KAI PO CHE....!!

Movies, being made from books has been a trend in indian film making. But, the gist that some directors add to it makes them even more cherish able than the original works.! Abhishek Kapoor truly delivers the essence of the book. !

Converting a 350 page novel, into a 70 mm frame and that too of no more than 2 hrs and 20 mins..! Its one hell of a task. But, this man did it, and not just presented a replica of the work, but added a new zeal and grasp, with all tyhe minute detailings. Sitting on the seat, it actually made me feel ,as if i were in ahmedabad, sitting just behind those three fellas, in the sabarmati sports club.!

Once, in a 1000 years, we get to witness change of the millennium. And for we gujjus something new is always awaited eagerly and anxiously. Every year, on the day of "padva" (gujju new year) we get that internal zeal in our hearts, that feeling of newness, as if from the next sunrise , we are going to have a fresh start, a new beginning. We make new year resolutions, we take the blessings (ofcourse, alongwith the money) and make all those crazy and aspiring wishes in our hearts. Well, if the change of one digit can make such difference, imagine the zeal and anxiety , that the roll, of 1999 to 2000 can bring.! Youth is what life is.! You have sky high ambitions where you feel that you have to and need and want to rise above the ordinary, you have unconditional friendship, where nothing else seems more pacifying than the company of those silly fellas around you, sitting at a local "laari" and having the same bread pakodas everyday and making crazy plans with no points. You have that frustration, to overcome your failures and prove to people, and most importantly to your parents who don't yet take you to be worthy of having being born. This is all that comes out "of " and "between" 3 friends, Ishaan, Omi and Govind who open a sports academy amidst the vast city in the try to fulfill their ambitions. Not knowing that the change of the millennium is about to unfold the wrapper and bring them to "LIFE"...!!

Once again, directors and film makers have proved that, its they who make actors and not actors who make them. ! Again a not so star studded cast, but yet adds full stars to the movie. Shushant singh Rajput lives the character to its utmost depth, and truly the last still of the movie showing him in the sunlight, leaves him stamped on your hearts. The way he delivers his dialogues is just flawless. And also, one of the very rare actors who get the pleasure of having their first dialogue on the 70 mm screen as "bhenchod" !!! ! Bhai sahab k baare me jitna bole utna kam, just i would say, " my vote for the best debutant male " !

Amit sadh, gave me goosebumps in teh scene where he is ehis parents' death..! I must say, amongst all three, the most drastic chnage came in his persoanlity and character..! Loved it...! Rajkumar yadav, as we know always does justice to his selection, and so does in this flick too.! The way he freaks out, and starts stammering a bit when situation is all fucked up is brilliant. Also the actress , vidya looked quite adorable in her role, and didnt try to be pretentious. Abhishek kapoor's minutest detailings like the writings on the walls behind, use of gujrati words like dafod, ghel sapoo and my fav " maayy jaa" just added to the feel of the movie. ! The man, lived the gujarati culture wholeheartedly. All the songs no doubt were mind blowing, but felt that 1 or 2 more would have done no harm to it. Background score was fantastic, and made the picturisation just perfect.! Worked as the cherry topping on the chocolate pastry.!

Just felt that the climax could have been shown a little more detailed as in the novel, and maybe a little more fierce,,!!

All in all, after dil chahta hain, this is the second best movie that showed the audience that, love can be more deeper with your fellas than a girl next door. And made friendship an immortal relation once again..>!!

My bunk from school, and scoldings from home didnt go waste....! was totally worth it, and maybe shall again bear all the gaalis and go 60km to feel the kite sail again ..!

Kai po che...!!! ( the team really deserves to roar it aloud, as they have outdone their work )!!

