Haunted 3D Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The first Indian 3D horror movie “Haunted-3D” was released in India on 6th May, 2011. The movie has done a great business of 13 crore Indian Rupees during its first week of release and has established a new record of highest opening week, among all other horror movies of India. However, during the second week of release, the popularity graph of this first 3D horror movie has been declined rapidly. If we take a look on monthly income, then it is 26.25 crore in Indian rupees. Some critics are saying that the major reason behind this first window-break week was just the 3D format of movie, as the plot of movie is not so much different from other horror movies.

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Double Dhamal Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

Double Dhamaal is comedy Indian film, which was released on 24th June 2010. The movie is the sequel of Dhamaal, which was released in 2007. Double Dhamaal is directed by Indra Kumar whereas producer of the movie is Ashok Thakeria. The main cast of the movie includes Sanjay Dutt as Kabir, Ritesh Deshmukh as Roy, Javed Jaffrey as Manav, Arshad Warsi as Adi, Aashish Chaudhary as Boman, Malika Sherawat as Kamini and Kangna Ranaut as Kiya. The budget of the movie was around 35 crore, and after one week its net collection was around 40 crore.

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Bheja Fry 2 Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

Bheja Fry 2 is an Indian comedy film, which was released on 17th June, 2011. The film is sequel of Bheja Fry, which was released in 2007. The star cast includes Vinay Pathak as Bharat Bhushan, Minissha Lamba as Rajini, Amole Ggupte as Raghu Burman, Key Key Menon as Ajit Talwar and Rahul Vohra as Kapoor. The film is directed by Sagar Ballary while producer is Mukul Deora. Screen play of the film is written by Sharad Kataris and Sagar Ballary. The genres of movie are comedy and drama.

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Bhindi Baazaar Inc. Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The crime based Indian thriller movie “Bhindi Bazar Inc.” is no doubt, a master piece of Ankush Bhatt. In a continuous series of crime based movie, it is hard to compete with a low budget movie. Nevertheless, director Ankush Bhatt has become successful to raise the profit margin of producer “Karan Arora”. The characters, like Prashant Narayanan as Fateh, Gautam Sharma as Tabrez (Darzi), Pawan Malhotra as Mamu, Piyush Mishra as Pandey, Kay Kay Manon as Sharoff and Shilpa Shukla as Fateh’s girl friend (Kanjri), were super fit in their roles. Kapil Golati and Ghalib Asadbhopali have proved them flawless story and screenplay writers respectively.

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Always kabhi Kabhi Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The direction of Roshan Abbas “Always kabhi Kabhi” is an Indian romantic cum dramatic movie, which was released in India, USA and UK at the same time June 17, 2011. Under the production house of Shah Rukh Khan, producer Gauri Khan has struggled hard to publicize and release the movie at a time in three countries. Roshan Abbas being itself a new director has introduced new cast in the movie. The leading roles are played by Ali Fazal as Sameer (Sam), Giselli Monteiro as Aishwarya, Zoya Morani as Nandini and Satyajeet Dubey as Tariq Naqvi. The story was written by Roshan Abbas and Kanika Dhillon. The genres of movie are romance, drama and crime.

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Shaitan Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

A fully thriller Indian movie “Shaitan” is doing well business since the time of its release June 10, 2011. Bejoy Nambiar has no doubt, picked up an old idea in this movie, but climax after climax has proved him a talented director. Here, we cannot ignore the efforts of Bejoy Nambiar, who insisted Anurag Kashyap to produce this film. The leading cast of movie is Gulshan Devaiya as Karan Chaudhary (KC), kalki Koechlin as Amy, Shiv Pandit as Dash, Neil Bhoopalam as Zubin, Kirti Kulhari as Tanya and Rajeev khandelwal as Arvind Mathur. Again Bejoy Nambiar and one more writer Abhijit Deshpande have made the story and dialogues really fascinating. The genres of movie are action, drama and crime.

