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The movie EMI revolves round the central theme ‘Liya Hai To Chukana Padega’, and the merit of the film being the originality of thought on a pertinent subject of getting the goodies of life on loans - personal, home or credit cards. The debutant director Saurabh Kabra has scored a point with a four pronged story.

The movie EMI begins with the first character Ryan (Arjun Rampal) a self employed DJ who aspires and lives life kingsize and is a habitual defaulter. He happens to meet Nancy ( Malaika Arora Khan), at the disc and falls head over heels at her beauty. The flamboyant Ryan wants her in his life.His craving for a life bigger and better gets all the more stronger. With it his credit limits too soar…..

The second character is Prerna ( Urmila Matondkar) an unemployed widow, who is coming to terms with her husbands suicide. Her objective is to get the insurance amount, post which life would be easy for her and her 5 year old daughter. But she has to prove that her husband did not commit suicide which can be done at a price. She gets into personal loan as a quick fix to this and all her pressing needs…..

The third character is that of Anil and Shilpa ( Ashish Choudhary and Neha Uberoi), a working couple who want to begin their lives together entering into sacrament of marriage. But have a long wish list of having their own home, own car, a laptop and most importantly a foreign destination honeymoon. They end up into personal loans, home loans and credit card payments. Everything seems fine till they decide to call off the relationship…..

The fourth character is that of Chandrakant ( Kulbhushan Kharbanda) a retired father and his only son ( Pushkar Jog), who wants to go abroad for further studies because it’s the current trend. The fathers savings are just not enough to fund the son’s dreams and he is forced to consider a education loan as the only way out……..

All of these characters turn up to be defaulters due to unavoidable circumstances which are of their own making. Enter Sattar Bhai ( Sanjay Dutt) owner of Goodluck Recovery Agency the saviour for those caught in debt trap, most sought after by banks, telecom companies and various multinationals. From bhaigiri to business to politics to social work – that’s how Sattar wants to progress in life. Sattar follows a simple rule when it comes to his business – Loan Liya Hai to Chukao and his cronies following the strong arm tactics.
Will Sattar succeed in using this principle while dealing with the disparate characters?

Director Saurabh Kabra has kept a uniform tempo throughout the movie and has been aptly supported by cinematographer Paramvir Singh. Khalid Azmis dialogues fit the bill. Music is not that great, except for the title song sung by Sanjay Dutt.

Sanjay Dutt rules the roost with his performance and has got into the soul of the character. Arjun Rampal is equally good. Ashish Choudhary is also worth a mention. Malaika Arora Khan is sizzling in the dance numbers. Neha Uberoi is okay. Kulbhushan Kharbanda is class act. Manoj Joshi, DayaShankar Pandey and Snehal Dabhi add the requisite masala.

EMI has a synergy with real to life instances; it may seem to take a deviation from facts. But on the whole does convey the fragility of today’s lifestyles based on EMI’s and to borrow responsibly if there be a need.

It is my story. It is a story of an individual. It is a story of every individual who use public property in their routine run to earn a living and daily bread. Unknowingly the individual is put in a situation where he loses his loved ones, mental peace and more importantly his freedom

Movies like “A Wednesday” should inspire any individual who lives in Mumbai or for that matter any crowded city in the world. “A Wednesday” is a story of “You”, “a common man”, “a stupid common man”, “Aaam Aadmi”.

What happens if a common man takes a pledge to destroy the people who were involved in 1993, 2004 etc bomb blast. The movie catches pace from the very first minute.

First time in my life I have seen applause’s for a movie which is not so common! Naseeruddin Shah (A stupid common man) has done something that was expected from him i.e. a brilliant performance. Anupam Kher (Commissioner Prakash Rathod) has also done justice to the role. Jimmy Shergill, Amir Bashir and Deepal Shaw has done a good job!

I give this movie 10 / 10 for its theme, performance and a feeling of freedom that it gave me and to the audience when they were leaving the theatre!