Kai po che: Movie review

Movies, being made  from books  has  been a  trend  in Indian film making. But, the  gist that some  directors  add to it makes  them even more  cherishable  than the  original works.! Abhishek Kapoor  truly delivers  the essence  of the  book. !
Converting  a  350 page  novel, into a  70 mm frame  and  that too of  no more  than 2  hrs  and  20 mins..!  Its  one  hell of a  task. But, this  man did it, and  not  just presented a  replica of  the  work, but added a new  zeal and  grasp, with all the  minute  detailings. Sitting on the  seat, it actually made  me  feel ,as  if i were  in ahmedabad, sitting just behind those  three  fellas, in the  sabarmati sports  club.!

Once, in a  1000 years, we  get to witness  change  of the millennium. And  for  we  gujjus something new is  always awaited  eagerly and  anxiously. Every year, on the  day of "padva" (gujju new  year) we  get that internal zeal in our  hearts, that feeling of  newness, as  if from the  next sunrise , we  are  going  to have a  fresh start, a  new  beginning. We  make  new  year resolutions, we  take  the  blessings (of course, along with the  money) and  make  all those  crazy and  aspiring wishes  in our  hearts. Well, if the change  of  one  digit  can make  such difference, imagine  the zeal and  anxiety , that the  roll, of 1999 to 2000 can bring.! Youth is  what life  is.! You have sky high ambitions where  you feel that you have  to and  need  and  want to rise  above  the  ordinary, you have  unconditional friendship, where  nothing else  seems more  pacifying than the company of  those silly fellas around  you, sitting at a  local "laari" and  having  the  same  bread  pakodas everyday and  making crazy plans with no points. You have  that frustration, to overcome  your  failures and  prove  to people, and  most importantly to your  parents  who don't  yet take  you to be  worthy of  having being  born. This  is  all that comes out  "of " and  "between" 3  friends, Ishaan, Omi and  Gopal who open a  sports  academy amidst the  vast city in the try to fulfill their  ambitions. Not knowing that the  change of  the millennium is  about  to unfold the wrapper and  bring them to "LIFE"...!!
Once  again, directors  and  film makers  have  proved  that, its  they who make  actors  and  not  actors  who make  them. ! Again a  not  so star studded cast, but yet adds  full stars  to the  movie. Shushant singh Rajput lives  the character to its  utmost depth, and  truly the  last still of  the movie showing him in the  sunlight, leaves him stamped on your  hearts. The  way he  delivers  his  dialogues is  just flawless. And  also, one  of  the  very rare  actors who get the  pleasure  of  having their  first dialogue on the 70 mm screen as  "bhenchod" !!! :P!  Bhai shab k  baare  me  jitna  bole  utna  kam, just i would  say, " my vote  for  the  best debutant male " !

Amit sadh, gave  me  goosebumps  in the scene  where  he  is  repenting his  parents' death..!  I must say, amongst all three, the  most drastic  change  came  in his  personality and  character..! Loved  it...! Rajkumar  yadav, as  we  know  always  does  justice  to his  selection, and  so does  in this  flick too.!  The way he  freaks  out, and  starts  stammering a  bit  when situation is  all fucked  up is  brilliant. Also the  actress  , vidya  looked  quite adorable in her  role, and  didn't  try to be  pretentious. Abhishek kapoor's  minutest detailings  like  the writings  on the walls  behind, use  of  gujrati words  like  dafod, ghel sapoo and  my fav " maayy jaa" just added  to the  feel of  the movie. ! The  man, lived  the  gujrati culture  wholeheartedly. All the  songs  no doubt were  mind blowing, but felt that 1 or  2  more  would  have  done  no harm to it. Background  score  was  fantastic, and  made  the  picturisation just perfect.! Worked  as  the  cherry topping on the  chocolate  pastry.!
Just felt  that the climax  could  have  been shown  a little  more  detailed as  in the  novel, and maybe  a little  more  fierce,,!!
All in all, after dil chahta hain, this  is  the  second best movie  that showed  the audience  that, love can be  more  deeper  with your  fellas than a  girl next door. And  made  friendship an immortal relation once  again..>!!
My bunk from school, and  scoldings  from home  didn't go waste....! was  totally worth it, and  maybe  shall again bear  all the  gaalis  and  go 60km  to feel the  kite  sail again ..!
Kai po che...!!!  ( the  team really deserves  to roar  it aloud, as  they have  outdone  their  work )!!

