Movie Review

LUCK may have loads of thrills, but director Soham Shah ensures that the grand canvas and stylised thrills appeal to every strata of movie-going audience. Only thing, had screenplay writers Soham Shah and Rensil D'Silva worked doubly hard to come up with a watertight script, it would've only worked wonders. What I liked about the movie: Sanju is perfect for this part and enacts it with natural ease. Actually, here's one role that only he could've portrayed so effectively. Imran is getting better with every film. Watch his helplessness at the start or his confidence when he takes to the stunts. Even towards the latter reels, he's very much in sync with his character. Shruti Haasan is a star, no two opinions on that. The confidence with which she carries off this role just cannot be overlooked. Ravi Kishan is another scene-stealer. You are under the impression that he may get lost in the crowd, but he stands tall. The masses will love him. Mithun Chakraborty is cont...

Let's get one thing straight. This is a film about subverted heroes. People who need big money so desperately they are willing to participate in a crazy game of life and death orchestrated by a man who has turned betting on human beings into a galloping global industry. Sanjay Dutt strides across the wide screen and its accompanying pomp and paraphernalia with aplomb. He's accompanied by a cast that knows this film means macho business. However, the real heroes of this tale of perverse heroism are the action by Allan Amin, dialogues by Soham Shah, locations -- ranging from the super-rugged to the ultra-chic -- the thundering background score by Amar Mohile and the cinematography of Santosh Thundiyil. All these technical components enrich the experience of watching an extended video-game done at an adrenaline-defying speed. Publish Post So is "Luck" just a series of action sequences threaded together? To a large extent the skills that have gone into Shah's storyte...

The only good thing about the entire movie was that I won a copy of Anees Bazmee's Welcome for being a good boy and filling a survey. You can imagine my plight that I have to become happy about winning a CD of another movie which was just as stupid, but not as retarded as Luck. Its only when the movie starts after Sanjay Dutt's awesome intro train scene, I realized that I should have left my brain at the security counter. Why you ask? Thats because your brain would be a highly dangerous object in the course of this largely predictable movie. We've seen enough brainless action thrillers, but nothing I assure you, falls so flat on its face. Though the effort taken to introduce a story line is appreciated, the way it is approached will cause nothing less than pain and anguish of the highest order. And though Shruti Hassan's presence on screen will please you, her accentuated and robotic dialogue delivery will only make you bang your he Publish Post ad on the seat ahead of...

For starters, here are a few samples of what the writers of Luck probably think is outstanding dialogue: "Yeh khud khushi nahi, yeh khud ki khushi hai." "Kuchh cards aise hote hai jo khelne waalon ko hi pack kar dete hai." "Laxmi tujhe tika lagane aayi hai, aur tu Id ka chand bana hua hai?" "Kamaaya to juan, gavaaya toh maut ka kuan." ...And my personal favorite: "Tumhe paiso ki zaroorat hai, mujhe tujh jaiso ki zaroorat hai." Need I really say more? Luck's script (actually a slapdash mess that is just an apology of one) is generously laced with priceless gems like these, unintentionally hilarious 'punchlines' that masquerade as smart dialogue. Despite almost uniformly awful performances, I almost feel like handing out an award to the cast of Luck for actually managing to mouth such ridiculous inanities with a straight face and a laudable, even if failed attempt at seriousness. On second thought, though- it might also be bec...

Movie Review: Sankat City; Star cast: Kay Kay Menon, Rimi Sen, Anupam Kher, Chunky Pandey, Yashpal Sharma and Dilip Prabhawalkar; Director: Pankaj Advani; Rating: ***1/2 - Go enjoy the ride. Guru (Kay Kay Menon) is a car thief whose partner in crime is a garage owner Ganpat (Dilip Prabhawalkar). Fouzdar (Kher), an underworld don sends his driver to deliver Rs. 1 crore cash to deliver it to filmmaker Gogi (Manoj Pahwa). But Guru ends up stealing this car and is over the moon on finding the cash bag inside. But before Guru could savor the money, he is caught by Fouzdar. When Fouzdar sends his henchman Lovely (Jehangir Khan) along with Guru to get back his money hidden in garage, Lovely unintentionally ends up hurting Ganpat’s head. Since Ganpat before that had hidden the money at a different place it gets crazier since Ganpat now has lost his memory with the assault on his head. Now Guru is given three days by Fouzdar to get back his money or else face death. Guru then chances upon his ...

Sometimes, big things come in small sizes... SANKAT CITY may not boast of stars to lure the audiences, it may not have a colossal canvas [on the contrary, the making is very basic], it may not have a terrific musical score to act as a hook [there are hardly any songs here], but SANKAT CITY succeeds, and succeeds largely, in its endeavour: Make the viewer laugh at the right places. One walks in with zilch expectations [the promos don't do justice to the product], but when you make an exit from the audi, it's with the feeling that the 2 hours were well spent. Comedies, today, can be segregated into two categories -- Brain-dead entertainers and intelligent comedies. Films like JAANE BHI DO YAARO, BHEJA FRY and SANKAT CITY fall in the latter category. Let's be honest. Not all of us can think whacky or come up with a crazy madcap comedy like SANKAT CITY. It requires a wild and imaginative mind to come up with one and most importantly, execute it with panache. Debutante dire...

