Well, now that’s some inspiration for all young lovers out there!

Ajay Devgan proposes Bipasha Basu

Lisa is eagerly waiting for a hit!!

As the women fall in love, Tala’s own sense of duty and cultural restraint cause her to pull away from Leyla and fly back to Jordan where the preparations for an ostentatious wedding are under way. But Tala goes back to London.

Does Lisa want to take a short kut to stardom??!!

Leyla is heartbroken but learns to break free of her own self-doubt and her mother’s expectations, ditching Ali and being honest with her parents about her sexuality. Tala now has to win Leyla back.

The movie should have come when the High Court legalised same sex marriage.

Kaminey movie review

Kaminey movie has opened well across the nation with Dhan Te Nan making people go ga-ga over the music. Kaminey can well be regarded as a homage to the cinema of yore & this reason is enough to go for the movie which Vishal Bhardwaj has achieved well. It’s one of the most keenly anticipated movie of this time and goes well just like Om Shanti Om in which Farah Khan paid homage to the cinema of 1970s. Vishal has picked the best characters of Hindi cinema and executed them like Tarantino & Guy Ritchie thus creating a movie which is very different from most of the movies yet.

Kaminey can be regarded as bold, stark, funny & unpredictable and only two things have made it what it is – Shahid Kapoor & Dhan Te Nan. His exemplary double role in the movie would sure catapult him to the superstardom. There’s another star in Kaminey & that’s Dhan Te Nan. People’s heart started beating faster every time they heared the music in the background and also when Shahid broke into the song. The track is as big a craze as Jumma Chumma (Hum), Ek Do Teen (Tezaab) and Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai(Khalnayak) and will contribute enormously in attracting viewers in hordes.

Kaminey is an unusal well-made masala movie and there’s no spoon feeding in there. The only thing it demands is attentiveness to grasp the going-on & twists in the movie. Kaminey would be useless to see if you kept your brain at home, like you must have done for many movies. Kaminey is a film with an attitude and you must watch it for the hatke experience!

The movie is about a pair of twins, Charlie & Guddu (played by Shahid Kapoor), who are as different as chalk & cheese. Charlie lisps & Guddu stammers but they just can’t stand the sight of each other till one fateful rainy night, when their lives cross. Charlie gets mixed up in a deathly get-rich-quick scheme, while Guddu realises that the love of his life, Sweety (Priyanka Chopra), has unwittingly put a price on his head. The brothers are sucked into a world of drugs, guns and money. The brothers have to run to protect themselves, their dreams, their love. And most importantly, realize that all they have is each other.

Though it takes time to get used to the world Vishal Bhardwaj wants us to enter but 20 minutes into the film & things start falling in place. From thereon, visitors are drawn into a different world completely when the interval point raises the bar & also the expectations. The story takes a dramatic turn at this juncture, but minutes before that, Dhan Te Nan makes the proceedings exhilarating and stimulating.

Right from the sequence after the interval to the finale, Vishal Bhardwaj peels off layer after layer, which erupts like a volcano towards the end.

The end is long drawn and with so many characters in the film, it only takes time to give a culmination to each of those characters. And that gets tedious. The violent end might not find universal acceptance.

Vishal Bhardwaj proves that he’s a master storyteller. Kaminey is a damn difficult film to conceptualize and execute and Vishal does it with gusto. Amole Gupte is outstanding. An incredible actor! Tenzing Nima and Chandan Roy Sanyal leave a solid impression. Shiv Subrahmanyam and Hrishikesh Joshi are perfect.

Review: Love Aaj Kal

After giving two great & beautiful movies, Socha Na Tha & Jab We Met, director Imtiaz Ali appears to have hit a snag with Love Aaj Kal. The movie is watchable but feels heavily compromised. The romantic drama could have worked wonderfully if it hadn’t tried to be funny in the first half. Even the second half doesn’t work as the laughs dry up. We have poignant moments interrupted by touches of lets-tickle-the-audience humour, as if India can’t take a drama straight up.

Love Aaj Kal opens with a break-up – Saif Ali Khan & Deepika Padukone are parting ways with utmost cordiality, deciding indeed to have a break-up party to celebrate their rediscovered singledom. The girl leaves, the boy stays back and is then coerced by Rishi Kapoor, a genial London cafe owner, to say goodbye at the airport. Rishi drives Saif there and thrusts a bouquet into his hands, and Deepika’s delighted as she leaves. Kapoor then, on Saif’s insistence, starts telling him his own love story, and the film then narrates both romances side by side.

