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Rock On !! (2008) - * * * *

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Its been very long that my expectation has come true.Its like this when ever I expect some movie to be good ,the movie becomes a big disappointment.I was expecting very eagerly on Rock on after watching the stills and the cast.I would say now Hindi Films are exploring new avenues which are new to Indian cinema in a successful way.Tare Zameen Par , Chak De India was last year success story.And now its Rock On.Rock On simply Rocks . Many movies have explored on music here they explore the new age music with sheer passion.The Band Magik parts after successfully winning a music contract because of misunderstanding between Aditya ( Farhan Akthar ) and Joe ( Arjun Rampal ).After ten years the friends Adi,Joe ,Rob (Luke Kenny ) ,KD unite for a cause to make their dream come true. Abishek Kapoor has to be given a great applause for his decision to make Farhan Akthar sing in the movie.He incidentally wanted the guy who plays the lead singer to originally sing for all the songs ,beca...

Dham Dhoom (2008)

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What if Shivaji was not there in Thevar Mahan ,What if Christopher Nolan was not there in Dark Knight we cant imagine in those lines .Yes Dham Dhoom misses Jeeva(n).Director Jeeva who passed away before completing this movie would have been happy if this movie came in the way he had in his mind.I skipped Rock On to watch Dham Dhoom just for this Man Jeeva.I thought this movie would be a tribute to the legendary camera man. Dham Dhoom starts with a pace when Indian Doctor Gautham who has his marriage with Shenba (Gangana Renaut) in a week flies to Russia to attend a conference.He gets embroiled in a murder of Anna a model who peddles drug to Local Mafia.Gautham runs from the police and he is helped by Aarthi an Indian lawyer in Moscow.Marriage and Murder tangle Gautham runs for both. Jeeva would have wanted to make a racy thriller and what has happened which I can see is that the scenes which he has shot in elaborate needs a precise editing.The team which handled the movie after Jeeva...

Phoonk (2008)

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Phoonk ! My brother is a big fan of Scary movies,I am not .Because I am not scary on those kind of movies.Its all a gimmick and some visuals which makes you scary and not the movie.I love thrillers for that matter with some intensity and dark pictures like Zodiac and Seven.Phoonk was hugely advertised as the scariest movie made in Indian Cinema.They even went on saying that they would award 5 lakhs for the person who watches it on a lonely hall.To be very frank I registered for it and I knew for the fact that I could win it.No body called me since I registered and now I can confidently say that its just an ordinary scary movie. Phoonk deals with Indian Black magic.Rajiv (Sudeep ) and Arti (Amruta Khanvilkar) are happily married couple with Raksha (Ahsaas Channa) and Rohan as their kids.Rajiv is an architect and he is an aethist.Rajiv terminates Anshuman(Kenny Desai) and Madhu(Ashwini Khalsekar) from the contract for betraying him in the business.Rajiv’s servant finds human bone and lem...

Reservoir Dogs (1992)

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There is a lot of creativity with this guy.I love him for his brutal violence and unconservative way of movie making.Quentin Tarantino was introduced to me when I was doing my Management degree .My friends and myself watched KillBill thrice and we counted the days for the Volume II release.Every movie of his has a different narration may it be Kill Bill or Pulpfiction and this one Reservoir Dogs. Reservoir dogs is a about a gang of unfamiliar mobs getting together for a mission.They mess up big time and they end up with blood bath.The gang is assembled by Joe who tells the members not to spell their Second name each other and they would be named by Colors.There is White,Pink,Orange and so on.Every body discover there is a rat in their gang who gave the information to the Cops to trap them.Arguing about each other they end up in a mess . Quentin Tarantino’s movies comes with sharp dialogues,blood baths and explicit brutality this one has no exception,He is a big time fan of Pop Culture ...

Bachna Ae Haseeno (2008)

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I didn ’t watch Sawariyaa ,I had missed it by chance. Ranbhir Kapoor ’s next movie Bachne ae Haseeno was explicitly showing off as a typical Yash Raj Movie .But to my surprise this was a movie which gave me some good time while watching.I wasn ’t baffled at all when watching since some of the characters in the movie many shades of my Friend Emil George . BAH is a movie about flirting and Killer Kismat (The word which means uncommitted love in this movie).Raj starts of his romance with Mahi ( Minisha Lamba ) in Switzerland when he was just out of school with fun and nothing attached as she was with him.He breaks her heart when she finds that he was not committed to have a relation.Then comes Radhika ( Bipasha Basu ) ten years later in Mumbai .Living together has become a old concept for Hindi Movie but it was shown with a new flavour here. He ditches her by moving to Sydney during the day when Bipasha was waiting for Ranbhir before the Marriage registration office.Raj meet...