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Ready Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

Ready is an Indian comedy film, which was released on 3rd June 2011. We can see Salman Khan and Asin in leading roles, whereas supporting roles are performed by Paresh Rawal,Arya Babbar and Mahesh Manjrekar. Another stunning feature of the movie is guest appearances of Ajay Devgan, Sanjy Dutt, Kangna Ranaut and Arbaaz Khan. Zarian Khan has also appeared in a song. Film is directed by Anees Bazmee, while music is given by Pritam. On its first day, film has collected 13 crore, which is the second highest income for any film after Dabangg. Opening weekend collections for the film was around 42 crore. The worldwide gross collection of the film, after three weeks, was 179 crore.

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Kucch Luv Jaisaa Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The direction of Barnali Ray Shukla “Kucch Luv Jiasaa” is an Indian drama film produced by Vipul Shah. The releasing date of movie in India was May 27, 2011. The attraction of movie is no doubt, its versatile leading cast Rahul Bose as Raghav Passport and Shefali Shah as Madhu Saxena. You have already seen this hit couple in “15 Park Avenue (2005)”. The role of famous TV actor Sumeet Raghavan as Madhu’s husband (Shravan Saxena) is awesome. Moreover, guest appearances of Neetu Chandra as Ria and Om Puri as Madhu’s father is also a great idea. The music of movie is given by Pritam Chakraborty.

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Pyaar Ka Punchnama Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

A romantic comedy Indian movie “Pyaar Ka Punchnama” was released on May 20, 2011. Director and story writer Luv Ranjan has made the script very realistic to attract the youngsters and no doubt, he has become successful in his aim. Producer of movie is Abhishek Pathak. The cast of movie is Kartik Tiwari as Rajat, Raayo Bakhirta as Vikrant (Chaudhary), Divyendu Sharma as Nishant (Liquid), Sonalli Sehgal as Rhea, Nushrat Bharucha as Neha and Ishita Sharma as Charu.

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404 Hindi Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

A psychological thriller movie “404” was released in Indian cinemas on May 20, 2011. Director and story writer Prawaal Raman has made another effort for Indian film industry to change its direction towards intelligent and well-researched based movies. This time, producer Nameeta Nair has supported Parwaal Raman instead of Ram Gopal Verma (the producer of his previous directions). The leading cast of movie is Rajvvir Aroraa as Abhimanyu, Nishikant kamath as professor Anirudh and Tisca Chopra as Dr. Meera. Immad Shah’s music is great. The genres of movie are mystery, thriller and drama.

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Love You Mr. Kalakaar! Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

A romantic Hindi movie “Love You … Mr. Kalakaar!”was released in Indian cenimas on May 13, 2011. It is a beautiful attempt of director S. Manasvi under the production of Kamal Kumar Barjatya, Rajkumar Barjatya, Ajit Kumar Barjatya. The graceful feature of the movie is the cast of love birds Tusshar Kapoor as Sahil and Amrita Roa as Ritu. Both appear as a couple for the first time in any movie. The other prominent cast of movie is Ram Kapoor as Ritu’s father and Madhoo as Ritu’s aunt. The music is given by Sandesh Shandilya while story writer is again S. Manasvi. The theme of movie is romance and drama.

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Ragini MMS Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

An Indian thriller cum horror movie Ragini MMS is again a hit production of Balaji Telefilms. After a series of box office hit movies, producers Ekta Kapoor and Shobha Kapoor have again added a tribute in their fame in the form of “Ragini MMS”. This master piece of director Pawan Kriplani was released in Indian cinemas on May 13, 2011. The leading cast of movie is Raj Kumar Yadav as Uday and Kainaz Motivala as Ragini. The supporting roles are played by Mangala Ahire as Witch, Janica as Piya and Rajat as Vishal.

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Shagird Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

An Indian action movie “Shagird” was released on May 13, 2011. Director Tigmanshu Dhulia has used two different ideologies to make the movie a box office hit. One is the choosing highly suitable characters for leading roles and second is turning the movie in a weird direction. The prominent character of movie is very talented and experienced actor Nana Patekar as Sr. Inspector Hanumant Singh. The other leading roles are played by Mohit Ahlawat as Jr. Inspector Mohit Kumar, Rimi Sen as Versha Mathur, Anurag Kashyap as Bunty Bhaiya and Zakir Hussain as Rajmani Singh Yadav. The genres of movie are action, crime and drama.

