Notable Role (5/1000): John Abraham (Jism)

I saw the movie Jism, after over 5 years of its release. I appreciate the direction and the music as well. But above all, I was inspired by the performance of John Abraham (playing the role of an alcoholic lawyer- Kabir), who lives a playboy lifestyle. 

No doubt, it was his first movie, yet he performed his share best in this movie. Specially his style of smoking and lighting the cigarette, that probably inspired youth to adopt smoking as a style statement. 

I suggest you to go watch the video of the songs Aawarapan Banjarapan and Shikaayat Hai to notice his in-depth performance (notably, the scene in which he feels guilty of committing a murder and cries below the shower of his bathroom). 

Aawarapan Banjarapan song.

Shikaayat Hai song.

Jism climax.

Raanjhanaa: Dhanush has left his mark on Bollywood.

It was the noon of a day of March last year, when I opened Youtube to watch some upcoming movies of Bollywood. Suddenly, I came across the trailer of the movie Raanjhanaa, presenting Dhanush in lead role. It was then the scorching summer of June in the same year, when I went to watch this movie.

Guess what? All the sacrifices I made to watch this movie was refunded in the terms of entertainment. I, just could not imagine that Dhanush, who hails from Southern part of India, will be able to perform the role of a Desi Launda of Banaras. Hardly, anyone dn emulate his performance in this movie. Talking about the other actors, the role of his friend Murari played by Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub and his one sided lover Swara Bhaskar should be appreciated. 

The whole movie is divided into two parts: the romantic and comedy part pre-intermission and serious and emotional part post-intermission. Apart from it, the dialogues of the movie and its climax both have given a good shape to the whole flow of movie. 

As always, the Music of Rahmaan saahab is always a memorial part of a movie, which is true in this case as well.

Facts undisclosed yet.

1. This was the first film of Dhanush in Hindi. For this film , he took special Hindi coaching classes.
2. Earlier , actor Shahid Kapoor was roped in to play the lead role , but later Dhanushreplaced his role (thank God he accepted, otherwise... everyone knows).

300: Rise of an Empire: finally happy again to find my answer.

No doubt that the Hollywood movie makers invest huge and also do a good R&D for movie business. So, they did in this movie. 

Though they have shown graphics and actions scenes very beautifully, that deserves applauds, it didn't seem to be at the equal footing to its previous part. 

Also, what I want to share is that we always think that Indian movies only have crap stunts and scenes. Then, we think whether Hollywood movies also have such craps. So, we can find answer in this movie.

I must emphasise that there is a scene in the climax, in which the hero of the movie Themistockles (role played by Sullevan Stepleton) shows his extra ordinary capacity to take his horse though the broken ships to the ship of the enemy without caring about the ocean in between. Guess, what he finds. He is able to take the horse successfully (no sensible person will find any logic behind such stunt). He might have been insipred by the performance of Chetak (legendary horse of Maharana Pratap).

Concluding my review,I would suggest that if you want to go for action scenes and bloodbath, you should go for it.

Yeh Saali Zindagi: has everything that a good movie should have.

What will you expect, when you have best spices for the dishes to be served at the dinner? You will get applauds for your preparation and your guests will again persist you to invite them. 

Same holds true for this movie. Here, although we have best spices like Irrfan, Saurabh Shukla, Yashpal Sharma (as Bade), Prashant Narayan (as Chhote) and Shushant Singh, the whole recipe would have been not so tasty, had there been no good quality of salt and vegetables like Arunoday Singh, Chitrangada Singh, Aditi Rao Hydari and Vipin Sharma. With some desi gaalis (specially the dialogue Udta Hua Teer...), this movie has tried to expose the interaction between various classes of persons of the society. 

This movie shows some overlapping between three lives, which give birth to a tragedy, for which everyone keeps on guessing the solution. To put it in simple words, Hero A loves Heroine A, but she loves a Dude. This Dude is the target of Hero B, who was abducted along with his fiance. The object of Hero B is to get money to buy happiness for Heroine B, along with the other object of getting his boss out of jail. How all this becomes possible and how the main Villain creates a mess and how the dude gets flying arrow as reward (Udta Teer) is best understood and enjoyable after watching the movie itself.

Just no need to guess Hero A/B or Heroine A/B. Watch the movie and you will understand it. 

Concluding the review, I can say that Sudhir Mishra is a good chef and the guests will expect similar dishes again and again from him.

Transformers: Age of Extinction (Trailer)

This summer, Michael Bay bets on Transformers with resurrecting Optimus Prime.

Highway: awards will go to the NHAI.

Last week, I expected that Imtiaz Ali will add a new gem to the rare collection of good Hindi movies. But what I observed is that he was unable to create it. Yes, I am talking about Highway, that was released last Friday.

This movie has neither a conclusion nor a happy ending. All it has is the scenes around highways and destinations. If you are planning to book tickets for it, think twice (you can save it for Ragini MMS 2 :P). 

The positive point about the movie is that Aaliya Bhatt has proved her talent in this movie. No doubt, Randeep Huda is always good in his roles. But where is the story? Even if both Randeep and Aaliya do justice with their roles, its like swimming in a water-less pond, as the movie lacks a good story.

Watching this movie, I concluded that the lead role was performed by the highway itself. Hence, the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) should be give award for the best leading role.

Haasil: kudos to Irrfan and Tigmanshu.

If there is any movie of the Bollywood that probably marks the identity of Allahabad and the college life of that city, it is Haasil. Entire movie is like a sweet dish (soaked in the sugar of Eastern U.P. dialect). 
Even the fans of Ranvijay Singh (character played by Irrfan Khan, for which he bagged Filmfare award for Best actor in negative role), have adopted the style of conversation in his way of dialoguebaazi. 

Credit goes to Tigmanshu Dhulia for the beautiful and real depiction of student politics and life. As we have already seen, he is both a good actor and a good director (except the crap Bullet Raja). Jimmy Shergil and other characters of the movie have also performed well in their characters, but they will always be way behind Irrfan.
Though I haven't watched this movie in a cinema hall, I can imagine that had I been in the hall, I would have witnessed taaliyon pe taali (applauses for his dialogues) for every dialogue of Irrfan Khan.

Had this movie not been produced, Bollywood wouldn't have witnessed a gem like Ranvijay Bhayya (oops... I meant Irrfan Khan).