Review of Dhol"A light comedy, Dhol is an entertainer!"

Rating:***
Cast Performance:****
Sound Track:***
Cinematography:***

Priyadarshan is known as the king of comedies . He lives upto his name in the latest flick dhol. Dhol has got very funny moments which wll make you laugh aloud.
The story revolves around four good for nothing men .They try to become rich by marrying a rich girl and lands up in trouble.In the acting department almost all the actors have done well especially rajpal yadav he is very funny and diffrent from other actor . This little actor has stolen the show in many scenes . Some scenes in the movie are remarkably funny especially the pooja scene , office scene , scene involving ompuri rajpal and and the way they escape when are being held by villian.The oher actors sharman and kunal has done very well . Tusshar is good too . Tanushree and payal doesnt have a meaty role to play. Ompuri, asrani, tinku talsania have done thier roles well.
The movie has got some twists and turns too. Although these scenes do not match with comic scenes It is watchable.

The priyans style of story telling is similar to other movies with a priyan trademark. But the situations and dialogues are different and funny.Kudos to him for this movie.

The tiltle track is catchy . Other songs are okay bheega aasman is also a good number.There are only four songs in the movie .

At the box office this movie will be a success with plenty of comedy . It is a compltete light hearted entertainer . So leave ur brains at home and have a very nice laugh the movie is defenitley a joyride and heartful of laugh is guaranteed

Chhodon Naa Yaar

Release Date September, 2007
ProducerSameer Gaikwad
DirectorDilip Sood
Star CastJimmy Shergill,Kim Sharma,Mahak,Kabir Sadanand,Farid Amiri
Ahmed Khan,Vallabh Vyas,Vinod Nagpal
SingersAnand Raj Anand,Sunidhi Chauhan,Daler Mehndi,Shaan,Gaurav
Sukhwinder Singh
LyricistAnand Raj Anand,Panchhi Jalonvi
Music DirectorAnand Raj Anand,Ranjit Barot

Synopsis
An ordinary life was the last thing Ravi wanted. Regular or run-of-the mill was never that he would do. That is why Ravi, along with his two friends decides to venture into something.....which changed his life forever.
When Ravi (Jimmy Sheirgill), Shiv (Kabir) and Sunny (Farid), three final year students from a Delhi Mass Com College decide to make their diploma film about a myth prevalent in the northern hills of India, least did they know that the myth could well turn out to be the truth. The stark and most starling truth of their lives.

Against the wishes of his girlfriend Rashmi (Kim Sharma) and college professor Saxena (Ahmed Khan), who think that the subject is too dangerous for a college project, Ravi planned the trip. And Sunny eagerly joined in perceiving it as a fun trip. And surely fun it was when they began... But as they got deeper into the jungle their courage and beliefs were put to test. And then unprecedented happened...When their deepest fears and worst nightmares start to come true.

Now...

What would they do..? How would they do..? It was the question of their survival. Chasing his dreams, doing what he believed in was always the most important thing for Ravi, but this time... He went little too far to turn back... and the price that he had to pay for it was something he never bargained for.

Go

Releasing Date 28 Sep 2007
ProducerRam Gopal Varma
DirectorManish Srivastav
Star CastNisha Kothari,Rajpal Yadav,Kay Kay Menon,Ravi Kale,Gautam (Go),Govind Namdeo,Shereveer Vakil
SingersFarhad Bhiwandiwala,Priya,Vinod Rathod,SunidhiChauhan,Meenal Jain,Kunal Ganjawala,Suzanne D'Mello,Sneha Khanwlkar
LyricistSarim Momin,Milind Gadagkar,Nakul M,Rahul Seth,Swanand Kirkire
Music DirectorPrasana Shekhar,Sneha Khanwlkar,Amar Mohile,Dj Aqeel
ChoreographyShabina Khan,Harshall,Vitthal,Sonia Jhaffar

Gautam as Abhay Narula
Born in upper middle class of Bombay Suburbs, Abhay is bratty, quick witted, very independent and only child of his parents. He has an absolute belief in his ability to tackle any situation, though his lack of practical experience may contradict such a claim. He turns his charm on in a jiffy, eases his way out with a smile and makes people believe in him. He believes in loyalty and forms very strong bonds.

Nisha Kothari as Vasundhra Dave
Neighbor of Abhay comes from a similarly affluent background. Pretty and knows it, naïve and does not know it. Sweet natured and really does not mind Abhay pulling her leg. She tries to pay back in same coin and succeeds mainly because of unbelievable simplicity in her way of thinking. Has utmost belief is in her relation with Abhay and she has never tried to question it. She has a romantic streak in her and believes in chocolates and flowers.

