Sanam Bewafa

Sanam Bewafa is a Indian Bollywood film directed and produced by Saawan Kumar Tak, starring Salman Khan, Chandni, Pran and Danny Denzongpa. The film released on January 11, 1991.

Synopsis

The film is a story of two Pathan families who were at daggers drawn for many generations. Salman (Salman Khan) who is Sher Khan's (Danny Denzongpa) son falls in love with Rukhsar (Chandni), Fateh Khan's daughter. On knowing the truth, Fateh Khan finds his wrath too much to control. On the other hand, Sher Khan is extremely happy to know that his son is in love with his worst enemy's daughter and promises Salman that he will get him married to Rukhsar. The marriage is settled after great difficulties. On the marriage occasion Fateh Khan places an incredible demand in HAQUE-MEHER. Sher Khan is dumbfounded and shocked but gives in for his son's happiness. Hurt by the insult, Sher Khan retaliates by throwing Rukhsar out of the house next morning after paying the agreed HAQUE-MEHER. On seeing Rukhsar back, her people are numbed with shock. This leads to conflicts between the two families resulting in loss of life on both sides, but Sher Khan and Fateh Khan remain adamant, until they discover that Rukhsar is pregnant with Salman's child. The newborn finally leads to peace between the two.

Bhagam Bhag

Bhagam Bhag is a 2006 Bollywood film starring Akshay Kumar and Govinda. It is the first time the two are in a film together. The movie also stars Lara Dutta, Jackie Shroff, Arbaaz Khan and Paresh Rawal. It is directed by Priyadarshan. Shooting took place in Oxford, United Kingdom in July-August 2006, filming at several University of Oxford landmarks. It released on December 22, 2006.

Synopsis

A theatre group from India performs shows all over the country. After a show is performed, Champak Chaturved (Paresh Rawal) who created the group is offered a chance to go to London and perform a show. While he was being offered some hungama was going on that he did not know about. Babla (Govinda) and Bunty (Akshay Kumar) are hit on the heroine of the show that which causes the heroine to run away. When the news hits chaturved the ground is taken away from under his feet. The organizer that offered the chance wanted the show mainly because of the heroine. The organizer knows nothing about what is going, because he was kept in the shadows.

Krrish

Krrish is a 2006 Bollywood science fiction superhero film directed by Rakesh Roshan. Released on June 23, 2006, the film is a sequel to Koi... Mil Gaya. It is considered the first major superhero movie to be produced in Bollywood. The movie stars Rekha, Hrithik Roshan, Priyanka Chopra and Naseeruddin Shah. Preity Zinta makes a special appearance.

Plot

Rohit Mehra (Hrithik Roshan) and Nisha (Preity Zinta) are married and they have a child, Krishna (Hrithik Roshan). Rohit apparently dies in a lab accident in Singapore; Nisha dies during childbirth, shortly after hearing the news of her husband's death. The child, Krishna, grows up under the care of his grandmother Sonia (Rekha). As Krishna is growing up, Sonia discovers that he has inherited the superpowers that were transferred to his father by the alien Jadoo in the previous installment, Koi... Mil Gaya.

As the head of a large information company based in Singapore, Dr. Arya had hired Rohit to build an advanced computer that could see the future, telling Rohit that it will be used to avoid disasters and improve mankind. The brilliant Rohit takes just two years to invent the prescient computer. When he discovers with its help that Dr. Arya will betray him, using the knowledge granted him by the computer to empower himself instead, Rohit destroys the computer..

We discover in the beginning of the film that as a young child, Krishna is extremely intelligent and gifted; for example, he is able to draw beautiful portraits of his parents, grandmother, and animals, perform Herculean feats of strength, run at tremendous speed, communicate with non-human animals, and think with great clarity. He performs an IQ test, which helps the school principal realize his abilities, but his grandmother fears that the greedy may exploit him as they did his father, and so the two move far away into a remote village near some mountains. Krishna spends his childhood there, playing with other children and racing with animals. However, he soon grows frustrated as he sees that all those his age are moving away to the city to greater and grander things and he becomes upset at his grandmother for making him stay in the village.

Namastey London

Namastey London (Hindi: नमस्ते लंदन, Urdu: نمستے لندن Namaste Landan) is a Bollywood film directed by Vipul Amrutlal Shah and set in London, England, United Kingdom. Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif, Nina Wadia, Upen Patel and Rishi Kapoor star in the film which was released on 23 March 2007.

Synopsis

Jasmeet "Jazz" Malhotra (Katrina Kaif ) is an Indian girl, brought up lovingly by her father Manmohan Malhotra (Rishi Kapoor). Jazz loves everything that is British, she is even engaged to her British millionaire playboy boss,Charlie Brown (Clive Standen).something her father, a very Indian man with very Indian values, does not approve of. And he's not alone. Parvez Khan (Javed Sheikh), Manmohan's best friend, has a son, Imran Khan (Upen Patel), who also embraces Western culture. In fact, he lives with his British girlfriend, something Parvez simply cannot tolerate.

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Box office

Namastey London opened to a good response and mainly picked up rhythm after the second and third day of its release, a major reason being India's exit out of the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The film did extremely well in the northern parts of India especially in Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. It also did well in Mumbai and in the first week of its release collected Rs. 7,35,75,657. The film was received very well in other parts of the country. The success of the film ended a long spell of box office failures since the release of Guru in January 2007. The film went on to become a huge hit & grossed Rs. 48,37,00,000 making it one of the top hits of 2007.

The film was a huge hit overseas. It debuted at number 9 on the UK charts and similarly debuted within the top 20 in the United States and Australian charts. The film collected £ 238,841 in the first week of its release As of July 27, 2007 the movie has grossed an estimated $31,973,311 USD in five territories which included the United States ($4,149,772), Australia ($197,148), India ($17,267,662), Malaysia ($15,285), and the United Kingdom ($9,021,900).

Halla Bol

Halla Bol (English: Attack) is a Bollywood film released on January 11, 2008, and directed by Rajkumar Santoshi, who earlier directed The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002) and Khakee (2004). The film stars Ajay Devgan and Vidya Balan in pivotal roles and 11 celebrities as themselves in guest appearances.^[1] Produced by Samee Siddiqui, the film's score and soundtrack is composed by Sukhwinder Singh, whilst Nataraja Subramanian and Steven Bernard are the cinematographer and editor respectively.

The film has touched many issues that have come in public eye in India lately, like the Jessica Lall murder case, Aamir Khan's involvement with the Narmada Bachao Andolan, Right to Information Act and public participation in fighting corruption, and 'Jan Natya Manch', whose leader theatre activist, Safdar Hashmi was killed at the hands of political goons while performing a street play by the same name, Halla Bol! in 1989.