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Stanley Ka Dabba Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The film Stanley ka Dabba is a family movie produced and directed by Amole Gupte. The director is renowned for making such films like “Taree Zameen Par”. The movie was released on 13th May 2011. The cast includes Divya Duttas as Rossy Miss, Divya Jagdala as Mrs. Iyer, Raj Zutshi as Rajendranath, Adittya as Parshu, Rahul Singh as Principal, Amole Gupte as Babubhai Verma and Partho Gupte as Stanley. Amole Gupte has written the movie and music of the film is given by Hitesh Sonik. It was a low budget movie, but it did well business on the box office. Its gross collections were more than 5 crore.

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Luv Ka The End Movie Review - Cast and Crew Details - Weak and Strong Points

The first production of Y-Films “Luv Ka The End” under the house of Yash and Aditya Chopra, was released on May 6, 2011. The genres of movie are comedy and drama. The director of movie is Bumpy, while producer and story writer is Ashish Patil. The most admirable character of movie is not other than Shraddha Kapoor as Rhea Dialdas. Other cast of movie is Taaha Shah as Luv Nanda, Errol Marks as Gollu and Meherzan Mazda as Timmy.

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Robot Movie Reviews

A human who is not born but is created. He can dance, sing, fight, is water and fire resistant. He can do all that a human can and more. He feeds on electricity. He takes instructions literally. Where a human can lie to save himself this andro-humanoid robot Chitti cannot lie.

Location - Chennai 2010
Mission - creating a andro-humanoid robot - Chitti
Purpose - to help the society
Development time - 10 years
Configurations - speed one terra hz, memory one zeta byte, processor Pentium ultra core millennia V2, FHP 450 motor from Hirata, Japan.


Trouble shooting - Where he has a razor sharp memory and can memorize an entire telephone directory by just running through the pages, he cannot understand human emotions. Dr. Vasi upgrades Chitti's processor and simulates human emotions without realizing the repercussions. Chitti gets transformed. He can now feel, and the first feeling that he discovers is love.

Will this love come in the way of Dr. Vasi's purpose of creating Chitti? Will Dr. Vasi's own creation destroy him?

Watch ROBOT this September.

Directed by Shankar and produced by Kalanithi Maran of Sun Pictures (a division of Sun TV Network group), ROBOT stars Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Danny Denzongpa in lead roles. The music of the film is composed by maestro A R Rahman and sound recorded by Resul Pookutty. Lyrics are penned by Swanand Kirkire.

Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Movie Review

In the history of Indian cinema, many films are made based on gangsters and underworld. Some actors in the role of gangsters become immortal and some powerful underworld script brings alive the incidents that took place due to the exploitation in the society. There are examples in the past as well as in the present that a movie which speaks about the real happenings of the society never passes unnoticed and if they were made sincerely then success can be achieved.

Haji Mastan, Dawood Ibrahim are those names of the underworld demons that ruled Mumbai once upon a time. Director Milan Luthria takes back the film to 70’s and 80’s when Mumbai was under the cloud like Haji and Dawood. He uplifted the same in his film and makes it a good watch. The script, dialogue, cinematography, dress designing etc all played a prime role in making ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai’ a worth watching. To lift up reality in reel is a tough job and it becomes even tougher when one has to frame his characters to the 70’s and 80’s style. But director Milan Luthria is successful in doing so.

In OUATIM, Ajay Devgan will be seen as Sultan, Emraan Hasmi as Shoaib, Kangana Ranaut and Prachi Desai plays Ajay and Emraan’s love interest and Randeep Hooda will depict a cop. The film is shown in flashback. Randeep as Agnel revisits the tragic of Mumbai’s crime world from 70s to the 90s.

