Flood movie review..

Those were the golden days for Hollywood flicks as many films’ main plot was- the city is in danger by a ‘Natural Calamity’.. you take Twister, Volcano, Die another day etc. or some alien or other creature has created a havoc in the city – Godzilla, Independence day etc. This film- Flood goes on similar lines, the difference is the ‘type of calamity’- FLOOD...

Everything else is going inline with the subject. If we see film individually without relating to other Hollywood flicks aforesaid, it is a good attempt to thrill audience with the dangerous behaviour of a water wave in city of London.. graphics are adequately used to insert the whole thing to audiences’ mind.. many scenes camera has also worked well..

I’ll say: if you are fond of such films and want to have same entertainment as Volcano, Twister.. then go for it. For other’s.. IPL final is the best option :-)

2.5/ 5 popcorns..

(Flood movie review : rj vishal)

City of Gold review...

This flick gives the reality touch to the era of 1980’s mill workers’ and their family’s hardships during that time of recession for textiles mills.. it deals with their poverty, economic and thus emotional disturbances, conflicts between thoughts of own mind, Mumbai chowl neighbours, the life there...

I think 80’s is the era, attracted to many film makers as in recent past we had two three releases- Striker, Baabar.... , chandni baar was also based on 80’s decade..

Especially talking about Mahesh manjarekar, his camera has some sort of attraction to Mumbai chowl, the tenants there, their behaviour, their hardships, their thinking.... Vastav is the best suited example to the same.. where he achieved a pinnacle of involvement for audience and a pinnacle to Sanju baba’s career too.. City of Gold revolves around the life in chowls of Mumbai were mill workers live their lives, their children grow, what they learn from the environment, and how the life lead them or they lead their life to where... you’ll definitely admit that Mahesh manjarekar has tried hard to put the picture near to reality..

This film belongs to him only,,

3/5 popcorns

(City of Gold movie review: rj vishal)

Apartment review...

2 BHK flat- rent shared by boyfriend n girlfriend- break up- only girl left in apt., who gets another PG: a girl- and the story goes as new girl (neetu Chandra) has some sceptical behaviour as she does’t like her landlord (tanushree) has relation with boyfriend (rohit roy)...

Weakly weaved storyline, not so new plot, and less known starcast- all material for not good film..

All goes as a B grade film, not engaging except in the second half- as why the new girl (neetu) dislikes tanushree get along with boyfriend rohit... otherwise Anupam Kher also gives a mediocre work.. i think such actors should not work in such films, as the audience is being attracted by such names and gets nothing worth entertaining after spending 60-70- 100- 150 rupees...

I’ll suggest not to go for it.

1.5/ 5 popcorns

(Apartment movie review: by rj vishal)

Paathshala review...

Going back to school, it’s always cool, No matter we were fool, but joy was ‘house full’.... always love school days..:-)))

School day’s entice almost everybody of us- friends, those childish ‘Shararat’, punishment from teachers, some of the peculiar teachers, some very friendly some pathetic’’’.. all this brings smile to our faces... shahid has tried to make us remember such days.. but the try never succeeded throughout the film..

Film goes in the backdrop of ‘commercialization of education system these days’ , students and teacher’s suffering through this and good teachers also defy this.... this serious issue not performed with ‘good’ entertainment value added to it and involving audience..

Nana... wasted... should have given more places to perform... in the role of a principle who is so introvert that couldn’t express and communicate school trustee’s bad intentions to the teachers and students... very sad for director for not using such a humongous talent..

Shahid looks cute, sweet, chocolaty... tried good...

Ayesha takia.. wasted... no reason for her to be in the film..

The film gives smiles in bits and pieces (some are nice) the last speech of nana is a bit touchy- leaving audience with smile....

It’s an average movie..

2.5 / 5 popcorns

... vishal.

(Paathshala review : rj vishal)

Raamu’s Phoonk – 2 review..

I can write a 200 pages book on why not to watch RGV’s Phook-2 :-)))..