Synopsis

Ashfaque (Ajay Devgan) is a small town boy aspiring to be a film star in the Hindi film industry. He joins a street theatre group run by a reformed dacoit Sidhu (Pankaj Kapur) who uses street theatre as a medium to bring about an awakening in the masses. Ashfaque struggles to give a creative vent to the actor in him in order to realize his dreams.

Ashfaque's determined struggle pays off and he gets a break in films. He gets a new screen name - Sameer Khan. With the passage of time, the roles start becoming better and he moves up the success ladder in a very short time. Soon, he becomes Sameer Khan the superstar - one who can enact any role with finesse, get under the skin of any and every character with ease and walk away with audience applause.

Shootout at Lokhandwala

Shootout at Lokhandwala is a 2007 Hindi feature film directed by Apoorva Lakhia. It is based upon the real-life gunbattle between gangsters and Mumbai Police.

Additional Commissioner of Police (ACP) Aftab Ahmed Khan Head of the ATS attacked the Lokhandwala Complex on November 16, 1991 , with a force of around 100 armed Policemen. Dreaded gangster Maya Dolas was hiding in the complex. The leading protagonists in the film have slightly different names than their real-life counterparts and the film caption is "based on true rumours." The film was released on May 25, 2007.

Plot

The film opens with shots of brooms and dustpans cleaning dried blood and bullet casings in and around Swati building at Lokhandwala Complex[1]. TVN reporter Meeta Matu (Diya Mirza) reports that some 3000 rounds of ammunition were discharged by a large Police squad at a previously peaceful residential locality.

The film moves to the offices of former chief justice turned private prosecutor Dhingra (Amitabh Bachchan) where he interviews the three leading members of the Mumbai Police Encounter Squad , Assistant Commissioner of Police Shamsher Khan (referring to A A Khan, played by Sanjay Dutt), Inspector Kaviraj Patil (Sunil Shetty) and Sub-Inspector Javed Sheikh (Arbaaz Khan). The main film timeline is the extended interview of the three officers by Dhingra; as the officers answer Dhingra's questions, the film flashes back to show the incidents.

Dhingra asks about the Encounter Squad. Khan explains that he hand-picked 27 of Mumbai Police's best enlisted men and officers. He borrowed the concept from the LAPD SWAT Special Weapons And Tactics team to help combat crime in the city. The film flashes back to show Khan selecting his men and putting them through intensive physical and mental training to be "fast, efficient and deadly". Dhingra is hardly impressed: he points out that if Khan chooses to "shoot to kill" then Khan is no different from the gangsters he seeks to destroy.

Dhingra asks why Khan felt he had do this. Khan explains that following Operation Bluestar in 1984, several Sikh terrorists fled to Mumbai and began establishing a base in the city. They engaged in violence, extortion and other subversive tactics to grow their operations. The film flashes back to show Police Sub Inspector (PSI) Abhishek Mhatre (Abhishek Bachchan) , a very brave officer and disciple of Khan , pursuing and subsequently getting shot down by a group of Sikh terrorists. Khan is deeply frustrated when the Mumbai Police, mired in internal bureaucracy and corruption, fails to act. He obtains clearance from the police commissioner Krishnamurthy (played by the real A A Khan) and sets out after the militants. Khan asks Meeta Matu (Diya Mirza) to cover the incident so as to deter future terrorists. True to Khan's words, he successfully "encounters" (a practice mistakenly considered unique to Indian Police; it indicates summarily gunning down criminals; 'extra judicial killings' is the term accepted internationally) the terrorists who had shot PSI Mhatre. As per Aftab Ahmed Khan the encounter with Khalistani Extremist was more dangerous and tough than Shootout at Lokhandwala.

Omkara

Omkara (Hindi: ओंकार, Urdu: امکارا) is a 2006 Hindi film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. It starred Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor in lead roles, supported by Vivek Oberoi, Naseeruddin Shah and Konkona Sen Sharma with a ‘’special appearance’’ from Bipasha Basu. The director Vishal Bharadwaj himself composed the entire music for the film, including the background score, with song lyrics by Gulzar.

The film was showcased in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival along with a book on the making of Omkara. It was also selected to be screened at the Cairo International Film Festival .

It became part of a series of film interpretations of popular literary works by Bharadwaj, made after Maqbool based on Macbeth and Chatri Chor based on Ruskin Bond's The Blue Umbrella, though it should be noted that Omkara was released before Chatri Chor.

Plot

Omkara Shukla or Omi (Ajay Devgan) is a baahubali, a sort of political enforcer. He is the leader of a gang which carries out political crimes for the local politician Tiwari Bhaisaab (Naseeruddin Shah). Ishwar 'Langda' Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and Keshav 'Kesu Firangi' Upadhyay (Vivek Oberoi) are his closest lieutenants.

The movie starts with Langda Tyagi hijacking a baraat and sending Rajju (Deepak Dobriyal), the bridegroom to try and stop Omkara from abducting the bride Dolly Mishra (Kareena Kapoor). Rajju fails and the wedding never takes place.

Dolly’s father Advocate Ragunath Mishra (Kamal Tiwari), mostly referred in the movie as “vakeel saab” (lawyer sir), is furious and confronts Omi. He puts a gun to Omi’s head and demands the return of his daughter. Bhaisaab intervenes and resolves the conflict by mentioning the current political conditions and prevents bloodshed. Still unconvinced, Vakeel saab grieves to Bhaisaab the next day. To bring a final solution to this issue, Dolly is made to appear in front of her father and clarify that she eloped with Omi rather than being abducted forcefully. She also tells the events of how she fell in love with Omkara. The father leaves feeling betrayed and ashamed.

After some crafty political arm-twisting, involving a MMS sex scandal, Omkara eliminates a powerful electoral rival. Bhaisaab is elected for Parliament and Omkara is promoted from “bahubali” to the candidate for the upcoming state elections. Omkara appoints Kesu over Langda as his successor once he enters politics himself. Langda, disappointed with Omkara's poor judgment and jealous of Kesu, his younger, less-experienced, superior; hatches a plot to revenge both his offenders. He first causes a violent brawl between Kesu and Rajju (Deepak Dobriyal), Dolly’s original suitor by taking advantage of Kesu's low threshold for alcohol. Such irresponsible behaviour of Kesu infuriates Omi, who now starts becoming unsure about his own decision.

