The Light: Swami Vivekananda Movie Review

By: Krishna Jani

Rating : 3 (3/5)

Review: It is not often that biopic movies of great Indian philosophers and saints are made. However, Swami Vivekananda has been such an inspiration that time and again, the movie directors try and make a film on him. Remember the 1994 film on Swami Vivekananda starring Mithun Chakraborthy as Vivekananda's guru Shri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. Now on 150th birth anniversary of this great Indian monk, a movie has been made again on his life by director Utpal Sinha which is produced by Tri Colour Productions Pvt. Ltd.

Time and again the thoughts and preachings of Swami Vivekananda has inspired the youth all over the world and therefore, this movie is a must watch for all. The movie encaptures the entire life of this great monk right from his childhood days as Narendra Nath Dutta to him meeting his spiritual mentor Shree Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and later becoming his disciple and his tredding on the path of spiritual learning. 

The movie was specailly screened for Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The movie is said to encourage and inspire the youth towards success and spiritual enlightenment.

Chennai Express Movie Review

Rating : 3.5 (3.5/5)

Review: Chennai Express is a fun and frolic movie that will be great fun to watch this weekends and celebrate Eid.

There's not much in the plot- its the same old story where a grand son has the responsibility of depositing his grandfather's ashes in a sacred place.  Shahrukh Khan who plays the role of Rahul has to go to Rameshwaram for immersing his grandfather's ashes. However, he decides to land in Goa and have a rocking time. Unfortunately or fortunately he bumps into Deepika Padukone playing the role of Meenamma and for some odd reason their journey together leads them to different parts of South India. 

Meenamma is a daughter of a Don and her father is planning to get her married to a guy of his choice whom she doesn't want to marry so she has eloped from her house. Hence, begins the adventurous action comedy journey of the Chennai Express. 

En route there are hilarious scenes and situations between Rahul and Meenamma that makes it up for a poor plot. Catch up on this movie this weekends and have fun with your friends and family. 

Enjoy the get laughing riot and Eid Mubarak to all!

B.A Pass Movie Review - How Emotions are played with ?

By: Rachna Rawat

Rating : 4(4/5)

Review: BA Pass is a film by Ajay Bahl. It is a basic drama film. He has casted Shilpa Shukla the one who was seen in Chak De and Shadab Kamal in the lead role. Then there is Rajesh Sharma and Dibyendu Bhattacharya too. A story adapted from Mohan Sikka's short story The Railway Aunty.

In this movie Mukesh (Shadab) is an orphan boy, who lost his parents in a car accident. He comes to Paharganj to saty with his aunty and complete his BA degree. In the mean while he all alone and finda a friend Jhonny (Dibyendu) who becomes his friend in chess. Then one day he happens to meet Sarika (Shilpa) aunty in a party and she finds it easy to seduce him. Soon he is on the bed with her. Soon this turns in to addiction and then she becomes his sex guru. She teaches him all new things and he follows them for her. She changes moods with her lingerie and Mukesh gets more involved in her. But soon all this changes when he finds it difficult to move of this situation as she would never let it happen. He has been betrayed by fate and friendship both. 

What is Mukesh going to do further? Will Sarika let him go or will she keep using him to satisfy her demands? Watch this movie and find out more. A well scripted and directed movie.

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DVD Rating
Reviewed by Sameer Verma on Sep 08 2013
Rating: 5

Despicable Me 2 Review

Rating : 3(3/5)

Review: The villainy Gru of the part one of Despicable Me has turned into a spy in this sequel movie. Gru who has now become a good guy gets into the business of making jams with his 'Anti-villain League' and the adorable minions. 

Gru is unsuccessful in creating good jam despite of several efforts so his ex-weapons scientist Dr. Nefario tells him that fruit jam is not his forte and leaves him. By the time Gru is through with that a new criminal has come on the scene who has stolen away the precious potion developed by the government. This confidential potion can turn everything it comes into contact to a lean, mean killing machine. 

Now its upon Gru to get hold of this rising new criminal and bring about peace and order in the chaos created by this criminal. The audience will be happy to see Gru in this movie as a family man who is constantly trying to be a lover, a family person and working hard for making his living. The movie is a sure catch for both adults as well as kids. A must watch this weekend.

