Showing posts with label Movie Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Movie Review. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Movie Review: Hrithik Roshan Breathes Fire, And Soul In Agneepath


Agneepath is a story set in a town called Mandwa in 1977, where a simple school teacher, Master Dinanath Chauhan, try to make a difference between the people who treat you with the kind of respect reserved for deities and gods. 

He runs a school and lives with his wife, Suhasini (Zarina Wahab) and your 12-year-old Vijay (Bhiwandiwala Arish), who tries to keep on the straight path of truth, nonviolence and self-control.

Mandwa The return of evil in the guise of Kancha Cheena (Sanjay Dutt), stir in the quiet village problems. Kancha plans to export cocaine and use of land from peasants to fill their coffers. A distraught Masterji tries to convince the people not to play along, which pays with his life hangs Kancha a horrible death in front of his young son, Vijay, and all the people.

This is where the changes in child, who grows into a huge force in a world of his father kept him away from houses a burning desire to return to his residence Mandwa as it deserves and to avenge the death of his father.
After the violent injustice of all, Vijay moves with her ​​pregnant mother to Bombay to start a new life, the journey ahead, as the title suggests, is a path of fire from the trials and tribulations.

Vijay chawl life in Mumbai is anything less than an average of 12 years old, police, drug dealers, dealers in meat, cocaine trafficking, murder days of light are characteristics every day. Except for his friendship with Kaali (Priyanka Chopra), who leads the life of an adult. The adult Vijay, played by Hrithik Roshan, only comes about 45 minutes into the film, like Kaali.

(While watching the movie, there were times when I said, 'It's just a movie ", the story has been involved in the agony and anguish Vijay's happening I can not help feeling very emotional watching the drama unfold.)

Rishi Kapoor as the dirty mafia, drugs, Rauf Lala, that young girls to old perverts auctions, is threatening in its portrayal of ruthlessness. See you leave the eternal lover boy of Indian cinema and downright crude that is unrealistic but who plays the dark with a touch as much as it does light, playful. I love to hate him in this role. His son, Ranbir, who is on his way to stardom, has some serious competition at home, forget about the contestants out.

Portrait Sanjay Dutt is the antagonist, Kancha Cheena is impeccable. He epitomizes everything wrong in the world with his eyes - the dark suits and shiny pate, bald, tattooed arms and neck dark adding to the charm. Every nuance, every gesture, evil laughter and stone cold eyes staring down, are alarming, even for an adult audience.

Priyanka Chopra is seductive as Kaali with the right amount of joy in his character that offsets Vijay shady character. The scene that opens her salon, replete with intentional misspellings on signage, it's funny. "My team is imported. 

Mangaai Maine Singapore if Chinese pure hai," says the introduction of a group of girls from Nepal. She is absolutely endearing as Kaali and plays it to perfection. There's a song, Gun Guna, which is at its best with a set of playful shades on the ears heard really pull off. Still wondering how!

Vijay plays Bhiwandiwalla Arish young as an experienced actor, belying the fact that this is his feature film debut. The physical meeting Hrithik Arish and is perfect, unlike most movies that do not have such important powers in mind while casting. But then, Agneepath is a production of Dharma, and Karan Johar have your business as seriously as it does creativity. The small Kaali also looks a lot like Priyanka.

Director Karan Malhotra has made an impressive film under the able guidance of his mentor Karan Johar. That scores on all aspects of management - the design, sound, editing, costumes, camera, great cast, dialogues and screenplay very exciting.

Nowhere in the new version starring remember the Amitabh Bachchan released in 1990, except when reciting Hrithik Agneepath memorable lines, the poem, and then says his full name, Vijay Dinanath Chauhan.

No doubt Hrithik achieved outperforms Bachchan, or fall short in their own interpretation of the legendary character. He is brilliant, but it is not surprising since an actor Hrithik is more than a superstar. The way he played his part, given the complexity and vulnerability of his character, is remarkable. It has been shown moderation and bloody awful in equal measure, not a time goes wrong with your description of the anger inside. For the duration of their time on screen, Hrithik Roshan is no longer, and still Vijay Mandwa, breathing fire and soul on paper.

It's a tough decision between all individuals in the action film, but the outstanding work of Hrithik, that stands out.

The film is a character in itself, with beautiful scenery and Bombay Mandwa outline, giving each location a life. The sequences of Ganesh Visarjan and Handi-Dahi, or song and dance numbers, add vitality to the otherwise somber palette. If the credit here goes to Ravi K Chandran and Kiran Deohans, the two who shot the film, only the director and producer known. In any case, the film is one of the best works in the Indian celluloid.

Katrina Kaif Chikni Chameli is all men had breath in his seat, with women pining for their beauty. She was uninhibited while dancing with her come here the terms very unlike her shy smiles and flutters eyelashes demure.  There is a flaw in the film, which is unacceptable, and that is factually inaccurate. 

