Chandni Chowk to China movie review

Cast: Akshay Kumar, Deepika Padukone, Mithun Chakraborty, Ranvir Shorey, Gordon Liu
Director: Nikhil Advani
Music: Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy, Bappi Lahiri

MOVIE  REVIEW

I saw the movie in Satyam theatre my 120 rupees are waste the movie is not good. Even though Advani and his writer Shridhar Raghavan in an attempt to give us a full on entertainer sacrificed logic, plausibility, characterisation and even coherence. Chandni Chowk to China is not as much good.  Since the movie is produced by Rohan Sippy, the twist inevitably echoes Sippy’s classic Sholay and also brings in an identical twins separated at birth angle from Seeta Aur Geeta.So, we have a Ramgarah-type village, only this one is in China, terrorized by the mega villain Hojo. Two villagers land up in Chandni Chowk, where they mistake the bumbling cook Siddhu, (Akshay Kumar), to be a reincarnation of the great warrior Leu Shing.Siddhu, who desperately wants more out of life than just slicing potatoes, goes with them to China and gets thoroughly trashed by Hojo.

Meanwhile, there’s an angle of a mistaken identities with two Deepika Padukones  is a sweet, simple model and the other the not so sweet sister Meow Meow.

Eventually, Siddhu trains and unleashes his inner warrior, who imagines Hojo as a giant potato and decimates him. Akshay Kumar loved the visual of him in a Chinese outfit holding the seekh kabab style swords so much that he signed on.

Ghajini Bollywood Movie Review

Ghajini is a 2008 Bollywood film directed by A. R. Murugadoss and produced under the Geetha Arts banner by Allu Aravind. The film was a remake of its Tamil film, Ghajini (2005), which was also directed by Muragadoss and starred by Surya Sivakumar and Asin. It stars Aamir Khan and bollywood débutant Asin Thottumkal, Jiah Khan, Pradeep Rawat and Riyaz Khan .

Hi friends yesterday i saw Ghajini movie it was really super. The movie is doubt from Tamil Version Ghajini. The film is a romantic action thriller that explores the life of a rich businessman who suffers from anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter. With the aid of Polaroid Instant camera images and permanent tattoos on his torso, the businessman tries to avenge the murder of his vivacious model girlfriend, Kalpana, who was killed shortly before he was also attacked leading to his diagnosis of amnesia.

Aamir Khan as Sanjay Singhania. Sanjay Singhania is a rich business man, the owner of a mobile phone service provider company. Sanjay falls in love with Kalpana, who later is murdered. In the same incident, Sanjay develops amnesia following a firm blow to his head by an iron rod. After undergoing rehabilitation, Sanjay Singhania becomes obsessed with avenging the murder of his girlfriend and to combat his disability, he has tattoos spread over his torso to help him remember what his intentions are.

Asin Thottumkal as Kalpana. Kalpana is a young, bubbly and vivacious girl who falls in love with Sanjay Singhania. A model in televison advertisements by profession, Kalpana gains publicity by proclaiming herself to be the girlfriend of the successful entrepreneur, Sanjay Singhania. Sanjay disguises himself as Sachin and relates to her, and Kalpana, unknowing that Sachin is
indeed Sanjay, falls in love with him.she helps others. Kalpana, showcased as a kind-hearted person, becomes involved with Ghajini and his henchmen after foiling their plot to sell girls into prostitution . Kalpana is killed in front of Sanjay by Ghajini, and subsequently so creating the theme of avengement, which forms the crux of the plot.

Jiah Khan as Sunita. Sunita played a curious medical college student, who even though not given permission tries to study the case of Sanjay Singhania and his amnesiac problem. She appears throughout the film as she attempts to unravel Sanjay’s mysteries and past life and goes places to find more information about the psychiatric patient she wants to meet. Despite initial friction between Sanjay and herself, she then helps Sanjay overcome Ghajini.

Pradeep Rawat as Ghajini. Ghajini plays the main antagonist who brutally murders Kalpana for insulting him and ruining his plans.He played Deva in Lagaan(2001)in which he is one of the integral team members. He also played Ashwatthama in B R Chopra’s TV serial Mahabharat.

Riyaz Khan as Fawaz. Fawwaz plays the supporting role of a police inspector who investigates the murders by Sanjay Singhania. He also learns about some of Sanjay’s past life.

Slumdog Millionaire Movie Review

Slumdog Millionaire is the latest effort by director Danny Boyle, a man who never seems content to stick to one genre. Well, I guess Slumdog Millionaire could exist in the same genre as Millions, but they both approach the material from vastly different directions. The earlier film follows a young boy who has conversations with saints as he tries to do the right thing with a large sum of money that has literally fallen into his lap. This new film involves millions in money, but is much more about fate, destiny, and love.