Sultan (Ajay Devgan) landed in Mumbai as a kids and he decided to rule the city. As he grows up, he took the wrong path and indulged in smuggling. Soon he becomes the king of the underworld. He has increased his force and set his own principles. He works for the good of the masses and hence they idolize him as God. Shoaib (Imran Hashmi) grows under Sultan. He learns all the ruling tactics from him. Gradually when he becomes expert in dealing the world, he goes against Sultan.

Powerful script, strong screenplay, electrifying dialogue grips the interest level of the audience. After few box office failures, ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai’ comes as a cool breeze. Art director Nitin Chandrakant Desai deserves credit. He has brought alive the era of 70’s and 80’s. Aseem Mishra's cinematography is mind-blowing. Rajat Arora’s dialogue hits the ears.

Speaking about performances, Milan Luthria knows how to bring out the best from his actors. He has worked with Ajay Devgan in ‘Kaache Dhage’ and knows how much potential he possesses. Ajay’s performances can be rated best till date. His get-up, style, dialogue delivery is commendable. He was best from every angle. Emraan Hashmi was equally powerful. He has performed tremendously well. His expressions were influential. Kangana Ranaut portrays an altogether different role than what she has done earlier. Prachi Desai was charming.

In the nutshell, ‘Once Upon A Time In Mumbai’ is a treat to watch. It is a cult film which the young and the old would love to watch. The film will surely resister hit at the box office.

Bollywood Movie VEER Reviews

"Veer" is one of those intended epics that goes wrong. Horribly wrong. Director Anil Sharma had combined history and kitsch with compelling consequences in "Gadar Ek Prem Katha". But In "Veer", the khichdi of fact and fiction runs amok, creating a blend of babble and bloodshed that is more hysterical than historic.

Cast: Salman Khan, Mithun Chakraborty, Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Zarine Khan, Neena Gupta

Directed by: Anil Sharma

"Veer" wallows in primitive valour. Father Mithun Chakraborty (the only tolerable performance in the litany of the unbearable) and son Salman Khan often mock-fight, as the burly members of their tribe urge them on like animals in a zestful zoo. Even Neena Gupta who plays Mithun's wife (and has apparently forgotten she was once a good actress) joins in the macho revelry.

There are no smoking guns. Only shining swords slicing across the epic canvas with fashionable bravura.

Costume dramas are very tricky cinematic efforts. How do the makers know if the clothes and props suggesting periodicity are going to work? In this case, they just don't!

The 'research' that seems to have gone into the colossal fiasco is at best scratch level. At worst the detailing suggested by the art director (Sanjay Dhabade) and costumes (Anna Singh) smack of amateurish stage plays where the actors create characters purely through props.

And here the props include the Buckingham Palace where our valorous hero Veer (Salman Khan) and his brother-sidekick (Sohail Khan, behaving as though he was in the sequel to "Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya") teach those 'Gora Log' a few lessons on how to treat us Indians with respect and dignity.

Where would independent India be without such strident architects of freedom? It is doubtful that a man like Veer actually existed in the history of our freedom movement. But does anyone really care?

"Veer" is not really a freedom fighter. He's Salman Khan with long hair and costume jewellery (the diamond ear-tops could be the envy of all his leading ladies) scowling with the same intensity into the panoramic camera as he did earlier in "Wanted".

Clothes definitely maketh this man, although Veer in one of the unintentionally funny sequences of the film reprimands the gora professor in London (teaching the most motley crew of colonists seen in any film) saying, "Clothes do not make the man, the man makes the clothes" - a quote he says he borrowed from George Bernard Shaw.

Where did he learn about Shaw? In school? Do such questions really matter when the intention is to create an optical illusion merging myth and history in a claustrophobic clasp that leaves no breathing space for introspective punctuations?

"Veer" is one sweeping rush of blood, sweat, gore, adrenaline and saliva. It is meant to sweep audiences off its collective feet. But its takeoff point, namely the ideological slant, is so faulty, you wonder what these blood-thirsty warriors are fighting for.

