Bollywood

Mumbai Meri Jaan: Close to Perfection!

Pranjal Medhi • August 25th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, featured

Mumbai Meri Jaan is an attempt to depict the lives of five different souls and how the July 11 blasts affect them. Director Nishikant Kamat has already proved his mettle with Dombivli Fast. Yet again he comes up with a poignant storyline which has a realist touch in its portrayal. And call it a coincidence, his second film also moves around the trains of Mumbai.



Bachna Ae Haseeno: The Mixer-Grinder Effect! (lessness)

Yasser Usman • August 15th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

They got a large mixer cum grinder and filled it with the following ingredients-

DVD’s of Dev Anand’s superhit “Teen Deviyan” and their very own DDLJ, Audio CDs of “Hum Kisi Se Kum Nahi”, “Dhoom” and “Jhoom Barabar Jhoom”. Mixed it for few months in the ‘mixer cum grinder’ and then took the printout of the resultant product. What came out became the script called “Bachna Ae Haseeno”.



Singh is THE King

Yasser Usman • August 9th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

Mindless…but deliciously mindless…

Nonsense… but it never fails to make you laugh dil se…and if you are laughing whole-heartedly, why the hell do you want to make sense.

Just laugh…The real KING of bollywood has arrived.

The underrated Anees Bazmee has done it again. Singh Is Kinng has ‘blockbuster’ written all over it…every frame, every scene, every song, and every dialogue.

It’s a difficult job to review good films, yet I’ll try



Ugly Aur Pagli: Atleast learn to COPY properly!

Yasser Usman • August 2nd, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

They made a wax statue of Shahrukh Khan at Madam Tussaud’s…it looks exactly like SRK, it has the same famous smile, it wears the same designer suit that SRK do…It is infact an exact replica of King Khan, the only difference is- there is no SOUL in it. Ugly aur Pagli faces the same problem. Frame by frame, scene by scene, it is an exact replica of a very popular Korean film “My Sassy Girl”, the only difference being the lack of a SOUL.



Mission Istanbul: Mission Disaster

Yasser Usman • July 26th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

Mission Istanbul is beyond any review. The only aim to write this piece is to save at least a few people from a migraine of the highest order. It defies all logic, ridicules even the medium of cinema itself and yet the makers actually have the guts to believe that audience are fool enough to like it



Kismat Konnection: Just A Time Pass Movie

Yasser Usman • July 19th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

“Kismat Konnection” was an interesting name to start with. After watching the film, I can undoubtedly say that only Kismat can save this Aziz Mirza film. It fails to make a connection (or Konnection !!!) with the audience who were obviously expecting something better.



Bollywood Releases to Look forward to (Pun intended)

Yasser Usman • July 13th, 2008 • Bollywood, Movies, featured

Last week in Bollywood was the ideal week. Two much-awaited films ( Jane Tu..and Love Story 2050) were releasing and the rivalries between their makers were the talk of the town. It is more or less clear by now that who won the box office battle. So lets move on to this week…not one, not two but three films are releasing, (but only one got released) each one different from the other in subject and mood. But I am confused; I really don’t know which film to watch because each film looks worse then the other. Let’s take a look at each one of them.



Jane tu…ya jane na: Cute and Cool

Yasser Usman • July 5th, 2008 • Bollywood, Film Review, Movies, featured

The story is nothing new, the treatment is. The film is about Jai Singh Rathore a.k.a Rats (Imraan Khan), a non-violent Rajput who and Aditi Mahant a.k.a Meow (Genelia D’Souza), cute and violent at the same time. Aditi feels Jai is fattu (coward). They fight like crazy but just can’t live without each other.