Going into Slumdog Millionaire I had heard all sorts of good things. I successfully avoided any real details aside from the obvious Who Wants to be a Millionaire? . So in I went, ready to see if the experience lived up to the hype that has been building around it. The lights went down, the screen flickered to life, and then, in the blink of an eye, it was over. Two hours had passed in what seemed like a much shorter time. There was a cheerful smile plastered across my face and I felt better having seen what had just flashed before my eyes.

What I found most amazing about this movie is how conventional the plot is. There is nothing particularly special about the story nor about the linear fashion in which it plays out. In that sense it is not a great film. However, despite the standard romantic drama tropes danced out onto the screen in that linear fashion it is a great film. Why is it a great film? Well, there is a subjective question. There is no easy way to explain this. For one there is a great energy and explosiveness to the tale, it is in constant motion. There is the emotionally charged relationship of the central characters, and the beauty of fantasy as fate plays out on the screen.

Something that I have noticed over the years and have seen discussed a few times is the increasing number of films that have super-serious and/or depressing subject matter that receive critical acclaim while the number of feel good movies are either relegated to family viewing or ignored by the critical community at large. It may be an over-generalization, but it seems to be at least a little accurate. The movies that tend to get the critic community buzzing are usually thoughtful, introspective films with plenty of tragedy that remain with you long after the credits end. Just take a look at films like Million Dollar Baby, Brokeback Mountain, Crash, Babel, Munich, Mystic River… heck, even

The Dark Knight. There are not as many films that will leave you smiling. It is this that helps make Slumdog Millionaire stand out. It is a movie that will definitely draw you in, make you smile, and give you just a little bit of fantastical, romantic hope.

The story is a simple one and it is pretty clearly laid out in the trailer. A young Indian named Jamal (Dev Patel) goes on the Hindi version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? and gets farther than anyone ever has. It is a surprising feat considering he is an orphan from
the slums of Mumbai and has no formal education. Just before going to the final question time runs out and they break for the night. Jamal is arrested on suspicion of cheating. He is taken to the police station and tortured under orders of the Police Inspector (Irrfan
Khan), but he doesn’t break. What follows is a series of flashbacks cutting between the police questioning, the next question on the game show, and the particular time earlier in Jamal’s life that gave him the knowledge/guidance needed to answer the question correctly.

That sets up the way the story is told, but there is much more to it. The flashbacks take us through Jamal’s tumultuous life. He is born through hardship and grows up through hardship but never seems to be of hardship. We go on the adventures of his life with his brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal). They hustle on trains for food, they hustle at the five star hotel we know as the Taj Mahal, they are forced to work for the Fagin-like Maman who forces kids to work the streets, even going so far as to blind them, knowing that blind children can make more money. All told, it is not an easy life. But Jamal never lets it get him down, he just keeps moving forward.

Through it all, there is one thing that keeps Jamal going above all else — that is his love for Latika (Freida Pinto). They first meet as young children and throughout their young lives, they cross paths only to be torn away from each other again. Jamal believes it is his destiny to be with her, and all of his actions are dictated by his desire to find her and be with her.

It is a beautiful story told in a visually exciting manner and told by a cast of wonderful young actors. The story is exciting, involving, and I felt myself drawn in. I was completely invested in the outcome. I longed to see the two reunited and was heartbroken as
life ripped them apart. Then there are the developments in his relationship with his brother — you can feel the love, but they are on decidedly different life paths.

As involving as the story is, as good as the acting is, there is something else that needs be mentioned — the setting. Obviously, it is set in Mumbai and that setting brings with it a distinctly exotic flavor not often seen on American screens. Yes, this is window dressing, but it does open a window into another culture, one that is growing and developing faster than anything seen here in the United States. The colors, the class interaction, the rampant poverty, it is all just fascinating to see how life moves on different level. On top of that, the film is shot wonderfully by director Danny Boyle and director of photography Anthony Dod Mantle. There is a loose quality that helps amp up the energy used in concert with interesting angles that are subtle, yet add so much to the overall feel of the movie.

Simply put, this is a wonderful movie that injects a little bit of magic back into the cinema. This is not about reality (although there is a lot of it here), it is about fate and destiny and the way everything can align in just the right way. It is a visual and emotional journey that is built off a script by Simon Beaufoy, based on the novel by Vikas Swarup (called Q & A). It is an experience not to be missed. Not to mention, it ends withBollywood stlye dance sequence!