My rating :  4.75/5
By 70 mm Omi (Jadeja Sidy)

AkaashVani Movie Review

Watched "AkaashVaani" yesterday. Expectations were high as many people have said its different and good one.

Story: AkaashVani movie is a very intense love story about two young people who can't think beyond their mutual love. It's about the hardships in love.

I will say that in acting part there was not much problem. Kartik has done good work and Nusarat has done excellent.

Director has tried to show different shadows and different situations which is creating issues in regular life but still its too much weak as it has many unnecessary scenes as editing is poor...

BGM was satisfactory but some songs were unnecessarily kept.

In my opinion its the movie which wont make much difference if you watch or don't.

My review: 2.3/5

LUV SHUV TE CHICKEN KHURANA

Bit confused  from where to start, but cannot stop myself  from praising Huma Qureshi..!! Just in love  with her  even more  after this  movie.!- True story !

Anyways coming to the movie, first of all good cast assembly. All the actors  performed  quite  well and  never made  the movie  seem a  bore. Kunal kapoor  was  really good to watch, and  the  typical Punjabi language  and accent just added  to the fun. One actor that just performed flawlessly was  Tittu mama- Rajesh Sharma. He was  just too humorous  and  witty, and a  pleasure  to watch. Darji was  also good, though he had  very less  dialogues.

The  story shows a  young boy’s strong will to go to UK (against that of his family), but is forced to come  back to India, so that he  can make  up his  debts and  go back, but eventually ends  up in something different.

The  picturisation of typical Punjabi atmosphere  of the family and viallge was  really good, and  totally makes  you seem very Punjabi.! The  screenplay was  also quite  well written, but just felt that in the  phase  where Omi –Harman love  story “re-builds” , the negligence of  jeet’s presence wasn’t quite  digestable as it was quite a long time  of screen presence. And also the  end  was  a  bit weak, as  the  family accepts a  few things  without any aggression or opposition. I mean when you show everything  of the typical Punjabi flavour, you cannot leave  the  jattism when it comes  to family matters. And  also the guest appearance  of dolly ahluwalia was  worth its  screen space.! As  in Vicky Donor, here  also she  did great justice  to her  role and surely made h er  presence count.

And  yes, one  scene  that was  just too good and  that made  me  replay it again and  again was  the kiss of Huma  Qureshi. I mean it wasn’t something cheesy, or  vulgar or seductive  that we  usually see  in movies. It was  just out  of an urge and  it just beautifully showcased the  temptation rising between the two and the feelings  of  a  typical girl who is  finding herself  falling for the  guy but situations  constrain her.. Aah well.. I will stop here, else i would  write a whole  review  on the kiss  itself..!

All in all a  good  movie, and  definitely worth watching once.. After a  wrong choice  of Aiyya, AK made a  good choice  by producing this  one..!

My Rating : 3.27/5

By the 70mm Faizal Khan - Sidharaj Jadeja

Review: MANORAMA- SIX FEET UNDER

Waaow...! This  is some  real grasping stuff..! Hats off to the script-writer.

On one  hand, i was feelling pitty that I had  watched  race 2 , as  it failed  badly to even surprise me  to the slight, while  years  back, movies  like this are made, that leave  you completely awestruck.!

At first it felt as  if  the movie was going bit slow, but never  seemed a  bore. And  whenever  there

is any writer  stuff  involved , it makes  be  that little  extra interested  in it. And it was totally amazing, to see one  of  my favourite and a  very versatile actor, Abhay deol being cast as a writer, and  that too with that essence of philosophy in him. Just loved  him.!

The dialogues in the movie , though not punchy as  like  crappy shit of Dabbang, are  really good.