God Tussi Great Ho

God Tussi Great Ho is a 2008 Indian comedy film, written and directed by Rumi Jaffery and starring Salman Khan, Priyanka Chopra, Sohail Khan and Amitabh Bachchan in special appearance. It is a remake of the 2003 American film Bruce Almighty. The film was released on August 15, 2008

Story

Arun Prajapati (Salman Khan) has been trying to be a successful TV anchor, but success has always eluded him. He blames God (Amitabh Bachchan) for this lack of success. Arun is head over heels in love with Alia (Priyanka Chopra), who is a TV anchor and a well-known star working in the same channel, but he has never been able to express his love for her. When Rocky (Sohail Khan) is appointed as an anchor for the channel, Arun starts believing that Rocky will win Alia. Later, Arun is expelled from the channel. He has nobody to blame but God Himself, whom he later meets in person. An argument ensues between the two, at the end of which God then decides to give Arun the power over all things for ten days, wherein Arun may prove that he is a better operator of the universe. Arun then uses this power to put Rocky into an uneasy spot and win Alia's heart. After God scolds him for only making things better for himself, Arun starts listening to people's prayers. He later realizes that considering each person's wishes individually would be too time-consuming. Therefore, he grants everybody's wishes, including the wish of criminals to be free and the wish of Rocky that Alia marries him.

Awarapan

Awarapan (Hindi: आवारापन, Urdu: آوارہ پن) is a 2007 Indian film from the makers of one of the biggest musical hits, Woh Lamhe. The film is a remake of the 2005 Korean film A Bittersweet Life. It stars Emraan Hashmi, Shriya Saran and Mrinalini Sharma. Awarapan released in India on Jun 29, 2007. The movie was released under the banner of Vishesh Films. The movie was produced by Vishesh Films as well as a Pakistani production house and was directed by Indian director Mohit Suri. It can be said the movie was a first joint production between India and Pakistan.

The movie was given clearance for screening in Pakistan by the Pakistan Film Censor Board and was released on July 6, 2007.

Plot

Awarapan is the story of a man called Shivam (Emraan Hashmi) who searched for joy but found nothing but pain and loneliness. It is the journey of a godless heartbroken lover, an atheist and his fascination with religion, who in order to escape from the ghosts of his tragic past dedicates himself to serve his gangster boss Malik (Ashutosh Rana) who runs a chain of hotels in Hong Kong.

One day Malik asks Shivam to do an unusual job for him. He asks him to keep an eye on his young mistress Reema (Mrinalini Sharma) while he is away on a brief business trip. Reema is a young Pakistani girl who is a victim of human trafficking. Malik had ‘bought’ her in the flesh market in Bangkok.

The brief is clear: if Reema is found cheating behind Malik’s back, Shivam has to eliminate her. From the moment Shivam sets his eyes on Reema, his frozen past begins to raise its head. He is reminded of his lost love and how he had failed to save it from a catastrophe.

And then one night Shivam is shocked to discover that the innocent looking Reema has a secret boyfriend, whom she has tucked away and is planning to run away with. Does Shivam remain loyal to Malik and execute his orders, or does he take on his wrath by daring to go against him? Will Shivam find redemption and faith or will this Godless vagabond remain shackled to his faithless dead past are the questions which is the life blood of this haunting tale.

Bachna Ae Haseeno

Bachna Ae Haseeno (Hindi: बचना ऐ हसीनो, Urdu: بچنا اے حسینو) is a Bollywood film released on August 15, 2008. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba and Deepika Padukone. The film was directed by Siddharth Anand whose previous films include Salaam Namaste (2005) and Ta Ra Rum Pum (2007).

Plot

The film follows the journey of Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor) from the age of 18 to 30. He meets three girls at different stages of his life: Mahi (Minissha Lamba) - a small-town girl from Punjab, Radhika (Bipasha Basu) - a model from Mumbai and Gayatri (Deepika Padukone) - an NRI taxidriver from Australia. The film is about a boy who goes from one love affair to another, only to run into true love.

In 1996, Raj runs into Mahi on the Eurorail, during a Europe trip. However, Mahi misses her train and is stranded in Switzerland without any money. Raj finds her, consoles her and offers to help her reach the airport in time for her return flight. On the way, Mahi falls in love with Raj. They share a kiss after Raj reads her a poem he had written about his feelings for her. They have fun together and when Raj drops Mahi at the airport, Mahi opens the page on which Raj had written the poem, only to find it blank. Then she overhears him boasting to his friends about how he had a good time. She is shocked. But when Raj realizes that he has been caught, he is unable to decide what to do and simply leaves, leaving the crying Mahi behind.

It is 2002. Raj has since moved to Mumbai and found a job with Microsoft as a game designer. He is also in a live-in relationship with Radhika - a successful model. Soon Raj receives transfer orders to Sydney after his success with the Halo 3 launch (apparently developed primarily owing to his effort). He expects to be able to leave Radhika and move on to a new life. However, Radhika unexpectedly announces that she intends to sacrifice her career as a model, marry Raj and join him in Australia - much to Raj's dismay. After failing on several occasions to force her to break up, he stands her up on their wedding day and gets on a flight to Sydney.

It's 2007. Raj is now in midst of a successful career in Sydney. One day he runs into Gayatri, who drives taxi during the evenings and studies at a business school during the day. She also works in a super-market as the cashier. Raj befriends her and learns that, like him, she does not believe in the institution of marriage. However, he realizes that he is falling in love with her and finally proposes. But Gayatri turns him down and walks away. Raj is deeply hurt and remembers Mahi and Radhika. He decides to return to India to apologize to both of them for the hurt he has caused.

On his return, he first seeks out Mahi. She is now married and has two sons. He runs into her husband (played by Kunal Kapoor) who expresses his anger at first. He tells Raj that Preeti (Mahi's Sister) has told him everything but remains hurt to date. He also tell Raj how she continues to be the perfect housewife and mother of his children, but when it comes to love - she turns away and makes excuses. Raj decides to intervene and finally apologizes to Mahi. He also makes her realize how much her husband loves her. She forgives Raj and expresses her love for her husband.

Having received closure with Mahi, Raj now seeks out Radhika. He finally finds her only to realize that she has now changed her name to Shreya Rathod and has become a Super model. After much effort, he manages to meet her and offers his apologies. Shreya refuses to accept his apologies and tells him that he needs to work hard in order to earn it. To do this she offers him the job of an assistant. Once Raj starts his job, Shreya drives him hard making him do all sorts of tasks - from cleaning to serving at parties. She tries to humiliate him at every possible occasion. But Raj remains firm on his resolve and continues to serve without complaint. Finally she gives up and tells him how hurt she felt sitting alone outside the registrars office. She refuses to accept his apologies, forcing Raj to give up and return home. But while waiting for his flight, Shreya catches up with him and tells him how she has realized that the root of her frustrations was all the bottled up hate against Raj. So in an effort to gain closure, she has thought over her decision again and has decided to grant Raj a full pardon. Raj is thrilled and returns to Australia.

On his return, Raj finds several letters from Gayatri. While he has been away, Gayatri has had second thoughts and has regretted having turned down Raj. The film ends with Raj seeking her out and unites with Gayatri.

Partner

Partner is a Bollywood version of the hollywood movie Hitch, starring Salman Khan and Govinda. Salman is paired with Lara Dutta and Govinda with Katrina Kaif.

