Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Kuch Kuch Hota hai ( 1998 )







Genre: Romantic Comedy
Year released: 1998




Synopsis:
Rahul ( Shahrukh Khan ) and his best friend Anjali ( Kajol ) go to the St.Xavier's College. They do everything together. Inseparable.
One day the principle's daughter Tina enrolls into the school.
Coming for London she was the complete opposite of Anjali, who was a tomboy.
She's beautiful, has a sense of style and VERY feminine. Rahul starts to like Tina right about when Anjali realizes she is in love with Rahul.
Rahul tells Anjali that he loves Tina which makes her leave the College suddenly, making no calls or writing any letters.
Later on. Rahul and Tina get married and have a child. Sadly, Tina dies shortly after childbirth. Leaving her daughter with 8 letters. One for each birth day until she turns 8.
On her 8th birth day she is given the last letter. Where her mother tells her that indeed she had seen the love Rahul felt for Anjali, though Rahul was too blind to see.
With the help of her grandparents ( Rahul's mother and Tina's father) she goes on a mission to get older Anjali and her father back together.
She enrolls in the camp where Anjali works, hoping they would again meet. Indeed they did.They meet each other and Rahul starts to get old feelings. But wait, there's a twist!
Anjali is already engaged to Aman (Salman Khan) due to her family's wishes.
She does not want to break the engagement as Rahul won't confess his love for her.
In the end, Aman breaks the engagement and let's Rahul and Anjali marry.



Comments:
Again Shahrukh's acting shines through the screen. He fulfilled his role to the fullest. Nobody could've done it better.
Kajol and Shahrukh both have a great talent in acting and combined are a super acting bomb. BOOM BOOM.
Both on-screen and off-screen they make a beautiful couple. Adding to the whole romance part. It's a really cute and touching story. Recommended for the whole family :)
There's an up coming remake of this film by the name of "Koochie koochie hota hai"
It's a tad different. This time it's not humans playing the roles, it's ANIMALS!
Being released Summer 2010 :)
Congrats Karan Johar :D


Cast
Shahrukh Khan as Rahul Khanna: A student at St. Xavier's college, Rahul is Anjali's first paramour and her best friend, but ultimately falls for and marries Tina. He is self-confident and extremely masculine. He was blind and did not recognize Anjali's feelings towards him in college. When older, he marries Tina, and loves his daughter deeply, whom they name 'Anjali' after Rahul's friend in college.




Kajol as Anjali Sharma: The college's tomboy and Rahul's best friend, who is secretly in love with him. She is a boyish and forthright girl who grows into a poised and lovely woman.




Rani Mukerji as Tina Malhotra Khanna: The principal's daughter, feminine, sophisticated, an alumna from Oxford University. She is the woman with whom Rahul eventually has a daughter. She had always felt guilty for coming in between Anjali and Rahul. So when she dies during childbirth, she sends her daughter to matchmake her widowed husband with Anjali through letters written before her death.




Salman Khan as Aman Mehra: Aman is Anjali Sharma's loving fiancé, who finally understands her feelings for Rahul and lets her go.




Sana Saeed as Anjali Khanna: Anjali Khanna, named after Anjali Sharma, is Rahul's and Tina's daughter. She desperately wants to have a mother again and wants her father to have a loving wife.




Farida Jalal as Mrs. Khanna: As Rahul's mother she wishes for her son's happiness and as little Anjali's grandmother she wishes for her to have a new mother.




Anupam Kher as Principal Malhotra: As Tina's father and little Anjali's grandfather, he wishes for a new mother for little Anjali. He, along with Mrs. Khanna, seek to bring happiness back into Rahul's life. He is slightly infatuated with Ms. Briganza.




Archana Puran Singh as Ms. Briganza: A showy English teacher at St. Xavier's College. She flirts with Principal Malhotra throughout the film.




Reema Lagoo as Mrs. Sharma: She is Anjali Sharma's mother and doubts her daughter's motives for marrying her fiancée Aman.




Himani Shivpuri as Rifat Bi: St. Xavier's housekeeper and a motherly friend for Anjali Sharma. She helps little Anjali to prevent the marriage between the older Anjali and Amaan.




Johnny Lever as Col. Almeida: He is the Camp Manager of Camp Sunshine, where Anjali Sharma works. He has a strong sense of admiration for the British Empire and finally finds his match in Mrs. Khanna's patriotism for India.




Paarzun Dastur as Silent Sardarji: A little Sikh boy at Camp Sunshine. He never talks and always counts the stars. When Anjali leaves Camp Sunshine to marry Aman, he pleads with her to stay.




Neelam as Herself in a special appearance: she is the host of her own show, The Neelam Show, and little Anjali's role model. She involuntarily helps to matchmake Rahul and grown-up Anjali.