What the phoonk !!! which vanishes the desires of audience to get a class act on silver screen..

A sequel to a pathetic phook-1, where last film’s living black magic woman was killed by tantric.. and in this film she comes back as a ‘bad aatma’.. wanting to kill all the loved ones of the lead actor.. and among this fishy story some good camera work makes u scared for 2-3 scenes... otherwise it’s a bad attempt to scare audience who expect some class from RGV.. (raamsey’s used to make good moviews 10- 15 yrs back...:-))))))

Avoid it..

1.5 / 5 popcorns..

... vishal.

(Raamu’s Phoonk 2 review: rj vishal)

Tum milo to sahi: review

Wo kehte hai na.. baat karne se hi baat banti hai... par uske liye..- tum milo to sahi :-)

Everybody’s meeting with problems these days... no body is ‘meeting himself’.. and that’s where the trouble is... tum milo to sahi: is about human relations, emotions, their belief about world and life, understanding, living with love and pleasure and let live so...

Meeting and coffee, are almost has become synonyms in urban world today.. this is all about meeting different people and interacting with different minds... the characters are sketched in the same manner too... different habbites different people, different mindsets.. and all have one thing common in their life- a coffee house.. which is to be acquired by a multinational company.. and they do ‘ saam, daam, dand.. ‘ to have it... and gets retaliated by the people, for whom the coffee shop means a lot...

Very nice , heart touching film.. a simple life shown in the back drop of activities around coffee shop.. One side a greed of carreer at any cost. One side cherishing lifewith family and love.. at one side the conservatism in attitude- not to change...(damn new generation) and at other side- the warm and lovely heart to welcome all.. What matters in life is understanding, love, emotions, humanity... All forgotton and you become machine in the form of human

This film denies to- if star cast is not big, the film is not good/attractive to watch.. ya i admit is not ‘the great’ film but, definitely brings smile to your face.. you feel relaxed after watching it..

Some places you find the director is missing the flow... but that can be overlooked for such a nice emotional treat..

It’s like cool baraf in the beginning of summer..

My rating: 3/5 (good to watch movie..)

Emotions drive us to live.. without ‘em, its just spending time on earth..

..vishal:-)

Hum Tum aur Ghost: film review

Arshad Varsi’s this home production, wanted to deal with very different topic but couldn’t resulted so... and fails to catch the audience.. with wage start and merging comedy, love, and emotions towards ghost doesn’t contribute to a good flic on silver screen

Story goes like: Arshad’s character is the only human who can see ‘Ghost’ on this earth and all thoese ‘Ghosts’ want to solve their problems / left out works or desires, and thus THEY get free soul.. this guy is in love with a lovely girl(Diya Mirza) who thinks he’s mentally ill, and many a times doubts on his loyalty towards her as he spends more time with his friend (sandhya mrudul)... and he wants to go on helping ghosts and want help from the girl but the CLASH happens on this point only... uff .. too much no.?!. :-)

Diya looks very beautiful, her costumes are really nice... arshad looks almost same as he was in the film ‘chocolate’.. boman tries to add some pinch of comedy, but doesn’t clicks..
Ghost harassing Arshad walah scenes are almost same as shahrukhs ‘chamatkar’ where nasiruddin shah was the ghost..

So this not completely original, but trying to create something different doest results as per expectation..

2/5 popcorns... it’s an average film.. can be avoided..

(Hum Tum aur Ghost : review by rj vishal)

Shapit review: by rj vishal

well scripted, well researched, well directed film;

some scenes really thrills you , one or two takes breath;

this kind of film’s hero is the script and story- the curiosity and solving of the effect of bad Omen is the catch for audience and if director weaves all these well, he’s through. He’re i’ll say: good job done by Vikram Bhatt’s camp.. with even new actors, he doesn’t disappoint audience...
aditya narayan looks infant actor, actress’ there just for a scene or two...

it’s not aditya’s but Vikram Bhatt’s flic, who i thinks has become the master of such thrillers after raaz and 1920... i’ll say this film is more convincing than 1920...

if u want to try some different entertainment source than IPL than it can definitely be one option..

i’ll give 3.25/5 popcorns..

cheers and be khush-haal..!!