Synopsis

Prem (Salman Khan) is a Love Guru who solves the love issues of his clients. He meets Bhaskar Diwakar Chaudhary (Govinda) who comes to Prem for help in his love life. Bhaskar loves his boss Priya Jaisingh (Katrina Kaif) but is unable to express his love to her as she is the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Prem initially refuses to help Bhaskar and goes to Phuket, Thailand. Bhaskar follows him there and convinces him to help him.

After coming back from Thailand, Prem meets Naina (Lara Dutta) a photo journalist who was running from some gangsters led by Chhota Don, (who mimicks Shah Rukh Khan in Don (Rajpal Yadav)), Prem saves her and falls in love with her. Meanwhile he starts teaching Bhaskar how to impress Priya. But Bhaskar uses his own simplicity and non-sense acts to impress Priya. Priya finally falls in love with Bhaskar but does not disclose it to him.

Prem comes to know from Bhaskar that Priya is getting married to someone according to her father's will. They both come to Priya's wedding ceremony with Naina and Priya's father is convinced by Bhaskar's acts. Priya now gets ready to marry Bhaskar.

Meanwhile a spoiled brat named Neel comes to Prem for love help and he asks Prem to convince a girl for a one night stand. Prem gets angry with Neel and tells him that he does not help people with such bad intentions. Neel somehow manages to get his one night stand and then ditches her, telling her the love guru gave him advice to do so. Unfortunately the girl turns out to be a friend of Naina's. Naina then sets out to expose the Love Guru and finds out it's Prem. Naina hates Prem for what she thought he did to her friend and publishs a front page article claiming that Prem can set anyone up with the girl they want using the Priya/Bhaskar relationship as an example.

Prem thinks that Bhaskar may commit suicide without Priya and goes to her to tell her what really happened. Priya realizes that all the things she liked about Bhaskar are what Prem wanted Bhaskar to hide from her and Priya is ready to take Bhaskar back. Prem makes up with Naina by making her hear the truth about him not helping Neel and they get back together. On both couple's honeymoon night Bhaskar again asks Prem for help but this time they both get mingled with their respective wives. In 2008, the director of the film David Dhawan announced that due to the overwhelming response to the film, a sequel to the film will be produced, ready for release in summer of 2008 the film is to either be entitled Tom and Jerry or Partner 2

Race-Betrayal, Greed and Revenge

movie raceRace directed by thriller king Abbas-Mustan is a fast paced action thriller. Abbas-Mustan are known for films like Khiladi (Akshay Kumar), Baazigar (Shahrukh Khan), Humrazz (Akshaye Khanna). In Race they are back with a powerful star cast - Anil Kapoor, Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Bipasha Basu, Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy. In this movie Abbas-Mustan attempted to include full masala like glamour, mind blowing set and cinematography, gorgeous cast breath taking numbers. The fast cars, horse racing and the exotic location of South Africa add value to the film.

The Story

Race is a slick but a complicated thriller in which everyone in the film double crosses the others. It is a film about two step brothers Ranvir Sing(Saif) and alcoholic younger brother Rajeev Sing (Akshaye). These two brothers compete against each other since childhood. Ranvir is always hungry for the success. On the other hand Rajeev is laidback and loves wine more than the family horses. Their life revolves around horse racing from owning a stud firm in Durban South Africa to betting huge amount money on them. movie raceEach one (Brothers) have an insurance policy of $100 million to their name. Sonia (Bipasha), a beautiful upcoming ramp model is Ranvir's lady. Sofia (Katrina) plays Ranvir's Private Secretary. She has a crush on Ranvir but never reciprocate it.

The climax has started when Rajeev falls for Sonia and married her. But evil plans are taking shape in the minds of the protagonist one of the two brothers will die and the other will inherit the huge amount of insurance claim. The murder takes place. Detective Robert D'Costa (Anil Kapoor) and his foolish secretary Mini (Sameera Reddy) try to solve the murder. But the story has not ended. The another brother who is alive hold of the money. Directors Abbas-Mustan throws on a couple of more twist.

Performances

Nowadays Saif is playing many experimental role like Omkara and earlier Dil Chahta Hai and Ek Hasina Thi. In this movie he played very powerful performances. In some action sequence he perform creditably and beared looked made him stunning.

Akshaye Khanna stands out for his role. He is superb.

Bipasha Basu is as glamorous as ever and played her role to her limited best but some action scene she was really praiseworthy.

Katrina Kaif looks beautifumovie racel but did not do much except for looking good.

Anil Kapoor provides much required comic relief in the second half of the movie.He played his part well.

Sameera Reddy was dumb and poorly performed.

Johny Lever was there only for one sequence but he was quite spontaneous with his joke. He required more presence.

Directors

Directors Abbas-Mustan deserves credit for their execution. This time Abbas-Mustan has done number of experiments with the mystery, suspense just to hold the audience attention throughout the movie and they succeed. But Race seems to be way too complicated although the attempt made by them was sincere.

Others

Two more driving elements in the film that is the Pritam's music which is loud, rocking and suit the mood of the film and very well picturized especiamovie racelly Atif Aslam's "Pehli Nazar Mein". The background music is also thrilling. Another element is stunt sequences directed by Allan Amin, which really matches the title of the movie especially Saif's fall, car racing etc. He is just terrific. Writer Shiraz Ahmed's screenplay has several moments that prove his merit. The best part is, the writing is full of liveliness and surprises. One of the hall marks is that every character is out to double cross the other, each character has grey shades and the dangerous games they treat in make it an exciting cinematic experience. Ravi Yadav's cinematography is top-quality. The dazzling locales of Durban, Dubai and Mumbai are captured audience attention. Camera Work is stunning specially the car chase in the climax (never seen before on the Hindi Screen). Dialogues (Anuraag Prapanna, Jitendra Parmar) are superb. Choreography (Bosco-Caesar and Ganesh Acharya) has international aroma. Styling (Anaita Shorff Adajani) is smart and sexy; she was also the costume designer of Dhoom-2

Race Verdict

Very twisted story plot. There is a ups and downs in every twenty minutes made the movie complicated. It is impossible to guess what the culmination would be. It would be much better if Abbas-Mustan concentrate on more simplicity like previous block buster - Baazigar rather than complicacy. But they have proved that they are the master of the thriller movie. After the blockbuster of Khiladi and Bazzigar, Race might just add to their list of hits.

Overall race is seems to be misled but fast moving complicated thriller entertainer.

Jodha Akbar

Jodha Akbar (A Tale of eternal love )

Jodha Akbar directed by Ashutosh Gowarikar the man behind the Oscar nominated Lagaan. It is a historical love story featuring superstars Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, who played the movie as Akbar and Jodha. Jodha Akbar is a marvelously spiced-up slice of history. Or just savor the chemistry between the warrior and the princess with hundreds of junior artist, elephants, rabbit and parrots by the couple's journey from secularism to eternity. The best part of the movie is that it blends the love story perfectly with in the war ridden backdrop.