“A Wednesday” - Great Work by Neeraj Pandey”

The film Rock On brings together the team of Ridesh Sidwani, Farhan Akhtar who made Dil Chahta Hai with director Abhishek Kapoor. Even the movie Rock On seems to portray the essence of friendship albeit in a different narration, does call for a round of applause for a theme which might not be so popular in India i.e. Rock

The story is all about four friends forming a rock band called Magik with Aditya ( Farhan Akhtar) the lead vocalist, Joe ( Arjun Rampal) the guitarist, KD ( Purab Kohli) on the drums and Rob ( Luke Kenny) on the keyboard, out to cut out an album. Something goes awry and the friends who shared the same passion drift away, each leading their own life.
Aditya is an investment banker with a beautiful wife ( Prachi Desai) who he tries to appease, but is not really happy in life. Joe manages his guitar shop and is at the receiving end from his wife Debbie ( Sahana Goswami) as she is the lone bread earner for the family. Rob does some petty assignments with some big music directors and KD seems an odd man out in his rich dad’s business.

A decade later Aditya’s wife intends to bring the estranged friends together and revive Magik. But each of the four friends have some tough decisions as they embark on a soul searching and to work upon a passion which they once commonly shared between them.

Director Abhishek Kapoor has captured the fragility of relationships on the celluloid with compelling ease. Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy;s music just rocks, in a way the music reviews are justified. Jason West’s cinematography is fine. Screenplay and dialogues are okay.

Farhan Akhtar has emerged as an actor and a singer, with no signs of debutante syndrome to be seen in his performance. Arjun Rampal surprises with one of his finest performances till date. Purab Kohli is tremendous coupled with his natural flair for comedy. Luke Kenny is cool as cucumber and is quite persuasive in his role. Prachi Desai scores a point with her poise and competent acting. Sahana Goswami is another talent to watch out.

The movie Rock On has the blended concoction of some outstanding performances, engulfing emotions and topping it is the execution of the entire theme. I have a gut of the film Rock On going to rock the box-office as well.

The movie Bachna Ae Haseeno is produced by big banner Yashraj Films and is directed by Siddarth Anand hence there are great expectations, but just to keep you informed there has been an attempt to make the film different, but yet seems to have resemblance to the 1965 movie named Teen Devian (Starring Dev Anand, Nanda, Kalpana & Simi Garewal).

The movie is all about a casanova character with three women through different stages of in his life. He ditches two of them only to be dumped by the third. In the process he happens to learn the facets of love and of life. The first affair is in the early teens where Raj (Ranbir Kapoor) meets Mahi (Minnissha Lamba) in Switzerland wherein the duo misses the train and left into each others company. The second affair is in the twenties where Raj who is working in Mumbai, has a live-in relationship with a sexy babe Radhika ( Bipasha Basu) and does not want to be committed. He ditches her and moves to Australia. The third affair is in the thirties with Gayatri ( Deepika Padukone) a cab driver, who is not at all interested in Raj.

It’s Gayatri’s ‘NO’, which makes Raj ponder over his past and he is overcome by guilt. He decides to go back to his ex-girlfriends with an intention of seeking forgiveness from them. Only to find Mahi married to Joginder ( Kunal Kapoor) and having two kids. Mahi isn’t happy with the marriage, Raj does his part and manages to reunite the couple in love. Radhika is now a star called Shreya, on seeing Raj she gets more infuriated. She is hell bent on teaching Raj a lesson and no amount of cajoling or apologizing seems to work. Does Raj get forgiveness or not? How do Mahi & Radhika react?

Bachna Ae Haseeno somehow seems to lack the romance formulation of Yashraj Films and the screen play doesn’t seem great with a lot of disconnect in the on-screen events. The director Siddarth Anand offers great visuals and has managed to pull some fine performances. Vishal-Shekhars music is okay with interludes from R D Burmans compositions. With stunning locales of Australia and Switzerland the cinematography by Sunil Patel is worth a mention. Dialogues have been great.

Ranbir Kapoor has surely stolen all the limelight with his performance and is likely to set many hearts on flutter this time without dropping a towel. Among the ladies, its Bipasha Basu who clearly stands out and there is no trace of the much spoken age difference factor their on-screen chemistry is sizzling, she is just getting into right roles now. Minnissha Lamba has scored a point in the emotional scenes. Deepika Padukone has got a raw deal as her role is not that convincing, but she surely looks stunning. Kunal Kapoor has carried out his part efficiently.

