting their private life. The film shows how unhappiness in life is mostly man made and if you try to, you can be very happy and content in what you have.
1. Dashavtar (Hindi Animation) (2.5/10)
An interesting concept when you are a kid to see various stories that show you 10 different avatars of Lord Vishnu. I knew all the stories, so they had not much novelty for me. Only if the animation quality was better, this would have made a great watch.
Tandoori Love is the story of an Indian cook, Vijay Raaz and his series of (mis)adventures in the Swiss mountains. These include leaving his Bollywood troupe to starve as he starts working for a Swiss restaurant, delighting people with his Indian delicacies, stabbing a man, singing, and perhaps most significantly, falling in love with his boss fiancée. This did not keep me interested at all specially why would all the girls keep falling for Vijay Raaz of all the people.
7. Apartment (Hindi) (4.5/10)
Neetu Chandra has moved to Mumbai and rents a room with Tanushree Dutta. After a good few days, Tanushree starts suspecting Neetu's actions because she would not want her to get close to her boyfriend. Next door neighbor Anupam Kher also gets involved and a mysterious past of Neetu's life is uncovered. But its too late. Interesting story but we know these things dont work in Bollywood.
6. Raajneeti (Hindi) (8/10)
A brilliant film in all counts. Story to acting to direction to all the characters fitting their role. Manoj Bajpai was awesome and the way Ranbir Kapoor turns into a shrewd manipulative politician was awesome. Story writer definitely needs applaud to make a modern political story which is so intertwined with Mahabharata. Ajay, Katrina, Arjun etc, everyone was superb.
5. Blue Oranges (Hindi) (7.5/10)
Surprise film. A very good thriller film with nice twists and turns. Performances by everyone was very good. It was good to see Rajat Kapur in form after a while. The film follows t he murder of a budding painter. Various members in the cast are introduced and their link to her with a very unexpected climax. Although climax reminded me a little bit of the recent film 'Right Yaa Wrong'. Its sad that no one probably has even heard that there is such a hindi film that came last year.
4. Vroom (Hindi) (2.5/10)
Reminded me of another hindi film 'Tarzan-The Wonder Car'. A scientist makes a chip that makes anything robotic. To save his life he puts that in a car which is purchased by our main characters. The film follows on how the young teenage kid using the car gets his love and fights evil. A very annoying negative cast characters.
3. It's Complicated (5/10)
Meryl Streep who is now divorced from Alec Baldwin starts having an affair with him after divorced for 10 years. In the meantime she also meets Steve martin, the architect working on her house. She is now confused in what's the best thing to do. Should she give a second chance to her ex or look for new real love. Decent movie but a very annoying Meryl Streep. All she did was kept laughing in the entire movie for no rhyme or reason.
2. The Great Indian Butterfly (Indian English) (4.5/10)
The film unlike its name was interesting primarily because of good cast in Sandhya Mridul and Aamir Bashir. They are a couple on a road trip to Goa. They have been dealing with work pressure which of course is affecting their private life. The film shows how unhappiness in life is mostly man made and if you try to, you can be very happy and content in what you have.
1. Dashavtar (Hindi Animation) (2.5/10)
An interesting concept when you are a kid to see various stories that show you 10 different avatars of Lord Vishnu. I knew all the stories, so they had not much novelty for me. Only if the animation quality was better, this would have made a great watch.
Wednesday, June 02, 2010
Number for May is 23
23. Robinhood (3/10)
Age old story of Robinhood done to death many times. I was actually very bored in the movie and did not find anything interesting. The film was so dark (literally), it just did not hold my attention.
22. Prince Of Persia (5/10)
I thought the movie was interesting, kept your attention intact in a lot of places and had a story to tell. What I am tired of is costume dramas with thin story line and its all about special effects. I am longing for some good cinema. Jake Gyllenhall was good but I did not think the main actress was beautiful to the extent she was made out to be.
21. Edge Of Darkness (2/10)
Mel Gibson meets his daughter after along time and then she is murdered right in front of him. He now has to find the reasons and the things he finds out are just shocking one after the other with a predictable ending. I personally could not connect to the film at all even with the characters. It was plain jane.
20. Law Abiding Citizen (6/10)
When Gerard Butler's family is murdered and the one of the killers does not die because he turned against the other one because of prosecutor Jamie Fox, his life is turned upside down. He takes 10 years to plan to take revenge with everyone involved in this using his brain and still doing everything within the law. Only Jamie Fox can stop the killing and finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead. This was definitely a very interesting film.
19. Kushti (Hindi) (0.5/10)
A very stupid film where kushti is a big deal and there are 2 rival parties. Rajpal Yadav falls in love with the girl of one of the rival camps and then he has to fight a kushti against the might Khalli to win his love. This one was plain simple stupid waste of time and money
18. Pankh (Hindi) (1/10)
Really bad film. It had an interesting concept of a other forcing her son to play girl roles as a baby and the boy then grows up to be a very confused man. What the heck was Bipasha doing in the film. It was absurd and stupid. The movie was really really bad. I did not know that Lilette Dubey could also overact.
17. The Japanese Wife (Bengali/English) (2/10)
Aparna Sen has made good meaningful films but what was this? Just a random film where 2 lovers across the two nations share a life, a marriage without even knowing or meetig each other. The entire film goes in letter exchanges and life moves on. This could be Japanese, Irish , Korean or anything for that matter. I want Aparna Sen of Mr and Mrs Iyer days
Age old story of Robinhood done to death many times. I was actually very bored in the movie and did not find anything interesting. The film was so dark (literally), it just did not hold my attention.
22. Prince Of Persia (5/10)
I thought the movie was interesting, kept your attention intact in a lot of places and had a story to tell. What I am tired of is costume dramas with thin story line and its all about special effects. I am longing for some good cinema. Jake Gyllenhall was good but I did not think the main actress was beautiful to the extent she was made out to be.
21. Edge Of Darkness (2/10)
Mel Gibson meets his daughter after along time and then she is murdered right in front of him. He now has to find the reasons and the things he finds out are just shocking one after the other with a predictable ending. I personally could not connect to the film at all even with the characters. It was plain jane.
20. Law Abiding Citizen (6/10)
When Gerard Butler's family is murdered and the one of the killers does not die because he turned against the other one because of prosecutor Jamie Fox, his life is turned upside down. He takes 10 years to plan to take revenge with everyone involved in this using his brain and still doing everything within the law. Only Jamie Fox can stop the killing and finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead. This was definitely a very interesting film.
19. Kushti (Hindi) (0.5/10)
A very stupid film where kushti is a big deal and there are 2 rival parties. Rajpal Yadav falls in love with the girl of one of the rival camps and then he has to fight a kushti against the might Khalli to win his love. This one was plain simple stupid waste of time and money
18. Pankh (Hindi) (1/10)
Really bad film. It had an interesting concept of a other forcing her son to play girl roles as a baby and the boy then grows up to be a very confused man. What the heck was Bipasha doing in the film. It was absurd and stupid. The movie was really really bad. I did not know that Lilette Dubey could also overact.
17. The Japanese Wife (Bengali/English) (2/10)
Aparna Sen has made good meaningful films but what was this? Just a random film where 2 lovers across the two nations share a life, a marriage without even knowing or meetig each other. The entire film goes in letter exchanges and life moves on. This could be Japanese, Irish , Korean or anything for that matter. I want Aparna Sen of Mr and Mrs Iyer days
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