Imtiaz uses a very interesting device by casting Saif himself in the Kapoor flashbacks: Kapoor tells Khan how the boy reminds him of his youth, and so the Sikh Saif isn’t Kapoor as he used to look, but Kapoor as both he and Saif can visualise him as the tale is narrated. It’s a clever move even though Saif struggles rather laughably with his Punjabi early on in the film, and it doesn’t help how the narrative inevitably flips back and forth between that and the overslanged Lay’s-salesman Saif of today. A good move overall, though.

Saif in a song

Imtiaz is one of the most promising filmmakers in the country today but his songs abruptly interrupted the proceedings which he earlier managed to weave in seamlessly into his narratives. The dialogues are still his biggest strength, but here the conversation is so peppered with Hinglish in an obvious attempt to connect with the kids that it doesn’t wash – Saying ‘aapka angle kya hai?’ for ‘what’s your angle?’ just doesn’t work, sorry.

Love Aaj Kal is a harmless, watchable film — sad, because it could have been truly special. It has its moments in the first half, while the second half is an over-melodramatic drag. Or have I missed the point, and is Imtiaz making an incisive comment on the nature of Bollywood masala, saying be it today or yesterday, our romances stay as cheesy as they are breezy?

Review: Luck

Everybody was heard saying, “Yeah, it’s a copy of the French movie Tzameti” when the question ‘How was Luck?’ was fired on them. The movie has not only borrowed the theme of Tzameti but there are a few action sequences which seem to be completely copied from it.

Mafia don Mussa, played by Sanjay Dutt, plays a game in which he tests the Luck of the ‘objects’ playing the game. And, mind it, the survivors are the winners of lakhs & crores of bucks. “Its pure business,” says Moussa, who himself prides over his unfailing luck. He’s the man who blindfolded crosses railway tracks with speeding trains without getting as much as a scratch. And bullets just don’t end up in the right barrel when the gun is pointed at Moussa. Such is his luck. Now, he’s set to take the betting industry to a new high with a game where luck decides life or death.

Ram, played by Imran Khan, needs money to pay off the crores of debt his scandalous stock broker daddy left him after committing suicide. Major, played by Mithun Chakraborty, needs lakhs for the medical treatment of his wife. Ayesha, sedative Shruti Haasan, is in the game for mysterious reasons. And there are other players like Raghav, played by Ravi Kishan, a serial killer whose luck saved him from the gallows, and Shortcut (Chitrashi Rawat) who’s in to win money.

The remaining film is just a series of death-defying games which the players are made to play like some of the reality shows currently running on the various TV channels. (Remember Fear Factor) The swimming-with-sharks sequence looks like a bad joke while the ridiculous climax on a speeding train fails to pump the adrenaline.

The only thing to relish in this plagiarized thriller are a few hair-raising moments. The opening train sequence is pretty gripping. The ‘Tzameti’-copied shooting sequence could have been better.

A still from Tzameti.

But there’s no forgiving the loopholes. Guess what? Ravi Kishan who plays a serial killer gets acquitted and is honorably released from the prison just because the rope of the noose around his neck snapped at the gallows. Or take the climax when Ravi Kishan keeps shooting his machine gun at Imran who’s just a few metres from him, and not a single bullet finds Imran. These and more such sequences are a bummer for any viewer who had gone expecting an edge-of-the-seat experience.

Copied scene like a double role in Bollywood movies in Luck.

There’s hardly any adrenaline rush to be had from this ‘Luck’. The action and stunts are too many, but poorly executed. And by the end, the film is such a marvelous mess that you feel like screaming “God! Iss Bungle Se Mujhe Bachao”, but only end up cursing your luck.

LUCK has deadly stunts

Imran Khan was a popular man soon after his debut film Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, but his previous films didn’t seem to bring glory to the youth sensation. He will now be keeping his fingers crossed for “LUCK” a thriller which releases on friday.

Reportedly this film is important for all the three the director Soham Shah, the actor Imran Khan and the actress and debutante Shruthi Haasan.

The director Soham Shah who is doing this film after Kaal would want to prove himself with “LUCK”. It will also be the beginning of a career for Kamal Haasan’s daughter Shruti. Sources close to the film revealed that Luck has deadly stunts and is being promoted as a thriller which has a lot to promise.

It portrays Sanjay Dutt as Musa the mafia don who wishes to revolutionise the betting industry. He considers life as a gamble and wants to play luck on the other side of odds.

Above all Imran Khan had given some of the daring shots ever in the industry as he went underwater with sharks plus jumping from a helicopter onto a burning train.

Imran quoted that This film required a lot of deadly stunts which was a lot of physical constraint. I did a lot of stunts he recalls, the best ones were the underwater diving with sharks and jumping on a speedy train which was on fire and fight on the train.