And the  picturisation is just fabulous. The scene where  he lays  stranded  in the  sand, after being hit badly and  robbed  by the two gundaas made  me capture  a screen shot of it.And  mentioning of dacoits, it makes  me  mention another  name that turned  out  to be a surprise  yet again. Nawazuddin siddique. Not having any major  role, yet he  never fails to make  his  screen presence  count, and  was  really surprised to see  him in his  typical –Faizalish ,so called ‘dominating’ character in the movie. The guy is a grasper.!

 A few scenes that contain hidden, philosophical messages  or  indirect indications  add  to the gist of the movie.  Vinay pathak has  performed  his role  of brother –in-law quite  fairly and  has  given great justice  to his role and  dialogues.  Gul panag too was  a sweet fit  as  Nimi, with typical house wife dressing and  the typical wifish nature that really sometimes  beats the  shit out of any husbands temperament. Just felt that, the Rohtak trip was  made  a  bit too long, and  Nimi’s  absence could  have  been reduced  by a bit.

 And  well, the rest of  the  journey tastes  best when served  undisclosed. :p

However , the movie was  greatly directed, and  was  bit surprised when such a  movie  didn’t get neither  any fame among people nor  box  office  collections. And it just frustrates  me  more  at times that why are  people still being engaged  just to sheer crap, that is neither  a  fairytale to amaze  you, nor  any great acting.. And  thats what works  as  the  killing pill, for  such brilliant scripting  and acting heads.  And once  again, full marks  to Abhay deol’s script selection.  A very subtle  script and so was the acting. Just loved  the dialogues  that he  said in the  background, though its credit goes  completely to the  writers, but Abhay’s  voice  and style  of delivering was  what added  to the  philosophy and  grasp to them.  As its said  in the film, “thodi si saavdhaani, zindagi bhar asaani”. Likewise  goes  with Abhay, a  little  care in choosing the scripts, and a  lifelong satisfaction to the self of having done a great deed and  justice  to his profession.! 

All in all a  beautifully woven story and script. And a  must watch...!!

My Rating : 4.23/5

By the 70mm Faizal Khan - Sidharaj Jadeja

Matru Ki Bilee Ka Mandola - Triple Review

MATRU KI BIJLEE KA MANDOLA - TRIPLE REVIEW

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Well, firstly from the trailers  i suspected  the movie  to be  not  so good or  to be  some  usual cliché.

But indeed  the movie  turned  out  to be  quite  something different and interesting, enjoyable  one.

Understood  something in the  last minutes  of the  movie..

We all are  Matrus, young people with knowledge, enthusiasm, and ambitions or can say Bijlees.  But especially in India we  see that our bijlees are  being pupated by Mandolas. And  we  often render  helpless infront of them. The Mandolas  aren’t that bad  either. In one  way or  the  other  they too are  working towards  the  same  goal of striving for  the betterment of the society, but its  those  times  when personal selfishness  takes over a socialist. The  only thing that needs  to be  done  in today’s India is  to just give a slight awakening to the  Mandolas (the top 1% of our population)and  the revolution that we all are yelling for  everyday can be  reached.

Coming to the  movie, once  again absolute pleasure in watching Pankaj kapoor  perform flawlessly.

HE was  just too good  in his  character, sheer master  at his  job. Imran khan too was  good  as  the  Matru, in a  different look and adopted  the village accent nicely. Also , though not being  such a huge fan of  Anushka  have to say that she  was  indeed a 3 phase current.! The  scene where  she  comes out of the  pond  was  just too hot..! And  cool tattoos  as  well.! She  tried  to do justice  to her screen space and  succeeded to quite a good  extent..! good  work girl!

The  screenplay written by sir Vishal bhardwaj himself  was  excellent. Great cinematography some  scenes  were  quite well captured and  also  great selection of  locations , Gujarat always  remains  the ideal place  for  such directors..! The  palace was  awesomely picturised.. Being from the  town of a palace and  knowing how  their  present  situation is, must say they did quite a hard work in showing the palace  way more  beautiful than the visitors witness on a  usual glance.!

