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Krrish (2006)
Krrish.
Krrish.
I've seen this movie just yesterday in the cinema, and it was not a waste of my money. A big plus in this movie was that Preity Zinta wasn't in it. A big minus was that Priyanka Chopra was in it. Her role was not significant, but it shows that if you have a beautiful appearance, but you cannot act, you still can make it in Bollywood without taking your clothes of like some women do in Hollywood.
Anyway, Krrish is the sequel of the movie "Koi mil gaya" made three years ago. In that film an adult man (Rohit Mehra) with the brain of a little kid gets in touch with an alien and gets super powers. This sequel is not about that man, but about his son! His parents have passed away but the powers Rohit had, he passed on to his son Krishna. But this kid is not retarded. This bright boy studies fast and can do things other kids cannot do. Because of this he gets alone when other kids don't want to play with him anymore. He spends lots of time in the woods. Then when he is grown up, he meets a girl (yes, unfortunately Priyanka) and he falls in love. She discovers what great powers he has and asks him to come with her to Singapore. Krishna's grandmother does not want this to happen, because Krishna,s father died in Singapore. But Krishna is determined to go
Krishna is one of the best action movies Bollywood has ever produced. The special effects were very surprising. This is not the fist time Hritik Roshan has worked with his Father Rakesh Roshan. In the movie Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, which was the movie what caused Hritik his big break through, Rakesh was also the one who sat in the chair of the director. In both movies Hritik plays a double role. This is not real. I mean, what are the odds there is just like you an other man on earth? Well, in Kaho Naa
Pyaar Hai Hritik has someone in India who likes like him. In the movie Krrish he looks exactly like his father. This is very disappointing, but to make a sequel there was no other option. So I must admit the story has no plot holes, but it is not real either. This movie had lots of parallels with Hollywood masked men stories. It was like spider-man/superman who does not want to reveal his own identity, but it was also like batman. The way Hritik jumps up to trees was like 'crouching tiger hidden dragon', the way hi fought against men on motorcycles was like Blade, the way he jumps high in the air and punches several men at the same time was like the Matrix. However, the fight sequences were great! At the end where he punches like 5 men at the same time was fenomable! Only I cannot understand, Hritik runs in the beginning of the movie next to a horse. He is faster than the horse. Hritik must weigh about 80 kilos? When he jumps on that horse, the horse does not get any bruises. Also the way he punches some men very fast with his power, the must have left with more than broken jaws.
The fight scenes where filled with special effects. But still I liked Hritik's fight sequences more in the movie Mission Kashmir. These scenes were more close to the reality. The cast of Krrish was disappointing. Rekha did not perform very well. Also the medium little boy that plays Kishna, who breaks bricks with a ball, has a not natural way of acting what annoys me watching him. I don't know in which film I have seen him before, I guess in Parineeta, but it is not a fun young actor to watch. Maybe he has a famous last name like Priyanka Chopra who cannot act either. Oh yes, she can't dance either. She thinks she can, but no, she can't. A very surprising actor was Nasseeruddin Shah! When he came in the movie, I heared several surprised yells in the cinema "whow!" Yes, I have no comment about this actor. But his role was limited. He had no fight sequences at all. I hoped he had, because he had played in this Hollywood movie "A league of extra ordinary gentlemen".
At last, but not least, I was blown away by Hritik's double role in this movie! He also played his much grown older and retarded father again! Very well done! Yes, this is the best action/sci-fi movie Bollywood (Rakesh Roshan) has produced
ever
for now
Virin G.
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Banaras (2006)
Banaras.
Ek Dhun Banaras Kee.
I've been looking forward to see this movie. This movie is not just about a man meets a woman en they fall in love. No, Soham (Ashmit Patel) falls in love with Shwetambari (Urmila Matondkar). Sweta is from a higher class in society and Soham is an orphan from the lowest class. The outcome of this relationship is predictable. The outcome is predictable. Sweta's brother finds out Soham's background and tells this to her father (Raj Babbar). He gets angry and doesn't want Sweta to meet Soham anymore. She gets angry to and explains why she loves Soham. Soham is a student of Babba (Naseeruddin Shah) and she believes Soham is more than a man. Then the parents of Sweta agree with a engagement and a wedding. But then the night before the wedding Soham gets a weird feeling. He gets killed that night.
Police tries to find out who the killer is, and tries to get in touch with Babba via Sweta. But Babba seems not to be someone Sweta thinks he is! The way to find the killer seems almost impossible. This movie is almost refreshing. There was a similar line you could pull with the movie Mohabbatein in the relationship between Sharukh and Aishwaria. The songs were beautiful. Ashmit is a very bad actor, so is Urmila. When she dances she makes movements with her head and her mouth I have seen in a lot of her movies before. Only the words 'what the hell is she doing?' come into my mind. Naseeruddin had a very small role to make things up with the other bad performances.
In the beginning you can see Raj Babbar on his death bed. This gives a lot away from the story. That is a pity. Even though it was worth watching.
Virin G.
Humko Tumse Pyaar Hai (2006)
humko tumse pyaar hai
This is far the most worst film I've seen this year from Bollywood so far. I may not lie, my wife liked this film very much. It was not Bobby Deol or Arjun Rampal what made this film become unbelievable, but it was Amisha Patel. She performs the role of a blind woman who get in trouble when she almost fall from a mountain where (luckily for her) the hero Arjun Rampal comes to rescue her (in the middle of nowhere). It amazes me here how a blind girl is aware of danger when she is about to fall from a mountain, because she cannot see her environment. From this scene I started to watch the movie very closely and in every scene there was a flaw in the acting of Amisha Patel. The way she plays a blind girl is very bad. The only way she does that is by not to look into the eyes of the person she talks with. When I saw this film, I respected Rani Mukherjee more with her performance in the movie Black. Amisha will never reach this level in performing as an actress.
Anyway, she falls in love with Arjun Rampal. It is the cliché story. Sudden Arjun gets killed by a man who is madly in love with Amisha. Amisha is in despair, but then Bobby enters the movie. He also falls in love with the blind girl. Bobby Deol is a great actor in my point of view, but he cannot pull the film to a higher level where Amisha Patel buries it deep into the ground. I must say Bobby deserves better roles in better movies than he got so far. Bobby grew in acting from the first movie his lovely daddy gave him. He was so bad in acting in Barsaat, but when you see him acting now, you get the shivers and believe every word he says. Only a movie with high potential like a Yash Copra film has to meet his way.
Okay, when Amisha also falls in love with Bobby, someones enters her life. Arjun Rampal is not dead! Who believes this crap? I don't. Why didn't they give his role to one of the ugly guys from the movie family (Shushant Singh or Aryeman Ramsay) and give Bobby a role in one of the blockbusters with Amitabh Bachchan? I'm sorry if my comment sounds like a cry for an actor like Bobby to give him a great role, but he deserves so much better than a movie with Amisha (bigscreen t.v. face) Patel. This movie was so awful, that I regret buying it.