Welcome to Sajjanpur: Movie Review

By Ace Ventura...AKA...Brijesh Raychanda

Director, Story: Shyam Benegal
Cast: Amrita Rao, Shreyash Talpade, Ravi Kishan , Ila Arun , Yashpal Sharma, Divya Dutta

Music: Shantanu Moitra

Duration: 2:20 hrs (approx.)

Movie is exactly i have guessed...just difference was i was thinking dat buy all the crap it will be comedy movie..but i was wrong..another one of the BEKKAR movie.Just as a plot n try was good but overall movie cant satisfy the people need.I dont how people can say that these moview is good??

Story is Rolling about one village called SAJJANPUR and mahadev(Shreyash Talpade).He is the only who is literate in that village.He is Writing n Reading the Posts of people.Story includes political Problems.. Love.. Comedy..(is it??)..Andhshradhdhha .

Only i like in the movie is its ending.It was quite interesting.

My Rating: ** (Only for shreyash..onetime watch)

Chamku: Movie Review

As boring as its name is.

Would any boy ,at the age of 8, survive if he is hit by a gun on chest? Yes, if his offscreen surname is Deol. Chamku lives with his father peacefully in the village, until once Thakur (Akhilendra Mishra) kills his father and half kills him. Saved by a Naxalite group, Chamku is now also a Naxalite. Leaded by Danny Dengzoppa, he is one of the core in the Naxalite group.
Now would he survive, if he is hit 3-4 bullets by police officers in an encounter? Offcourse, he does. No body else in the group survives. Again the same reason - no body is Deol in the group - except him, so now accept him. A special task officer (Irrfan Khan) offers him to join the special task force and be sharp shooter for the nation. With no other choice in the hand, Chamku agrees.
He then sadistically kills the terrorists, sadistically sleeps on the floor, sadistically wears black shirt in the whole movie, sadistically make friends with another STF sharp shooter (Ritesh Deshmukh), sadistically falls in love with a school teacher (Piggy Chops) and gets sadistically killed (offcourse half killed, not dead... Deols are never dead) several a times by cops, terrorists, again Thakur etc. Ritesh Deshmukh is killed by the STF officers itself as he wants to leave and is dead due to its offscreen surname. Chamku wants to leave, but cant leave. He is the best sharp shooter and applies again for the permanent leave, and is senctioned officially but STF officers had different plans. He then kills Thakur, STF officers, other 20-30 gundas and gets leave however.
Bored by reading the story? Think how we would have been bored watching the full movie, wanting temperory leave from the movie.
In the whole theater, we were only 8 persons suffering from Chamku. You must be thinking, why? Were others enjoying? No, there were we 8 only in the theater, who were watching. And, Laxmi Theater, Mandvi has to close the movie shows in 2 days only, and has to release a B grade Hollywood Movie instead of Chamku.
In the beginning of the movie, we enjoyed the excellent camera work and good cinematography, but within an hour, due to lukewarm storyline, it vanished too.
In Mtv Ticker, this was the cool line in fond memory of Chamku: "Abhay Deol wants to change his surname, after watching Chamku." We are glad, ours is not.

BT Kida's Recommendation: *

Review : A WEDNESDAY

By Ace Ventura.....Brijesh Raychanda

Director, Story, Screenplay: Neeraj Pandey

Cast: Anupam kher , Naseeruddin shah , Jimmy Shergill , Amir Bashir , Deepal Shaw

Duration: 2:0 hrs (approx)

This is a complete surprise that newer stories are slowly finding their way. Two Fridays ago, Phoonk spoke about the power of Black Magic and last Friday, ROCK ON!! encouraged you to chase your dreams. These three movies havent any Biggi cast but yet they are big hits.

A Wednesday movie is at best in the story. And one thing i want to tell that its not movie like MUMBAI MERI JAAN or any other terror based movie. Its a very different kind of movie.

Now about storyline, A faceless, nameless man (Naseeruddin Shah) grips the city with his super mobile operated bombs. He wants four arrested terrorists for the city to be saved from a Big Blast. Mumbai police commisioner Rathod (Anupam Kher) and his team of two best cops like Arif Khan (Jimmy Sheirgill) and Jai Pratap (Aamir Bashir) try to find out the person who is related to all these plans.

