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Don 2 (2011)
The slickest action movie ever done in Bollywood. PERIOD.
You have the KING Khan in & as DON. You have piggy chops as in the opposite role. You have Boman Irani in a pivotal role. You have DON 2. Oh, did I forget to mention that it is a Farhan Akhtar movie? It is NOT a Farhan Akhtar movie, it is THE Farhan Akhtar movie. You have a very boring, first half. A half baked story. And then, in the second half everything changes. Everything. The tension between Don and Roma gets serious, in a dark, unromantic way. The movie waits waits and waits to build up the story for the crescendo, last 30 minutes. And those 30 minutes are wow, you can not move your eyes off the screen.
Now, Shahrukh, when will you learn, and let THE BEST of our industry direct you? (aka F.A.) If only Ra-One would be made by F.A, it wont be that disappointing.
Farhan, you do what you do best, i.e. Directing. You are a class director, and a pretty ordinary actor. One Don in 3 years are NOT enough for us.
Brilliant.
Kurbaan (2009)
It lets you at least think
Well I have put a 9.0 rating because I did not expect this out of Mr Karan Johar. I really really mean it. The human stain - or the relationship is a delicacy, you can not mold it - use it for your use. That is exactly what this movie is all about.
On a short scale - you have Saif betraying Kareena's trust. On a global scale - how many peoples trust we are betraying? Human fighting human in what cause? Nation against nation - for what? We as human race lost Afganistan, we are loosing Pakistan even. Frank Miller might be a strong proponent of WAR attitude - (I have tremendous respect for him for his work) but war is not a solution to anything.
There is a proverb - the demon slayer becomes the demon itself. We should be very careful of that.
50000 years of human history has taught us - no same human wants an war. Be it fought in the name of jihad - or in the name of nationality or national sentiment. And almost all the time it is this little unknown people - are dragged into it as part of collateral.
I believe - this movie really illuminate the collateral part - brings the story of those who were dragged along in the someone else's bigger plan.
Hats off to Mr Johar for getting this one up - at least one movie who stand up and against his earlier works. Hope to see some more of this caliber.
Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Good Entertainer
This is a very good entertainer movie - the fans of Katrina would be delighted. On to the topic of the fans of Katrina - she definitely does not know how to act - and of course she does not know how to deliver serious dialogs - but seriousness is the least thing in u r mind when u r watching Sing Is Kinng! Shut down the processor and just watch it! Akshay as usual finds a role that fits him best - now definitely he is the Kinng of Comedy for Bollywood - and rightfully so. He does not have to do mimicry to make people laugh - his natural self makes people laugh.
Once again - a non existing storyline - but good dialogs and pretty faces lights the movie up.
Wait for the DVD to come and watch it.
Saawariya (2007)
What an awful waste of talent....
The starting credit starts saying that the story comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Nights_%28short_story%29 And the story is pessimistic enough. Now, clearly u can not make a Fyodor Dostoevsky story a movie, can u? U can try, and in case u try u can fail. This experiment failed miserably. Nastenka becomes Sakina, and she has no clue what she wants from life. The protagonist, "Saawariya" has no clue what he wants, bliss or love.
This duality can be greatly anticipated in the story, but to make it feel in the movie, u need to be at least a Ray, and sorry Mr Bansali, u are no Ray.