Most of the time the characters' motivations are superimposed by a passionate but pedestrian melodrama.

Director Anil Sharma's inherent sense of drama comes with the blood-soaked territory. While in the father-son sequences he manages to create a scale and range that merge rugged machismo with a junk food version of patriotism, the love story featuring the nomadic warrior and the bereft princess from the enemy tribe is driven into a zero-chemistry zone by the pair.

Forget mutual passion, there's very little drama or romance in the dialogues and the visual props for them to share.

"Veer" gets details of the period and locations in place. But the inner conviction and a genuine passion that made Anil Sharma's "Gadar: Ek Prem Katha" so special are completely absent in this film.

Bollywood Movie Rann Reviews

"Rann" is that rare cinema about the collective conscience which we often like to think has gone out of style. Like Mehboob Khan's "Mother India" and Hrishikesh Mukherjee's "Satyakam", "Rann" shows how tough it is to hold your head high up in dignified righteousness in a world where ethics crumble faster than cookies in wide-open jar left out too long in the sun.

Ironically, there isn't much sunshine in "Rann". The film has been shot in an anaemic light, symbolising a world that's largely losing light.

Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh, Sudeep, Paresh Rawal, Rajat Kapoor, Neetu Chandra, Gul Panag, Suchitra Krishnamurthy

Director: Ram Gopal Varma

Cleverly, Ram Gopal Varma situates his morality tale in the cut-throat world of the electronic media where the TRP is god and deadlines the devil. And may the voice of the conscience rest in peace.

Without wasting time Varma introduces us to the plethora of characters who colonise the bowel of a declining channel run by the idealistic Vijay Harshvardhan Malik (Amitabh Bachchan). Malik believes there's room still for the straight and narrow path in a business where grabbing attention is the murder of all invention.

The glistening sweat on ratings, challenged eyebrows are captured through tight close-ups of worried faces that the camera - Amit Roy's sharply cruising lenses moving from face-to-face with obstinate restlessness - that give nothing and yet everything away.

As in Varma's "Sarkar", the moral battle lines in the media-run tale of "Rann" are drawn between the idealistic patriarch and his US-returned hyper-ventilating son Jai (Kannada star Sudeep) who is so anxious and ambitious, you know he will eventually cause trouble for his ideologue dad's news-worthiness.

Trouble arrives in the flabby form of a seedy politician Pandey - played by Paresh Rawal and he re-embraces villainy with lip-smacking relish - who plunges into the TRP war on television with no sense of propriety, legalese or the law.

Pandey pompously tells Jai before they both conspire with the help of a rival television tycoon (Mohnish Behl) to trash the idealistic Harshvardhan's reputation.

The plot accommodates more characters that a miniature touristic island in the holiday season. Not one of the characters need any explanation or occupy a superfluous place in the plot.

Varma's concern for the characters is genuine but non-judgemental. Each characters even the relatively-shadowy women, emerges as casualty of an over-competitive society where morality goes out of the nearest window.

The narrative is taut, restless and biting in its depiction of corruption in supposedly responsible places.

While much of film's inner fire burns outwards from the pithy and peppery writing (Rohit Banawlikar), the essential core of idealism is preserved in the understated relationship between the idealistic young rookie Purab Shastri and his mentor Harshvardhan. Wish this bonding was built on.

As restless as his camera, Varma gives no space to the complicated labyrinth of relationships to grow. We are left to gauge the depths and dimensions that underline the furious flow of empathy and antipathy between various characters by reading between the lines.

The first two-thirds of the narrative creates a gripping patchwork of television, drama and politics and how the three worlds often come together to destroy the basic fibre of human morality.

It's the last quarter of the narrative where Harshvardhan, after realising he has been taken for a ride by his own son's over-ambitiousness, that packs in the maximum punch.

Cleverly borrowing the premise for its climax from Mehboob Khan's "Mother India", "Rann" moves aggressively but confidently into its passionate finale where the patriarchal television tycoon must expose some harsh home-truths to cleanse his own conscience.