Historical Accuracy

Over the last few weeks, media have been busy with debate over the relationship between Jodha and Akbar. Certain Rajput groups claimed Jodha was married Akbar's son Jahangir, not Akbar. Of course Ashutosh Gowarikar has admitted that, about 60% of the movie is based on his imagination. While making the movie he did his best to go by the book and consulted with best historians and went through meticulous research. Infect there is a disclaims about the Rajput queen's name at the beginning of the film.

Theme

Jodha Akbar is a sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliances that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar and a Rajput princes Jodhaa. Jodha (Aishwariya) daughter of King Bharmal of Amer (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), is married Akbar (Hrithik) just for the political reason. Akbar married her just for the sake of better relationship with Rajputani alliance. It is not the marriage between the King and the Queen, but was marriage between two cultures. At the wedding night Jodha declines to give conjugal rights to him until she finds herself attach to him and Akbar's biggest challenge now did not merely lie in winning battles but in winning the love of this insolent princess.

Performances

Hrithik played Akbar with effortless ease and totally gets into the character. A mind blowing performance without doubt. In some sequences Hrithik was superb like the sword fight in the climax and tempted a wild elephant.

Aishwarya Rai was equally amazing. In some sequence she did very well like the sword fight with Hrithik. Just say only one complement a flow less performance by both star. Beside this, Sonu Sood did complete justice to his role and Ila Arun did her level best. Nikitin Dheer was fantastic and Kulbhushan Kharbanda was perfect.

The Man behind the Camera

Ashutosh Gowarikar has to be congratulated for making a film with such confidence and executing his story on such a grand platform. The sequence of events, the drama, the romance and the war presented on the screen superbly. Though it is a long historical movie (3.20 hours). But Ashutosh Gowarikar presented it in a simple manner. The appearance of Jodha Akbar love was really impressive and he made the legendary characters come alive on screen.

Other phenomenon

A.R. Rahman's music is breath taking. It matches beautifully with the mood of the film. Especially Azeem-o-Shahenshah and romantic song Jashn-e-bahara tunes were fabulous. There is no room for monotonous in Haider Ali and Gowariker's screenplay. The writing is tight, the drama keeps the audience interest and tracks are mind blowing. K.P Saxena's dialogues were astonishing. The war and action scenes were an integral part of the entire drama. Action Director Ravi Dewan's contribution was unbelievable whether it was war sequence or sword fights. Costumes are designed by the top designer in India. Neeta Lulla who was design the Aishwarya Rai's real wedding dress also the costume and jewelry designer of this movie and deserve special mention. Cinematography by Kiran Deohans' matches international standard. The movement of Camera specially in the battlefield portrayed wonderfully.

Another hallmark of this movie is the language used. Both Urdu and Hindi are used nicely especially in the political sequences.

Taare Zameen Par

Star Comes Down to the Ground is a heart touching film prudently made for people of all walks of lives. The movie gained harmony of heart by connecting each and every body of a family. I am confident, the film must be achieved commercial success as well as it will receive enormous praise. Definitely, Amir Khan with his debut gains massive scores as a genius director.

Famous actor Amir, is not the star in the movie, delight and cheerful eight years old Darsheel Safary, who loves colours, fish, shiny things, dogs, spaceships and kites and plays the vital role of Ishaan Awasti, is the glorious star of the film.

Ishaan, a deprived minor, who sees a different world, always getting into fights and always faring badly in school, while his elder brother is a bright student, Ishaan has spent two years in the third standard.

As a punishment, the frustrated father packs him off to a boarding school where he continuously struggling with studies along with heart rendering separation. Unable to deal with the running situation, Ishaan goes into a shell at his new school, not only failing to show any improvement in his academics, but also no longer inspired to paint. The truth came to the light when a teacher identifies him as a dyslexic. Ishaan as a dyslexic has a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognise and comprehend written words. But his internal world is rich with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate, magical lands filled with color and animated animals.

The situation turned turtle when a new temporary art teacher Ram Shankar Nikumbh (Amir Khan) joins the and becomes popular among the students. He begins to notice that Ishaan is unhappy and a non-contributor to activities in the class and begins to review Ishaan's past work and discovers that all of his ‘failures' are actually reflects dyslexia.

The teacher visits Ishaan's parents and asks to review more of his work during his day off. He is also stunned by the sophistication of Ishaan's paintings. Nikumbh tells Ishaan's parents that Ishaan is a bright child who processes information differently than the other children in class. He describes dyslexia to them and clarifies that this is a neurological condition which is not a sign of low intelligence. He also tells them he can provide extra tutoring which will help Ishaan succeed.To support this argument, Nikumbh highlights Ishaan's artistic ability as demonstrated by his many paintings and creative works-of-art.

But his parents dint agreed with him and rebuke for his interest.

After returns to the school, Nikumbh brings up the topic of dyslexia one day in class and offers a list of famous people who are considered dyslexic: Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Walt Disney, Agatha Christie, Thomas Edison, Pablo Picasso, and actor Abhishek Bachchan. As the students are leaving the classroom Nikumbh asks Ishaan to stay back.

Afterwards, Nikumbh reveals that he has experienced the same difficulties with dyslexia.

Next, Nikumbh conveys the same information to the principal of the school and asks if he can act as a tutor for Ishaan. After gaining the Principal's assent, Nikumbh takes it upon himself to develop and improve Ishaan's reading and writing abilities.

Nikumbh then proceeds to teach Ishaan using remedial techniques developed by specialists in the area of dyslexia. Ishaan soon develops interest in language and mathematical skills and his grades improve.

Soon after, the teacher organises an art competition for staffs and students.Ishaan, with his strikingly creative style is declared the winner, while his teacher, Nikumbh (who paints Ishaan's portrait) is declared the runner up.

The parents become, speechless to see the changes of Ishaan as he has improved in all of his subjects and has a commendable grade in painting. His father breaks int tears upon seeing this change and realizes his past mistakes. Before leaving for the holidays, Ishaan runs to hug his teacher who jubilantly tosses him in the air.

Darsheel Safary, for an eight-year-old gives off an excellent performance worthy of a standing ovation. This is one bright lad who has understood the character very well. Everything about Ishaan is perfect, from his body language, to the way he delivers his dialogues to the expression in his eyes which shouts for help.

Amir brings a turn-a-round in Ishaan giving an example of Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Thomas Alva Edision, all great men, who suffered from the same malaise, the way is heartening.

