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.

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