Kambakkht Ishq Movie Review Kambakkht Ishq - Nothing but a Gimcrack Persistent flops on the row and Akshay Kumar had no big options other than jumping for the show of grandeur. With promos running high on the airs round the clock, certainly it let us perceive ‘Kambakkht Ishq as a plank meant to save him from lapsing. Oops! Kambakkht Ishq is perhaps a gaudy show. Of course, Sabbir Khan brings you the macho Akki ennobled by Denise as ‘Best Kisser’, Eel-like Kareena Kapoor in bikinis and what else? Biggest Hollywood stars on the screens. More than all, you’ve the best locations of Hollywood. But does it really mean you can go ahead for the show? Definitely, but just gotta throw out your cognizance into dustbins. It really matter to watch this flashy yet an unexceptional flick of pettifoggeries between the sexes. On the single take, ‘Kamb...

Kambakkht Ishq is a case of bling over substance, in this first directorial effort from Sabbir Khan who also developed the screenplay for this vacuous romance. Filmed largely in Los Angeles and featuring Universal Studios, Rodeo Drive and Hollywood Boulevard - it’s more about Bollywood’s love affair with Hollywood than any thing involving the yawn-inducing protagonists. Viraj Shergill (Akshay Kumar) is a stuntman who succeeds in Hollywood. Bowing down to touch the feet of his guru - Sylvester Stallone, he accepts a stuntman of the year trophy at a gala function attended by the Hollywood now set. This moment is strategically placed not only to woo the feisty Simrita (Kareena Kapoor) but to offer viewers latent insight into Viraj’s otherwise nasty, chauvinistic character. Hey he can’t be all that bad; he has this ‘healthy’ respect for Sylvester Stallone and he clearly loves his mother because he mentioned her in his acceptance speech. This is as deep as it gets folks. His sparring...

Bizarre has a new meaning and it's called KAMBAKKHT ISHQ. Of late, Akshay Kumar has earned the reputation of making you laugh in film after film. You expect KAMBAKKHT ISHQ, his new outing, to transport you to ha-ha-land, given the smart-n-chic promos of the film. KAMBAKKHT ISHQ belongs to the same family of films which have wooed the masses, such as MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI, WELCOME, SINGH IS KINNG and GOLMAAL RETURNS. The prime motive is to entertain you for the next 2 hours, logic be damned. Yet, KAMBAKKHT ISHQ is different because it depicts the battle of the sexes, a theme that's rarely depicted on the Hindi screen. The lingo is poles apart, so is the attitude. In fact, this is a modern take on relationships, with the two hours divided between laughter and emotions, frivolous and reality. Let's get this straight. KAMBAKKHT ISHQ works in most parts thanks to the kind of star power and energy that the two actors pack in -- Akshay Kumar and Kareena Kapoor. It would've be...

'New York' -Could've been better By N K Deoshi Film critic, ApunKaChoice.Com A star-spangled film that starts off well, builds the plot nicely, but goes completely hay wire in the second half, New York is long, tiresome, but well intentioned. It opens with the distinctly unique skyline of New York, with the twin towers ominously missing. The SWAT team sweats overtime to round off a terror suspect, Omar ( Neil Nitin Mukesh ), who finds himself in the FBI net after arms and ammunition is found from the trunk of a car owned by him. FBI agent Roshan ( Irrfan Khan ) grills Omar and wrings out all info about Sam ( John Abraham ), Omar’s friend, who the FBI agent claims, is running a sleeper terrorist cell that could strike America anytime. As Omar narrates the story of his friendship and unrequited love with Sam and Maya ( KatrinaKaif ) we are flashbacked to the year 1999 and on to the campus of New York State University where the three friends (studying god knows what!)...

New York Movie Review From October 2003 until May 2005, I was illegally detained by the U.S. government and held in CIA-run ''black sites'' with no contact with the outside world. On May 5, 2005, without explanation, my American captors removed me from my cell and cuffed, hooded, and bundled me onto a plane that delivered me to Sana'a, Yemen. I was transferred into the custody of my own government, which held me -- apparently at the behest of the United States -- until March 27, 2006, when I was finally released, never once having faced any terrorism-related charges. Since my release, the U.S. government has never explained why I was detained and has blocked all attempts to find out more about my detention. Mohamed Farag Bashmilah, Huffington Post. Posted February 20, 2009. CHECK OUT: KATRINA KAIF Interview # Here's a perfect illustration of the problem that was inherent in the Bush Administration's insistence on being able to hold terror suspects indefinit...

Average rating 2.8 / 5 Bizarre has a new meaning and it's called KAMBAKKHT ISHQ. Of late, Akshay Kumar has earned the reputation of making you laugh in film after film. You expect KAMBAKKHT ISHQ, his new outing, to transport you to ha-ha-land, given the smart-n-chic promos of the film. KAMBAKKHT ISHQ belongs to the same family of films which have wooed the masses, such as MUJHSE SHAADI KAROGI, WELCOME, SINGH IS KINNG and GOLMAAL RETURNS. The prime motive is to entertain you for the next 2 hours, logic be damned. Write your own movie review of Kambakkht Ishq Yet, KAMBAKKHT ISHQ is different because it depicts the battle of the sexes, a theme that's rarely depicted on the Hindi screen. The lingo is poles apart, so is the attitude. In fact, this is a modern take on relationships, with the two hours divided between laughter and emotions, frivolous and reality. Let's get this straight. KAMBAKKHT ISHQ works in most parts thanks to the kind of star power and energy that the two ac...