Rajpal Yadav as Kay Jagtap Tiwari
A chameleon like conman who believes that he can con anyone at anytime, this belief leads to his downfall more often than not. His cons are swashbuckling and his appearance in constant makeover. He tries to reinvent himself into a new character everyday. What he does not know yet is that it is cagier to con him than him conning anyone else.

Kay Kay Menon as Nagesh Rao
Through years of his service serving justice he has lost out on his sense of right and wrong. There is deep seated bitterness and resentment that his honesty and ability has not been recognized or rewarded. A ticking time bomb and he is about to change his tracks.

Ravi Kale as Arjun Patil
From son of a primary school teacher in rural Chandarpur to Chief Minister of Maharashtra it has been long and arduous journey for Arjun Patil. Now he has got the power and he would do anything to keep it. He knows the art of politics and understands the culpability of power.
Discretion is second nature to him and backstabbing a habit which he has developed through his meteorically rise in power.
Sherveer Shereyar Vakil as T. S. Ranganathan
Ranga is a gun for hire, he has been in service for Arjun Patil for quiet a few years and he has a grudge that his loyalty has never been rewarded. Simple minded and very dangerous, he is not really pursued by logic or morality.

SYNOPSISTow lovers, Abhay & Vasu run away from home, little realizing that they will run into a whole bunch of colourful characters including: a rogue cop, a mean killer, a crafty conman and a chief minister who kills his own deputy. As the stakes get higher and the chase picks up, it’s up to Abhay to save the day. It’s a racy story which constantly collides with heady action, super scares and compelling humor. It’s a full speed entertainment right from the word GO!

Loins Of Punjab

Releasing Date:21 Sep 2007
Genre : Comedy
Director : Manish Acharya
Writers : Manish Acharya, Anuvab Pal
Cast : Ajay Naidu, Shabana Azmi, Ayesha Dharker, Samrat Chakrabarti

A new English-language comedy set in the ego-driven world of money- and fame-chasing NRIs, “Loins of Punjab Presents,” was named Best Feature Film at the 65th annual First Run Film Festival in New York in April and the early buzz about the film has been extremely positive.
Written in English and set in America one of the things people will love about the movie is the instant association you feel you know some of these characters.

Synopsis:‘LOINS OF PUNJAB PRESENTS’ is one of the first films to combine the musical vibrancy of a Bollywood film with a narrative rhythm that emerges from the West.
A ruthless philanthropist, A bhangra rapper, An over-protected prodigy, A reckless actress, A lovelorn businessman. An entrepreneurial yogi and last but not the least A Loin King. Enter a roller-coaster world of seven strangers whose lives collide during a singing contest in a small New Jersey town. The film provides a hilarious insight into the competitive world of Indian singing competitions, and while Indian audiences will recognize or identify with some characters, non-Indian audiences will get a flavor of the music and the larger-than-life quality of this community. It has great talented cast headed by Shabana Azmi who lets her hair down for this rip-roaring comedy, supported with Ayesha Dharker, Ajay Naidu, Darshan Jariwala, Seema Rahmani amongst a horde of other actors.

Review Of Nanhe Jaisalmer

Overall Rating:***
Cast Performance:*****
Sound Track:**
Cinematography:****

Love this little friend!

Imagination’s power is more powerful than you can imagine.
Human mind’s ability to dream and chase his dream successfully is always fascinating.But what makes one to press the start button for this chase? Not every dreamer chases and attains their dream.Is it love? Pain? Happiness?Courage to Adventure ? While it is important to identify our goals, dreams and ambitions, it is also important to apply the correct starter which gives the power to start and push us to a higher level, from where we can move above easily.

The movie start with a scene where the booker prize winner Vikram Singh ( Vatal Sheth ) autograph’s his prize winning book Nanhe Jasalmer and people waiting from early morning to get the author’s signature.The story is presented as the author tells the story of the book to a billboard boy.

Nanhe (Master Dwij Yadav ) is a 10 year old boy in a village in Rajastan called Jaisalmer, whose father abandoned him, his mother ( Pratiksha Lonkar ) and sister since the mother was illiterate. They had a camel Raja which helped them to survive. The mother educated her daughter where the small Nanhe took over the family’s responsibility at the age of 6.He moves around with the camel, Raja who is like a member in the family. He now is a famous tour guide in the village. He knows 4 foreign languages, which he studied from tourists.Still he is illiterate.His mother and a local teacher, push Nanhe to start his education which he refused, stating people are learning to earn their livelihood and if I am earning without education, why I need to learn?