Lootera Review : An Unheard and Unseen Love Story

Rating : 4.5(4.5/5)

Review: VikramadityaMotwane who has been applauded for hi Udaan in 2010 has come with a different and never before love story. This is the story of a zamindar (Barun Chanda) of the 1950's in Manikpur, West Bengal who has a daughter Pakhi (Sonakshi Sinha) who is well educated but an impressionable one. He is warned by his munim to courtesy the State Acquisition and Tenancy Act of 1950 as most of the zamindars were loosing their titles. But the zamindar were more worried about his ailing daughter as she was suffering from asthma.
 

Out of the blue suddenly comes to their village an archaeologist Varun (Ranveer Singh) who has to dig up the mysterious civilization under his temple. While he along with this team is busy working he falls for the zamindar's daughter Pakhi. The zamindar is ready to get the two married after he learns that the boy likes his ailing daughter and she is also in love with him. But as he has finished with his work he leaves though Pakhi pleads and tell him not leave, but he goes away. She is left heartbroken and feels ditched. Her father's trust is broken and he feels cheated and feels bad for his sick daughter. Will Pakhi get over this ever?

Suddenly after a year the two meet in the same house that has been covered with snow. The love does rise but Pakhi has grudges against him for leaving her and stealing her heart. She hates him for breaking her heart and her father's trust. Will the two re-unite or will Pakhi forget him and move forward? Is Pakhi single or has she been married to someone else after her heart was broken by Varun. Move on to see the never heard and seen love story of Pakhi and Varun.

Sonakshi and Ranveer are superb actors and have given their best shot in this movie. Motwane has proved it again that he can create wonders. Though Sonakshi has done quite different roles prior to this movie, but she has proved it that she is true actress who can fit well in any role. Ranveer as usual has been tremendous throughout. Ever scene in the movie is like post card that will leave an impression and you would like to take along with you. Enjoy watching this movie with your loved one.  

Ghanchakkar Movie Review

Rating : 3 (3/5)

Review: From Aamir and No One Killed Jessica of Rajkumar Gupta that gained maximum praise this time he thought to create a comedy of errors for all.

Starring Vidya Balan (Neetu Athray) and Emraan Hashmi (Sanjay Athray) as husband and wife this movie is going to take you on a roller coaster ride. Sanjay had recently robbed a bank thinking he would never do any more crime in life. He had two more people to whom he said he would later give their share as it wouldn't be safe. After two months when the other partners return to ask him about their share he refuses to even recognize them. Nor does he remember the money.

Is this a memory loss problem or a plot to not give the money to anyone else. His wife Neetu on the other hand is insane and does really strange things. She makes the life of the three very difficult. Watch the movie to know how? Does Sanjay have a plan or he has actually lost his memory.

Spend this weekend with family and friends and watch the super comedy movie.

Review of The Heat Movie

Rating : 2.5 (2.5/5)

Review: The Heat is a action comedy that is a complete entertainer. It is a hilarious buddy cop comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy. Sandra Bullock is an FBI agent Ashburn, she is a very committed workaholic and has no life of her own. While Melissa McCarthy is Detective Shannon Mullins who is a vulgar loose cannon Boston detective. Fate brings both to work together on a case regarding a Russian drug kingpin.

Both of them have never worked with partners before and find it difficult to get along with each other. Ashburn is a strict cop and she is impeccable in her job. However, that results into an egoistic personality who doesn't gel along with other people around and therefore, left alone always. Melissa too is not the most friendly kind of person to be with either. However, the turn of events force them to work in coordination to pull down a drug mafia in Boston who is causing lot of trouble.

The movie is surely fun to watch and the one to catch up this weekend.

Raanjhanaa Movie Review: A unique Love Story

Rating : 3.5 (3.5/5)

Review: A love story that is not sure o complete till you see it completely. Yes Raanjhanaa is a love story that begin in the lanes of the holy city Banaras when they are just in their teens. Kundan (Dhanush) a Hindu boy falls in love with a Muslim girl Zoya (Sonam Kapoor). Things are fine until one day when Zoya's parents learn of this and pack her off to her aunts place in Aligarh where she completes her schooling. She is happy to be a free bird now and all those more happy when she gets her admission in JNU in Delhi. She finds a new meaning to her life as she has been inspired by her senior student in the college Akram(Abhay Deol).

There is a twist in the story when Kundan who has been waiting for 8 years for his love to come back to city and finds out that she is in love with the college dude Akram. He keeps aside his feeling for her and does all he can to get them together. But things are not the way they thought. Too many twists and turns are there to unreveal the mystery.

Will there be complete love story in this movie? Will Kundan and Zoya come together again or will they part ways? Watch this movie this weekend to find out the actual facts and figures.  

Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 Review

Rating: 2 Star(2/5)

Review: Yamla Pagla Deewana 2 is true to its name. After all what can one expect out of such a  silly, mind-boggling and  no sense making title that it is! The story of the film begins with Dharam Dhillon played by Dharmendra who lives in Varanasi who is obssessed with treasures and money but pretends to be a babaji with the notion of forsaking all the the so-called 'Maaya Jaal' of life. His son, Gajodhar played by Bobby Deol is his con assistant. While fooling their devotees and blackmailing a rich businessman, Dharam and Gajodhar meets a wealthy man from England. Both of them plan to con this rich gentleman who has a lovely daughter. Gajodhar pretends to fall in love with her and they go to England to get married.

Meanwhile, Paramveer played by Sunny Deol, the good son of Dharam who lived and grew up with his mother in Canada has shifted to England. He works as a loan recovery agent for bank. All the three of them meet up in England and then begins the silly joy ride of the Deols. You can surely catch up with this movie if you're looking for silly entertainment and not use your brains at all.

Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani Movie Review

Rating: 3.5 Stars(3.5/5)

Review: This film is a nice mix of music, superb star cast, fun, craziness, comedy, love and everything in between.  The story of the film is based on four of its main characters and their life’s journey from the age of 21 to 30 years played by Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Aditya Roy Kapur (of Aashiqui 2 fame) and Kalki. All the four of them go out for a holiday and the events happening thereafter frames the story line of the film.

The movie has amazing upbeat numbers and the first part is full of fun, frolic and comedy. It is like riding a rollercoaster and having fun along with the on screen characters. There’s bit of friendship, bit of self discovery, and as they life’s a journey, not a destination; the movie explores much more in all its characters. Ranbir has acted par excellence and is the savior of this movie as the story line is bit like DDLJ.

The amazing songs like ‘Batameez Dil’ and ‘Balaam Pichkaari’ are awesome to watch in theatres. This movie is surely something to catch up with friends and family this week. Happy watching!

The Hangover Part III Movie Review - With no Hangover this time!

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Review: You will get to see the Wolfpack again in The Hangover Part III. In this movie the main characters are Zach Galifianakis as Alan his friends Bradley Cooper as Phil, Ed Helms as Stu and Justin Bartha as Dough. Alan has gone off the deep end so his friends decide to take him back to Arizona to the Rehab for treatment. On their way they are caught by a gangster John Goodman as Marshall who kidnaps Dough and he said he would be freed only if they get him Ken Jeong as Mr. Chow.

In this par there is no bachelor party, no forgotten night no wedding to attend and no hangover to make this more funny and hilarious. But still this movie is filled with loads of laughter to make you hold your stomach while laughing. This is more of an action adventure movie rather than a comedy. But still these characters have managed to keep you sitting tight on your seats. Watch the movie now and find out what happens on their journey to find Chow and how will they get back their friend Dough.

Every character in this movie has done their best and this movie is much different from the first 2 parts. Spend this weekend with friends and watch this wonderful comedy movie.

Ishkq In Paris Movie Review : Typical Bollywood Romantic Storylines

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Review: As the title suggests, the film Ishqk in Paris is majorly set in the most romantic city in the world, Paris. However, the film-maker has played a pun on the title as Ishkq also happens to be the name of Priety’s character in the movie. She plays that role of an Indo-french girl who is lively as ever but has issues of getting committed in a relationship. On the hand, Akshay played by Rhehan Malliek meets Ishkq while he is on a visit to Paris. They both spend the night roaming around on the streets of Paris and having a gala. Neither of them admits of falling in love in the first half as both are commitment phobic.

Akshay goes back to London and continues with his life while Ishkq continues with her life in Paris. But as they say, pairs are made in heaven…Akshay returns to Paris to attend a wedding and both Ishkq and Akshay bump into each other in the wedding. This is when Akshay realizes his lover for her and proposes her but Ishqk turns away due to her commitment phobia.

Watch on to know why Ishqk does not wish to marry and what is stopping her back from accepting her lover for Akshay.

Fast and the Furious 6 Movie Review – A new race altogether

Rating: 4 Stars(4/5)

Review: The famous movie with latest models of cars and engine is back with a new story and different perspective. It stars Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as Brian, Dwyane Johnson as Hobbs, Michelle Rodriguez as Letty, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce, Chris Bridges as Tej and Luke Evan as Shaw. This new movie of the Fast and The Furious series moves from race to revenge. You will see less of cars and more of family.