:-)

road movie: review

Road movie:
On road with one truck, two ‘ibn-e-batuta’ (co traveller) and destination: undefined..!!
Life wants something or we want something else from what is been given... This leads, a young man, to a road trip which includes a job of delivering goods with the vehicle..
Road shows a lot.. How you being interpreted. How you take it how others involve in your life and will give what, which lead to where....

Vishnu- a fed up young man, with dad’s business and helping him out in the same (hair oil business), wants to do something else.. a friend of dad helps him giving some other opportunity—a driver job to deliver some goods.. which leads him to travel across desert. A few people he come across, some helpful, some help seekers and some dangerous..
The film about this journey will be less attractive in commercial cinema and so on entertainment level i’ll rate 1.5/ 5.. ‘BUT’ artistically it is very good.. if you compare a ‘road trip’ to ‘journey of life’ !!!

In this world, only you have to bear your baggage.. but others can reap your fruit... life’s sharing process- sharing of baggage, love, pain, escape, happiness (abhay with a young boy and satish kaushik).. Our values/ teachings of our parents /well wishers ONLY help in any difficulty (dad’s hair oil helped him in every difficulty of travel- starting up cinema projector.. and thus escaping from bad policeman.. bartering hair oil with water smuggler to help him get his life back... and that water saved other villagers from their deadly thirst) .. many a times we don’t know what lies within... others find out and help us to explore it and reap its fruits (abhay didn’t know what lies in his truck.. satish kaushik identified and made that cinema machine work which afterwards became means of earning... that attracted his love of life too..)
this depth in the story can make me give 3.5/ 5 to the film..

but taking mainstream cinema, public expectation, less easy understandability and less ‘sit back and relax’ entertainment factor... i’ll give (2.5 / 5 popcorns.)

(road movie review: rj vishal)

wish u.. Happy Valentine's Day..!!

I’m penning down on the eve of Saint Valentine’s Day.. written in a mood of a person remembering that beautiful night when he first met her valentine.. what magic was created by that killing moonlight and how her smile compelled him to forget the rest of the world….

Who raat bhi kya raat thi,
Jab aasman me chand, aur zamee’ pe aap thi..
Hum jo bolte gaye, wo zuba’ bhi aap thi..

Shishe si tarashi, wo chandni bhi aap thi,
Zheel ke pani ki mousiqui bhi aap thi,

Hawao ki angdai ka tarannum bhi aap thi,
Patto ke kinoro pe chamakta resham bhi aap thi,

Hasti khilkhilati Jui bhi aap thi,
Nazaro ki hamari se chhui-mui wo aap thi..

gumsum si kashti se uthti lahere be-naap thi,
sheetal se pani me lagai aag wo bhi aap thi…
: -)
Happy Valentine’s Day….
Vishal.

striker review by rj vishal

STRIKER
It strikes the cord of reality touch in the characters, location, costumes...
the feel of '80s is very well weaved. ..
apropriate background score and songs- take the story forward and placed when they're required to. on art front it strikes,
but its just an on screen autobiography of a carrom champion lower class boy, who grows up in shadow of criminal environment with no particular goal then easy and prosperous future.... entertainment quotient is less...
i'll rate: 2.5/5 (above avg.)

Pyaar impossible: is really IMPOSSIBLE..

Sorry Mr. Napoleon the great..!!!........... but there is no other word then ‘Impossible’ in my dictionary for this movie… :- )

If you ask me about the story and plot: they’re impossible...
Priyanka is gorgeous with short cloths but everyone else is: impossible… ya man.!!