Nanhe is a crazy fan of Bobby Deol.He holds a photograph from a film, in a shot Bobby Deol holds him in his hands (when he was just 4) and called him as ’Dost’. He believes that Bobby Deol is his friend and it is his duty to protect him, promote all his films and learn all news about him. If a Bobby Deol movie is coming to Jaisalmer, He make sure that he see the movie from the first row along with his friends (All old people, like Sharat Saxena) and after the movie he makes sure that he leaves his comments along with news from the family to Bobby Deol. The life was going on smoothly.In a day the news came in News paper that Bobby Deol is coming to shoot in Jaisalmer and the boy was so over thrilled and he made his sister to read the news till both of them fell asleep. Next day, while Nanhe was coming back after a Safari, a car was sanded in desert.Nanhe helped to bring pull the car out and when the driver asked his name, he said Nanhe and from the Car, none other than Bobby Deol come out and the story of nahe Jaisaler, his change, progress and dreams begins.

Samir Karnik, the writer director need more than an applaud for his fine story and its nice presentation.The story is simply good.The director tells it in fine manner. The climax however was very much predictable, where the scenes before the climax were surprising.

Dwij Yadav is Excellent. The story is entirely concentrating on Nanhe’s character and Dwij yadav lived the character to have a long stay in the audience mind. Bobby Deol is as good as he is. Vathal Sheth looked good, but less action in his face. Pratiksha Lonkar did a fine job so is the girl who played the role of Nanhe’s sister. Sharat Saxena was funny in his small role as a drunkard. All in all, the director succeeded in extracting almost best from his caste.

Cinematography by Binod Pardhan was brilliant.The beauty of Rajastan was traced to the screen with light and colour.The long deserts, the houses and the living of people…all brilliantly caught into films.A short shot of the wheat fields was simply superb.Scenes like Nanhe learn that Bobby Deol is coming to his village is top class…

Music is pretty average, but the title song was above average and suites the film most.There were 2 more average songs and 2 avoidable songs were part of the movie. However, the background music was extra brilliant.Choreography for the title song and for the marriage song were good.

When a good scene with a fine performance, excellent cinematography with good music background and emotion to support…what you will call it? The movie has at least 4 or 5 such scenes which stay with our mind for long.

The movie, we can describe as a children’s movie.Intend to project the value of education, friendship, responsibility and ambition.It may be a good idea to show the movie to schools of various states and to villages where illiteracy still prevails. The movie is capable to pass to certain people, but to who really needs.

In general perspective, it is a movie which entertains with the sheer power of story and performance.So, if you are one who looks for a good story irrespective of its glamour, action or top sets, you can watch it.If you are a person who goes for movies alone and go to see a movie irrespective of its box office fate, I think this movie is yours.Your children too may like the movie, since it is made for them.I liked the movie for sure.

Review Of Darling

Overall Rating:**
Cast Performance:***
Sound Track:****
Cinematography:*****

Exactly one week after delivering that dead duck of a film, Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag, the director shows up with Darling, something of a comic-horror film in which Fardeen Khan finds himself being stalked by the ghost of his mistress who died in a scuffle with him.

Esha Deol plays the ghost in question, who returns to complete some unfinished business with her cad of a boss who got her pregnant and then refused to leave his wife for her. Scared out of his wits, Fardeen can’t come clean to his wife Isha Koppikar, and doesn’t know how to get those pesky cops off his back.

What’s interesting about Darling is the manner in which director Ram Gopal Varma turns around the cliches you normally associate with ghosts in Hindi films: they’re mysterious, you don’t see them too often, they appear in a fog-like smoke, they don’t speak too much. But the ghost in Darling is a yackety-yack bitter ex who smacks him around, disturbs his love-making session with his wife, sobs in his living room, and calls him a bastard at least fifty times in the film.

The film’s best moments are the ones in which Esha Deol’s ghost shows up at all the wrong times to make Fardeen’s life a living hell. Like the time she shows up under his table while he’s dictating a letter to his secretary. Or the time she shows up in hospital when Fardeen Khan and his wife visit a friend recovering from an accident. Or then the time she shows up in his office when he’s being interrogated by the police.

Although disguised as a horror film, the only bit in Darling that really spooks you is Esha Deol’s determined, defiant gaze as a dead body. The film works more as a comedy, and introduces a bunch of supporting characters who provide the laughs: Fardeen Khan’s annoying co-worker with the sing-song voice, an investigating officer with a Sherlock Holmes hangover, and best of all, the detective’s dead-silent female assistant who looks like something straight out of a Ramsay film

It’s all a good laugh until Isha Koppikar decides to confront her husband and ends up driving not only Fardeen Khan mad, but also pretty much the entire audience mad with her constant fisherwoman-like nagging.