A few  things  that added  to the  pleasure  were, the royal enfield  of  Matru, just awesome..!

secondly the field  and  the top from where they watch it..  Another  thing was  the entire  business vision which was  too good and was excellently shown .

Just felt that towards the interval and  for a time after it, there  was along phase  where neither  Matru nor Mandola  were  shown in their usual aspects which couldn’t be  accepted owing to the track of the film.  And “ MAO” was  quite predictable, instead  could  have  shown something better.

However, Sir Vishal bhardwaj did succeed in showing the  political and  corruptive faces  of  India in a Hat ke  style and  the movie has a really good sense  of humour as  and  when needed.!

And  lastly my fav dialogue from the film : “jab dil saandh ho na  toh har ladki bhains  nazar aati hain” :P :D

My rating : 3.6/5 

By the 70mm Faizal Khan - Sidharaj Jadeja

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Movie Review: Matru ki Bijli ka Mandola (2013)

IMDB Link:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106537/

Directed by Vishal Bharadwaj Starring: Pankaj Kapoor, Immran Khan, Anushka Sharma and Shabana Aazmi

An Open Letter to Actor Pankaj Kapoor

Dear Pankajsaab,

It was totally delicious to watch you as Mandola. And hence, after a lots of thinking about ‘to-whom-to-write-this-letter’, I decided upon you instead of director VB.

I have always loved your previous works like Dharm, Maqbool, The blue umbrella, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, Jabaan Sambhaalke, Office Office and many many more, but this one is just so delicious.

The film is a weirdly funny take upon the politics of India, SEZs, farmers’ problems, villagers’ innocence, struggle of a royal industrialist about right and wrong, revolution of a young literate villager, masti of a bindaas young girl and many things more. The director talks all this serious issues with much more humorous ways compared to any previous intentional comedy movies.

From the starting only, the statutory warning sequence and song was hilarious. It’s the sarcasm at it’s best. Kudos to VB for that. And then your own revolutionary song against your self !! wah.. mazaa aa gaya… (TM: Divs Sir) and ending with the title song everything I found quite delightful.

My fav scenes were:

1.      Statutory Warning

2.      Revolution against own

3.      Gulaabi bhains

4.      African’s intro

5.      The well scene

6.      Plane jala to cigarette jala scene

7.      Shabaana’s speech regarding politics

8.      Mandola’s industrial dream

9.      Hooka’s city visit

10.  Rain breaking dreams

What I didn’t like was that there were some flaws, like why Mandola doesn’t notice Matru’s open support to villagers. Matru doesn’t disclose the Mao identity first to all villager’s and then doesn’t try to hide it post interval without any revealing sequences. Also Arya Babbar was quite annoying, could have been replaced. 

Other actors apart from You, Immran, Anushka and Shabana hadn’t much to do. Some sequences like Arya’s “Mao Mao” scene or Matru-Bijli’s swimming pool scene could have been avoided.  

Performance wise it was Decent Matru ki Okay Bijli ka Fabulous Mandola. I mean, Immran was quite decent, his role of revolutionary down to earth villager boy was cool, especially when he meets his city colleague, he became cooler. Anushka was good, but looking into her history of similar roles, she became okay. Arya Babbar as mentioned before, was crap. Shabaana was fantastic but it was you who took the cake in both Harry and Hariya's role. Yes, we love Hariya and hate Harry - and that's what you wanted.

Music by the director is well in tone with the movie theme, loved most of the songs. Lyrics by Gulzar is fantastic as well.

On the whole, it has some flaws, and on box-office, it’s not going to be magical at all, it’s not at all at par with your previous films also, but still it’s a good treat for couple of watches.

4.15 cheers out of 5 from me.