Satyam (2008)

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How far you can show your emotions in experiencing a movie.You can enjoy or get irritated or you can be neutral.But here with this movie I was feeling as the person with out powers to stop the so called movie which was running in front of me for three hours.If I had a chance for sake of all the viewers I would take the responsibility to give the words to Director A.Rajasekhar for giving the worst movie in the recent history of Tamil Cinema.It was initially started as a movie which was directed by R.D.Rajasekhar ,the ace cameraman ,but later with some issues he moved away and its rumoured A.Rajasekhar is a notional director.How is this !!!! Satyam was a hugely expected movie from Vishal as this was the first movie deviating from his usual action movie.Satyam is about a cop A.C.P Satyam (Again A.C.P ????) and his fight against the political evils.Three ministers get murdered by a unknown person ,when investigated Satyam finds its X –Cop Manickavel who was inspirational for Satyam to beco...

The Eastern Promises (2007)

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I didn ’t want to miss this movie.I had no clue of the story line as I maintained my nerves not to read the story line .The movie in released in Chennai ,a year after it released in rest of the world.I wasn ’t able to get the DVD version of it ,So I had this movie in the Queue for a quiet some time.Now Sunday evening was the perfect time for me to go for this movie at Satyam Cinemas.Why am I nowadays going repeatedly to Satyam ? Its all shown to us when a fourteen year girl dies in the arms of Anna (Noami Watts ) giving birth to a baby.The girl’s diary written in Russian becomes a pathfinder for Anna where she discovers a Card of a restaurant owned by a Siberian Semyon (Armin Mueller- Stahl ), a boss in the Russian Mafia or vory v zakone .Anna tracks down to Semyon to seek the whereabouts of the girls family to save the child.Krill who is Semyon ’s son who is involved in making the girls to whore and Kirill's driver Nikolai Luzhin ( Viggo Mortensen ) get involved with Semyo...

Mummy: The tomb of the Dragon Emperor(2008)

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How would you feel when you dedicate a Saturday evening in a multiplex experiencing one of the very badly made movie.I felt the same when I watched Mummy Tomb of the dragon empire at Satyam Cinemas.The movie released a week later in Chennai and I wish now it should nt have released. I can clearly say the makers of Mummy have lost track and they wanted to recreate the magic in the same way and they have failed miserably. Mummy this time goes to China .Emperor Han Of china ( Jetli ) wants to become immortal to rule the world.But he is cursed by Zi Juan (Mischell Yeoh) for murdering her lover General Ming .Emperor is put into sleep for two thousand years by .Rick O Connell (Brendan Fraser)and Evelyn (Mario Bello) after retirement enter in to the mission of this Mummy :3 with their son Alex (Luke Ford) who has followed his parents.The Connell family fights against the emperor from being immortal. The movie has released after seven years of its prequel Mummy and it has nothing to making enj...

Kuselan (2008)

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Ok .Where to start ? Let me start from me !I am a big time fan of Super star .And I am a fan who still whistles in even a multiplex when Rajini ad comes on screen ,A fan who is contended with his appearance for a single scene.Now as a review if you take this movie ,it needs a big thumbs down for P.Vasu. The epic stories from Mahabaratha being made in to movies is not new to Indian Cinema.There was Thalapathy based on Karna and Duryodana.Now its Kuselan. From the epic Kuselan is the friend of Lord Krishna .Kuselan struggles in poverty and his wife and children asks him to meet Krishna.Krishna meets Kuselan is a history which is told for friendship.Here Balu (Pasupathy) is Kuselan who is a poor barber. Ashokkumar (Rajinikanth )who is a Mega actor is Balu's childhood friend.Ashokkumar comes to Balu’s village for a shooting .The news about their friendship spreads across the village .Devi(Meena ) his wife and his children urge him to meet Ashokkumar.Balu gets embroiled in his incapabil...