The film’s ending is stretched out way too long, and Fardeen Khan’s monologue to Esha Deol in the climax is the final blow. In the end, Darling has some fantastic moments, but those moments don’t come together to make a fantastic film.

When the camera isn’t lingering lovingly on Fardeen Khan’s blue chaddis, cinematographer Amit Roy uses it well to give us some dramatic movement. Like the disturbing, dizzying manner in which it alternates between each character in that pre-climax scene when the cops come over to Fardeen’s house to question his wife.

Director Ramgopal Varma pushes the envelope considerably, but just a little short of what was required here. Of the three leads, only Esha Deol delivers what can be described as a stand-out performance.

So then that’s two out of five and an average rating for “Darling”, don’t go in thinking you’re going to watch Ramgopal Varma’s new horror film, you saw that last week already.

Review of Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag

Overall Rating: *
Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag doesn’t come anywhere close to the real thing, Ramesh Sippy ’s Sholay

Unlike the original film, ‘RGV Ki Aag’ has nothing that leaves a lasting impression on a viewer. The movie is a mere assorted collection of Varma’s own interpretation of scenes from the original. There is no cohesive linear flow in the story. The dialogues, with frequent references to America, Iraq and Al Qaeda, are horribly amateurish. Nowhere close to the mastery of Salim and Javed in the original.

Varma was seemingly very obsessed with the idea of remaking ‘Sholay’. But he did not realize the mammoth task of recreating the same magic. And in his blind zeal and obsession, Varma has floundered big time.
Firstly, he cast wrong actors in the roles of Heero and Raj. Ajay Devgan (as Heero) doesn’t have the flair to tickle the funny bone. And newcomer Prashant Raj (as brooding Raj) simply doesn’t know how to act. With these two pivotal roles going to inappropriate actors, the movie is already half sunk. Only Mohanlal and Sushmita Sen look convincing in their respective roles.

Ramu has given a very different interpretation to the character of Babban Singh (originally Gabbar). His Babban looks menacing, repulsive and fatigued. He is a bit psychotic with a slight caricaturish streak. And yet you don’t dread this character half as much as you did Gabbar Singh. Unlike the latter, there is not a single dialogue of Babban Singh that you would carry home with you.

‘RGV Ki Aag’ stays loyal to ‘Sholay’ as far as the basic plot of the story is concerned. Two small-time crooks, Heero (Ajay Devgan) and Raj (Prashant Raj) catch the eye of honest police inspector Narsimha (Mohanlal) because of their bravery. Later, Narsimha hires them to catch the dreaded and notorious gangster Babban Singh Amitabh Bachchan ) who killed Narsimha’s family and cut off his fingers.

Heero and Raj arrive in Kaliganj where Heero falls for the charm of a beautiful auto-rickshaw driver Ghungroo Nisha Kothari ) while Raj develops feelings for the grim widow Durga (Sushmita Sen).

As Heero and Raj begin cracking down on Babban Singh and his men, battle lines are drawn. Babban, along with his henchman Thambi Sushant Singh ), will fight to the bitter end to eliminate the two brave recruits of Narsimha.

Ram Gopal Varma gives his own twist to the story and characters of the original movie. But he does incorporate some scenes from ‘Sholay’. Like the scene when Heero threatens to commit suicide if Ghungroo’s mother does not agree to marry her with him. Or Heero teaching shooting to Ghungroo. Or Durga nursing a wounded Raj.

What Ramu fails to do is to create a right chemistry between the characters. For instance, you don’t see and feel any camaraderie between Heero and Raj. Even the muted love between Raj and Durga is bland. To cut to the chase, Ramu fails big time as a director.
The cinematography by Amit Roy is brilliant, but Amar Mohile’s background score is terrible. Even the film’s songs are just mediocre compositions and the much talked-about Mehbooba Mehbooba (with special appearance by Urmila Matondkar and Abhishek Bachchan ) is not a patch on RD Burman’s composition.

The movie could have been salvaged only through performances, but there too one meets with disappointment only. Ajay Devgan is just average. Prashant Raj can’t act. Nisha Kothari hams. Mohanlal is good and Sushmita Sen is very expressive. Amitabh Bachchan does his best to enact Ramu’s interpretation of Babban Singh.

All in all, ‘RGV Ki Aag’ is a letdown. The movie only reminds you how great and matchless the real ‘Sholay’ was and is.