Points for not watching:

· The story or plot of the film: - so mediocre… an ugly looking guy is in love with a beautiful cheek in college.. but never could say to the girl.. after seven years, he completes a project to make a software which can be compatible to all the operating system of the world ( comp. and mobile too..) and suddenly a thieve(dino morea) steals this software and make a deal with Singapore company… where priyanka is the manager. PR and Mktg… and this ugly guy goes there, resulting to be a nanny of her 6yr old daughter (in between 7 long years: priyanka got married and left her husband and stays with her li’l girl…) and the love story with the mission to chase the thief along with taking care of the younger girl…. Ufffff… all this mess- don’t know how many stories of how many films merged to make this one…. (do u know who’s the writer ?!!?..... Uday Chopra..!!!!!!.......give me a break..)
· The pace of this ‘Impossible’ film is so slow.. that u actually feel that you are sitting in the theatre hall since your birth :- ) ya….
· The film is without focus: as I’ve told you before - the director (jugal hansraj) gets confused with such three-four things (love story, software theft - chasing, in which father supporting son, and taking care of the younger girl…. Oho …).. taking them together resulted into such a big & boring puzzle. :- (((

Points for watching it:

· If you are a cinema research student and doing a project on ‘why any film becomes faltu, boring, pathetic and impossible…’
· If someone is fed up with the world outside and want to commit suicide… (the reason to put this point is not to provoke suicide but.. to tell the world- “everything other than this film is good in this world…. Minnnnnd it… yanna:- ))))

On the whole, Uday Chopra’s 3rd lauch “… ;-)…” is an impossible stuff on silver screen to watch... Even if you have enough of money then also... don’t go and waste your time.. (The better use of time can be sitting on chai ki kettle... gup shup )

Rating: 1.5/5 popcorns (wastage of time..)

(pyaar impossible: movie review by rj vishal)

avalanche of laughter...

Hey! The fantastic script of 3 idiots which is avalanche of laughter... just wanna share it with u... just go through and enjoooy..!!!

Adarniya sabhapati mahodaya …atithi vishesh shikshan mantri shri R D tripati [tripathi] ji ..maanyaniya shikshagan aur mere piyaaare [pyare] sahpatiyo [sahapathiyon] …aaj agar I.C.E aasmaan ki bulaaandiyo [bulandiyon] ko chhu raahaa [raha] hai ..to uska shreya sirrf [sirf] ekinsaan [ek insaan] ko jaataahai [jata hai] shri veerusahastra buddhe ..give him a a big hand ..he is a great guy really ..
Peechle buttis saal se inhone nirantar is college mein balatkar [balaatkaar ] pe balatkar kiye ..umeed hai aagey bee [bhi] karte rahege [rahenge] ..hamine to aashcharya hota hai ki ek insaan apne jeevan kaal mein itni balatkar kaisi kar sakta hai …inhone kadi tapaasya se apne aapko is kaabil bunaya [banaya] hai ..waqt ka sahi upyog ghante ka purna istemaal koi inse seeke [seekhe] ..seeke inse seeke ….aaj hum sab chaatra yaha hai ..kal desh videsh mein fail [faael] jayenge ..waadaa hai aapse jis desh mein honge waha balatkar karenge I.C.E ka naam roshan karenge …dika [dikha] denge sabko jo balatkar Karne ki shamtaa yaha ke chaatro mein hai wo sansaar ke kisi chaatro mein nahiii ….No other chaatra No other chaatraAdarniya mantraji namashkar aapne is sansthaan ko wo chees di jiski hamein sakht zaroorat thi ...sstunn ..stunn hota sabi [sab hi] ke paas hai ..sab chupa ke rakte hai ..detaa koi nai …aapne apna stun is balatkari purush ke haat mein diya hai…ab dekiye yeh kaisa iska upyog karta hai

· Utamamm dadh dhadhattt padam……..madhyam padam thuchuk thuchuk……..khanishtham thudthudiiiy padam……..sursuria pran khatkam..!!!!

Howz that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(courtesy: chatur aur 3 idiots..;-))))))