Sunday, June 3, 2007

Cheeni Kum - A sweet romantic film

Rating : * * *

Recommended : Yes

Cast : Amitabh Bachchan, Tabu, Paresh Rawal, Baby Swini Khara, Zohra Sehgal, Vinay Jain. Krishna Bhatt, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Pradeep Shukla, Jameel Khan

Lyrics : Sameer, Manoj Tapadiya

Music Director : Illaiyaraja

Producer : Sunil Manchanda

Director : R. Balakrishnan

This is pure vegetarian entertainment, with tadka of witty dialogues, light moments, lots of romance and emotions.

The first half has adequate pace, with each and every character well defined. Each scene is picturised so well, and every character is so impeccable, that you hardly find any time to think of anything else, but cheeni kum.

There are so many repetive situation and you loved it each time. Whether it is about Amitabh's Umbrella, or comedy on Vinay jain's teeth, or conversation between Zohra sehgal and Amitabh for gym, or Swini askinig for A grade movie. Everytime it looked so fresh and entertaining, and you urge to have it more.

The best part of the movie is its witty dialogues. Each dialogues makes you laugh. The songs goes with the mood of the story, and surprisingly, and you never feel whether there was any song in the movie. Cinematogarphy is at par. The locales are good.

The best performances come from Amitabh, Tabu, Zohra sehgal and Baby Swini. Tabu looked beautiful. Although the age of Amitabh is reminded 100 times in the movie, he looked as energetic and fresh as half of his age. Baby swini is a surprise in the movie and you all will love her. The supporting cast(Vinay Jain. Krishna Bhatt, Nikhil Ratnaparkhi, Pradeep Shukla, Jameel Khan) has done a good job.Paresh is good but his role is not justified.

The problem starts in the second half, as the pace of the movie goes down. Paresh Rawal is one of the finest actors in the Industry. Unfortunately, Cheeni kum doesn't offers much to him, and thus the problem starts in the movie. Paresh's role could have been written better, and that would have added value to the movie.

What to watch out for:
-Witty Dialogues
- Excellent Screenplay.
- Chemistry between Amitabh and Tabu.
- Chemistry between Amitabh and Baby swini
-Tabu's grace.
-Swini's sweetness.
-A light comedy, to relax you after you tiring work schedule.

What not to watch out for:
- Too less of Paresh Rawal
- slow 2nd half

Despite the sugar less romance, cheeni kum is a sweet, lovable entertainer. with time, it will grow of mouth publicity, and has a full potential to become a big hit. As there are no other big banner movies running(except Lokhandwala - which is of different taste and genre), Cheeni kum will have the advantage of lesser competition and should do well at box offfice.

This is a must watch, and is recommended to be watched with you wife, girlfriend, sister, or anyone.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

not quite really a 'pure vegetarian' film. Remember the discussions about condoms in the kitchen

Prasoon Rana said...

First encounter with ur reviews buddy.. liked it... will be going for this movie shortly...

Adithya Kalyan C S said...

First, a good review. I remember you saying abt ur interests in film review writing. I am glad that you are doing it. Keep going.
Ok, well said then, I basically watch movies from a common man' s perspective. I generally dont like a review which talks abt how well the film is made, production values, how costly a production house is, how artisitic a film is etc...
what i need is how much entertainment a film offers and how much enjoyment i get for the money i paid. I could not find such reviews anywhere in the web or in print. They talk more abt film making and other technical values of the film. In their review, a "Being Cyrus" can be a gr8 movie. A "Monsoon wedding" can be a good movie. A film from MF Hussain can also be a good movie. I crib for losing the money all that I paid for watching such movies which i went to only after looking at these stupid reviews. Is it worth watching it in cinema hall is a question. They are not even worth spend a time in front of TV. They have very little to offer.
Ok, only message is , "Try writing different reviews more closer to heart (preferably to a majority) " reviews and not reviews that I get elsewhere.

Ok, all this said, a considerable part of your review matches with my expectations.
thanks for sending this and expecting some more and improved stuff.

Wishing you all the best,
Adithya Kalyan.

Sunit said...

That was a nice review. I go with whatever u said...

Even i liked the role of Baby Swini..
It was really a gr8 surprise package in her...

hope it becomes a hit.

Rahul said...

Hii Frns,

Thanks for your valuable suggestions. I will definitely consider points suggested by you in my future reviews.

Regards,
Rahul

Vicky said...

Keep it up buddy..
Nice job done!! .
The next time reveiw the movie
same week itself :)

pankaj said...

Gr8 going rahul.....