The scene where Amir visits Ishaan's house and forces his father Nandakishore Awasti (Vipin Sharma) to read letters written in Chinese on a toy box, ridiculing him when he can't, is a clincher! Also, when the father visits his boy in school and sees the improvement and learns that he is at fault is gripping. He runs away as he can't face his child. The scene where Ishaan wins the drawing competition and where he reluctantly comes ahead to receive his prize in front of the whole school will leave you moist-eyed.

The background score and music by Shankar Eshan Loy and Shailendra Barve is excellent. The lyrics, which go, "Aap ko malum hai na Maa...." is heart-rendering.

The bonding between Yohan Awasti (Sachet Engineer) with his younger brother has been captured well by the director he also extracted excellent performances from these two kids showing friendship between Ishaan and Rajan Damodaran (Tanay Chheda). Tisca Chopra as Ishaan's mother is a revelation, so also is Vipin Sharma. He portrays the behaviour every working father wears on his sleeve.

All the parents who are always in competition looking for a winner should aware seeing the film and all teachers should teach their students just a funny way.

Taare Zameen Par is not just a movie it is a fabulous creation of a creator to opening our eyesight regarding the children.

Jannat

Jannat is the film that shows a man taking up shortcuts of evil means to get his "Jannat" (heaven) on the earth. The theme of the movie is clear-- there is only entry into the crimes, but no exit. The film is made in the line of gambling and match-fixing while the prime theme of the film is love.

Emran Hashmi and Mukesh Bhatt combination always demonstrated the darker episode of life in their movies. All the previous movies (Murder, Gangster and others) had a negative touch. In Jannat except the name itself the movie holds the like subjects.

Produced by Vishesh Films, ‘Jannat' was the debut of Kunal Deshmukh as director and also Vishesh Bhatt as a screenplay writer in the movie. The heroine Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) also marks her debut through the movie. Arjun (Emraan Hashmi) and Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) are the two central characters of the movie where Arjun is highly ambitious in life to make huge money as well as wining the heart of his love, Zoya.

Story synopsis

Ambitious Arjun is reluctant to make money through hard labour. He always aims big and for the time being makes his living paying card. Life goes on like that way until he meets the cute Zoya (Sonal Chauhan) through a chance accident at a shopping mall. Since then his lone aim is to be rich at any cost to come out of his ordinary life. Soon he steps up into the world of match-fixing shifting to his base to South Africa and subsequently became a bookie.

By dint of his sharp intelligence Arjun could bet on the best and earns easy money through his illegal means. At the same time he becomes associated to a bookie mafia led by don Abu who heads a criminal group based in South Africa. However, his quick growth in the betting world attracts the attention of the police. But Arjun always escapes getting caught despite doing unlawful things.

On the other hand Zoya is confident that she got a right person for herself whereas her father smells Arjun to be into a wrong business. One day Zoya also figures out that Arjun is into the wrong world and efforts to assist Arjun out of the underworld with the help of ACP Malhotra. After being imprisoned, he decides to give up his bad ways and work hard to keep his love.At that time, the underworld don (Javed Sheikh) offers Arjun with unlimited money and Arjun gets confused to choose between the two---the love of his life and his newly got success and power. The story goes on with the revealing climax and ends up ruin of Arjun.

Presentation

The performance of Emraan Hashmi is amazing. Instead of being a lusty playboy like his all other movies Emran appears as an actor in the movie. Debutant Sonal Chauhan also did well. Sonal Chauhan showed some trouble at the beginning but later on she performed well. Javed Sheikh came up with a stunner and Sameer Kochhar did his role with perfection.

Jawed Sheikh is luminous. This is his finest work so far. Samir Kochar is outstanding. Vishal Malhotra is first-rate. Shakeel Khan does very well. Abhimanyu Singh is talented. Vipin Sharma leaves a mark in a brief role. The others were above average.

Manoj Soni's cinematography is well. The screenplay and costume department look good. Sanjay Masoom's dialogues are good. A few dialogues in fact, are refreshing to the ears. Background score [Raju Singh] deserves top marks.

Direction & script

Both debutants-- the director and the script writer-- have shown outstanding potential with the story idea of Jannat. The movie highlights more on the love with the cricket. Although the first half appears in a slow mode but things gets momentum just before intermission and the second half goes on with full of climax.

The debutant director's bold attempt at a new subject was seen in the presentation and the clearness was visible in the narration. Some background score coupled with some really luminous camerawork has backed him a lot in the movie. The editing and the script were also good.

Music

Pritam is the music composer of the Mukesh Bhatt movie Jannat. The lyrics of the songs have been written by Sayeed Quadri. ‘Zara Sa' -KK sings this lovely romantic song. This one successfully marks a good start for the album Jannat. ‘Zara Sa' (Club Mix) is fast and brilliant in KK voice.

Based on 80's hit Kamran Ahmed has written the lyrics for the song ‘Judai' and he also gave his voice with Richa Sharma. The difference comes with the new beats in the Judai. ‘Judai' ‘Kilogram Mix'- gets heavy in beats. Richa Sharma solely sings the song ‘Lambi Judai' faultlessly. ‘Haan Tu' with tabla beats and Pakistani sufi pop kind is good to listen. Rana Mazumdar sings the good fresh love song ‘Door Naa Ja'. The title song ‘Jannat Jahan' is a rock song by Rupam Islam and lyrics by Neelesh Mishra. The energy in the song is stormy and the rocks go well with the theme song. Overall the music of Jannat under the composition of Pritam is great!

Final remarks

The movie is overall good and enjoyable. The betting world is shown well. The movie rightly conveyed the message that the money involved in the real world is way beyond the imagination. It works fine but sometimes gets impractical. After all it is a good movie which takes up a different subject and gives it a due treatment.

Lastly, music of Jannat is awesome!

Sarkar Raj

Renowned Indian film director Ram Gopal Varma retrieved his glorious kingdom of talent, creativity and achievements giving the taste of true Indian Cinema through his recent movie Sarkar Raj. Starring indian film icons Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, the film was premiered at International Indian Film Awards (IIFA) 2008 in Bangkok on June, 6, creating a global audience.

Sarkar Raj is based on a strong political performance of treachery, revenge, passion, courage, love or relationships and is to all intents and purposes a study of power; it explores the politics of development and takes a fresh look at the tradition versus modernity dispute.

Legend actor Amitabh played the vital role as (Shubash Sarkar Nagre) in the first half of the movie while his son Abhishek attracted the audience performing his brilliant performance rest of the time.

The story of the movie revealed that Anita Ranjan (Aishwarya Rai) Chief Executive Officer of the International Company, Sheppard Power Plant proposes a power plant project, which is to be setup in rural Maharastra at a land owned by Sarkar.

Sarkar disapproves the projects as the land chosen is home to over 40,000 villagers, including the residence of Sarkar's mentor Rao Saab. Shankar Nagre (Abhishek Bachchan) son of Sarkar Nagre is quick to realise all the benefits the power plant can bring to the people of Maharastra and to the growth of the state.