"Rann" takes us into a world where right and wrong are more financial than moral issues, where the people who make news conveniently forget that the source is often the nadir of the conscience.

"Rann" is a razor-sharp bitter and biting look at the real world of rapidly-moving moral issues.

Varma extracts superlative performances from the entire cast. From Riteish's heartbreaking idealism to Neetu Chandra's part as Jai Malik's secret love interest.

As expected Bachchan as the conscience of the plot, presides over the speedened proceedings with a thoughtful and gentle performance. His climactic speech makes all of us sit up and think about the quality of work we do in order to keep up with the competition.

Luckily, Bachchan's consistently excellent output is never dependant on the 'competition' around him. Ironically, his character is forced to stoop in order to conquer the TRPs.

Varma, who has been lately guilty of making fairly compromised films, rises above the morass of mediocrity with a meteoric force, letting other filmmakers know what he is capable of achieving if he sets his heart to it.

"Rann" defines the role of the electronic media in today's context with remarkable virility and dramatic force. This is Varma's best work since "Company".

Pyaar Impossible Movie Reviews

Pyaar Impossible, is the second production venture of Uday Chopra (first was Yeh Dillagi in 1994). Directed by Jugal Hansraj under the Yashraj Banner, the movie is written by Uday Chopra himself and has Priyanka Chopra as his female lead. Anupam Kher and Dino Morea have supporting roles . The promos looked good and the music has done well too. But does the film entertain?

Pyaar Impossible is about a geek, a patent part of every college, Abhay (Uday Chopra) who-not-so-surprisingly falls head-over-heels in love with the hottest girl of the college Alisha (Priyanka Chopra). And going with the universal truth, the stunning Alisha never notices our hero Abhay. He never gets a chance to confess his feelings, since she moves back to India midway of her semester.

Then we zoom in the days and there we are seven year forward; Nothing much has changed, Abhay is still a bespectacled geek and still madly in love with Alisha. Now he owns a unique program that can hold and run all the operating systems in the world but to his misfortune his program gets stolen. He for the first time sets out to fight for his right and in this journey stumbles upon Alisha, now a divorce with a child. Does he win back his fortune? What about the Beauty and the beast, well actually just a geek. Is Pyaar possible?

Pyaar Impossible Review

While not close to as bad as last year’s first release “Chandni Chowk To China’, Pyaar Impossible is a disappointment nonetheless. Loaded with glamour, the film actually had the potential to be much better, if only the love track was more refreshing and the story had some twists to avoid getting too predictable.

Agreed, the story is simple but it neither has the charm of a romantic tale nor the breeze of a comedy and hence boredom begins to creep in 20 to 25 minutes into the first half. Its not just the story that is at fault here, but the execution, which is absolutely amateurish. Barring a couple of scenes that manage to evoke some kind of emotion, the film is extremely sluggish and highly predictable. Its the pace, that requires you to watch Pyaar Impossible with a lot of patience.. it unnecessarily drags along.

Also let’s have a reality check here, since when did software companies of high grade get this easy with the dress code? Priyanka is always in minis, baring most of it for any and every occasion - a treat for the guys in the audience though. Also we have six year old Tanya who can understand her nanny’s (Uday) love for her mom and helps him hook up with her by having sleep overs at a friends place. Absurd ain’t it?

Music by Salim-Sulaiman is peppy and hummable but simply adds to the runtime.

Coming to the performances, Priyanka Chopra tops the rest. She looks stunning in every frame of the film, very natural and confident in her act. Perhaps one of the only reasons to watch this flick. Uday Chopra passes off as a geek, he does well in a few scenes.

Dino Morea as the program thief alias a business man is bad with nothing more than one and a half expressions. Anupam Kher has very little to do and is okay in his act. Advika Yadav (Priyanka’s daughter) is excellent.

Overall, Pyaar Impossible is a formula flick high on prediction. Watch it for the gorgeous Priyanka Chopra, but only on DVD, a fast-forward option is a must while watching this flick.