Build up:
Coming from the same director of Aashiqui 2, Ek Villain stars Sidharth Malhotra as Guru ,Shraddha Kapoor as Aisha and Ritesh Deshmukh as Rakesh. Primarily set in Goa, is a tale of a love story of a villain, and has all the makings of a Bollywood masala movie
What we see:
- Guru is a contract killer for Remo(looks ugly) and bumps into Aisha while he is being beaten up in jail
- She follows him around like a Vodafone puppy and trying to make him smile with all her life gyaan, cracking really non laughable jokes (sometimes feel like slapping her)
- Her only mission in life is to make random people smile, which keeps her happy
- One fine day, Guru decides to help her, stopping his contract killer ways... and obviously they fall in love
- Meanwhile there is a parallel love story of Rakesh, a hen pecked husband with Sulo(a full on nagging Aamna Shariff) is introduced to us.
- He loves his wife so much that he kills for her, and brings home trinkets - Kya pyaar hai!!
- And somewhere the love stories meet which sets the pace of the movie
Delights:
- Sid Malhotra - he is so hot, loves and kills with the same intensity... and can be the new age angry young man - you can draw similarities
- Banjaara and Galiyaan are wonderful, soothing on the nerves
Disappointments:
- Story gets a lil jerky in bits cos of switching between past and present
- Nagging & screeching Aamna Shariff
- Remo Fernandez - we loved what you sang over the years.. on screen we cant handle
- Prachi Desai - you cant look seductive even if you exchange DNA with Sunny Leone
Rating: 3/5 - All for Sidharth Malhotra - he is eye candy, and is a visual treat to women
Build Up:
Based on Chetan Bhagat's best selling autobiography of the same name, stars Arjun Kapoor as Krish Malhotra, Alia Bhatt as Ananya Swaminathan who fall in love while in IIM-A, and want to get married with the blessings of their parents. Nothing wrong, just that Krish is a Punjabi from Delhi and Ananya is a Tam Brahm from Chennai. How they battle it out is what the movie all about.
What we see:
- Krish meets Ananya in IIM-A and they have a rocking time for the 2 years of their course. Studying in each other's rooms, making out and all the usual college happenings, including a well choreographed song spanning the 2 years
- Commitment time creates a situation where the respective parents get off on the wrong foot, with each accusing the other in politically incorrect statements.. This sets the tone for the major part of the movie
- Krish has an uphill task in patafying the entire family in totally unfamiliar territory of Chennai and manages to get them to accept him
- Ananya comes over to Delhi to do the same, including salvaging the honour of the family in a stick situation at a wedding. She also emerges successful
- Biggest problem is to get the families accept each other, without flying at each other's throats and making stereotypical comments of the part of India the other is from
- Push comes to shove, and the situation has gone out of hand till a miracle happens and the wedding is on course - All's well that ends well :)
Delights:
- The screenplay of the romance between Krish and Ananya
- The music from Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, and the lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya
- Revathy as the authentic Tam Brahm mom... she's a class apart as always
Disappointments: - That's a looooong list now
- Alia Bhatt can act, but Tam Brahm she is not - who can be convinced that the girl who wears shorts in the campus is all the time in sarees at home. Four words in Tamil is all that she says
- Arjun Kapoor can model for Garnier Fructis Hard Gel - Same hairstyle all through movie irrespective of the years. He also looks like he ingested some of it - Same expression through the movie
- Tam and Punju stereotypical statements - color of skin, upbringing, timing of wedding etc gets on your nerves eventually
- 2nd half has too much drama and it wears you down
- Ronit Roy - angry man you are...but not stone cold and dead... You can do better
Rating: 2.5/5 - only for the first half, cos its light. After reading the book, hopes were high, and movie didn't quite justify the drama in the novel
(Should learn adaptations of books to movies from Hollywood)
Build up:
David Dhawan - Comedy king of the 90s is back on the comedy charter this time with his son Varun, and hopefully who we think are good looking leading ladies, Ileana D'cruz and Nargis Fakhri. And a few condiments for the tadka in the plot- Arunoday Singh, Rajpal Yadav, Anupam Kher, Loveleen Sharma(remember the babe in YJHD trekking in shorts), and a guest appearance from Shakti Kapoor (aaaaaooooooouuuuuuu)
What we see:
- Srinath Prasad(Varun) aka Seenu is absolutely aimless in life and decides to shift base to Bangalore in search of his tree of enlightenment (Degree). Apart from studying, he can do anything that borders on gunda gardi
- Love at first sight with Sunaina, who is terrified to even glance at him. Courtesy: Her supposed fiancé Angad (Arunoday Singh) who is on anger management classes.
- Sunaina loves Seenu amidst all the fights and song singing, till a small hiccup occurs
- Enter Aisha (Nargis) who is besotted with Seenu, and will marry only him and no one else...and daddy will agree to anything she wants
To unravel the Bollywood styletwists ... and have a good laugh to de-stress... head to the nearest multiplex and watch the movie
Delights:
- Varun's comic timing - reminds you of Govinda, but in a new, sophisticated, 6-Pack avatar.
- Varun's dancing and patafying
- Ileana in her damsel in distress avatar - kinda believable and looks good
- Arunoday like a blabbering, bumbling baboon
- Music is foot tapping and catchy
Disappointments:
- Nargis Fakhri can't act or look pretty - hot bod/bikini/pout collection doesn't compensate for lack of acting skills/expressions/dialogue delivery
Rating:3.5/5 - All for Varun, his comedy, 6-pack and the music
After a long hiatus from my movie reviews, decided to get back into the habit... with maybe a new approach
Background: Ragini MMS2 is a sequel to the famously infamous Ragini MMS (based on a supposedly real life incident)
What we see:
- Projected as a Horrorex (Horror+Sex) movie, obviously with Sunny Leone in it... not even expecting it..
- This is a movie shooting within a movie (trying to create Ragini MMS) and all the creepy things associated with the usual horror fare
- Every other starlet is waiting for the opportunity to jump into the other's bed or in the shower or in a game of "I never"
- The movie focuses only on Sunny, Sunny & Sunny till the director realizes that the horror element has to be incorporated
- Few scenes of evil possessing most of the crew, and blood and gore later does a US returned psychiatrist realize the solution to releasing the evil
- They all lived (whoever was left) happily ever after
Delights:
Sunny Leone' s sizzling screen presence
Disappointments:
Pretty much most of the script and screenplay (Theatre was 20% full on day 1)
Rating: 2/5