Dom and Brian are making their machines to take part in a race and they get news of Brian being blessed with a son. Dom tells him that now things will change but has no idea that those thing are on the way to change his life. He is soon to get news. News of Letty his girlfriend who supposed to have died in part 4 is alive now. And that she is working for Shaw. In the mean time Hobbs comes to him to with an assignment to prevent any further blown ups of Interpol buildings. He is ready to take the assignment and along with his other friends Brian, Tej, Roman, etc.

Filled with great action and stunts this movie will make you cheer from your seats. You can have great action filled weekend with friends. A must watch movie for all.

Epic Movie Review : Yet Another Fantastic 3D animation from Hollywood

Rating: 4 Stars(4/5)

Review: Seems like Hollywood is out on a 3D animation films spree!  After successful 3D animation blockbusters like Ice Age and Robots, director Chris Wedge has come out with a new animated adventure movie EPIC.

It is a lovely story about a young teenage girl Mary Katherine who lives in a cabin in the forest with her father and a pet dog. Mary’s father is a Professor and he is working on the existence of tiny dwellers in the forest. Prof. Bomba is obsessed about discovering the secret world of these tiny dwellers and therefore he often goes deep into the forest. One day he fails to return from the hike in the forest and therefore, Mary goes in the deep forest looking for him. While she is doing so she discovers the Leafmen whom Prof. Bomba has tried to find all this while.

The movie has fantastic visuals and looks amazing in 3D. It is surely a must watch movie for kids and adults alike as the graphics and the forest are sheer delight to watch.

Aurangzeb Movie Review - Bad v/s Good

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Aurangzeb Movie Review: This movie stars the smart and handsome Arjun Kapoor who play double role here in Aurangzeb. Ajay (Arjun Kapoor) is the of the rich and might real estate developer Yasvardhan (Jackie Shroff) who lives in Delhi and runs is criminal world under the label of his property business. Ravikanth (Rishi Kapoor) Senior Inspector is well known with the kind of work Yash does and wants to know the secretc of the black money flowing in house. He along with this other fellow colleagues Arya (Prithviraj Sukaram) and Dev (Sikender Kher) plan to trap him.

They plan to kidnap Ajay and send Vishal (Arjun Kapoor) who looks like Ajay so that they come to know all the secrets of Yash. While they are running the operation to know the details Ajay and Vishal come across each other and come to know that they are twin brothers who were separated in their teens and that the police are taking advantage of this of making both the brothers against each other. What will they do? Will the two be together and fight the Police or will they part their ways? Watch the movie to know how they were separated in their teens and whether they will come back together ever again or no. A must watch movie for all the youngsters. 

Gippi Movie Review

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Review: Gippi (Riya VIj) is a fourteen year old school going girl who is overweight and lives with her single mom Divya Dutta and younger brother Arbaaz Kidwani. Gippi is character who so real and you can believe in it. You can easily relate to the character as many of us must have faced the same thing in our school days. Her mom who runs a beauty parlor to earn the bread for her family is also easily related to. The best part in the movie is the mother-daughter relationship.

It is a story of what she faces in school because of being overweight. She is going through her teenage years and is trying her level best but her looks and weight is a big problem for her. But she is all the more delighted when she knows that a boy Ashish (Aditya Despandey) who has a crush on her. Then there is Arjun (Taaha Shah) who is the bad boy and plays his part quite well.

Watch the movie and see how a mom handles her daughter during this period. What she does to make her daughter feel on top of the world. Go watch this movie with your mom and celebrate Mother’s Day in a special way. Relive memories with this movie. A must watch movie for all teenagers and even adult women. It will take you back to your school days.

Go Goa Gone Movie Review : India’s first Zombie Comedy

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Review: We are witnessing a kind of change in the films that Bollywood is making these days and Go Goa Gone is just one proof of it. As the title itself says that the movie seems to be unusual and yes, so it is! Its Bollywood’s first ever Zombie Comedy movie.  The movie is a good mixture of adventure, action, and thrill in the back drop of superb comedy.

Go Goa Gone is a fun roller coaster filled with laughter and surprises. Both Kunal Khemu and Vir Das are the bad boys who are looking to escape the reality. One is duped by his girl friend while the other loses a job over a stupid grudge. In comes the third friend at rescue, Tiwari is a good guy and both the bad boys pile on him and off they go to Goa to have some fun in their life. Once they reach Goa the fun starts, they are invited to a rave party at a private island. As they get on the island they are encountered by strange creatures that are like dead man walking. Initially they fail to understand what they are! But later they realize that they are zombies.