You could also possibly feel sprinkled traces of DDLJ, Salaam Namaste in the film. On the whole Bachna Ae Haseeno has a catchy interesting first half, weak and clumsy second half. A much stronger second half would have given the movie a much better chance at box-office, especially to justify the hype created which was created in the promos.

Co- Produced by Adlabs and Pammi Baweja, Love Story 2050 is sci-fi costing a whopping 50 Crore rupees and marks the debut Harman Baweja, son of the director Harry Baweja. The USP of the flick is in the special effects, letting it down is a poor storyline coupled in with poor scripting and screenplay. No wonder it opened up to a lukewarm response……

The film starts of with Karan (Harman Baweja) the super rich son of industrialist father (Dalip Tahil), who is quite lonely, craves for love and communicates with to his dead mother through the stars. Karan happens to meet Sana (Priyanka Chopra) a simple petite girl and love blossoms between the two. Karan’s uncle Dr.Yatinder Khanna (Boman Irani) a scientist is working on developing a time machine for the last 15 years. Sana expresses her desire to Dr.Ya about traveling to Mumbai ahead of time i.e. the year 2050. A tragedy strikes and the love story ends there, but Karan still intends to be united to Sana.

Dr.Ya then completes the time machine. He and Karan embark on their journey to the year 2050 to find themselves bumping into Zeisha (Priyanka Chopra) a rock star, who does not believe in love, especially so after her parents death. Karan is determined to remind Zeisha of their love and take her back to 2008, but he just has a month’s time to achieve it. Here they are faced by a masked Dr. Hoshi an evil scientist who wants to grab the time machine from them. Will Karan be able to fight Dr. Hoshi? Will Ziesha acknowledge his love and would he be able remind her being Sana? Will they all make it to 2008?

The special effects from the two international houses (Weta Workshop and John Cox) have been terrific but at times seem a bit inconsistent. Music by Anu Malik is good and the track ‘Sach Kehna’ and ‘Milo Na Milo’ are hummable. Choregraphy (Vaibhavi Merchant), Cinematography and Sound are first-rate. Amar Mohile has come up with a great background score.





Harman Baweja has proved why he is compared to Hrithik Roshan when it comes to dancing and acting, but may require improving on dialogue delivery, definitely has the goods. Priyanka Chopra looks good but nothing to be speaking on her performance. The robots BOO and QT are cool. Boman has efficiently depicted the eccentric scientist. The kids as Sana’s brother and sister could have been easily avoided; same goes for Karan’s friends.

Well here’s a flick with quite okay first half and a second half with flying cars, biometric id, video games and talking robots, an imagination of Mumbai in 2050 with dominating VFX. This sci-fi would have been surely great commercial pot-boiler, if it was not to be done in by a pathetic storyline. With a run time of 3 hours, as of now it disappoints big time.

The movie Via Darjeeling dishes out a mystery in which interpreters roll out their own versions of a missing link, to an extent even the viewer has to chance his own interpretation. The director Arindam Nandy has tried experimenting with a plot which gives a feel of being best suited the small screen, in episodes.

The plot begins with a newly wed couple Ankur (Kay Kay Menon) and Rimli (Sonali Kulkarni) on their honeymoon in Darjeeling. On the way back to Calcutta, Ankur happens to disappear. Rimli frantically asks the hotel authorities to call in for the cops, the inspector Robin Dutt (Vinay Pathak) starts off investigating. He figures out from Rimli that Ankur had a fight with the rash hotel taxi driver and also came in heavily on the hotel manager as well. She also states of being stalked by a stranger Bonny (Pravin Dabbas) throughout their trip.

The scene moves two years post the incident wherein Inspector Dutt’s alongwith group of friends Ronodeep Sen (Rajat Kapoor), Preeti Sen (Simone Singh), Mallika Tiwari (Sandhya Mridul), Kaushik Chatterjee (Proshant Narayanan) are having gup-shup on a rainy day with drinks and dinner. Dutt narrates the story and everyone is keen to know what happened to Ankur, but Dutt responds of being unaware as he was told by his superiors not to investigate further. Now, each one of them comes up with their own versions indicating individual personality perceptions.