Regards,

The 70mm Raamadheer Singh - Hardik Raychanda

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Review:  Matroo ki Bijli ka Mandola

By The 70mm Sardar Khan (Urf Brijesh Raychanda)

Name the films of vishal bhardwaj and you will surely go to watch the movie same happened with us yesterday. Everyone in our home even my niece (who is only 8 year old) was excited to watch Gulabi Bhains on big screen which resulted in first day last show seats filled with us.  

Story:  Harry is an industrialist who loves his daughter Bijlee, and the bond they share with Harry's man friday, Matru. Bijlee's plan to wed the son of a politician, however, brings twists and turns in the lives of Matru, Bijlee and Mandola. (Courtesy to IMDB)

Movie was a good take on what happens with farmers in India because of politicians and Industrialists with funniest angle and with full of entertainment. Some scenes were hilariously funny while some were full of drama and social messages. Only Vishal Bhardwaj can do this.

Acting:  Hats off to Pankaj Kapoor. He has proved always his abilities in different roles in many movies and even in direction also he has done fabulous job (Yeah I am talking about Mausam. Don’t get me wrong, I just loved some of the scenes of movie not whole movie.:D :P). Everyone was waiting for him to turn into Mandola then Harry. His expressions, Dialogues, Voice, Tone, Body language was excellent and which made him irreplaceable.

Imran khan has managed his role very well. He was looking decent as Matroo (Hookam Singh). Cheers for your hard work. Anushka Sharma has given justice to his role. (Excluding his over-acted part when she was drunk and in swimming pool scene……Yo MAMA sucks…) Shabana aazmi was great in villainous role but still she needed more screen presence to prove her.­

Arya babbar was ok in starting but upto end he resulted in more than over acting. (About you I can say you are lucky that great directors like Maniratnam, Vishal Bhardwaj etc are giving you roles so do hardwork man….. Yo MAMA sucks more than Anushka.)      

Director:  Vishal bhardwaj tussi great ho..!!! (Inspired from God tussi great ho..!!). I loved your imagination of Mandola character it was excellent. From this movie you have proved that you don’t have to rely on others for the story. Don’t getting more words for you sir ji.

Story, Screenplay & Music: In story your work was appreciable. Screenplay by Abhishek Chaubey was really great as it was really tough job in this one. Music was mind blowing again credit goes to Vishal Bhardwaj. All songs were great (Excluding Lootnewaale song… still working on it.) In BGM, Shara-ra was great. Loved your Idea of introducing African music, It was great.   

Weak Points Of Movie:

There was no necessary to put Pen cho-Pen cho at all time whenever Mandola drinks…

Mao scene were also weak..

Operation Mao-Mao scene & Bijli-Matroo swimming pool scene were unnecessarily kept…

SpeciaL RequesT:

 Pankanj kapoor, please come more often in movies.

 Imraan khan, Do more hard work like this.

Anushka Sharma, You have done excellent dance in songs so do more excellent work in acting department also so “Hum dekh sake tumhe vo bhi Pyaar se..”.

Shabana Azmi, Love you in all movies please come often and more and more in villainous role.

Arya babbar, Act well as you acted in Guru.

Vishal Bhardwaj, No request just work more on the editing of your movie.

Favourite scenes:

Statutory warning scene…(Most hilarious and craziest scene)

Scene whenever Gulabo & Gulabi bhains were there…

Whenever Pankaj kapoor comes in Mandola’s avatar…

Kuve ko Cow tak pahochaane wala scene…

Shabana’s dialogue about country…

Factory visualization scene…

 Favorite Dialogues:

“Tumhe aise dekh ke pura gaanv raat ko vyayam kare se…”

“Oy jab dil sandh ho na, to har ladki bhains dikhti se…”

Last take on the review: GO TO WATCH PANKAJ KAPOOR, IMRAN KHAN, VISHAL BHARDWAJ, GULABO  & GULABI BHAINS

My rating – 4.05/5

(Must go for funniest and hilarious ride of GULABI BHAINS!!!)