The movie is more of an adventure zombie comedy and not at all conventional horror movie. It is surely a refreshing movie to catch up this weekend with friends and have fun.

Bombay Talkies Review - A salute to 100 Years of Cinema

Rating: 4 Stars(4/5)

Review: Four Directors and their most mesmerizing Four Different Stories! This movie has four different stories that take you to the lives of four different people in four different places. The Directors Karan Johar, Dibakar Banerjee, Zoya Akhtar and Anurag Kashyap have told their stories in a way that fill your hearts with emotions. Let me tell you a bit of each of the stories by each of these directors.

Karan Johar

He tells the story of an urban married couple played by Rani Mukherjee and Randeep Hooda, who are trying to deal with their bad sex life. Rani’s office colleague (Saqib Saleem) who is a homosexual unfolds the secrets of their married life. When she invites him home for dinner it is then she knows the truth and is all heartbroken. Some great songs of Lata Mageshkar are heard, fitted well in the scenes.

Dibakar Banerjee

He has picked the story of  a lower-middle class man Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s where his dreams come back to him.He wants to do big in life and has done almost everything fromemu farming to even applying for security jobs. He was a well known theatre actor in his natice place Sangli. And then suddenly he is offered a job by a hassled director at the last moment when he just gets into the sets of a film set.

Zoya Akhtar

Her story is of a school going boy who wants to be a dancer like Katrina Kaif. But he is forced to play football in school by his strict father. He is so fond of Katrina Kaif that he dreams to dance with her some day. He dresses up like a girl but is made of fun of by the people. With the help of his sister he then begin to plan out on how to fulfill his dream. And the day comes when his father comes to know of this. Will he accept this or force him to move in another direction?

Anurag Kashyap

This is a strange story of boy Vineet Kumar Singh who travels from Allahabad to Mumbai to meet Amitabh Bachchan. Not for the reason because he is his fan but to fulfill the last wish of his dying father. He wanted Amitabh Bachchan to eat the pickle his mother made, because his father believed that if he had the pickle tasted by Amitabh Bachchan then he would live longer. Will this lad be able to fulfill his father’s wish?

Watch this movie to see four different stories from four different directors. A salute to the Indian Cinema. A must watch movie for all of us. 

Shootout at Wadala Movie Review

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)

Review: Shootout at Wadala is the story of Manya Surve (John Abraham), a college student who due to unseen circumstances is caught in a crime he never committed and was given life time imprisonment. He along with this co-prisoner Sheikh Munir (Tusshar Kapoor) plans to elope from the jail. They succeed to do so one day. When they are out they make their own Gang and this is a real powerful one.

 

They challenge the biggest name in the Underworld Dilawar ImtiyazHaskar (Sonu Sood) and his brother Zubair Imtiyaz Haskar (Manoj Bajpayee). They are known for their cruelty, and their merciless threat, the strongest Mafias ever seen. But Manya’s gang gets more powerful and this is not tolerated by the Haskar’s. On the other hand Manya and his Gang are a threat to the Indian Police. ACP Ishaque Bagwan (Anil Kapoor) wants to finish the gang. Here is where the plan starts for a shootout of all these Mafia people.

There are other characters too like Vidya (Kangna Ranaut) Manya’s love interest, Ronit Roy, Mahesh Manjrekar who are part of this big movie. Look out of the best Action, crime and acting this weeken by watching this film and explore what more happened and how in this Shootout at Wadala.

Aashiqui 2 Movie Review – The Musical Love Story

Rating: 3 Stars(3/5)


Review: Mohit Suri has made this story mixing a few old and new stories. Though it is said to be a sequel of Aashiqui made way back in 1990 with Rahul Roy and Anu Agarwal but the story is poles apart from the old one. It has a touch of the story of the movie Abhiman.

Aashiqui 2 movie has a rock star Rahul Jaykar (Aditya) and a bar singer Aarohi Shirke (Shraddha Kapoor. Rahul is very much addicted to liquor and barely cares about his career falling off. He has been one of the top niche singers and has had a huge fan following. He got very upset after he was taken out of the music concert. When he goes to drink at a bar he meets Aarohi who sings to earn her living and wants to be a big time singer too. He loved her singing and her voice and helps her by nourishing her singing and grooming her.

She moves high up like a star in the field of singing and he is nowhere to be seen. The two fall in love but he is trapped with alcohol all the time. His career has almost finished. Will they still continue to love each other or they will depart their ways.

A love Saga that must be seen by people who are fond of love and romance filled moments. Watch the movie this weekend and who knows your love may be waiting for you next door.