After convincing his father Sarkar and asking Rao Saab, Anita and Shanker get sanctioned for the project. Shankar undertakes a journey along with Anita to the villages of Maharashtra to mobilize support from the villagers.

The dream however, faded as things are not what they seem to be and Shankar's dream project gradually becomes a political minefield and transforms into a political battle field of power and corruption.

Sarkar's enemies, two political leaders, Hassan Qazi and deputy Chief Minister Kanga, who make plans to get rid of Sarkar through power plant gang up to bring down the Sarkar legacy and displace Shankar. He has taken power over inherited.

A political character Sanjay Somji who matches real life Raj Thackeray (...in looks) is expert at provoking villagers against the project and one day the political rivalry leads to explosion in Shankar's car leaving his kid expecting wife kill.

Repeated disfavour incidents causing a heart attack of Sarkar and he admit to a hospital where he has meeting with the newsmen.

On the other hand, Anita falls in love with already married Shankar and she later faces Shankar's wife over the accusation of her alleged relation with Shankar.

Varma again proves his eligibility sketching a true political drama of India. The movie is blown up with excellent performance by legend Amitabh Bachchan, expectedly, comes up with a terrific performance. The super star as ferocious as a wounded tiger in the climax and takes the film to towering stage.

His son Abhishek Bachchan is cast opposite the finest actor of this country, yet he sparkles in every sequence as the father and son go neck to neck as far as acting honours go.

Aishwarya is fabulous and delivers her career-best performance spreading her looks, but not much space has been devoted to her performances. But she got better day by day.

The other sidekicks and usual henchmen Dilip Prabhawalkar, Govind Namdev, Sayaji Shinde, Ravi Kale, Supriya Pathak and Tanisha in the story add a degree of realism, comedy and depth to the movie which makes it an attention-grabbing creation of the creator.

The actor enacting the role of Dilip Prabhawalkar's grandson makes a tremendous impact.

The background sounds ‘Govinda ...Govinda' in the film definitely inspiration of arts. Time to time many twists and turns the story gets to the climax enlightening the actual plot behind all the performance.

The screenplay by Prashant Pandey's is appealing; background by Amar Mohile's is brilliant; Amit Roy's cinematography is outstanding and remarkable.

Sarkar Raj has been mostly shot in Indian village based of locations. The close-up shots, in abundance throughout the movie, have been captured and performed well. The editing is crisp and luminous. Allan Amin, as action director in minimal doses, is perfect. Music is average and acceptable.

In conclusion, the audience, who were disappointed enjoying the last attempt of Ram Gopal Varma, will regain their confidence on him as he has tried his best to make up with his mistakes in previous films and done justice to a sequel of a good movie Sarkar Raj.

Banner: K Sera Sera, Adlabs Films Ltd
Producer: Ram Gopal Varma, Praveen Nischol
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Casting: Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Govind Namdeo, Tanisha Mukherjee
Music: Bappi-Tutul
Cinematography: Amit Roy
Action: Allan Amin
Art: Sunil Nigvekar
Sound: Debasish Mishra
Story: Prashant Pandey

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Jaane Tu...ya jaane na

Jaane Tu...ya janee na by Abbas Tyrewala, like most of the films of Bollywood, is about love. It has no grand cast, great production standards or extraordinary storyline otherwise the humor, which makes it a fresh entertainer. Jai (Imran Khan) and Aditi (Genelia) are two amongst a group of college friends, who loves each other but don't have the insight or maturity to accept it.

They are especially close, to the extent that, everyone (friends of course, including their parents also) believes they were a couple. While Jai is fairly the most peaceful person, Aditi is somewhat violent and extremely passionate. Their affection and understanding, and overall their complimentary nature makes everyone consider them perfect for both, but the pair don't feel that way. So w hen will they know its love?

After their graduation, Aditi's parents call Jai home to confer about their marriage. To their utmost astonishment and annoyance, both of them reject this notion of their relationship. In terms of her life mate, Aditi prefers a macho man, who will jump into fights to defend her from any insult. Eventually Jai finds a girl (Meghna) at a club and saving her from two abusers by amusingly fooling them rather than fighting, makes him way to be closer. As Jai and Meghna begin dating, Aditi finds herself missing Jai's company all the time more, yet tries to ignore her hidden feelings for him. In due course, Aditi starts meeting a family friend, Sushant, who completely fits her conception of perfect man. Aditi's declaration of her engagement makes Jai overcome with jealousy, showing clearly to both of Jai and Meghna his real feelings for Aditi. Consequently they broke -up and in the meantime Aditi also realizes the danger of having a quick-tempered strong man. And its by now they knew that it was love.

Aditi's confession to Sushant makes their relationship also to come to an end, with Sushant's aggressive attack. Finding nothing to stay for, Aditi was leaving for US to pursue a film-making course. And on average to Bollywood tradition, things comes to its wild turn-Jai hits Sushant for striking Aditi, goes to jail, there his newly discovered royal cousins helps to come out and make way to the airport and perceivably, very dramatically he stops Aditi declaring his feelings. Beginning and ending as well at the airport, this film is tremendously simple and uncomplicated and dearly loved by its target audience-the youth.

Music review

The music composed by A. R. Rahman, is one of the remarkably good things of this film. It reflects the essence/spirit of the film-youthful, refreshing and very simple. The two tracts - "kabhi kabhi Aditi" and "Pappu can't dance" become immediate hits for its brilliant lyrics, outstanding composition and most importantly, as it speaks the language of youth.

The Performances/characters

What really works for Jaane Tu...ya janee na is many well-fixed characters, including the supporting ones, performed luminously by the actors. Coming to performances, Imran Khan's boyish appeal is perhaps genetics and part guidance, as he reminds a lot of his uncle but have an impact of his individuality as well. He is very well as a first-timer with his restrained performances and screen presence. Genelia adds novelty to the film with her freshness in look and spontaneity in expressions. But at times, you will really desire she may have delivered better. Jai's mother Savitri (played by Ratna Pathak Shah) and Nasseruddin Shah as his father, conversing from a portrait, is simply marvelous. Personally, I appreciate the performance of Pratiek Babbar in a rather unconventional role; he was very natural as Aditi's complex but talented brother. Paresh Rawal, as usual is wonderful in his short comic role. Only Arbaaz Khan and Sohail Khan are annoying, mainly because they hardly have a role to play. Overall, the director for his debut was fairly well.

Humor

With everything traditional and simple, the film is basically saved by its comic elements and music. It may be said that if you cut it off from its humor, you will part it from its soul as well. Hilarious scenes abounds in the first half-like, Aditi's parents discussions with Jai on their engagement, the delightful arguments between Jai's mother and his dead father, Jai's fooling Meghna's abusers; leaves you laughing or smile at least. The characters though comically inflated, are believable anyway.