While the story is set in 1977, the film refers to the docks of Bombay as Bombay docks in the scene where Vijay and his mother moved to Bombay. In another case, when the Inspector Gaitonde (Om Puri), talks to reporters in a sequence, refers to the city like Mumbai and Bombay, as the city was then called.

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Movie Review: "Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows"

Robert Downey Jr. plays Sherlock Holmes perfectly. It's a bit silly, well over the top, and mixtures of brain and muscles in the role of the world's most famous detective.

"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" can prosper Downey Jr. perform all the fun and silliness of this character. The highlight of the movie Sherlock Holmes comes as indicators of a situation and works in a fight scene in his mind, seconds before punching. Similarly, it is able to look at an unusual wall and determine in a secret passage hidden behind it.

Like the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie two years ago, this film is set in 1891, Downey co-starred with his partner, John Watson (Jude Law). Noomi Rapace (famous for the Swedish version of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") joins the cast as the femme fatale, always in danger.

The plot is pretty basic, like the evil Professor Moriarty disagreed with Holmes, and is determined to kill Watson and any other person close to Holmes. Moriarty is trying to design a war between the Germans and French, planning to make money on the sale of ammunition. Of course, Holmes and Watson puts on a mission to stop Moriarity.

The banter between Holmes and Watson, and representation playful Robert Downey Jr. in the Super Sleuth, is what brings this film above its basic plot. The best scene here is an assault on Watson and his new girlfriend while you're riding on a train. Moriarty men are determined to kill them, but Holmes is presented and helps fight the attackers.

The spirit of play between Holmes and Moriarty is fun, as Holmes tries to keep up with the equally intelligent villain, trying to determine the next moves of the teacher. The use of chess in different parts of the film is very appropriate, as the film's hero and villain are constantly fighting each other moves.

Rachel McAdams ("Mean Girls", "Midnight in Paris", "The Notebook") is back from the first film as well, but their role is very small. A friend told me he was disappointed with the small role of McAdams here.

The film has its flaws. I do not like when the bad guy spills his evil plans for the hero, just before anticipated to kill him. It's a film cliché that really needs to be avoided.

"Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" has earned $ 394 million worldwide since its launch. Rottentomatoes.com critics gave a mediocre 60 percent approval, and critics were even harsher key, giving only 44 percent approval rating! However, the audience gave him a score much higher 80 percent approval in the same website.

No, this is not great cinema, but it's a fun way to spend two hours on a Saturday morning in the theater.

Vetter Rating: B

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Movie Review | Warhorse: Epic Genius Director Is Going To


Although he has reached his mid 60's and had a career record of blockbuster, Steven Spielberg is still a kid at heart.

A lot of tests this week are two main versions of the director: the animated film The Adventures of Tintin, which opened in theaters on Wednesday, and the horse-centric warfare in the family, to open on Sunday.

They share genes with juvenile E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

War Horse, based on a 1982 novel for young and old and a new stage adaptation, which begins as a child-drawn and horse wire, which becomes an epic of survival in the First World War breaks out .

In the center is the deep affection of rural Briton Albert (Jeremy Irvine) is a foal born in the pasture of a neighbor.

The foal and his mummy are soon parted, when Albert father often spends too much drink to buy the horse at auction, only to frustrate its owner.

The purchase is endangering the family finances, but gives Albert the opportunity to train the horse elegant names Joey.

Albert becomes a plow horse Joey, but when war comes, Joey is sold to a British officer, who runs to meet the Germans. When the British cavalry is not updated riddled by shrapnel from the enemy, Joey falls into German hands. Later he makes a stop at a French farmhouse, then is back behind the German lines, transportation of heavy artillery on the slopes.

Despite the carnage on the Western Front (less graphically staged in Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan), War Horse is developed as an uplifting tale of people with good intentions to get into and out of Joey's life until you meet Albert - a destination so basic to a story like mud in the trenches.

Spielberg movie guide your growth with a constant control

teacher, the execution of bravura sequences along as follows: Albert grim test plowing a rocky area of land, the cavalry charge of a field of wheat, and especially Joey panic escape through a maze of trenches in a horrible tangle of barbed wire.

However, War Horse may not exceed the literal character of the film. On stage, Joey and horses are represented by puppets other large and complex that challenge the viewer's imagination and suggest metaphorical layers. On screen, the horse is a passive player, never more interesting than the characters around him.

The cast has some familiar faces - not a common pedigree.

Emily Watson is solid as Albert's mother suffered, and Irvine land gives a sincerity Albert. Joey, of course, is played by one or more horses, like all other animals before they had no idea they were making a movie.

Even more than the horse, the real protagonist is the director - who combines a passion for film greatness and its sensitivity to the emotions felt in

a noble melodrama that will captivate people believed that all animals with the function of human motivations.