The director Arindam Nandy does catch attention quite a few times in the duration of 2 hours. The dialogues by Atul Sabharwal rightly fit the bill. The music is okay and doesn’t seem detached. The story should have had the final factual inputs from Inspector Dutt, about Ankur.

Kay Kay the perfectionist, as is always. Sonali Kulkarni has been a revelation with wide array emotion display. Vinay Pathak, Pravin Dabbas, Rajat Kapoor, Simone Singh, Sandhya Mridul and Proshant Narayanan complement each other very well. The star cast has been well chosen for the flick.

Via Darjeeling is more of a experimental cinema, which does not give you an answer but leaves you to have your own interpretation…………

Yashraj Films brings in with caution Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic after a spate of box office disasters. This time around they have come up with a family entertainer that would appeal to the kids in a bigger measure. The film bears a seeming resemblance to the Hollywood classic ‘Mary Poppins’ and a dash of couple other flicks.

We start of with a child Ranbeer who has lost everyone he loves –parents, teacher and childhood girlfriend in the process lapping up all the laurels at the boarding school. Ranbeer (Saif Ali Khan) grows up to be business tycoon with charisma, but as destiny would have it, his car rams into a vehicle leading to the death of Mr.& Mrs. Walia. Ranbeer is arrested and the court sentences his to the guardianship of the 4 kids who have been orphaned for a certain period. The kids – Vashisht (Akshat Chopra), Avantika (Ayushi Berman), Aditi (Shriya Sharma) & Iqbal (Rachit Sidana) move in with an intention of seeking revenge. They hate him and he too cannot face them. As things get unpleasant with time, the kids ask God for his help. God (Rishi Kapoor) hears the plea and decides to send his most cheerful angel Geeta (Rani Mukherji) on a mission to help the kids and their guardian to love each other. Geeta enters the house like a nanny to the kids. The Pyar & Magic start working when a man who has lost love, the four orphans who need love and an angel who does not know what love is, are set on roller coaster ride. Do the kids get love of the man they hate; through the kids does the man get love which he has lost always and does the angel return post her mission?

The director – producer Kunal Kohli has kept the script simple and has stuck to the basics, mixing fun with fantasy, without complicating the storyline. Music from Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy is not great except for the item number ‘Lazy Lamhe’. Near to perfect cinematography by Sudeep Chatterjee.

Saif Ali doesn’t seem to be acting in this flick, but simply gets into the character with quite ease. Rani Mukherji is in after a break, her performance is positive and bubbly. Amisha Patel as Ranbeer’s girlfriend has nothing much to do. Rishi Kapoor in his cameo is appreciable. But the show stealers are the 4 kids and Kunal has really got out of them the deliverables.

The flick is family entertainer to be watched along with the children.

De Taali is a movie with a light comedy and a normal plot that doesn’t send the audience on laughing riot as it was projected, except for some enjoyable moments which should have been maintained throughout by E.Nivas.

The theme can friendships ever turn to love, gels in most of Shahrukh Khan movies. Here, three friends Paglu (Riteish Deshmukh), Abhi (Aftab Shivdasani) and Ami (Ayesha Takia) share the best of friendship. Ami is the girl considered the tom boy by the two guys. Abhi is someone who loves to get in love more often and is going to be in for the 33rd time. The character Paglu, is of a guy with great sense of humour. Paglu seeds one sided love for Abhi in Ami and she believes that she is the girl in the Abhi’s life. But the story takes a turn when Abhi falls in in love with Kartika (Rimi Sen) a gold digger and wants to marry her. Paglu and Ami come to know that Kartika is trapping Abhi because of his money, so they kidnap her in the airport. Kartika after being kidnapped is moved to Paglu’s house. Ami and Abhi fall in love with each other.

In the meanwhile, Kartika runs away from Paglu’s house and informs Abhi about he kidnap. She brainwashes Abhi into believing that Paglu and Ami are not his real friends. By then Paglu finds out Kartika aka Anjali’s past history of her two affairs (Mukul Dev, Pawan Malhotra) and a marriage (Sachin Narvekar). On the wedding day, Paglu calls all three of them and gives the bride a roll-a-coaster ride. What happens to Abhi, Ami, Paglu & Kartika post this?