Toh Baat Pakki movie review ( 2010 )


Retell: The movie begins with a woman Rajshree who is married and has two kids. She is looking for a potential spouse for her sister, Nisha. He has to have certain qualities, being rich, successful ect. She meets this young man, who happens to be a Saxena, as is she. Hi name is Rahul and he's studying to be an engineer, and seems like a very bright and nice boy.
She begins to like him. She has a vacant room in her house, and offers it to him, as he has no place to stay. He meets Nisha and they fall in love, and hey agree to marry.

They are all excited and getting ready for the wedding. Until she happens to meet another young man named Yuvraj, who is also a Saxena. He has a permanent job and soon getting himself a house. She finds that he would make a better spouse for her sister Nina. So she changes the wedding plans aswell as the groom! She makes Rahul vacate the room ad lets Yuvraj move in.

Nina tells Rahul of their plans, and they give her a taste of her own medicine. In the end Yuvraj finds out, and backs out of the marriage to let Rahul and Nina marry. Rajshree realizes her faults and that rahul is good for her. It ends with Rajshree finding a wife for Yuvraj.


Comments: At some points it had me entertained and some points I was almost falling asleep. The comedy part of the film mostly had me ROTFL ( rolling on the floor laughing for those who don't understand msn talk). Though I was told it was not funny, I beg to differ. The romance part of the film was cute, but it could of been more strong. I think the actors did a good job portraying their roles. Over all the movie was cute. 4.5/5 *'s

Cast
Actor/Actress/Role

Tabu as Rajeshwaree
Sharman Joshi as Rahul
Vatsal Seth as Yuvvraj
Yuvika Chaudhary as Nisha
Ayub Khan as Surinder

Directed by Kedar Shinde
Produced by Ramesh S Taurani
Written by Vibha Singh
Release date(s) February 19, 2010 (2010-02-19)
Running time 169 minutes
Country
India
Language
Hindi

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Devdas (2008) Movie review











Devdas
Retell: This film is about two childhood friends. In the begginging it tells us the story of Parvati(Aishyariah rai) and Devdas( Shahrukh Khan). They were childhood friends who spent all their time together. Until he had to move overseas and they got seperated.
She lit a lamp for him and awaited his return.She never let the lamp's fire die. 10 years past, and Devdas finally came back.
They meet and love blossems yet again, and they cannot forget each other or their childhood.
Like every other bollywood movie, they cannot be.
After a whole lot of drama. Parvati ( Ash) marries someone else.
Shahrukh promises and swears on her that he will visit her doorstep before he dies.
The ending of the movie is how he reaches there, and dies on her doorstep.
Actors and roles:
Shahrukh Khan/Devdas: I think they picked the right person to play Devdas. Shahrukh is very good at expressing many emotions, sadness being one of them. This being an emotional romance movie, his acting skills fit the mould. I think he did wonderful, and nobody could of done better. Be it Salman Khan, Shahid Kapoor, ect ect.
His acting skills, looks and everything make this movie the wonderful film it is!
Aishwariya Rai/ Parvati : She's pretty and her acting was WONDERFUL in this one.
Same as Shahrukh when it got emotional it got EMOTIONAL!
I don't usually like her, and before this movie just hated her a person..
After watching this, I've grown to love her!
She fits in wonderful with her role!

Overall thought on the actors: I never though of Ash and Shahrukh as a possible couple before watching Devdas. They look wonderful together and I don't think anybody else would of done the movie better.
Total acting points : 5/5

Story line:
The story was wonderful! For the first time ever I did not feel bored. Not even once!
There was eather, drama, comedy and romance going on at ALL times. Never any useless stuff.
I don't know what else to say about it, just that I found it WONDERFUL.
Beats romeo and Julliet anyday man.
Total story points: 5/5

Over all comments:
Over all the acting, story and outcome of the movie was good. That's probably the reason it was a hit in the box office. How the two characters fit together almost made me feel like they truly were in love! Like this was real!
The actor was phenominal and I loved it!
Would like to see more films with Ash and Shahrukh together. If I was Abishek, I'd be pretty jealous ;)
Over all movie points:5/5

Movie info:

Cast
Actor/Actress
Role
Shahrukh Khan
Devdas Mukherjee
Madhuri Dixit
Chandramukhi
Aishwarya Rai
Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty
Jackie Shroff
Chunnilal ("Chunnibabu")
Smita Jaykar
Kaushalya Mukherjee
Manoj Joshi
Dwijdas Mukherjee
Ananya Khare
Kumud Mukherjee
Milind Gunaji
Kalibabu
Dina Pathak
Bhuvan's mother
Vijayendra Ghatge
Bhuvan Chaudhry
Kirron Kher
Sumitra Chakraborty
Tiku Talsania
Dharamdas
Ava Mukherji
Dev's Badi-ma
Jaya Bhattacharya
Manorama
Sunil Rege
Neelkanth Chakraborty
Vijay Crishna
Sir Narayan Mukherjee
Amardeep Jha
Kalibabu's mother
Apara Mehta
Badi Aapa
Muni Jha
Kaka
Radhika Singh
Yashomati