Naseerudin Shah & Anupam Kher are at their best performance. After many movies both are given chance for this kind of performance. Both Excells in their roles.

Jimmy shergil has also given his one of the best performance in his career. He is perfect as a cop in the movie. He is improvising himself from movie by movie and prooving that he is one of the best actors Bollywood have.

Amir Bashir is brilliant. Deepal Shaw has done justice to her character.

Overall we can say that movie is at its best. Director has done hardwork on it. A simple story but represented very much effectively. Mainly Director has concentrated on the story n Cast. And he has prooved that he has done good job.

Finally, in Taran Adarsh's words: Give a favour to yourself : Watch a Wednesday.

My rating 4 dis movie is : **** (Movie at its best)

Review : ROCK ON !!

By Ace Ventura....Brijesh Raychanda

Cast: Farhan Akhtar, Prachi Desai, Arjun Rampal, Purab Kohli, Luke Kenny and Shahana Goswami, Koel Puri

Director: Abhishek Kapoor

Music : Shankar-Eshan-Loy

Lyrics: Javed Akhtar

Duration : 2.25 hrs (appro.)

It’s always been said that sometimes in somewhat situations v have 2 make compromises for life or for someones. Sometimes these compromises make future enjoyable and sometimes after compromises life becomes only COMPROMISE. The film, Rock On goes on that basic thought only.

Rock on is movie rolling around 4 Frnz, namely Aditya (Farhan), Joe (Arjun), KD (Purab Kohli) and Rob (Luke Kenny) having same passion MUSIC , fight hard together 2 take their band ‘Magik’ to the position of number one . They get d opportunity 2 participat in a competition of Channel V and they won. The music channel also provides a chance of recording of their first album.

But Here the movie becomes diffrent. Here, They have to make compromise few things and the situation takes Joe away from Aditya. Magik gets closed n all frnz split out. Aditya leaves all his friends and turns into a businessman leaving with his wife Shakshi (Prachi Desai)while on the other hand, Joe leaves his wife Debby (Shahana Goswami) keeps himself happy with his guitar teaching his son lesson @ music.Purab settle hislife in some Bla-Bla jewellers n Rob still giving music in ads n work with Anu malik (Dnt get panic..he got very small role).

Story rolls for ten years. One day Aditya’s wife Shakshi comes to know about Aditya’s band Magik and to make Aditya happy, she arranges a reunion party for all his friends on his birthday who were involved in the band. And the reunion gives a rebirth to the band also. They all fight for another chance at the Channel V stage.

Farhan is his best. He has prooved dat he is not only gd director but gd singer(he has sung 4 songs) n actor also. he plays his role perfectly.

Arjun Rampal is at his best performance ever. But sometimes he looks unfare with music. But overall he is best. He has given perfact satisfaction while d ending comes. Purab takes his role very cutely and with some good comments. He is in improvement one after another his movies. And Luke also plays his role with his cool acting.

Music Directors SEL is at his utmost level. They are very much dependable for this type of movies. Music of them takes movie at top level. Lyrics of Javed Akhtar is as always - cool.

Director Abhishek Kapoor has done his work very precisely and viewers can notice lots of hardwork from each frame. He wanted a person who sings the songs in movie as well as in real so it looks perfect. Thus, he catched Farhan. He trained all the actors noticing best musicians so they can look very familiar with their characters.

The movie is @ 2 take second chance bcoz in life everybody cant get second chance. Its like Abbhishek Kapoor, who has taken chance and created the movie at perfect point. His first movie ARYAN was also same type movie. Bollywood really needs these type of movies, directors, concepts and all of these.

Some people says dat ROCK ON !! is just like DCH part 2 n some says its based on some English movie. But frm ma point of view Director, Cast n mainly Music Directors SEL stands positive in dis movie. And they only deserves a standing ovation.

My rating 4 dis movie is : **** (Dont miss at all)