Riteish has now developed the uncanny knack of coming up with such performance with relative ease, no doubt he is signed in for such films. Aftab has been is normal class act. Ayesha Takia has shown improvisation in this outing. Rimi Sen has added the requisite zing. Anupam Kher, Saurabh Shukla, Mukul Dev and Pawan Malhotra have been wasted in the movie. Music by Vishal-Shekhar is quite okay and the film has two good tracks on which the film has been promoted. Abbas Tyrewala has tried to brew up an interesting story, not ably supported by the screenplay and direction.

De Taali does not conjure up to its name and ends up in the okay category.

The direction of Haal E Dil by Anil Devgan does not justify his previous directorial outings and the producer Kumar Mangat in a quest of creating a launch pad for his daughter (Amita) has been done in by a poor script-line. Supposedly aiming to dish out an romantic entertainer the writer Dhiraj Ratan has ended mangling it pretty badly.

The film begins with Sanjana (Amita Pathak), who is in love with her classmate Rohit (Adhyayan Suman). In comes Shekhar (Nakuul Mehta) a chronic flirt, on a rail journey to Shimla with Sanjana, wooing her all the way. Both miss the train and are left with no choice than to travel together and have a encounter with a dacoit of Veerappan fame. Once they reach Shimla, Shekhar realizes his love for Sanjana and goes on hunger strike to prove his creditability. Sanjana for whom love is sacred finds herself torn between a Rohit who is a perfect love and Shekhar a perfect stranger in love with her, adding on a melodramatic twist.

As debutants, Amita Pathak exudes acting confidence, but she looks a tinge mature for the guys. Nakuul Mehta seems to go a bit haywire in his zest to portray the role. Adhyayan Suman should have got a more screen presence and has seemingly lost out.

The music is hummable and shot at some of the exotic locales. The cinematography (Rajeev Ravi) is just fantastic. The film is doomed because of shoddy script and screenplay. Somewhere the movie seems to draw parallels in theme with DDLJ and Jab We Met.

All I wish is, the best of luck for the debutants!!!!

If you have not seen sub-plots being woven intermittently without really connecting to the core plot, bet you can get your desire fulfilled with Summer 2007. The director Suhail Tatari has the boiling issue of farmers committing suicide as the main plot, also has subplots of medical campus, college politics, the tyranny of money lending landlords and finally roping in an awakening change. The film would have been much better if it could co-relate the sub-plots or ideally concentrated on a single plot.

We find a team of 5 medical students leading a lavish and carefree urban life. Rahul (Sikander Kher), Priyanka (Uvika Choudhary), Qateel (Arjan Bajwa),Bagani (Alekh Sangal) and Vishaka (Gul Panag) forms the group, each with some typical college nicknames. These folks take up rural internship to avoid the university elections, which has taken the initial chunk of the movie. The rural village in Maharashtra deprived of amenities and the farmers committing suicide. This takes the group through a soul searching sojourn seeing the pitiful state of the poverty stricken people out there, helped by Mukya (Ashutosh Rana) the village doctor.

Suddenly the script diverts attention to the money lending zamindar (Vikram Gokhale) from the village and his son (Prashant Narayanan) who take advantage of the villagers by charging exorbitant interest rates. Next diversion, is introduction of a reformer (Sachin Khedekar) who introduces the concept of micro-credit finance. To add on to it, the naxalite issues coupled with corrupt politicians and a confused female cop (Shweta Menon). Nowhere do these connect with the main plot of the farmer suicide issue and then ends up into the youth transformation into contentious citizens.

The new comers Uvika and Arjan have given a seemingly fair performance. Gul is good, yet to come up with her best. Alekh has been okay. Sikander is evolving and some scenes prove this factor. Ashutosh in a different role is ever dependable. As with Vikram Gokhale and Sachin Khedekar hardly things can go wrong. Prashant and Shweta leave a mark.

Editing (Bobby Bose) is in total disarray. Nothing much to talk of music, it would have been better off without songs.

Summer 2007 is a bold initiative to drive attention to the simmering issue, only to be outdone with the sub-plots and a run time of approximately 3 hours. A mix bag film………..