Though most of the portion of Jaane Tu...ya jaane na have been executed by the director brilliantly, but there lies a kind of inconstancy and lengthiness, especially in the second half of the film. And the first 20min is irritating with very unprofessional acting and erratic editing. Again, the climax, the movie would have ended somewhat differently than in an airport, as we are seeing such filmy endings film after film.

Despite all the shortcomings, the treatment of the subject makes this film different, as it is fresh and creative. On the whole, it is enormously enjoyable and a lofty amusement. The viewers revive their past cheerful college time, when friends were the be-all and end-all of life. Already a Box Office hit, this film is a great success of the year.

Singh is King

Even the rhythm in the title - sing(h) is king - gives the impression that it won't be taxing your grey matter to take a laughter-spree ride. Singh is King is a typical bolly-comic film stuffed purely with guffaw and entertainment. The director Anees Bazmee has hit the box office for years with laughter-laden movies like No Entry and Welcome and his latest immensely-mass-catering product tells just the same tale. Built on a bucolic Punjabi milieu and characters the movie moves through some gorgeous locales of the Farao land, Egypt and the awesome Australia. But the life-line of Singh is Kinnge keeps going on its silly-comic plot as well as a string of side-splitting scenes and dialogues. In addition, a pack of super-suit dramatis persona keeps hold of the laughter-line at its best and makes this light movie worth heavy compliment.

The storyline - fun takes the entire room

Singh is King is about Happy Singh (Akshay Kumar), a young Punjabi benevolent whose magnanimity acts upon the villagers on the other way round all the time ......things always go bad to worse when Happy lends a helping hand! Sick of Happy's generosity the villagers desperately plan to send him on a long tour to give peace a chance in the village.....at least for some time. They cajole him to bring back Lucky Singh (Sonu Sood), a Punjabi underworld Don in Australia whose villainy was foiling their image there; and Lucky's parents were also not being able to live without him. Happy Singh heartily moves ahead with his best pal Rangeela (Om Puri) and, by mistake, reaches Egypt in place of Australia.

As interesting as the mistake, Happy meets Sonia (Katrina Kaif) here in Egypt in falls in love straight away. Next, when Happy and Rangeela reaches Australia they are penniless and so starve for days before Happy Happen upon Rose Lady (Kirron Kher) who gives them food and lodging. Survived, Happy now marches on his enterprise to find Lucky. When Happy locates Lucky, he is found to be out of order from an attack by other gang and cannot speak a word. This leading to a series of uncertainty and dispute finally crowns Happy Singh as the King (or King?) of the dangerous underworld gang. In Australia as well the Don Happy Singh makes his way through a lot of comical errors and misadventures. But, the twist of the climax comes when Sonia returns to Australia with the boyfriend (Ranvir Shorey) ...... and to add more, she turns out to be Rose Lady's daughter. The rest of the film brings hoard of fun from the triangular love routine and the spices of bolly-movies.

The impressive cast gives reason for the applaud

Now, as far as the performance of the artistes is concerned, everyone comes up to the expectation. Akshay Kumar poured his heart and soul into the character of Happy Singh to put it at the heart of the movie. All the way through the film, Akshay rocked the silver screen with his comic acting and you'd find no saturation point in his energy and timing throughout the movie. Katrina looks gorgeously pretty in those breathtaking dresses and her vibrant smile finds a lovely effect on the audience. She dubs her own lines as well in this movie and as these were in English in most of the scenes, they are pretty lucid on the ears. About Om Puri and Kirran Kher....as usually, prodigious....particularly Om Puri as Akshay's reluctant tour-mate. Neha Dhupia looks hot and makes the audience feel her presence in some of the best scenes. Both Sonu Sood and Ranvir Shorey show their sign of improvement. And last (but never the least) all the spotlights of Singh is King go over the splendid Javed Jaffery, especially in the pre-climax of the movie. But among all, it's an Akshay Kumar film and........Akshay rocks in Singh is King!

Its music - adds cream to the laughter cake

The music and the cinematography of Singh is Kinnge are of first-rate. Pritam has already carved his niche among the audience of Bollywood and in this film satisfies his fans fully. The title track, Bhootni ke, Jee Karda are the real good ones and Teri ore goes soothing. And the superlative camera work by Sanjay Gupta and Ben Nott is worth a big compliment.

The little loopholes

Once the audience gets into the laughter-ride of Singh is Kinnge, they wouldn't usually look for any loopholes (there isn't any serious ones, in fact!).....yet, a better carved second half would leave the critics grudge-free. Besides, people really would love to watch more of the superb comic-chemistry of Happy and Tony. The climax and the denouement seem to be a bit abruptly put up. And, at times, the pure Punjabi dialogues were little less than intelligible as well.

The producer Vipul Amruthlal has spent over RPS 50 million solely on the promotion of the film. With huge investment, big casts, beautifully picturised songs, young & attractive Akshay-kat and most of all...with great hilarity.......Singh is King lives up to its pricey hype. The much-looked-for Singh is King is sure to cut a big notch in the box office.

Drona

Drona is one of the most awaited fantasy action adventure film starring Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Jaya Bachchan, and Kay Kay Menon. Drona has been described as a Harry Potter meets Indiana Jones movie, but with an original story.

Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy

(2008) - Abhishek Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra

Drona is the compelling modern tale of one man's spectacular voyage through the labyrinths of mystic myths and legendary legacies. As good and evil clash in this contemporary fantasy fable, a breathtaking journey beckons you into a world of mythic heroes and malicious magicians, of cunning curses and absolute innocence.

A world, where spells can turn live-flesh to cold stone. A world, whose whispers lay closely guarded in a land of mirages. A world thriving with thrills, a world of mystical magic, a world where adrenalin bursts out into a riot of colours. A world of audacious adventures, a world of fantastical folklores.

Drona is a slick, twenty first century tale that travels across continents but is profoundly and proudly Indian.

From the times, when time itself was a newborn baby, the universe has kept one secret carefully camouflaged within its folds. A secret, which if unraveled, could unlock the destruction of mankind and the entire cosmos.

Today, only one man can protect the universe's precious secret and thus, save the human race from absolute annihilation.

Rooted in the vibrant tapestry of Indian mythology, Drona is the compelling modern tale of one man's spectacular voyage through the labyrinths of mystic myths and legendary legacies. Of a journey that will force him to face his fears and make him the hero he was born to become.

As good and evil clash in this contemporary fantasy fable, a breathtaking journey beckons you into a world of mythic heroes and malicious magicians, of cunning curses and absolute innocence. A world, where spells can turn live-flesh to cold stone. A world, whose whispers lay closely guarded in a land of mirages. A world thriving with thrills, a world of mystical magic, a world where adrenalin bursts out into a riot of colours. A world of audacious adventures, a world of fantastical folklores.

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